The following lists events that happened during 1924 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 ...

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 September 11),

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 ...

Events

September

*3 September – The

Saber noise In Chilean political history, the ''ruido de sables'' () was an event on 3 September 1924, when a group of young military officers protested against the political class and the postponement of social measures by rattling the scabbards (chapes) ...

occurs. *11 September – The

Government Junta of Chile (1924) 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 ...

is created after a military coup.

Undated

* A record

drought A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R.P. Allan, P.A. Arias, M. Barlow, R. Cerezo-Mota, A. Cherchi, T.Y. Gan, J. Gergis, D. Jiang, A. Khan, W. Pokam Mba, D. Rosenfeld, J. Tierney, an ...

in Central Chile produce what remains the driest year in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

() and Valparaíso (), Paskoff, Roland P.; ‘Geomorphological Processes and Characteristic Landforms in the Mediterranean Regions of the World’; ''Mediterranean Type Ecosystems''; in ''Ecological Studies'', Volume 7, 1973, pp 53–60 as well as the driest until 1996 in Concepción with .

Births

*1 January –

Klaus Junge Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was one of the youngest Chilean-German chess masters. In several tournaments during the 1940s he held his own among the world's leading players. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Batt ...

(d. 1945) *1 March –

Mercedes Valdivieso Mercedes Valdivieso (March 1, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a Chilean writer, known since her earliest writings for the subversive nature of her texts. She was born in Santiago, Chile. She first wrote ''La Brecha'' (''Breakthrough'') in 1961, w ...

(d. 1993) *7 April –

Daniel Emilfork Daniel Emilfork (7 April 1924 – 17 October 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor who made his career in France. Biography Emilfork was born in San Felipe, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. A ...

(d. 2006) *724 April –

Vicente Sota Vicente Agustín Sota Barros (24 April 1924 – 16 August 2017) was a Chilean politician. He served two stints in the Chamber of Deputies, first from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1990 to 1998. Career Born in Talca on 28 April 1924, he earned a ...

, politician (d. 2017) *20 September –

Exequiel Ramírez Exequiel Ramírez (20 September 1924 – May 2000) was a Chilean cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also ...

(d. 2000)

Deaths

*19 December –

Luis Emilio Recabarren Luis Emilio Recabarren Serrano (; July 6, 1876 – December 19, 1924) was a Chilean political figure. He was elected several times as deputy, and was the driving force behind the worker's movement in Chile. Early life Recabarren was born in ...

(b. 1876)

References

{{South America topic, 1924 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 ...