For decades, Chile claimed ownership of land on the eastern side of the Andes.

Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1995 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile, and even being spotted outside the Americas in countries like Russia and The Philippines.

There, in the valley of the river Copiapó, Almagro took official possession of Chile and claimed it in the name of King Charles V.

According to the Boundary treaty of 1881 Tierra del Fuego was divided between Argentina and Chile ; previously it was claimed by both countries in its entirety.

Juan Fernandez, sailing from Chile in 1576, claimed he had discovered the Southern Continent.

In 1955, Chile inaugurated its station Pedro Aguirre Cerda at Pendulum Cove, to increase the Chilean presence in the sector claimed by that nation.

It also includes the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile.

Several highway termini are claimed to exist, including the cities of Puerto Montt and Quellón in Chile and Ushuaia in Argentina.

Cockburn claimed the honours with " Small Earthquake in Chile.

Peru further claimed that Chile should have maintained absolute neutrality and that this alleged weapons commerce during the Cenepa War went against resolutions made by the United Nations and the Organization of American States.

The Island was claimed by Chile in 1940, as part of the Chilean Antarctic Territory.

When Simón Bolívar established Bolivia as a nation in 1825, he claimed access to the sea, disregarding overlapping claims by Chile, which had gained independence 7 years before.

Chile claimed that the border treaty of 1874 did not allow for such a tax hike.

" ( a German immigrant to Chile ), which claimed allegiance to a mysterious and far-flung Brahmin elite centered in the Himalayas.

It is claimed by the United Kingdom, for which it represents their largest remaining overseas island, part of the British Antarctic Territory, while for Chile and Argentina it is part of the Antártica Chilena Province and Tierra del Fuego Province respectively.

At that time Chile was almost broke financially and even in 1999 General Pinochet claimed that if Peru attacked Chile during 1975, Peruvian forces could have penetrated deep into Chilean territory all the way to Copiapó city located half way to Santiago.

Chile and Argentina were on the brink of war, due to long-standing border disputes stemming from the peace treaty of 1881, the situation of the Puna de Atacama ( a disputed territory formerly owned by Bolivia and claimed by both countries ) and an ongoing naval arms race.

As of September 2, 2008, Chile claimed the most accounts ( 4, 827, 387 ), Argentina was second with 4, 225, 209, while Brazil had 1, 443, 474 users.

In 1881 it was divided between Argentina and Chile, having previously been claimed by both countries in its entirety.

Based on his experience as a lawyer, De Tounens claimed that the area did not belong to recently independent Chile or Argentina, so he wanted to create an independent state south of the Biobío River.

However, it was Chile and Peru respectively that first claimed maritime zones of 200 nautical miles with the Presidential Declaration Concerning Continental Shelf of 23 June 1947 ( El Mercurio, Santiago de Chile, 29 June 1947 ) and Presidential Decree No. 781 of 1 August 1947 ( El Peruano: Diario.

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig claimed as some other did before him that the wine from Concepción were the bests of Chile, this was likely due the less arid climate of southern Chile.

For example, Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Dominican Republic of Juan Bosch, or Chile of Salvador Allende are not considered to be democratic or the conflicts do not qualify as wars according to these theorists.

At the end of 1968, according to US Department of Commerce data, U. S. corporate holdings in Chile amounted to $ 964 million.

The Aymara have existed in the Andes in what is now Western Bolivia, Southern Peru and Northern Chile for over 2, 000 years, according to some estimations.

The United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile shall cooperate, by means of military observers, in order to adjust to circumstances this evacuation and retirement of troops, according to the terms of the preceding article.

* Far North, Chile, one of the five natural regions of Chile according to CORFO

" The Trauco ", according to the traditional mythology of the Chiloé Province of Chile, is a hideous deformed dwarf who lulls nubile young women and seduces them.

The proposal involved former Peruvian land and according to the treaty of Ancón, Chile could not give former Peruvian territories to other nations without Peru's agreement.

Furthermore, according to current investigations, Eduardo Frei Montalva, the Christian Democrat President of Chile from 1964 to 1970, may have been poisoned in 1982 by toxin produced by DINA biochemist Eugenio Berrios.

Maps 2 – 4: Chile according to Admiralty Surveys, United States Expn.

* The fifty better Chilean discs ( according to Rolling Stone Chile )

He was the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, with a net worth in 2005 of according to Forbes magazine.

So this was the only song Narea and Tapia that was included in the Latin American edition of Gonzalez took " Another Day " and " able to choose ", so 14 songs were reduced to 10. 36 temasde returned to record some new, 37 also in " Lo estamos pasando muy bien " Jorge Claudio's voice replaced by it 38 And he added a new song, which opens the album, " We are Sudamerican rockers '. 37 This album was released in Chile. 39 Today is considered for some fans the best album of the band ( in the original edition ) and An example of an album by The Beatles and Revolver, according to Juan Marquez of El Mercurio.

The song " Pa pa pa " was the top seller in Bogota, according to Mario Ruiz, manager of marketing for the Latin market EMI at the time, said the group Chile managed to open the Colombian market for Spanish rock.

Support among young people is much higher: according to a study by the National Youth Institute of Chile, 56 % of young respondents supported same-sex marriage, while 51. 3 % supported same-sex adoption.

* 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern and central Chile was under Inca rule while independent Mapuche inhabited south-central Chile.

By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to subdue and colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory became a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.

Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history.

What started as an elitist political movement against their colonial master, finally ended as a full-fledged civil war between pro-Independence Criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist Criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile.

Depending on what terms one uses to define the end, the movement extended until 1821 ( when the Spanish were expelled from mainland Chile ) or 1826 ( when the last Spanish troops surrendered and Chiloé was incorporated to the Chilean republic ).

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

San Martín considered the liberation of Chile a strategic stepping-stone to the emancipation of Peru, which he saw as the key to hemispheric victory over the Spanish.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

But under orders of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, he was arrested there, attracting worldwide attention, not only because of the history of Chile and South America, but also because this was one of the first arrests of a former president based on the universal jurisdiction principle.

* Text of Chilean constitutions-Library of Congress of Chile ( Spanish original )

He participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru and is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.

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.

According to the natives of Peru, who by this time had observed the Spanish lust for gold, the territories of Chile had abundances of gold which would justify any effort.

The withdrawal of the Spanish from valleys of Chile was violent: Almagro authorized his soldiers to ransack the natives ' properties, leaving their soil desolate ; there was not one Spaniard that did not enslave a native for his service.

* 1598 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.

* 1554 – Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

* 1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60, 000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.

* 1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.

* 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.