* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

The Chilean Army and Chilean Navy defeated the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru, and Chile took over Bolivia's only province on the Pacific Coast, some land from Peru, also-that was returned to Peru decades later.

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.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Chile declared its independence from Spain on 12 February 1818.

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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.

Specific early human settlement sites from the very early human habitation in Chile include the Cueva del Milodon and the Pali Aike Crater's lava tube.

The Inca Empire briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, where they collected tribute from small groups of fishermen and oasis farmers but were not able to establish a strong cultural presence in the area.

After this initial excursion there was little interest from colonial authorities in further exploring modern-day Chile.

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.

The Cuban packages scandal revealed arms smuggling from the Communist Cuba to Chile ; Allende – surrounded by KGB advisors – had turned Chile into a center for Soviet operations in Latin America.

Over half of the registered voting population of Chile has opted for a change away from center-left politics by electing a right-wing candidate, Sebastián Piñera

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

* Workers ' United Center of Chile trade unionists from Chile's five largest labor confederations.

The construction of the flag of Chile, at present, is officially defined in Supreme Decree No. 1, 534 of the Ministry of the Interior, published in 1967, on the use of national emblems, which systematized and consolidated various laws and regulations on the subject.

Motown struggled to find good material for many of their acts after the exit of Motown contributor and Reeves ' mentor William " Mickey " Stevenson in 1967 and Holland – Dozier – Holland in early 1968, but after their former collaborators left the label, the Vandellas initially continued to find success with the Richard Morris produced singles " Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone " ( US # 25 ; R & B # 14 ) and " Honey Chile " ( US # 11 ; UK # 30 ; R & B # 5 ) added to their already extended list of charted singles.

It was soon backed by International Ski Federation ( FIS ) president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.

Korry, a native of New York, was U. S. Ambassador to Ethiopia ( 1963-1967 ) and to Chile ( 1967 – 1971 ).

He returned to Chile in 1967 as commander of the III Army Division.

He attended and later worked as a professor at the University of Chile, marrying Angélica Malinarich in 1966 and becoming a Chilean citizen in 1967.

In 1967, an affiliation was formed with the Pentecostal Methodist Church of Chile, one of the largest national Pentecostal churches in the world and the largest non-Catholic church in Chile.

Buenos Airey y Santiago de Chile, 1967.

The group was formed in 1967 by a group of university students and it acquired widespread popularity in Chile for their song Venceremos ( We shall win!

The group was formed by students at Universidad Técnica del Estado at Santiago, Chile in 1967.

The 1. 52 m is almost identical to the 1. 52 m telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, and has been in use at OHP since 1967.

There he also married Monica Allende ( 1967 ), then a top ballerina at the National Ballet of Chile.

In 1967, a production of La Cenicienta went on a tour through several cities in Chile: Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Concepción and Santiago, the capital.

Piñera returned to Chile in 1955 and was enrolled in the Colegio del Verbo Divino (" Divine Word College "), from which he graduated in 1967.

From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile ( first to Buenos Aires and later to West Berlin ), he taught literature at the University of Chile.

Max and Jorge began their musical career by playing Latin American music as a duet while studying at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile circa 1967, where they founded what became the first Inti Illimani ensemble.

Chile endured a 16½-year long military dictatorship ( 1973 – 1990 ) that left more than 3, 000 people dead or missing.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

In 1973, Chile was in shambles – inflation was hundreds of percents, the country had no foreign reserves, and GDP was falling.

In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru ( Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976 ).

Marker had been working on a film about Chile with ISKRA since 1973.

The film chronicles recent events in Chile, beginning with the 1970 election of socialist President Salvador Allende until his murder and the resulting coup in 1973.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

* 1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean politician, 29th President of Chile ( d. 1973 )

During 1973, Letelier was recalled to Chile and served successively as minister of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Defense.

* 1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende.

The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973.

* Augusto Pinochet rises to power as ruler of Chile after overthrowing the country's Socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973 with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) of the United States.

* June 26 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile ( d. 1973 )

In 1973, having been hospitalized after a car accident during a visit to Bulgaria ( now widely considered an attempt on his life on orders from Moscow: ), Berlinguer wrote three famous articles (" Reflections on Italy ", " After the facts of Chile " and " After the Coup Chile ") for the intellectual weekly magazine of the party, Rinascita.

In August 1973, a constitutional crisis occurred, and the Supreme Court of Chile publicly complained about the inability of Allende government to enforce the law of the land.

On 26 May 1973, the Supreme Court of Chile unanimously denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial decisions contrary to the government's own measures.

Robinson proposed that the day also be designated as " Chile Day ", to mark the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende's democratically elected government on September 11, 1973.

In 1973 in Chile, the law was changed to avoid stigmatizing illegitimate children with the maternal surname repeated.

After the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, Varela and his family spent 7 years in exile in the USA before returning to Chile to become a Professor of biology.

A rare Jeep-esque derivative, called the Yagán after an Aborigine tribe, was made in Chile between 1972 and 1973.

One of the most notorious murder gangs operated by the Chilean Army was the Caravan of Death, whose members travelled by helicopter throughout Chile between 30 September and 22 October 1973.