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This is a timeline of Chilean history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Chile and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Chile. See also the list of governors and presidents of Chile
Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history. Only in the 18th century did a steady economic and demographic growth begin, an effect of the reforms by Spain's Bourbon dynasty and a more stable situation along the frontier.
Category: Historical events in Chile. 1 language. ... 2025 events in Chile by month (1 C) C. Elections in Chile (7 C, 35 P) D. Diplomatic conferences in Chile (5 P)
Approved and promulgated on 25 May 1833. Reformed in 1871, 1873, 1874, 1882, 1888, 1891, 1892 and 1893. It is the most lasting constitutional text in the history of Chile since only was replaced in 1925 after 92 years. The Constitution of the Republic of Chile of 1925 (110 articles and 10 transitory provisions
The Conquest of Chile is a period in Chilean historiography that starts with the arrival of Pedro de Valdivia to Chile in 1541 and ends with the death of Martín García Óñez de Loyola in the Battle of Curalaba in 1598, and the subsequent destruction of the Seven Cities in 1598–1604 in the Araucanía region.
Capitanía General de Chile, or Gobernación de Chile, remained a colony of the Spanish Empire until 1818 when it declared itself independent. In the mid Eighteenth Century, the Bourbon administrative reforms divided Chile into intendencias (provinces) and further into partidos (counties) which were also known by the older term of corregimientos.
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At the time, Chile was a middle-class country, [25] with about 30% or 9 million Chileans being middle class. [26] The collapse of Chilean democracy marked the end of a series of democratic governments that had held elections since 1932. [27] Historian Peter Winn described the 1973 coup as one of the most violent events in Chilean history. [28]