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It is announced that former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera will receive a state funeral with the wake lasting until February 9.
2024-02-7

Chile's Institute of Public Health issues an emergency use authorization for the Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-07-21

Chile approves the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Sinovac for emergency use in the country.
2021-01-20

Chile's Ministry of Health reports its country's first COVID-19 death in an 83-year woman from Renca, Santiago. The country has more than 500 confirmed cases, the second-largest number in South America after Brazil.
2020-03-21

Chilean authorities urge further evacuations near the Calbuco volcano after mudflows of volcanic debris are located in a nearby river after this week's eruption.
2015-04-24

The Villarrica volcano explodes in southern Chile leading to the evacuation of 3,000 people.
2015-03-3

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 Chilean Minister of National Defense Andrés Allamand Zavala confirms that all 21 passengers of the flight died in the crash, including TV presenter Felipe Camiroaga.
2011-09-3

Experts from Chile who helped rescue 33 miners trapped for more than three months in a mine last October go to assist rescue efforts in northern Mexico, where nine workers remained trapped in a mine after an explosion.
2011-05-4

Argentina grants asylum to the Chilean former leftist guerrilla Galvarino Apablaza, who has been charged in Chile with assassinating a senator, despite the Chilean government's request to extradite him.
2010-09-30