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According to traditional historiography, the Spanish first came to Central Chile the territory had been under Inca rule for about 60 years. [1] There are however dissenting views, recent works suggest at least 130 years of Inca presence in Central Chile, [1] and historian Osvaldo Silva posits remarkably short chronologies of direct Inca rule and military involvement.
By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of "Nueva Castilla" (from the 1° to the 14° latitude, close to Pisco), and that of "Nueva Toledo" (from the 14° to the 25° latitude, in Taltal, Chile), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro. The ...
A partial conquest of Chile started from 1535, which resulted in minor Spanish settlements in the area. There is controversy regarding the use of the term "discovery" to refer to the European discovery of Chile, as from a collective human perspective, it was already inhabited by humans approximately 16,000 years ago.
Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ðe βalˈdiβja]; April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553 [1]) was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco ...
Diego de Almagro led the first Spanish expedition south of Peru into Chile 1535–37. In early 1536, the Adelantado of Canary Islands, Pedro Fernández de Lugo, arrived to Santa Marta, a city founded in 1525 by Rodrigo de Bastidas in modern-day Colombia, as governor.
Cuncos and Huilliches defeat a Spanish expedition aiming to build a fort on Bueno River. 1766: December 25: The Arauco War resumes with a large Mapuche uprising. 1767: February: An agreement between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1766–1767. [47] August 26
The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish invaders began to raid the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.
The General Captaincy of Chile (Capitanía General de Chile [kapitaˈni.a xeneˈɾal de ˈtʃile]), Governorate of Chile, or Kingdom of Chile, [6] was a territory of the Spanish Empire from 1541 to 1818 that was, initially, part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. It comprised most of modern-day Chile and southern parts of Argentina in the Patagonia ...