title: 1905 in Argentina
text: # 1905 in Argentina
  
  Events in the year 1905 in Argentina.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Manuel Quintana
  * Vice President: José Figueroa Alcorta
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: Marcelino Ugarte
  * Cordoba: José Vicente de Olmos (until month unknown)
  * Mendoza Province: Carlos Galigniana Segura then José Néstor Lencinas then Carlos Galigniana Segura
  
  ### Vice Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: Adolfo Saldías
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 4–8: Argentine Revolution of 1905
  * May 21: demonstration consisting of thousands of workers gathered at Constitution Square and marched from there to the Plaza Lavalle, where the concentration was attacked with bullets and sabers. 2 people are killed and 20 are injured.
  * August 11: attack against Quintana, while his coach went on to Government House, a man fired several times at Quintana. The president's coach continued on and the custody officers arrested the perpetrator, who was a Catalan laborer named Salvador Planas y Virelles, sympathetic anarchist who acted on his own initiative
  
  ## Births
  
  * 25 January – Corina del Parral, writer, poet, singer, and composer, First Lady of Ecuador
  