He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

The first European to sight Chilean territory was Ferdinand Magellan, who crossed the Strait of Magellan on November 1, 1520.

The bilateral FTA has inaugurated greatly expanded U. S .- Chilean trade ties, with total bilateral trade jumping by 154 % during the FTA's first three years.

* National Day or Dieciocho, the date of the first Government Junta after the Chilean independence on February 12, 1818 ( Chile )

The first observations of normal modes were made in the 1960s as the advent of higher fidelity instruments coincided with two of the largest earthquakes of the 20th century-the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake and the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake.

The first sinking of an armoured ship by a torpedo boat occurred in 1891 during the Chilean Civil War.

* Pablo Valenzuela ( biochemist ) – co-founder of the American biotech company Chiron Corporation, the first Chilean biotech company Bios Chile, and of Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida in Santiago Chile.

** Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.

* July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.

* October 24 – Bernardo O ' Higgins, first Chilean head of state after independence ( b. 1778 )

Gracias a la Vida ( 1974 ) ( the title song written and first performed by Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra ) followed and was a success in both the U. S. and Latin America.

Salvador Allende Gossens (; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973 ) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

A referendum, which took place on 2006 in Las Condes, over the construction of a mall was noteworthy for being the first instance in Chilean history where electronic voting machines were used.

* Carmen Weber ( 1945-2007 ), Chilean first wife of the ex-President Ricardo Lagos

Diego Portales University () is one of the first private universities founded in Chile and is named after the Chilean statesman Diego Portales.

Nueva canción first surfaced during the 1960s as " The Chilean New Song " in Chile.

* Monument to Manuel Blanco Encalada, first Chilean President

Alternative version with the first Coat of arms of Chile | Chilean shield, Cross of Santiago and reversed blue and white stripes.

At the onset of the Chilean War of Independence, the First Government Junta was proclaimed on 18 September 1810, marking Chile's first step toward independence.

The following 30 September, during a celebration in the capital to commemorate the first government junta, the Chilean coat of arms, also called Patria Vieja, was solemnly adopted and included in the center of the flag.

During the Chilean Declaration of Independence # Pledge of independence | Declaration of Independence, today's flag was raised for the first time.

Other versions of this story say this happened in the 19th century, or that the Chilean flag was placed second after the French flag ; there are even variations that talk about Chile's national anthem, placing it either in the first place or second, after La Marseillaise.

With the FIFA World Cup to be held on home soil in 1982, the Estadio Carlos Tartiere was completely renewed, the first match being held with the Chilean national team ( 0 – 0 ).

Finally, the band ended their tour with two dates in Santiago de Chile, the first as a part of the closure of the 2010 edition of the Chilean Telethon on December 4, the former being the next day at La Florida, Santiago with Primus and Monotonix.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.

Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's booming construction sector generated about 20 percent of Armenia's GDP during the first eight months of 2007.

After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE.

AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) for top secret information when used in an NSA approved cryptographic module ( see Security of AES, below ).

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

* 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 2001.