Sources: BBC
A nationwide power outage occurs in Chile, impacting most of the country's population and causing the temporary stoppage of several significant industries. 2025-02-25
Three police officers are killed during an ambush in Cañete, Chile, after receiving false emergency calls. They are shot dead before their vehicle is set on fire. 2024-04-27
The Chilean Constitutional Convention approves defining the country as a "Social State" in the new fundamental law, a fact that various constituents and experts interpret as a turning point in the country's history. 2022-04-12
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes that, for decades, German diplomats failed to act on abuses at Colonia Dignidad, the secretive German enclave in Chile whose story is told in the movie "Colonia". 2016-04-26
The center-left candidate Michelle Bachelet is elected as president of Chile for the second time. She is the first leader in Chile to be elected to serve two terms since military rule ended in 1990. 2013-12-16
The body of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda is exhumed to determine the cause of his death in 1973. 2013-04-8
At least six firefighters die fighting wildfires in southern Chile with two badly burnt and one missing. 2012-01-5
83 prisoners die as a fire breaks out in a prison in Santiago, Chile. 2010-12-8
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bypasses Argentina on his South American tour, opting to travel straight to Chile after Buenos Aires officials call off an event honouring Mustafa Kemal Atatürk due to what Turkey considers "hostile" interference from Armenian pressure groups. 2010-05-30
Sebastián Piñera is elected President of Chile in the second round of the presidential election. 2010-01-17