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Chile

396 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Chile, 1801 CE to 1990 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

19th century

222 entries, 1801 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

20th century

174 entries, 1900 CE to 1998 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1900Exceptionally heavy and frequent rains during the winter across the centre of the country produce the wettest year for which reliable records are available at Santiago and Valparaíso, both of which receive more than twice their normal rainfall, with Quinta Normal recording 819.7 mm Paskoff, Roland P.; ‘Geomorphological Processes and Characteristic Landforms in the Mediterranean Regions of the World’; Mediterranean Type Ecosystems; in Ecological Studies, Volume 7, 1973, pp 53–60Chilesource
  • 19064 September – The Order of Merit (Chile) is created.Chilesource
  • 19112 May – The Chilean National History Museum is founded.Chilesource
  • 191525 June- Chilean presidential election, 1915Chilesource
  • 19243 September – The Saber noise occurs.Chilesource
  • 193125 December – Norte Grande insurrectionChilesource
  • 194218 December - the Quinta Normal Fire Department is founded in the Commune of Quinta Normal in Santiago.Chilesource
  • 194421 May – The Naval de Talcahuano football club is founded.Chilesource
  • 19509 December - An intraplate earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurs inside the Department of Loa, near CalamaChilesource
  • 195517 July – San Bernardo train crashChilesource
  • 195722 December – Two buses collide near San Antonio, killing 21.Chilesource
  • 196022 May – The 1960 Valdivia earthquake occurs; with a magnitude of 9.5 MW, it is the largest recorded earthquake. Its epicenter was the city of Valdivia and mainly affected the area between Talca and Chiloé Archipelago. The earthquake was felt in different parts of the planet and produced a tidal wave which affected various locations throughout the Pacific Ocean such as Hawaii and Japan. It also caused the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, which covered the Puyehue Lake with ashes. Between 1,655 and 2,000 people died, and more than 2 million were affected by this disaster.Chilesource
  • 19653-25 July - Tour of President Eduardo Frei Montalva through Europe (Spain, Portugal, France and Italy) and South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador).Chilesource
  • 196720 January - Decree 40 of the Ministry of Finance creates the Unidad de Fomento (UF) as a way of revaluing mortgage loans according to variations in inflation.Chilesource
  • 1968June 28 – The first heart transplant in Chile and Latin America, and the second in the world, is performed by surgeon Jorge Kaplán at the Almirante Nef Naval Hospital in Viña del Mar to patient María Elena Peñaloza.Chilesource
  • 197016 September - Inauguration of the Lo Prado tunnel on Route 68, which connects Santiago de Chile with Valparaíso.Chilesource
  • 1971July 8 - Illapel earthquake, which could be perceived from Antofagasta to Valdivia. Its magnitude was 7.8 Richter Scale, 85 people died and it caused a minor tidal wave.Chilesource
  • 1972April 2 – Nibaldo Soto Alarcón, former foreman of the La Patagua estate, in Cauquenes, committed suicide upon learning that his land had been expropriated.Chilesource
  • 1974October 16 - The Colegio de Profesores de Chile is created, replacing the Single Union of Education Workers, which functioned between 1970 and 1973.Chilesource
  • 1976January 5 - The Archbishop of Santiago, Raúl Silva Henríquez, creates the Vicariate of Solidarity.Chilesource
  • 1978October 31 - General Augusto Pinochet asks the Council of State to study the draft of the new Political Constitution of the Republic proposed by the study commission led by Enrique Ortúzar, minister of state of the former president Jorge AlessandriChilesource
  • 197930 November-1 December – 1979 Chilean telethonChilesource
  • 1981July 23–29 – Strong temperature drops are recorded in much of the country. Snow falls in cities like La Serena and Copiapó, where previously thought impossible.Chilesource
  • 19831 June - Inflation reaches 32.4%, this being the maximum peak of the crisis of 1982, this being the third most important economic crisis in the history of Chile only surpassed by the economic crisis of 1929 and the economic crisis of 1973 during the socialist government of Salvador Allende which, with 606% inflation, was the biggest economic crisis in the history of the country.Chilesource
  • 1990February 18 – A bus from the Ramos Cholele company collides with a truck near Taltal, leaving 22 dead and 30 injured.Chilesource