Paraná Entre Rios Argentina

Justo José de Urquiza, an important Argentinian landowner and one-time field commander for Juan Manuel de Rosas, becomes governor of Entre Rios in 1841.

Urquiza introduces educational, fiscal and administrative reforms, maintaining his position with a strong military force.

The provincial legislature chooses Ricardo López Jordán as provisional governor of Entre Rios three days later, to complete Urquiza's term as governor.

In his inaugural address, López Jordán supports the revolution and in passing scarcely mentions that he had "deplored that ...no other way might have been found than that the illustrious victim sacrificed himself."

Later, López Jordán will be asked to head a rebellion against the national government.

He will not rebel and, indeed, will lack the time in which to do so.

...Emilio Conesa, at Paraná; and ...

Elections are held in Entre Rios in López Jordán’s absence, but without Federalist candidates, who are barred, and with very few voters.

The new governor, Emilio Duportal, throws all Federalists out of office, even out of the governmental positions of priests (the Roman Catholic Church being the established church) and teachers.

Public lands are sold at supposedly public auctions, but actually reserved for friends of the government; many settlers ware ejected from their lands, and the police, recruited from outsiders, commit all manner of assaults and other crimes against the citizenry.

Ashamed, Duportal resigns and the province falls into the hands of Leónidas Echagüe, son of the former governor Pascual Echagüe, who has none of the moral qualms of his predecessor.

Ricardo López Jordán had returned to Entre Ríos on May 1, 1873.

On the 28th, Sarmiento sends to the lower house of the national congress, the Cámara de Diputados, proposed legislation offering a hundred thousand pesos for the head of López Jordán and ten thousands for that of Mariano Querencio, besides the sum of a thousand pesos for the head of each of the “authors of excesses committed for the revolution”.

Generals Gainza and Vedia defeat López Jordán at the Battle of Don Gonzalo on December 9, in which Remington rifles make their first appearance among Argentine troops and ravage the revolutionary ranks.

López Jordán crosses the Uruguay River at the pass of Cupalén on Christmas Day, December 25, 1873, exiling himself to Uruguay.

The province of Entre Rios is again subjected to rule by force, and the Federalist party is greatly weakened by hundreds of arrests.