Coronel Pringles - History

History

  • 1882: The partido of Coronel Pringles was created on 10 July and the town on 24 September.
  • 1890: The first major, Felipe S. Medina, was elected.
  • 1900: The church of Santa Rosa de Lima was inaugurated by the Bishop of La Plata, Monsenor Mariano Espinosa, on 14 January. The town was linked by telegraph to the rest of the province.
  • 1903: Opening, on 15 July, of the broad gauge railway line through Coronel Pringles, linking Olavarría and Bahía Blanca, and built by the British-owned company Gran Ferrocarril Sur. This company was later to become part of Ferrocarril General Roca after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
  • 1905: A branch of the Nacional Bank of Argentina (Banco de la Nación Argentina) was opened.
  • 1908: Building of the 600 seat Spanish Theatre (Teatro Espanol) was completed.
  • 1910: On 1 January the Coronel Suárez to Puerto Belgrano section of the broad gauge railway line through Pringles, built by the French-owned company Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano was opened. The section linking Pringles to Rosario was opened later that year on 15 December. This railway company was later to become part of Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
  • 1912: The children's home (Hogar del Niño) was opened.
  • 1914: The poetess Almafuerte visited Pringles and gave a lecture in the Spanish Theatre (Teatro Espanol).
  • 1915: The newspaper El Orden was founded in October.
  • 1916: The Club Leando N. Alem was founded.
  • 1919: A branch of the Provincial Bank of Buenos Aires (Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) was opened.
  • 1928: The Pringles Bank (Banco de Pringles) was founded.
  • 1930: Television transmissions first received.
  • 1932: Pringles Public Library (Biblioteca Popular Pringles ) was opened.
  • 1933: The famous tango singer, Carlos Gardel, gave a concert at the Spanish Theatre (Teatro Espanol) on 18 May, accompanied by his guitarists Horacio Pottorossi, Guillermo Barbieri, Domingo Riverol and Julio Vivas. Barbieri and Riverol died along with Gardel in a plane crash two years later.
  • 1934: Coronel Pringles declared a city.
  • 1938: Building of the Town Hall (Palacio Municipal), Municipal Slaughterhouse (El Matadero Municipal), the Main Square (La Plaza ) and The Avenue (Las Ramblas) were completed under the direction of the architect Francisco Salamone.
  • 1938: The Rural Society (La Sociedad Rural) was founded.
  • 1941: The Flying Club (Aeroclub) and the Electricity Cooperative (La Cooperativa Electrica) were founded. A local branch of the Rotary Club was founded under the presidency of Julían Castro Olivera
  • 1944: The Old Peoples Home (El Hogar de Ancianos) was opened.
  • 1948: El Fogon de los Gauchos founded.
  • 1950: The Voluntary Fire Service (El cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios) was created.
  • 1956: El Club de Pesca Social y Deporte was founded.
  • 1965: The Lions Club (Club de Leones) was founded under the presidency of Augusto Mariani
  • 1966: Alliance française was set up.
  • 1968: A local branch office of the newspaper La Nueva Provincia opened.
  • 1981: The City Cultural Museum (La Casa de Cultura y Museo de la Ciudad) opened.
  • 1982: An acacia tree was planted by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in the Garden of Historic Trees (Patio de los Árboles Historicos) of the Casa de la Cultura on 12 September to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of Pringles in 1882.

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