Questions about the war of independence leading to the creation of Argentina

I want to ask the following:

1) Was the more crucial date 1810 (Cadiz government in occupied Spain during the peninsular war) or alreay 1808 (start of the mass uprisings in Spain, after the bloodbath at Madrid in early May) ?

2) When was the state's name become Argentina? (afaik originally it was the confederation of La Plata or something similar?)

3) Was the flag used in 1812 for the first time, identical to the one used now for Argentina?

4) When was the new state officially recognised by world powers? (iirc the US recognised it in the 1820s?)

Thanks in advance (needing this for a brief intro in a program about Borges)

very optional: How did the spanish blockading fleet manage to be defeated by a smaller fleet led mostly by inexperienced navy men?

fear of the Brits .

Yeah, the (failed) british invasion, dealt by colonials, played a crucial role there.

But the patriarchy and wester-centrism in the forum ensured lack of participation in the thread

checked Wikipedia but am not sure about which Spanish blockade . But the thing is the RN tended to win and win big in those days . You might defeat them once or twice yet they would still come , it's the same fear currently held by all those Brown people in the Middle East . That you should play their game with their rules . Am pretty sure the blockading Spaniards had a full appreciation about which British volunteers were like seconded to the rebels and stuff . By 1820s , nobody talked of ever opposing the RN anyhow .

^The RN would win if it had better or nearly the same ships, but the case with the defeat of the spanish blockade there featured neither for the rebel/colonist navy (which was headed by a commercial-boat merchant, who just was in the past lower rank in the RN iirc, and populated by various europeans) Keep in mind that in the same period the RN got the command to ruin the Danish navy while at port, without a declaration of war, 'so as to avoid Napoleon using the danish navy'. It's ok, though, cause Britain helped Denmark in 1864

Likely an amateurish mistake (wiki mentions the spanish blockade-forming navy leaving -after an initial defeat- the safety - - of the port with the coastal battery, and then ruined.

well , any merchant would have a better understanding of all things naval then the run-of-mill officer in the Navy of dying empire ... And those various Europeans were likely to be the cream of their respective militaries . Like all those Scots who failed to find a place in the English Navy and migrated to the Russians , you know to cause immense trouble for the Europeans . Plausible Deniability is agreat thing - until it happenz to you .

^TBF, Spain was being ruined by the Peninsular war at the time anyway... The navy sent to blockade likely was not fit to fight a serious counter-navy (yet it still managed to lose to a non-serious rebel one).

which ı wouldn't challenge one bit . Only to add , in case it's a contribution , the Spanish would not be exactly in a position to challenge the UK at the time . The Brits have had tremendous ways to starve their allies while looking like supporting them .