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Augusto Pinochet

dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990

13 dated entries naming Augusto Pinochet, drawn from 12 separate years between 1915 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1915November 25 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st president of Chile (died 2006)source
  • 1973September 11 – Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in a violent military coup after serious political instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly commits suicide during the coup in the presidential palace and General Augusto Pinochet heads a US-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 17 years.source
  • 1973September 18 - The Archbishop of Santiago Raúl Silva Henríquez performs the traditional Te deum of national holidays where General Augusto Pinochet and former presidents Jorge Alessandri, Gabriel González Videla participate. and Eduardo Frei Montalva.source
  • 1974June 27 – The head of the Chilean Military Junta, Army General Augusto Pinochet, assumes the office of "Supreme Chief of the Nation". On December 17, via a Supreme Decree amendment, he will be formally designated President of Chile.source
  • 1976September 21 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.source
  • 1977September 5 - Invited to participate in the ratification of the Panama Canal agreements, Augusto Pinochet travels to United States, where he meets with President Jimmy Carter and other Latin American leaders.source
  • 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 Alessandrisource
  • 1981March 11 – Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President of Chile for another 8-year term.source
  • 1988October 5 – Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule; he relinquishes power in 1990.source
  • 1990March 11 – Augusto Pinochet hands over power to the elected president Patricio Aylwin, marking the beginning of the Chilean transition to democracy after 17 years of the military dictatorship of Chile.source
  • 1998October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.source

21st century

  • 2006December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, 91, Chilean president (1973–1990), complications from heart attack.source
  • 2022March 11 – Gabriel Boric is sworn in as President of Chile. He becomes the youngest head of state in the nation's history and the first to be born during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.source

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