The following lists events that happened during 1951 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 ...

: Gabriel González Videla

Events

January

16 January Events Pre-1600 *27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Speart ...

– The

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allocates $231,000 in

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funds for education projects in Chile. * 18 January – 6,000 Chilean bakery, railroad and racetrack workers begin strikes.

February

14 February Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...

– 7,000 workers in Antofagasta strike in a demand for higher wages. * 23 February – The Confederation of Non-Government Employees labor union strikes in solidarity with the Antofagasta workers. The government responds by alerting the

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and seizing the bus system.

March

2 March Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut of ...

– The Chilean government places the

province of Antofagasta Antofagasta Province ( es, Provincia de Antofagasta) is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta (II). The capital is the port city of Antofagasta. Located within the Atacama Desert, it borders the El Loa and Tocopil ...

under military control as a result of the strikes. *

18 March Events Pre-1600 * 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10. *1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ar ...

– Inez Enriquez Frodden is named as the first Chilean woman

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April

26 April Events Pre-1600 * 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. *1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe. * 1 ...

- The National Association of the Press is founded, the largest association of newspaper and magazine publishing companies in the country.

November

13 November Events Pre-1600 *1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes (ancient people), Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. *1093 – Battle of Alnwick (1093), Battle of Alnwick: in an English ...

- In

Chillán Chillán () is the capital city of the Ñuble Region in the Diguillín Province of Chile located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country. It is the capital of the new Ñuble Region since 6 Sept ...

, the Cooperativa de Consumption de Energía Eléctrica de Chillán Ltda was created. Initially it was to regulate the supply of electricity, but today it is the largest company in the Ñuble Province.

Births

*7 March – Juan Machuca, footballer *21 June – Miguel Ángel Gamboa, footballer *10 August – Mario Galindo, footballer *21 August –

Eric Goles Eric Antonio Goles Chacc (born August 21, 1951) is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. ...

, mathematician and computer scientist *29 September – Michelle Bachelet, politician,

*7 November –

Guillermo Encina Guillermo Encina (born 7 November 1951) is a Chilean professional golfer. Encina was born in Santiago, Chile. He was taught the game by his father, the head greenskeeper at the Papudo Club in Chile, and turned professional in 1975. He won severa ...

, golfer *10 November –

Enzo Escobar Enzo Sergio Escobar Olivares (born November 10, 1951) is a retired football defender from Chile, who played for Club de Deportes Cobreloa. He represented Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part o ...

, footballer

Deaths

*8 February – Ignacio Urrutia Manzano, politician,

President of the Senate of Chile The president of the Senate of Chile is the presiding officer of the Senate of Chile. The position comes after the Ministers of State in the line of succession of the President of Chile in case of temporary incapacitation or vacancy, according to ...

(b.

1879 Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * Janu ...

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References

{{South America topic, 1951 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 ...