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Events on Friday 25 May 1810 1
1810May RevolutionBuenos Aires removes the Spanish viceroy and forms a local juntaA week of public assemblies and pressure in Buenos Aires forced the Spanish viceroy to step down and led to the creation of the First Junta, a local governing body. The event is treated as the starting point of Argentina's independence process. It inspired similar juntas across Spanish South America.