* Eliza Lynch, Irish born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay

* 1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artist

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

Born in 1826, Francisco Solano López became the second and final ruler of the López dynasty.

There, Solano López admired the trappings and pretensions of the French empire of Napoleon III.

Lynch bore Solano López five sons, although the two never married.

She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.

She buried Solano López with her own hands after the last battle in 1870 and died penniless some years later in Europe.

Solano López consolidated his power after his father's death in 1862 by silencing several hundred critics and would-be reformers through imprisonment.

Yet Solano López would have done well to heed his father's last words to avoid aggressive acts in foreign affairs, especially with Brazil.

Observers sharply disagreed about Solano López.

During the war, Solano López ordered the executions of his own brothers and had his mother and sisters tortured when he suspected them of opposing him.

Others saw Solano López as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the " Napoleon of South America ", willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory.

However, sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians have portrayed Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

Since the 1930s, Paraguayans have regarded Solano López as the nation's foremost hero.

Solano López accurately assessed the September 1864 Brazilian intervention in Uruguay as a slight to the region's lesser powers.

Consistent with his plans to start a Paraguayan " third force " between Argentina and Brazil, Solano López committed the nation to Uruguay's aid.

When Argentina failed to react to Brazil's invasion of Uruguay, Solano López seized a Brazilian warship in November 1864.

Argentina refused Solano López's request for permission for his army to cross Argentine territory to attack the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul, Undeterred, Solano López sent his forces into Argentina.

Paraguay was in no sense prepared for a major war, let alone a war of the scope that Solano López had unleashed.

Paraguay lacked the industrial base to replace weapons lost in battle, and the Argentine-Brazilian alliance prevented Solano López from receiving arms from abroad.

Even after conscripting every able-bodied man for the front, including children as young as ten, and forcing women to perform all nonmilitary labor, Solano López still could not field an army as large as those of his rivals.

Sonoma is also considered the birthplace of wine-making in California, dating back to the original vineyards of Mission San Francisco Solano, then improvements made by Agoston Haraszthy, the father of California viticulture and credited with introduction of the Zinfandel / Primitivo grape varietal.

The freeway passes through parts of unincorporated Solano County, then heads southeast along the Benicia State Recreation Area ( a marsh ).

At the same time that he was finishing his Marine training, Tug McGraw ’ s brother, Dennis McGraw, was staging anti-war protests at Solano Community College, where he was then attending.

In addition, in 1828 fur trapper Michel La Framboise travelled from the Bonaventura River to San Francisco and then the missions of San José, San Francisco Solano and San Rafael Arcángel.

After being admitted to the California bar in 1865, he became District Attorney for Solano County and then served in the California State Assembly for two years ( 1875 – 1877 ).

Nevertheless, he directed six more movies, among them, two experimental movies ; Vozes do Medo ( Voices of Fear ) — a movie with the structure of a magazine — and As Tres Mortes de Solano ( The Three Deaths of Solano ), an experiment where the same plot is told three times, first in the fantastic realm, then as a realistic plot, and finally as a circus pantomime.

Thus, the populated was reduced, Ibung, then, became again a mere barangay of the municipality of Solano.

She occupied the house Vicente Orestes built two years ago, also on General Solano street, for his then wife, the Moorish-looking mestiza Juanita Acereda of Barrio Tanghas, Tolosa, Leyte ( she died before the house was finished and was interred in San Miguel Pro-Cathedral ).

Primero de Marzo's name is derived from the date March 1, 1870, when then Paraguayan President Francisco Solano López was killed by Brazilian troops at Cerro Corá, thereby ending the bloody War of the Triple Alliance.

The family then moved to Solano County in 1864, settling in Green Valley.

There are plans to construct a deep-water port at Bahía Solano.

* March 1 – Marshal Francisco Solano López ' last troops are cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora.

Solano County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.

Chief Solano at one time led the tribes between the Petaluma River and the Sacramento River.

" The Chief was given the Spanish name Francisco Solano during baptism at the Catholic Mission, and is named after the Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Francisco Solano.

A portion of the South Campus at the University of California, Davis is in Solano County.

The southern edge of Sonoma County comprises the northern shore of San Pablo Bay between the Marin County border at the Petaluma River and the border with Solano County at Sonoma Creek.

He maintained good relationships with the Native Americans of the region and was helped by his friendship with native Chief Solano of the Suisunes, who had been baptized at the mission and who lived near the city.

Solano's Boot & Western Wear, a family-owned enterprise at 101 South Second Street in Raton, began in 1956 as a small boot repair business operated by Andy Solano.

Delius was in Florida from the spring of 1884 to the autumn of 1885, living on a plantation at Solano Grove on the St. Johns River, near Jacksonville.

Delius later liked to represent his house at Solano Grove as " a shanty ", but it was a substantial cottage of four rooms, with plenty of space for Delius to entertain guests.

" Delius never forgot the singing as he heard it, day or night, carried sweet and clear across the water to his verandah at Solano Grove, whenever a steam-ship passed ; it is hard to imagine conditions less conducive to cultivating oranges — or more conducive to composing.

The earliest significant experiences in his artistic development came, Delius later asserted, from the sounds of the plantation songs carried down the river to him at Solano Grove.

Delius's next work, Appalachia, introduces a further feature that would recur in later pieces — the use of the voice instrumentally in wordless singing, in this case depicting the distant plantation songs that had inspired Delius at Solano Grove.

The old rituals were revived by President Estrada, when an arriving diplomat disembarked from his car at General Solano Street and boards what is called a chariot, a luxurious open jeep where the occupant stands on a red carpet holding onto a stout bar while progressing up J. P. Laurel Street to the Palace grounds.

Locomotive with slopeback tender, loading the " Sunset Limited " onto the train-ferry " Solano " at: en: Port Costa, California | Port Costa, San Francisco, Southern Pacific Railroad | Southern Pacific R. R.

* F – Berkeley / Adeline Street ( was also extended on former Southern Pacific interurban tracks on Shattuck Avenue beyond Dwight Way and through the SP's Northbrae Tunnel, terminating at Solano Avenue and The Alameda )

* Several streetcars and bridge trains from the Key System are preserved at the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction in Solano County, as well as a Bridge Unit at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum in Perris, California and a streetcar at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk, Maine.