Who rightfully owns the Falkland Isles?

[Soulforged]

A bit of history (copied from Wikipedia) :

1504: Amerigo Vespucci (Florence/Spain)

1520: Esteban Gómez (Spain)

1540: Ferdinand Camargo (Spain)

1592: John Davis (England)

1593: Richard Hawkins (England)

1600: Sebald de Weert (Netherlands) 1684: Cowley & Dampier (England) discovered Pepys Island, renamed South Georgia by James Cook in 1775.

1690: John Strong (England) landed, and named the sound and eventually the entire island group after Viscount Falkland, Admiralty Commissioner

1764: Louis de Bougainville (France) founded a naval base at Port Louis, East Falkland. The French named them the Îles Malouines.

1765: John Byron (Great Britain) established a base at Port Egmont, West Falkland in 1765.

Here's the main problem. Who discovered it? Anyway i would not give such an importance to this.

1767: France sold its base to Spain.

So it rightfully now is spanish property, therefore of the Virreynato.

1770: Spain declared war on Great Britain in a fight over the islands.

1771: That dispute was settled, with Spain retaining East Falkland and Great Britain West Falkland (until 1774).

So our ancestors kept one of the islands.

1774: The British abandoned Port Egmont but left behind a nice shiny plaque saying the islands were under continuing British dominion

Well this doesn't say anything. But the before sure does.

1776: Spain ruled the islands as part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata after 1776.

Our legacy.

1816: The United Provinces of the River Plate, later called Argentina, gained independence from Spain

Thus gaining rights over the islands. Or at least one of them.

1820: Argentina proclaimed sovereignty over the islands. The Argentine frigate, the Heroina, was sent to the islands to take possession of them. Argentina set up a penal colony on them.

If what you posted is true, then we didn't simply claim rights over them, we actually had rights over one of them.

1825: The United Kingdom recognized Argentina's independence from Spain.

So your empire said anything about our little country taking them.

1829: Argentina named Luis Vernet as the islands' governor. After a dispute over fishing rights with an United States vessel, the Argentine authorities arrested and detained the vessel´s captain. The US responded by shelling the island, destroying the main settlements.

How tipical...thus creating an excuse to their main allies to attack us.

1833: The United Kingdom invaded the islands and expelled the Argentines, but Argentina maintained its claim.

One is ours at least, you cannot deny that.

1965: United Nations Resolution 2065 called upon Britain and Argentina to proceed without delay with negotiations with a view to finding a peaceful solution to the problem bearing in mind the interests of the population of the Falkland Islands.

There's never a negotiation, Britain always uses the veto power that they've and we not.

1982: Various tensions, but mainly the desire of the Argentine military junta to distract attention from domestic economic and political ills, led to an Argentine invasion. The islands were later retaken by the UK.

Right, our politicians were falling from the 13 floor and tried to grab something. Many argentinians and many british died for no reason. Still Margaret Tatcher was rewarded didn't she?
So the conclusion is that we own one of the islands at least.

On the other hand. The Malvinas have a terrain with a lay of a material that will become petro-oil in time. So there's some economic dispute over it.

Our law sais that the Malvinas belong to us. England adquiered the two by force. So who has right.