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Birth
Evita Peron was born as Maria Eva Duarte de Peron. She was the youngest of five children from Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren. Her father, who already had a wife and family, was an uneducated rancher from nearby Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires. -
Fathers death
Juan died in a car crash. The details of his funeral are unknown. His second family was there and they had to sit in the back but they were almost not let in. No one knows how well the two families got along. -
Became an actor
Evita went to Buenos Aires at 15 years old to audition for acting jobs. There is a rumor that she ran away with a tango singer. Although nobody is really sure what had happen. -
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Got married
An earthquake hit San Juan. A military colonel Juan Peron organized a fundraiser to help those who survived and those who were injured in the earthquake. Since Evita was an actress she was invited to attend where she met her future husband. Despite their age difference they got married october 22 1945. -
First Lady
Juan Peron won Argentina's president election. Evita became the First Lady. She devoted a lot of time to go and visit hospitals and orphanages. -
Women being allowed to vote
Peron believed that all women should be allowed to vote. Although some scholars argue that her real reason for wanting that is to give women more power over things (which was not true). Eventually in 1947 it became a law making it legal for women to vote and run for office. -
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Vice President
In 1950 Peron fainted and was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. In 1951 she announced her candidacy for vice president to her husband as president. Due to her cancer she decided to withdraw the competition. -
Funeral
Before she died, Argentina’s Congress gave her the official title of “Spiritual Leader of the Nation.” Her state funeral was fitting for a queen and millions of people stood outside of the president's house weeping. Three million people in Buenos Aires attended her funeral and there were long lines of people waited to see her body on display at the Ministry of Labor. -
Death
When she was 33 she had lost her battle against uterine cancer. She went into a coma at 11:00 am and died at 8:25 pm. For the next few months Argentine radio always stopped at 8:25 to remember the “Lady of Hope.” -
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After death
After her body was put on display, a military coup overthrew Juan Perón. They switched out Eva Perón’s corpse with a fake one and stored the real corpse in a van and then an office. In 1957, they sent the body to a cemetery in Milan, Italy, to be buried under a fake name. Her corpse stayed in Milan until 1971 then given back to Juan Peron. TO BE CONTINUED -
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After death
By 1973, Juan Perón had come out of exile and won the Argentinian presidency again. He died in office the following year, and Isabel (his third wife) had Evita's corpse returned to Buenos Aires. Finally, in 1976, her body was buried in her maiden family’s tomb in a secure, tamper-proof spot in a cemetery in Buenos Aires.
