Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros de la
Torre (1758–1829) was a Spanish
naval
officer born in Cartagena
. He participated in the Battle of
Trafalgar
in 1805, and in the Spanish resistance against
Napoleon's invasion in 1808.
In 1809 he was appointed
Viceroy of the
RÃo de la
Plata by the
Junta of Seville,
replacing
Santiago de Liniers.
The handover took place at Colonia instead of Buenos Aires, due to
the confusing reports arrived to Europe about Liniers's government.
As viceroy he allowed free trade, and then removed it back by
pressure of traders.
Mariano Moreno
pledged for such removal to be checked, and he decided to allow
free trade to remain but only for a limited time.
The news of the fall of the Junta of Seville reached Buenos Aires
on may 1810. With both the king of Spain and the Junta removed of
power, many people thought that Liniers had no legitimacy to
govern, starting the
May Revolution.
To decide this the city celebrated an
open
cabildo, that decided to remove him and place a
Junta in government instead. It was
attempted to make Cisneros the president of such Junta, but popular
unrest forced it to be disolved the same day it was formed.
Cisneros resigned and the
Primera
Junta took power replacing him.
Shortly after the Revolution, Cisneros was vanished to Spain.
Sources
In Spanish unless otherwise noted.
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