* Luso-Brazilian invasion ( 1816-1820 ): Was an armed conflict between the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and the partisans of José Artigas over the Banda Oriental ( Eastern Bank ), present-day Uruguay.

* 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.

Averages in July of a high of and a low of in Artigas confirm the milder winters in northwestern Uruguay, but even here temperatures have dropped to a subfreezing.

Farther south, the litoral economy had benefited from completion of the General Artigas Bridge across the Río Uruguay from Paysandú to the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.

* October 23 – José Gervasio Artigas and 16. 000 orientales leave the Banda Oriental del Uruguay to go into exile.

The first Federalist leader in the Platine Region was José Gervasio Artigas, who opposed the centralist governments in Buenos Aires that followed the May Revolution, and created instead the Federal League in 1814 among several Argentine Provinces and the Banda Oriental ( modern-day Uruguay ).

During his rule, Saavedra and Campana were exiled, Montevideo fell to the United Provinces but serious problems arose with José Gervasio Artigas and the Liga Federal on the Eastern Bank of the Uruguay River.

Uruguay, then known as the Province of the Eastern Bank of the Uruguay River, was considered a somewhat breakaway Province, since Montevideo served as the seat of the Royalist Viceroy Francisco Javier de Elío during its war on the May Revolution ; and that, after the independentists victory, the Province became the main stronghold of the Federal League leader José Gervasio Artigas, who waged a long and bitter dispute during the 1810s against the Unitarians about the shape the national organization would have.

* Palma, Uruguay, a village in the Artigas Department, Uruguay

José Gervasio Artigas Arnal ( June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850 ) is a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called " the father of Uruguayan nationhood ".

In 1815, Artigas attended the Proto-congress of the Independence of Argentina, held in Arrollo de la China ( today known as Concepción del Uruguay ).

Artigas has become a national hero in Uruguay.

* Artigas Department, the northernmost region of Uruguay ( formed 1 October 1884 from Salto Department ).

* General Artigas Bridge, which connects Paysandú, Uruguay and Colón, Argentina ( completed 1975 ).

Statues of José Artigas stand on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D. C .; on 6th Avenue in New York ; in Plaza Artigas Salto, Uruguay ; in Caracas, Venezuela ; in Athens, Greece ; in Mexico City ; in Newark, New Jersey ; in Quito, Ecuador as well as in the town centre of Montevideo, Minnesota and in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Asunción, Paraguay has a statue of Artigas in its Plaza Uruguay, and the Calle Sebastián Gaboto was renamed the Avenida Artigas in his honor in 1926.

* Pictures of the Artigas Mausoleum in Montevideo Uruguay

It was built in honor of Gen. José Artigas and is in Minas, Uruguay | Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay

Least developed were the northern ranching departments along the Brazilian border — Artigas, Rivera, and Cerro Largo — and also Tacuarembó.

In Buenos Aires, known by the certifying of stationery at the time, since 1819, Oribe, along with other easterns as Santiago Vazquez and residents who were equally opposed to the Brazilian Portuguese occupation and Artigas, have built a secret Masonic society, called the Society of the Eastern Knights, who waited at least until 1821, Cisplatin Congress to undertake a return to the, since then, called Cisplatina Province and begin work to reverse the situation.

Masoller is situated on the boundary between the departments of Artigas and Salto, close to the Brazilian border.

It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil ; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, and Entre Ríos in Argentina ; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano, and Colonia in Uruguay.

The river is crossed by five international bridges called ( from north to south ): Integration Bridge and Paso de los Libres-Uruguaiana International Bridge, between Argentina and Brazil ; and the Salto Grande Bridge, General Artigas Bridge and Libertador General San Martín Bridge between Argentina and Uruguay.

Average highs and lows in summer ( January ) in Montevideo are, respectively, with an absolute maximum of ; comparable numbers for Artigas in the northwest are, with the highest temperature ever recorded ().

Semi-precious stones, such as agates and amethysts are also found in the department, and an entire industry has risen up around their extraction and manufacturing, especially near the city of Artigas.

The monument To General Jose Gervasio Artigas in Minas, Uruguay ( 18 meters tall, 9 meters long, 150, 000 kg ) was the world's largest equestrian statue until 2009.

Artigas, who thought that the gauchos were not treated well, supported the new ideas.

* The Flag of Artigas, flown outside Uruguayan government buildings and used by all branches of the Armed Forces.

José Gervasio Artigas would lead later a third perspective: the retroversion applied to all regions, which should remain united under a confederative system.

At the time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro.

At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro.

At the time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro.

At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro.

At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro.

Eladio Dieste ( Artigas department, December 10, 1917-Montevideo, July 29, 2000 ) was a Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, all in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.

A spectacular polished slice of an amethyst stalactite from Artigas Department

* 1850 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan soldier and statesman ( b. 1764 )

In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolution against the Spanish authorities, defeating them on 18 May at the Battle of Las Piedras.

In 1813 the new government in Buenos Aires convened a constituent assembly where Artigas emerged as a champion of federalism, demanding political and economic autonomy for each area, and for the Banda Oriental in particular.

Consequently Artigas broke with Buenos Aires and besieged Montevideo, taking the city in early 1815.

Artigas organized the Federal League under his protection, consisting of six provinces, four of which later became part of Argentina.

José Gervasio Artigas, as depicted by Juan Manuel Blanes.

In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolt against Spain, defeating Spanish forces on May 18 in the Battle of Las Piedras.

The Portuguese forces, thanks to their numerical and material superiority, occupied Montevideo on January 20, 1817, and finally after struggling for three years in the countryside, defeated Artigas in the Battle of Tacuarembó.

Montevideo averages annually, and Artigas receives in an average year.

This largest region includes the departments of Artigas, Cerro Largo, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja, Rivera, Salto, Tacuarembó, and Treinta y Tres and the eastern halves of Paysandú, Río Negro, and Soriano.

* June 19 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero of independence ( d. 1850 )

* September 23 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary ( b. 1764 )

The Second Triumvirate ( 1812 – 1814 ) and José Gervasio Artigas ( who controlled the Liga Federal during the 1815 – 1820 period ) sought to restore the initial protectionist policy, but the Supreme Director restored free trade once more.

However, during this same period, internecine power conflicts among diverse leaders, and ideological and economical struggles developed between Buenos Aires Province and much of the rest of the United Provinces, with many of the Provinces bonding themselves into a Federal League, inspired by Federalist José Gervasio Artigas ' leadership.

In 1949 a statue of José Artigas, Uruguay's leader of independence, was given to the Minnesota community by Uruguayan citizens.