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The Conquest of Chile is a period in Chilean history 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.
The conquest of Araucanía caused numerous Mapuches to be displaced and forced to roam in search of shelter and food. [77] Some Chilean forts responded by providing food rations. [77] Until around 1900 the Chilean state provided almost 10,000 food rations monthly to displaced Mapuches. [77]
These claims traced Chilean claims back to the conquest of Chile in the 16th century by Pedro de Valdivia, arguing that Pedro de Valdivia obtained rights from the Spanish crown to establish a captaincy limited by the Strait of Magellan to the south. Pedro de Valdivia subsequently founded several cities through southern Chile with the goal of ...
In Chilean historiography, where the event is often called the Disaster of Curalaba (Spanish: Desastre de Curalaba), the battle marks the end of the conquest (la conquista) period in Chile's history, although the fast Spanish expansion in the south had already been halted in the 1550s.
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 ...
Pedro de Lisperguer von Wittenberg y Bírlinguer (born Peter Lißberg 1535 in Worms, Germany, died 1604 in Lima, Peru) was a German conquistador who participated in the Conquest of Chile. [1] He is the patriarch of a highly influential family in Colonial Chile , where he was a part of the colonial aristocracy, holding important positions in ...
The Arauco War was a long-running conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people, mostly fought in the Araucanía region of Chile.The conflict began at first as a reaction to the Spanish conquerors attempting to establish cities and force Mapuches into servitude.
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.