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The following lists events that happened during 1894 in Chile .
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country located in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 756,096 square kilometers (291,930 sq mi) and a population of 17.5 million as of 2017, Chile shares borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city of Chile is Santiago, and the national language is Spanish.
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military overthrow of the Popular Unity government in Chile, led by President Salvador Allende. Allende, the first Socialist to be elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy, faced significant social unrest, political tension with the opposition-controlled Congress, and economic warfare ordered by US President Richard Nixon. On September 11, 1973, a group of military officers, led by General Augusto Pinochet, seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule.
Antonio González de Balcarce was an Argentine military commander in the early 19th century.
Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a vice-admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President (Provisional) (1826).
Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA in 1975 to make political dissidents disappear. At least 119 people are alleged to have been abducted and later killed. The magazines published a list of 119 dead political opponents.
The Battle of Topáter, or Battle of Calama, was fought on March 23, 1879 between Chile and Bolivia. It was the first battle of the War of the Pacific.
Carlos Héctor Campos Silva was a Chilean footballer. Campos played for Universidad de Chile. He scored 184 goals for the club, and 18 times for the Chile national team. Campos died on 11 November 2020 in Ovalle at the age of 83.
Francisco Ibáñez de Segovia y Peralta (1644–1712) was a Spanish colonial administrator who was Royal Governor of Chile from 1700 to 1709. He was born in Madrid and died in Lima.
Pablo Neruda (born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
Fernando José Riera Bauzá was a Chilean professional football player and manager, patriarch of Chilean football.
Fr. Pedro de Vivar y Ruiz de Azúa (1742–1820) was a Chilean priest and political figure. He served as the first President of the Senate of Chile in 1812.
Alberto Jorge Fouillioux Ahumada was a Chilean football midfielder and striker who earned 70 caps and scored 12 goals for the Chile national team during his career.
Martin de Mujica y Buitrón, was a Spanish Basque military man who was named by king Philip IV of Spain, to be Captain General and Royal Governor of Chile, besides president of its Real Audiencia. His government was from May 1646 and April 1649, when he died, apparently poisoned. Frequently described as an honest administrator. He looked for peace with the mapuches, celebrating the Parliament of Quilín (1647).
Francisco de Meneses Brito was Royal Governor of Chile between 1664 and 1667.
Ubaldo Cruche was a Uruguayan footballer who played for clubs in both Uruguay and Chile as well as for the Uruguay national football team in the Copa América 1941. He was born in Montevideo in May 1920 and died in 1988.
Andrés Rafael Prieto Urrejola was a Chilean football forward who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica.
Luis Hernán Álvarez Hernández was a Chilean footballer who played in clubs in Chile and El Salvador.
Events in the year 1848 in Chile.
The following lists events that happened during 1893 in Chile.
The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 severely affected Chile. The virus was confirmed to have reached Chile on 3 March 2020. Initial cases had been imported from Southeast Asia and Europe, and expanded into a large number of untraceable infections, placing the country within phase 4 of the pandemic as defined by the World Health Organization, with over 1,000 confirmed cases by 25 March 2020.
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