The following lists events that happened during 1918 in Chile.

Incumbents

President of Chile The president of Chile ( es, Presidente de Chile), officially known as the President of the Republic of Chile ( es, Presidente de la República de Chile), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Chile. The president is re ...

Juan Luis Sanfuentes Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui (; 27 December 1858 – 16 July 1930) was President of Chile between 1915 and 1920. Sanfuentes was the son of writer and politician Salvador Sanfuentes Torres and Matilde Andonaegui. Orphaned at an early age and ...

Events

March

*10 March – Chilean parliamentary election, 1918

Births

*31 May – Ricardo Echeverría (d. 1970) *24 April –

Jorge Prat Jorge Prat Echaurren (24 April 1918 – 20 December 1971) was a Chilean nationalist politician. Prat was a leading figure on the far right of Chilean politics for several decades, although he also served a brief spell as a cabinet minister in ...

(d. 1971) *11 September –

César Mendoza General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán (September 11, 1918 – September 13, 1996) was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the ''Carabineros de Chile''. M ...

(d. 1996) *15 September –

Margot Loyola Margot Loyola Palacios (September 15, 1918 – August 3, 2015) was a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin America in general. Loyola was active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many dec ...

(d. 2015) *26 September –

Fernando Alegría Fernando Alegría (Santiago de Chile, 26 September 1918 – Walnut Creek, California, October 29, 2005) was a Chilean poet, writer, literary critic and scholar. Biography He grew up in the Independencia '' barrio'' of the city. Poets from thi ...

(d. 2005) *11 November – Enrique Silva Cimma (d. 2012) *26 November –

Patricio Aylwin Patricio Aylwin Azócar (; 26 November 1918 – 19 April 2016) was a Chilean politician from the Christian Democratic Party, lawyer, author, professor and former senator. He was the first president of Chile after dictator Augusto Pinochet, a ...

(d. 2016)

Deaths

*16 February –

Rafael Sotomayor Gaete Rafael Segundo Sotomayor Gaete (November 16, 1848 – February 16, 1918) was a Chilean politician and several times minister. He was born in Cauquenes, the son of Rafael Sotomayor Baeza and of Pabla del Carmen Gaete Ruiz. He studied at the In ...

(b. 1848)

Works of fiction taking place in 1918 Chile

*Chilean soap opera

Los Pincheira ''Los Pincheira'' (''The Pincheiras'') is a 2004 Chilean historic telenovela developed and broadcast by TVN and directed by Vicente Sabatini. The series was based in the story of the Pincheira brothers The Pincheira brothers (Spanish: ''Herman ...

is located in

Yerbas Buenas Yerbas Buenas is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. It lies in the geographical center of the country, on the fertile central plain, some south of the national capital of Santiago, south of Talca, the regional capita ...

, Chile, in 1918.

References

{{South America topic, 1918 in Years of the 20th century in Chile

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...