History of Uruguay in the context of "National Party (Uruguay)"

The Colorado Party (Spanish: Partido Colorado, lit. 'Red Party', PC) is a major political party in Uruguay. Founded in 1836 by General Fructuoso Rivera, the first president of Uruguay, it is one of the country's oldest active political parties along with the National Party, their origin dates back to the establishment of Uruguay as an independent state.

Traditionally an ideologically diverse party it nowadays sits in the centre-right side of the political spectrum. Their current position in the Uruguayan political landscape is conditioned by the coalition they have formed with their historic adversary, the National Party, in opposition to the Broad Front (Frente Amplio), the latter being a leftist coalition formed in the early 1970s that has become, since the 1999 election, the most-voted electoral force in the country, reshaping Uruguayan electoral politics and displacing the Colorado Party from its traditional position of dominance to becoming the third party in the country, behind the National Party.

The Preliminary Peace Convention was a bilateral treaty signed on 27 August 1828 between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, after British mediation, that put an end to the Cisplatine War and recognized the independence of Uruguay.

Called the Preliminary Peace Convention as a result of the meetings held by representatives from the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces — the predecessor state for Argentina — between 11 and 27 August 1828 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This convention, or treaty, accorded independence to Uruguay in respect to Brazil and Argentina. Uruguay's independence would be definitively sealed on 4 October of the same year when, in Montevideo, the signing nations ratified the treaty.