Events in the year 1886 in Argentina.
Incumbents President: Julio Argentino Roca (until 12 October) Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman (from 12 October) Vice President: Francisco Bernabé Madero (until 12 October) Carlos Pellegrini (from 12 October)
Governors Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Alfredo D'Amico Cordoba: Gregorio Gavier then Ambrosio Olmos Mendoza Province: Rufino Ortega Santa Fe Province: Manuel María Zavalla then José Gálvez
Vice Governors Buenos Aires Province: Matías Cardoso
Events 3 April – President Julio Argentino Roca, with the support of the agricultural elites – as well as of the London financial powerhouse, Barings Bank – fields his son-in-law, Córdoba Province Governor Miguel Juárez Celman, as the PAN candidate for president; he is elected almost unanimously.Todo Argentina: 1886
Births 23 February – Antonio Alice, painter (died 1943) 6 June – Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist (died 1946)Historia de la enfermedad de Chagas 20 December – Celestino Piaggio, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1931)
Deaths 1 February – Juan Esteban Pedernera, acting president in 1861 (born 1796) 21 October – José Hernández, journalist, poet, and politician (born 1834; heart disease)Jorge Luis Borges, "José Hernández", in El Martín Fierro ()
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