The following lists events that happened during 1925 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 ...

Luis Altamirano Luis Altamirano Talavera (July 5, 1867 – July 25, 1938) was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925. He was born in Concepción on th ...

(until 23 January),

Pedro Dartnell Division General Pedro Pablo Dartnell Encina (December 24, 1873 – September 26, 1944) was a Chilean military officer and member of the Government Junta of Chile in 1925. Early life Dartnell was born in the city of Linares in 1873, the s ...

(until 27 January),

Emilio Bello Emilio Bello Codesido (13 July 1868 – 3 March 1963) was a Chilean lawyer, diplomat, deputy and President of the Government Junta that ruled Chile in 1925. He was the son of Andrés Ricardo Bello, and grandson of Andres Bello, who authored t ...

(until 20 March),

Arturo Alessandri Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma (; December 20, 1868 – August 24, 1950) was a Chilean political figure and reformer who served thrice as president of Chile, first from 1920 to 1924, then from March to October 1925, and finally from 1932 to ...

(until 1 October),

Luis Barros Borgoño Luis Barros Borgoño (; March 26, 1858 – July 26, 1943) was a Chilean politician who served as Vice President of Chile in 1925. Born in Santiago, he was the son of Manuel Barros Arana and Eugenia Borgoño Vergara. He graduated as a lawyer in ...

(until 23 December),

Emiliano Figueroa Emiliano Figueroa Larraín (; July 12, 1866 – May 15, 1931) was President of Chile from December 23, 1925 until his resignation on May 10, 1927. He also served as Acting president for a few months in 1910. Biography Figueroa was born on July 1 ...

Events

January

*23 January – The

1925 Chilean coup d'état The Chilean coup d'état of 1925 took place on January 23, 1925, when the Chilean military overthrew the September Junta. Led by Colonel Marmaduque Grove, the troops arrested the Junta's President, General Luis Altamirano, and then handed the pow ...

overthrows the

September Junta Government Junta of Chile (September 11, 1924 - January 23, 1925), (also known as the ''September Junta'') was the political structure established to rule Chile following the anti-conservative military coup that assumed power after first interferin ...

. *27 January – The January Junta is established and recalls

to the presidency.

March

*March – Marusia massacre

August

*30 August – The Chilean constitutional referendum, 1925 is held. It creates the Chilean Constitution of 1925.

October

*1 October – President

resigns. *22 October –

is elected as president in the Chilean presidential election, 1925.

November

*22 November – The Chilean parliamentary election, 1925 is held. The

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becomes the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies.

Births

*15 January – Luis Mayanés (d. 1979) *19 March – Julio Canessa (d.

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) *26 March –

Claudio Spies Carlos Claudio Spies (March 26, 1925 – April 2, 2020) was a Chilean-American composer. Biography Early life Born in Santiago, Chile, of German Jewish parents, Spies completed primary and secondary education in Santiago in 1941, when he p ...

(d.

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) *9 August –

Valentín Pimstein Valentín Pimstein Weiner (August 9, 1925 – June 27, 2017) was a Chilean Television producer, producer of telenovelas. Biography Pimstein was the seventh child of nine in a Belarusian Jewish family (from Minsk), which owns a glass shop in Bar ...

(d. 2017) *25 December -

Carla Cordua Carla Cordua (born 25 December 1925) is a Chilean philosopher. Life Cordua was born in Los Ángeles, Chile on Christmas Day, 1925. She entered the University of Chile in 1948 and studied under Bogumil Jasinowski and Oscar Marín. In 2006 she ...

Deaths

*2 November –

Sofanor Parra Sofanor Parra Hermosilla (20 October 1850 – 2 November 1925), was a Chilean military officer who served in the Chilean Army, in the cavalry branch, and who reached the rank of divisional general. He is known for having been in all the land c ...

(b. 1850)

References

{{South America topic, 1925 in Years of the 20th century in Chile

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