Events in the year 2010 in Chile.

Incumbents

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Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 201 ...

(

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) (left office on March 11),

Sebastián Piñera Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic polit ...

( RN) (took office on March 11)

Events

February

2010 Chile earthquake - Building destroyed in Concepción

* February 27 – An 8.8 magnitude earthquake (the fifth largest on record at the time) and tsunami strikes central Chile, affecting 80% of the population and leaving 525 people dead.

March

* March 11 – Center-right businessman

is sworn in as

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 r ...

, after 20 years of center-left rule.

May

* May 7 – Chile becomes the first country in

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to join the

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(OECD).

June

* June 28 – Chile's national football team advances to the FIFA World Cup knockout stage for the first time in 12 years.

August

* August 5 – 33 miners are trapped in a mine in northern Chile.

September

* September 18 – Chile celebrates 200 years of independence.

October

Mina San José - Luis Urzúa - Gobierno de Chile

* October 13 – All 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile 700 meters underground are rescued alive after 69 days in captivity. The day-long event was broadcast live to millions around the world.

December

* December 8 – A fire breaks out at the San Miguel prison 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 ...

, killing 81 inmates, the country's deadliest prison incident.

Births

Deaths

April

*April 24 –

Paul Schäfer Paul Schäfer Schneider (4 December 1921 – 24 April 2010) was a Nazi, child rapist, German-Chilean Christian minister and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad (''Dignity ...

, founder of

Colonia Dignidad Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony") was an isolated colony of Germans established in post- World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of ...

(b. 1921)

May

*May 17 –

Arturo Fontaine Arturo Fontaine Talavera, (Santiago, 1952) is a novelist, poet and essayist, considered as one of the writers most representative of the Chilean "New Narrative" that surfaced in the 1990s. Biography Early life Son of the poet Valentina Tala ...

, former director of ''

El Mercurio ''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in ...

'' and former ambassador to

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(b. 1921)

July

*July 21 –

Luis Corvalán Luis Nicolás Corvalán Lepe (14 September 1916, in Puerto Montt – 21 July 2010) was a Chilean politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh). Corvalán joined the Communist Party of Chile at the age of f ...

, former senator and secretary general of the

Chilean Communist Party The Communist Party of Chile ( es, Partido Comunista de Chile, ) is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party () and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth ...

(b. 1916)

August

*August 25 – Guillermo Blanco, writer (b. 1926)

September

*September 28 – Héctor Croxatto, scientist, National Prize in Sciences laureate (b. 1908)

November

*November 24 – Sergio Valech, bishop (b. 1927)

References

External links

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