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Eva Maria Duarte is born in Los Toldos, in the "Pampas" region or plains of Argentina
Eva Maria Duarte was the seventh and youngest child of Juan Duarte, a wealthy landowner from nearby Chivilcoy and Jauan Ibaurguren, a local woman of Basque and Indian descent. Eva and her siblings, like many children born in Rural Argentina, was the illegitamate. A year after her birth, her father left his family in Los Toldos and returned to his family in Chivilcoy, leaving the family destitute. -
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The Life of Eva Peron
Whore. Saint. Heroine. Villaness, were just some of the names that Eva Peron was called druing her thirty three years on this earth. During that time Eva straddled the lines that seperate the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless. She brought Argentina to the attention of the world, helped get women the vote, and became one of the most powerful women in the history of Latin America. -
The Death & Funeral of Eva's Father
After hearing that her husband had died in a car crash in Chivilcoy, Juana Ibaurguren and her seven children flagrantly disobeyed the standards of society and insisted on attending his funeral. Once they had made the journey from Los Toldos to Chivilcoy, the family was almost turned away by Duarte's grieving widow. Undoubtedly shocked to encounter her husband's second family. The widow's brother eventually convinced the wife to allow the family to briefly pray over the body. -
The Duarte Family moves to Junin
Though we do not have an exact date, the Duarte Family moved from the village of Los Toldos to the small city of Junin. The family, like many others like them, moved in order to find better jobs. Juana, who had worked as a seamstress, opened a resturant in the tiny home the family bought. Eva's brother became a seller of domestic goods. Eva attended school where she was only "an average student" and wrote sentimental and unimpressive poetry. -
Eva Finishes her Primary Education
At the age of fourteen, Eva Maria completes her Primary Schooling in Junin. She was remembered by classmates as being "sweet" and "queit" with one teacher remarking that she had "an intense inner life." On the other hand, her school mates also mentioned that she could be "domineering" and "persuasive" when she was convinced of something -
Adios Junin! Hola Buenos Aires!
Fifteen year old Eva Maria got on a train and headed off to Buenos Aires, though accounts differ dramatically on who with and how she got a ticket. Some contend that Eva Maria had seduced the famous tango sing Agustin Magaldi into taking her to Buenos Aires, others that she went accompanied by her mother, and still others that her brother paid for her ticket. The reason though, is never questioned. Eva Maria, like many young girls, wanted to become a famous actress. Not exactly respectable. -
Eva's Big Break!
Eva made her first appearance on a radio soap opera, then the most popular form of entertainment in Argentina. The Show The Jasmines of the Eighties. This was followed by roles in several unsuccessful movies and frequent mention in popular sleazy gossip magazines. -
Army Coup tooples Government
After the fraudlent election of yet another welathy landowner, the army topples the government after six thousands troops march into Buenos Aires. No one was killed. In the aftermath of the coup, a popular army Colonel named Juan Peron becomes Secretary of Labour and Social Secuirty. He will go on to institute the first minimum wage laws in Argentina and will recognize Labour Unions. (So, pretty much does his job). -
Eva's new radio show
The Government greenlits Eva's newest radio show, Heroines of History. The government had clamped down on the production of Radio Soap Operas as they believed they did not promote the high moral character the regime wished to promote among the people. -
Eva meets her future husband
At a concert in Luna Park to raise money for earthquake victims, the popular labour minister met the famous radio actress for the first time. Witnesses remember seeing Eva leave with Peron after the concert. Two months later, the couple eschewed tradition and moved in together. Leaving Eva, or as she was called in the salons of Buenos Aires, "The colonel's mistress" the subject of malign gossip and speculation. -
Eva stars in "The Solider's Revolution is the Revolution of the Argentine People"
Sine moving in with Juan Peron, Eva had found herself becoming more and more political. As Marysa Navarro wrote in the case of Eva Peron, when Juan Peron "talked politics with other officers and politicans" Eva did not "serve the coffee and leave" like most women, but "sat and listened" and even defended her hsuband's view point. In her new radio program, she did the same thing, praise and promote the work being done by Peron's ministry of Labour. -
Possibly the Most Important day in Argentine History
Due to his policies of only recognizing unions whose leaders supported his political ambitions and enforcing labour legislation, Peron became enemy number one of Argentina's socialists, communists, and its wealthy. These disparate sectors converged to criticize "the colonel" until he was finally sacked and imprisoned. Workers,without prior instruction, entered the streets of Buenos Aires in mass to protest the imprisonment of Juan Peron. In later years. Eva did not organize this. -
Juan Marries Eva Peron
Juan marries Eva Peron in a private civil ceremony. A religious ceremony, again very private, was held five weeks later. Private, due to the fact that the couple had recieved death threats when they tried to have a public one (Nicholas Fraser & Marysa Navarro. The Real Lives of Eva Peron. Great Britain: Mackay,2003.ebook) -
Election of Juan Peron
In what Jill Hedges described in her Argentina a Modern History, Argentina had its first "truly free election since 1928." During the campaign Eva had again made political history, becoming the first wife of an argentine politican to stand by her husband''s side on the campaign trail. All the well known actress with the fairy tale story had to do convince people that Peron meant it when he told them he was a man of the people. -
Evita goes to work
Eva, or Evita, as she was now called began to work at the Ministry of Posts, and later ater that year, the Ministry of Labour. Her job consisted of recieving Union Leaders, touring factories, and giving short speeches. In many ways, she was taking over the job of her husband, Juan Peron, who feared that opponents may use the position to build their own base of support. -
The Rainbow Tour Begins
Eva leaves Argentina to go on a round of European State Visits that will take her to: Spain, Argentina's closet ally and major trade partner, France, Portugal, Italy, the Vatican, and unoffical visits to Monaco and Switzerland. The trip was wildly assumed by anti-peronists to be an occassion for the couple to put money in Swiss Bank accounts. No bank account has ever been uncovered. -
The Founding of the Eva Peron Foundation
Until this point, the government helped the poor of Argentina through the Socided de Benefencia, a chairty organization that paid it's workers almost nothing and required them and the orphans it housed to live and work in terrible conditions. As the sociedad was in such terrible condition, Peron and Eva created the Eva Peron Foundation that took over its duties.
The society did everything from give children toys at christmas to building quality and afforable housing for young women (Hedges) -
Women's Peronist Party
Eva, who previously had supported a bill proposed by a supporter of Peron's that would grant women the vote, spoke to 6,000 female delegates about the goals of a Women's Peronist Party. The party would register women to vote and encourage them to vote for Peron (Navarro) -
Eva Faints in Public
After a ribbon cutting, Eva faints in public. The official excuse given is a problem with her appendix. The real reason is that Eva had developed ovarian cancer. -
Ahora Evita! Ahora!
Throughout 1951 calls brought out from the unions and members of the working class for Evita to run for Vice-President. At the time no woman had held such a major elected position in any country. At a rally held on the twenty second of August union members to show their support for Peron delivered a speech where she vowed to "do what the people wished" even as she deferred from annoucing her canidacy. -
Evita will not run for vice president
Due to failing health and opposition from the military and oligarchy, Eva was unable to run for Vice-President. She announced her decision over the radio four days after the mass rally that had called for her to run. -
Gracias
Eva, who has been recieving cancer treatment since her renunciation, gives a radio address to thank the people for re electiong peron. According to Navarro and Fraser, the women voters that Eva had helped organize were responsible for giving her husband an even larger majority than he had before. -
La Razon de mi Vida AKA The Reason of my Life
Eva's ghostwritten autobiography is published. It's main topic is her encouragement of others to give their lives to peron. It glosses over her illegtimacy, acting career, feminist leanings, and anything remotly controversial. -
Eva Dies of Cervical Cancer
Eva dies after a long battle of cervivcal cancer. Her body is embalmed, she is given a state funeral and her body is available for viewing at the Ministry of Labour, where she worked. Her body is not buried due to the attempted construction of a great monument where it will be placed in. Peron is ousted from Power before the monument is completed. Once he is ousted from power, her body will be buried incognito in Italy until Peron returns with it in the 1970's and buries her in a family plot.