Revolution of the Park

Revolution of 1890

Revolutionaries in a building in Piedad (today Mitre) and Talcahuano streets.
Date26–29 July 1890
Location
Lavalle Square, Buenos Aires
ActionAttempt to depose the government of the National Autonomist Party.
Result
  • Revolution crushed by the government.
  • President Miguel Juárez Celman resigns.
Government-Insurgents   
Argentina Government of Argentina
National Autonomist Party
Civic Union
Commanders and leaders
Argentina Miguel Juárez Celman
Argentina Carlos Pellegrini
Argentina Julio Argentino Roca
Leandro Alem
Bartolomé Mitre
Aristóbulo del Valle
Hipólito Yrigoyen
Military support
2,500 militiamen
1,300 soldiers
3,000 policemen
Loyal soldiers
Casualties and losses
~300–1,500 dead and wounded

The Revolution of the Park (Revolución del Parque), also known as the Revolution of '90, was an uprising against the national government of Argentina that took place on July 26, 1890, and started with the takeover of the Buenos Aires Artillery Park. It was led by members of the Civic Union (which would later give rise to the modern Radical Civic Union) against the presidency of Miguel Juárez Celman (of the National Autonomist Party). Though it failed in its main goals, the revolution forced Celman's resignation (who would be replaced by his vice president Carlos Pellegrini) and marked the decline of the elite of the Generation of '80.[1]

Lithograph commemorating the Revolution of the Park (from Argentina's National Historical Museum)