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.

President Menem first had to control inflation and stabilize the economy, which he did by adopting a series of radical measures including fixed parity between the Argentine peso and the U. S. dollar.

Unable to contain the fleeing of dollars, Echeverría allowed the peso to float for the first time on August 31, 1976, then again later and the peso lost half of its value.

In 1863, the first issue was made of coins denominated in centavos, worth one hundredth of the peso.

The first U. S. dollar coins were not issued until April 2, 1792, and the peso continued to be officially recognized and used, along with other foreign coins, until February 21, 1857.

The first coins of the peso currency were 1 centavo pieces minted in 1863.

Emperor Maximilian, ruler of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 – 1867, minted the first coins with the legend " peso " on them.

The last coins of the first peso were issued between 1954 and 1959.

The coins were the first to use the name centavo for the subdivision of the peso.

This decision, compounded with the deliberate overprinting of fiat banknotes, resulted in the peso dropping in value by almost 300 % against the US dollar within the first three hours of opening day.

She is also the first Filipina who appears on a Philippine peso banknote, in this case, a 100-peso bill from the English Series ( 1951 – 1966 ).

This year also saw the first issue of banknotes by the government and a switch from the silver Guatemalan peso to the gold U. S. dollar as the base for the currency, with $ 4. 866 = 1 pound.

He introduced the country's first land reform law, placed the peso on the free currency exchange market, and liberalized foreign exchange and import controls.

The current system of 100 centavos to the peso was first used in 1819 on early banknotes but did not reappear until the early 1860s on banknotes and was not used on the coinage until 1872.

The new government intended to stabilize the economy and create a new currency ( the austral, the first of its kind without peso in its name ), for which new loans were required.

The first Dominican peso was introduced with the country's independence from Haiti in 1844.

Coins were introduced in 1937 in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25 centavos and ½ pesos with small numbers of 1 peso coins first minted in 1939.

Paper money made up the bulk of circulating currency for the first peso.

Only in 1947 were the first peso oro notes issued by the Central Bank in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 pesos oros.

The peso was first devalued ( from 1. 0 to 1. 4 pesos / dollar ) and then floated, thereby quickly depreciating to a maximum rate of nearly 4 pesos per dollar.

The royal decree establishing the Banco Español-Filipino also gave it the power to print Philippine currency, the first time the Philippine peso was printed in the country ( before 1851, a multitude of currencies were used, most notably the Mexican peso ).

* BPI is the first bank to issue the Philippine peso

The sign is first attested in British, American, Canadian, Mexican and other Spanish American business correspondence in the 1770s, referring to the Spanish American peso, also known as " Spanish dollar " or " piece of eight " in British North America, which provided the model for the currency that the United States later adopted in 1785 and the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics such as the Mexican peso, Peruvian eight-real and Bolivian eight-sol coins.