Tribes of the American Indians lived agricultural and cattle breeding communities on these earths long before 1516 when to the country there has arrived the first European, the Spanish contributor Juan Diaz-de-Solis. In 1516ã. It has landed on coast Rio äå ëà the Card, however Indians have rendered êîíêâèñòàäîðàì a resistance, and expedition has failed. Four years later Magellan has risen on Rio äå ëà the Card in search of the navigable path linking the Atlantic and Silent oceans. Having convinced that such path does not exist, Magellan has continued swimming in a southern direction and has wintered on coast of Patagonia. Later Magellan has opened passage which carries his name and connects Atlantic ocean with Silent. Then centuries of the Spanish domination have followed. Spaniards have named the country Argentina - from a word “argentum” which in a translation from Latin means “silver”. In 1580 the Spanish colonists from Peru have passed through the Andes and have grounded here the city of Buenos Aires. In the XIX-th century beginning the European settlers dissatisfied with the dependence on Spain, have started emancipating war and in 1816 have dumped colonial oppression. However then civil war has started. At last, in 1861 to the power in the country the strong government has come. Argentina became the prospering country, but has in the late twenties of the XX-th century worried deep economic and political crisis in which result there has occurred an epoch of a military mode. In 1946 colonel Juan Peron became the president of the country. It supported social reforms, however could not cope with economic difficulties, and was will dethrone. Ïåðîí has returned to the power in 1973, after his death the government was headed by his wife Izabel who too was ñâåðãíóòà. The subsequent years military dictatorship the set of Argentineans has perished. In 1982 Argentina considering the Falkland islands by the territory, has tried to take hold of them. It has touched off the war with Britain. Argentina has lost war, however the claims has not refused. Military dictatorship was completed in 1983 when in the country democratic elections and to the power have taken place, the new government has come. And despite certain economic difficulties, Argentina has left behind gloomy years of military dictatorship, and now lives in conditions of developed democratic freedom.