Argentine Revolution of 1893

Revolution of 1893
Date First: 28 July – 25 August 1893 Second: 7 September – 1 October 1893 Location Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, San Luis, Tucumán and Corrientes, Argentina Action Attempt to depose the fraudulent government of the National Autonomist Party and to call national elections. Result Revolution crushed by the government. Territorial changes Revolutionaries temporarily took power of the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, San Luis, Tucumán and Corrientes. Alem was proclaimed president in Rosario.
Government-Insurgents
Government of Argentina National Autonomist Party	Radical Civic Union
Commanders and leaders
Carlos Pellegrini Julio Argentino Roca	Hipólito Yrigoyen Leandro Alem Aristóbulo del Valle

The Argentine Revolution of 1893, or the Radical Revolution of 1893, was a failed insurrection by members of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) against the government of Argentina, then controlled by the National Autonomist Party (PAN). It continued the goals of the Revolution of the Park of 1890, whose themes were further echoed in the Revolution of 1905.

In 1890, Bartolomé Mitre and Leandro N. Alem formed the Civic Union, which orchestrated the Revolution of the Park and forced the resignation of president Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman of the PAN in favor of his vice president, Carlos Pellegrini. Mitre himself stood for president for the 1892 elections, but sought accommodation with the PAN, leading Alem to break off and found the UCR in 1891. On April 2, 1892, barely a week before the election, Pellegrini declared a state of siege and arrested Alem and other opposition leaders, resulting in the overwhelming election of PAN candidate Luis Sáenz Peña.

In the aftermath, the UCR split into factions led by Alem (los líricos, "the Lyricists") and by his nephew and protégé, Hipólito Yrigoyen (los rojos, "the Reds"). Yrigoyen and his political brother Aristóbulo del Valle believed the UCR should take power through provincial rebellions, as opposed to a coup d'état of the national government.^[1]