Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary general and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1784)

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

19th-century Uruguayan revolutionary, general, and political figure (1784–1853)

Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay.

List of presidents of Uruguay

Uruguay is a presidential republic in which the president is both the head of state and head of government. The following is a list of all the people who have held the office of President of Uruguay since 6 November 1830, with the exception of those who held the office of…

October 22

Day of the year

October 22 is the 295th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.