20 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.
9 February - The
Pudahuel airport is officially inaugurated, replacing Los Cerrillos airport.
21 February -
Divisional General Ricardo Orellana Olate dies in
Temuco, the last survivor of the
War of the Pacific. He was born in Temuco. south of the country on May 20, 1860, and enlisted in the war as a cornet of orders.
March
13 March - earthquake at 12:06 (local time). The tremor has a magnitude of 7.3 on the
Richter scale and a depth of 33 km.
The first edition of Paula magazine appears. The first issue is one hundred pages long and costs
E°3.
1 July – Chile's armed forces seize control of post & telegraph offices in response to strikes.[1]
14-24 July - As a result of the rain and low temperatures in the country, a heavy snowfall occurs between the cities of
Ovalle and
Punta Arenas.
28 July - Law 16640 on the
Chilean Land Reform is published. Its basic criteria are: the incorporation of peasants to own the land they work on, the promotion of these and their families to achieve their incorporation into the social, cultural and political life of the nation; the improvement of agricultural productivity and the reform of the management system, among others.
August 11 - In the midst of the student takeover, the phrase «Chilean:
El Mercurio lies » on a canvas hanging in the Central House of the Catholic University.
August 23 - A power outage affects a large part of the country. Its cause is the fall of a pole in the Ictinos neighborhood of
Peñalolén, currently
Ñuñoa, which caused an overload and caused a blackout between the cities of
Copiapó and
Puerto Montt.
August 31- The painter Jerónimo Costa dies in Santiago.
September
September 5–22 miners die after two trucks carrying detonating material exploded in a sector of the
Chuquicamata mine.
September 10 - The writer, music critic and musicologist Vicente Salas Viu (was born in
Madrid on January 22, 1911, and arrived in Chile in 1939 aboard the
Winnipeg) dies in Santiago.
September 11 - The Social Democratic Party is founded.—Legally recognized by the Directorate of the Electoral Registry on November 7.
September 13–16 - Official visit of King
Olaf V of Norway to Chile.
September 27 - The sculptor Tótila Albert Schneider dies in Santiago.
October
October 8 - The genealogist and historian Guillermo de la Cuadra Gormaz dies in Santiago.
October 20 - A supreme decree creates the Army NCO School "Sergeant 2nd Daniel Rebolledo Sepúlveda".
November 16 - The Chilean representative Margarita Téllez ranks among the 15 semifinalists of the beauty contest
Miss World that takes place at the
Lyceum Theater in
London.
November 24–26 - The XXII Congress of the
Socialist Party takes place in
Chillán Between the approved text by the plenary, it is concluded that:
Revolutionary violence is inevitable and legitimate [..., and it is the only path that leads to the seizure of political and economic power and to its subsequent defense and strengthening. Only by destroying the bureaucratic and military apparatus of the bourgeois state can the socialist revolution be consolidated [...] The peaceful or legal forms of struggle (claiming, ideological, electoral, etc.) do not lead by themselves to power. The Socialist Party considers them as limited instruments of action, incorporated into the political process that leads us to armed struggle.
December
December 4 - A volcanic eruption —which occurred on
Deception Island,
South Shetland Islands, in the
Antarctic—destroys the President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station and the Cabo Gutiérrez Vargas Shelter.
December 12 - Decree 1534 of the Ministry of the Interior determines the national emblems of the country and regulates their use, consolidating and systematizing various legal and regulatory norms on the matter. Its 1st article establishes that the national emblems are "the Coat of Arms of the Republic, the National Flag, the Cockade or Cucarda and the Presidential Banner or Presidential National Flag."
December 20 - The
Tocopilla Earthquake affecting the cities of Tocopilla and
Calama at 22:25 (local time). With a magnitude of 7.2 degrees on the
Richter scale and an intensity of VII to VIII on the
Mercalli scale,it leaves 10 dead, 40 injured and 1,150 homeless.
20 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.
9 February - The
Pudahuel airport is officially inaugurated, replacing Los Cerrillos airport.
21 February -
Divisional General Ricardo Orellana Olate dies in
Temuco, the last survivor of the
War of the Pacific. He was born in Temuco. south of the country on May 20, 1860, and enlisted in the war as a cornet of orders.
March
13 March - earthquake at 12:06 (local time). The tremor has a magnitude of 7.3 on the
Richter scale and a depth of 33 km.
The first edition of Paula magazine appears. The first issue is one hundred pages long and costs
E°3.
1 July – Chile's armed forces seize control of post & telegraph offices in response to strikes.[1]
14-24 July - As a result of the rain and low temperatures in the country, a heavy snowfall occurs between the cities of
Ovalle and
Punta Arenas.
28 July - Law 16640 on the
Chilean Land Reform is published. Its basic criteria are: the incorporation of peasants to own the land they work on, the promotion of these and their families to achieve their incorporation into the social, cultural and political life of the nation; the improvement of agricultural productivity and the reform of the management system, among others.
August 11 - In the midst of the student takeover, the phrase «Chilean:
El Mercurio lies » on a canvas hanging in the Central House of the Catholic University.
August 23 - A power outage affects a large part of the country. Its cause is the fall of a pole in the Ictinos neighborhood of
Peñalolén, currently
Ñuñoa, which caused an overload and caused a blackout between the cities of
Copiapó and
Puerto Montt.
August 31- The painter Jerónimo Costa dies in Santiago.
September
September 5–22 miners die after two trucks carrying detonating material exploded in a sector of the
Chuquicamata mine.
September 10 - The writer, music critic and musicologist Vicente Salas Viu (was born in
Madrid on January 22, 1911, and arrived in Chile in 1939 aboard the
Winnipeg) dies in Santiago.
September 11 - The Social Democratic Party is founded.—Legally recognized by the Directorate of the Electoral Registry on November 7.
September 13–16 - Official visit of King
Olaf V of Norway to Chile.
September 27 - The sculptor Tótila Albert Schneider dies in Santiago.
October
October 8 - The genealogist and historian Guillermo de la Cuadra Gormaz dies in Santiago.
October 20 - A supreme decree creates the Army NCO School "Sergeant 2nd Daniel Rebolledo Sepúlveda".
November 16 - The Chilean representative Margarita Téllez ranks among the 15 semifinalists of the beauty contest
Miss World that takes place at the
Lyceum Theater in
London.
November 24–26 - The XXII Congress of the
Socialist Party takes place in
Chillán Between the approved text by the plenary, it is concluded that:
Revolutionary violence is inevitable and legitimate [..., and it is the only path that leads to the seizure of political and economic power and to its subsequent defense and strengthening. Only by destroying the bureaucratic and military apparatus of the bourgeois state can the socialist revolution be consolidated [...] The peaceful or legal forms of struggle (claiming, ideological, electoral, etc.) do not lead by themselves to power. The Socialist Party considers them as limited instruments of action, incorporated into the political process that leads us to armed struggle.
December
December 4 - A volcanic eruption —which occurred on
Deception Island,
South Shetland Islands, in the
Antarctic—destroys the President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station and the Cabo Gutiérrez Vargas Shelter.
December 12 - Decree 1534 of the Ministry of the Interior determines the national emblems of the country and regulates their use, consolidating and systematizing various legal and regulatory norms on the matter. Its 1st article establishes that the national emblems are "the Coat of Arms of the Republic, the National Flag, the Cockade or Cucarda and the Presidential Banner or Presidential National Flag."
December 20 - The
Tocopilla Earthquake affecting the cities of Tocopilla and
Calama at 22:25 (local time). With a magnitude of 7.2 degrees on the
Richter scale and an intensity of VII to VIII on the
Mercalli scale,it leaves 10 dead, 40 injured and 1,150 homeless.