Uruguayan education reform authored by Varela and…

Uruguayan education reform authored by Varela and implemented in 1877 under the Latorre administration establishes free compulsory primary education.

Reform also reaches the University of the Republic (also known as the University of Montevideo—established in 1849 and the country's only university until 1984), where the medical and the mathematics faculties are created in 1876 and 1877, respectively.