Perón, with the orchestrated support of gangs of thugs, is elected president of Argentina

Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five Grand Prix world championship titles

Eva Perón dies of cancer and achieves the status of a popular saint in Argentina

A military uprising in Argentina forces Perón to resign and go into exile

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents

The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands

The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president

Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón

A military coup in Argentina brings to an end the two-year presidency of Juan Perón's widow, Isabelita

Leopoldo Galtieri becomes leader of the military junta ruling Argentina

5000 Argentinian troops land in the Falkland Islands, provoking war with Britain

The Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by a British torpedo, with the loss of 368 lives

British troops recapture Port Stanley, after which the Argentinian forces in the Falklands surrender

The leader of the Argentinian junta, Leopoldo Galtieri, resigns three days after the Falklands defeat

Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of £5 million, almost double the highest previous figure

A civilian government, voted into power in Argentina, prosecutes members of the military junta for civil rights abuses

Argentina wins the World Cup quarter final against England with help from Maradona and 'the hand of God'

Carlos Menem is elected president of Argentina and introduces a free market economy

Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands

Five presidents succeed each other within a month in Argentina's economic crisis

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins the presidential election in Argentina, becoming the first woman to do so

Argentina submits a claim for large areas of the South Atlantic, including the Falkland Islands, under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention