Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

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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Socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

) (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

*January 15–18: Pope Francisco's visit to Chile. *February 3: Santiago EPrix is a race in the forest Park circuit in the 2017–18 season of the formula E. *March 11: Change of Presidential command, Michelle Bachelet delivered the presidency of the country to Sebastián Piñera for the period between March 11, 2018 and March 11, 2022.

Music

Concerts

*January 14: Placido Domingo (Chile in My Heart) *February 21: Queens of the Stone Age *May 25: Harry Styles *July 4: Niall Horan

Deaths

*January 1: Manuel Rojas del Rio, lawyer and politician *January 12: Roberto Avendaño, actor *January 23: **

Nicanor Parra Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. P ...

, writer, mathematician and physicist **

Marcelo Romo Marcelo Romo (23 April 1941 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1969. Selected filmography References External links * 1941 births 2018 deaths Chilean male film actors Chilean ac ...

, actor *April 16:

Alejandro Rojas Wainer Alejandro Rojas Wainer (31 January 1945 – 16 April 2018) was a Chilean-Canadian academic. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for Popular Unity in 1973, but left office after the coup d'état. Subsequently, he moved to Canada, a ...

, academic

References

{{South America topic, 2018 in 2010s in Chile Years of the 21st 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 ...