page_title: Argentine Civil Wars
section_title: Main conflicts
hierarchical_section_title: Argentine Civil Wars / Main conflicts
caption_attribution_description: Bataille de Caseros.
context_page_description: The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil wars that took place in Argentina from 1814 to 1880. These conflicts were separate from the Argentine War of Independence, though they first arose during this period.
  The main antagonists were, on a geographical level, Buenos Aires Province against the other provinces of modern Argentina, and on a political level, the Federal Party versus the Unitarian Party. The central cause of the conflict was the excessive centralism advanced by Buenos Aires leaders and, for a long period, the monopoly on the use of the Port of Buenos Aires as the sole means for international commerce. Other participants at specific times included Uruguay, which became independent from the United Provinces of Río de la Plata in 1828, and the British and French empires, notably in the French blockade of the Río de la Plata of 1838 and in the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata that ended in 1850.
context_section_description: War between the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and José Artigas' League of the Free Peoples (1814–1820)
  Battle of Cepeda (1820)
  Conflicts with La Rioja leader Facundo Quiroga (1826–1835)
  Federalist war against the Unitarian League (1831)
  Revolution of the Restorers against Buenos Aires Governor Juan Ramón Balcarce (1833)
  Conflicts with La Rioja leader Chacho Peñaloza (1835 — 1845; 1860 — 1863)
  French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1838)
  Free Men of the South revolt, quelled at Chascomús in 1839
  Pedro Ferré's Corrientes revolt (1839–1842)
  Involvement in the Uruguayan Civil War by Rosas on behalf of Manuel Oribe (1839–1851)
  War with the Northern Coalition (1840–1841)
  Revolt by Juan Lavalle against Juan Manuel de Rosas (1841)
  Battle of Caaguazú and defeat of Unitarian forces in Corrientes (1841)
  Joaquín Madariaga's Corrientes revolt (1843–1847)
  Battle of Vuelta de Obligado (1845) and Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1845–1850)
  Entre Ríos leader Justo José de Urquiza's break with Rosas (1851)
  Battle of Caseros (1852)
  Revolution of 11 September 1852, creating the State of Buenos Aires
  Siege of Buenos Aires (1852-1853)
  Battle of Cepeda (1859)
  Battle of Pavón (1861)
  Felipe Varela's Revolución de los Colorados in Catamarca and other western provinces (1867)
  Entre Ríos leader Ricardo López Jordán's rebellion (1870–1876)
  Bartolomé Mitre's insurrection against Autonomist Party and President-elect Nicolás Avellaneda (1874)
  Buenos Aires Governor Carlos Tejedor's rebellion against President-elect Julio Roca (1880)
caption: Battle of Caseros, 1852
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