1881 in Argentina

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Buenos Aires Province: Juan José Romero (until 1 May); Dardo Rocha (from 1 May)
Cordoba: Miguel Juárez Celman
Mendoza Province: Elías Villanueva (until 15 February); José Miguel Segura (from 15 February)
Santa Fe Province: Simón de Iriondo

Buenos Aires Province: vacant (until 1 May); Adolfo Gonzales Chaves (starting 1 May)

23 July – A boundary treaty is signed by Argentina and the neighbouring country of Chile. The treaty is signed in Buenos Aires by Bernardo de Irigoyen, on the part of Argentina, and Francisco de Borja Echeverría, on the part of Chile, with the aim to establish a precise and exact borderline between the two countries based on the uti possidetis juris principle. Despite dividing largely unexplored lands, the treaty lays the groundwork for nearly all of Chile's and Argentina's current 5600 km^[1] of shared borders.
22 December – Limits of the Misiones Federation are agreed, leaving Posadas within the territory of what is now Corrientes Province.
date unknown – The depreciated peso moneda corriente is replaced by the paper peso moneda nacional (national currency, (m$n or $m/n) at a rate of 25 to 1, the new currency is used until 1969^[2]

11 February – Salvador Jovellanos, Paraguayan leader who settled in Buenos Aires (born 1833)
6 October – Paul Günther Lorentz, German-born botanist (born 1835)^[7]

^ Libro de Defensa de Chile CONTINUIDAD: HISTORIA Y GEOGRAFÍA Archived 26 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Billetesargentinos.com.ar Archived 29 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish), Billegesgarentinos.com.ar Billetes argentinos site. Spanish version is more detailed.
^ "Gabino Coria Peñaloza". Todo Tango.
^ Hoover, Maya (2010). A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire: An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-Century Art Songs for Voice and Piano. Indiana University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0253003966. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: South and Central America, January 1941-December 1941. University Publications of America. 1998. p. 185.
^ World Biography. United States Institute for Research in Biography. 1947. p. 280.
^ "Lorentz, Paul (Pablo) Günther (1835-1881)". JSTOR Global Plants. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands