title: 1867 in Argentina
text: # 1867 in Argentina
  
  Events in the year 1867 in Argentina.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Bartolomé Mitre
  * Vice President: Marcos Paz
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: Adolfo Alsina
  * Mendoza Province:
     * until 11 April: Carlos Juan Rodríguez
     * 11 April-11 July: Nicolás Villanueva
     * 11 July-16 October: Ezequiel García
     * starting 16 October: Nicolás Villanueva
  * Santa Fe Province: Nicasio Oroño
  
  ### Vice Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: vacant
  
  ## Events
  
  * 27 March – founding of the Club Atlético del Rosario
  * 9 May – British immigrants Thomas and James Hogg found the Buenos Aires Football Club, effectively marking the beginning of the sport in Argentina.
  * 8 July – Paraguayan War: Staff Sargeant Roberto A. Chodasiewicz uses an observation balloon during the battle of Humaitá.
  * 31 October – establishment of the Benito Juárez Partido
  * 15 November
     * La Capital is founded in Rosario, the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation.
     * Ferrocarril Andino, the first state-owned railway in Argentina, is founded.
  * 25 November – establishment of the Olavarría Partido
  
  ## Births
  
  * 6 January – Pelagio Luna, politician (died 1919)
  * 8 March – Gregorio de Laferrère, politician and playwright (died 1913)
  * 19 April – Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, first woman in Argentina to obtain a medical degree and "the mother of women's rights in Argentina" (died 1954)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 2 June – Pascual Echagüe, soldier and politician (born 1797)
  * 5 November – Santiago Derqui
  