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.

The first Chilean National Anthem dates back to 1819, when the government called for, on the 19th of July, the creation of music and lyrics for this purpose.

* 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 Chilean was the first latinamerican ascent to an eight-thousander

In his 1799 doctorate in absentia, A new proof of the theorem that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors of the first or second degree, Gauss proved the fundamental theorem of algebra which states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root.

He took his doctorate at Harvard ( the first Ph. D. in Architecture ever awarded at Harvard University ), and was elected fellow at Harvard.

The first university of Western civilization, the University of Bologna, is located in Italy, where until modern times the only degree granted was that of the doctorate, and all other Italian universities followed that model.

This would have placed Fu Manchu in the West studying for his first doctorate in the 1870s.

He passed his first bar exam (" Staatsexamen ") in Berlin in 1901, and the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on " The Theory of adequate causation.

Typically to work in higher education as a member of the academic faculty, a candidate must first obtain a doctorate in an academic field, although some lower teaching positions require only a master's degree.

* 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

Hilma Borelius was the first woman who finished a doctorate in Lund, in 1910.

Merleau-Ponty first taught at Chartres, then became a tutor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he was awarded his doctorate on the basis of two important books: La structure du comportement ( 1942 ) and Phénoménologie de la Perception ( 1945 ).

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

The first doctorate was conferred in 1918.

The first anthropologist and linguist to challenge this view was Franz Boas who was educated in Germany in the late 19th century where he received his doctorate in physics.

While trying to find a topic for his doctorate, he first went to Naples to study with crystallographer Arcangelo Scacchi, who was senile by that time.

* Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.

In 1863, Yale University awarded Gibbs the first American doctorate in engineering.

* June 25 – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to be awarded a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua.

In 1988, Dubček was allowed to travel to Italy to accept an honorary doctorate from Bologna University, and while there he gave an interview with Italian newspaper L ' Unità, his first public remarks to the press since 1970.

While his doctorate was being assessed, in 1960 Foucault purchased his first flat, a part of a high-rise block on the rue du Dr Finlay, off the quai de Grenelle.

Millikan received a Bachelor's degree in the classics from Oberlin College in 1891 and his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1895 – he was the first to earn a Ph. D. from that department.

Gearreald, Agnes Scott's first blind student, went on to earn a master's and doctorate from Harvard University in English literature and linguistics, and a juris doctorate from Duke University.

The first doctorate was awarded in 1971, a doctorate of philosophy in chemical engineering.