title: 1873 in Argentina
text: # 1873 in Argentina
  
  Events in the year 1873 in Argentina.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  * Vice President: Adolfo Alsina
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: Mariano Acosta
  * Cordoba: Juan Antonio Álvarez
  * Mendoza Province: Arístides Villanueva (until 16 October); Francisco Civit (from 16 October)
  * Santa Fe Province: Simón de Iriondo
  
  ### Vice Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: vacant
  
  ## Events
  
  * September - The Argentine Chamber of Deputies approves the Secret Mutual Defense Treaty of 1873 and votes $6,000,000 towards the War of the Pacific.
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 22 - Julieta Lanteri, Italian Argentine physician, freethinker, and women's rights activist (died 1932).
  * May 17 - Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, politician and diplomat (died 1942)
  * October 3 - Vicente Gallo, lawyer, academic and politician (died 1942)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * August 23 - Félix de la Peña, politician (born 1807 in Argentina, 1807)
  