Tragic Week (Argentina)

For other uses, see Tragic Week.

Tragic Week (Spanish: Semana Trágica), also known as Bloody Week,^[1][2] was a series of riots and massacres that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from January 7 to 14, 1919. An uprising led by anarchists and communists was eventually crushed by the Argentine Federal Police, the military, and the Argentine Patriotic League. Estimates of the death toll vary but are usually in the hundreds, mostly of workers at the hands of the government forces.

Tragic Week

Part of Revolutions of 1917–1923
Disturbances during Tragic Week
Date	January 1919
Location	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known as	Semana Trágica
Participants	Argentine Federal Police, the military, and the Argentine Patriotic League
Deaths	141-700

See also

• Patagonia rebelde
• Argentine Regional Workers' Federation
• List of cases of police brutality in Argentina