The following is a list of events in the year 2022 in Chile.

Incumbents

* President: ** Sebastián Piñera ( RN, until 11 March) ** Gabriel Boric ( CS, from 11 March)

Events

January

* 1-15 January -

2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and tsunami On 20 December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. The eruption reached a very large and powerful climax nearly four weeks later, on 15 January 2022 ...

February

* 1 February - Chile beats

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

3-2 at a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

match in La Paz, eliminating the latter from participating in the final tournament of the FIFA World Cup.

March

*2 March – Chile voted on a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for its

invasion of Ukraine The territory of present-day Ukraine has been Invasion, invaded or Military occupation, occupied a number of times throughout History of Ukraine, its history. List See also *List of invasions *List of wars involving Ukraine References

...

September

* A proposed new constitution is rejected by 61% of voters.

Sport

Football

2022 Chilean Primera División The 2022 Chilean Primera División, known as Campeonato PlanVital 2022 for sponsorship purposes, is the 92nd season of the Chilean Primera División, Chile's top-flight football league. The season began on 4 February 2022 and is scheduled to end o ...

2022 Primera B de Chile The 2022 Primera B de Chile, also known as Campeonato Ascenso Betsson 2022 for sponsorship purposes, is the 68th season of the Primera B de Chile, Chile's second-tier football league. The fixture for the season was announced on 1 February 2022, wi ...

2022 Copa Chile The 2022 Copa Chile (officially known as Copa Chile Easy 2022 due to its sponsorship), was the 42nd edition of the Copa Chile, the country's national football cup tournament. The tournament began on 19 March 2022 and ended on 13 November 2022, wit ...

Other sports

* 8 May:

Santiago Marathon The Santiago Marathon ( es, Maratón de Santiago) is an annual event first run in 2007 through the streets of Santiago Chile. Other races include a half marathon and a 10K run. The marathon held the IAAF Road Race Label Events, IAAF Road Race Bro ...

Chile at the 2022 Winter Olympics Chile competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. The Chilean team consisted of four athletes (two men and two women) competing in three sports. Dominique Ohaco and Henrik von Appen were the country's flagb ...

* Chile at the 2022 Winter Paralympics

Deaths

January

* 7 January –

Luis Pareto González Luis Pareto González (29 August 1928 – 7 January 2022) was a Chilean politician. Life and career A member of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile, Pareto served as a deputy, and in that role, he became the President of the Chamber of Deput ...

, 93, politician (b. 1928) * 13 January –

Arturo Frei Bolívar Erwin Arturo Frei Bolívar (18 November 1939 – January 2022) was a Chilean politician who was a senator and presidential candidate in the 1999 election. Life and career Arturo Frei was born in Santiago on 18 November 1939, as the son of A ...

, 82, politician (b. 1939) * 21 January – Leonor Oyarzún, 102, family therapist,

first lady First lady is an unofficial title usually used for the wife, and occasionally used for the daughter or other female relative, of a non-monarchical A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state fo ...

(1990–1994) (b. 1919)

February

Cristina_Calderón_(8639878993)_(cropped)

* 4 February –

Sergio Bravo Sergio Bravo Martínez (born 27 November 1927) is a Mexican former football defender who was in Mexico's squad for the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Career Bravo was an imposing central defender who played his club football with Club León Club ...

, 72, screenwriter (b. 1949) * 10 February – Mane Nett, 73, actress and cultural manager (b. 1948) * 12 February – Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, 76, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1935) * 16 February – Cristina Calderón, 93, Yaghan singer, ethnographer, and writer (b. 1928)

March

* 5 March –

Patricio Renán Patricio Renán (born Renán Patricio Sánchez Gajardo, 4 January 1945 – 5 March 2022), also known as Pato Renán, was a Chilean singer who became famous during the Chilean New Wave (or Chilean "Nueva Ola") era of 1960s music. Known mostly as a ...

, 77, singer (b. 1945) * 7 March ** Héctor Vargas Bastidas, 70, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1951) ** Benjamín Prado Casas, 96, politician (b. 1926) * 20 March –

Adriana Hoffmann Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (29 January 1940 – 20 March 2022) was a Chilean botanist, environmentalist and author. She was executive secretary of Chile's National Environment Commission (, CONAMA) from 2000 to 2001. She advocated for th ...

, 82, botanist, environmentalist and author (b. 1940) * 31 March – Patricia Poblete, 75, economist, Minister of Housing and Urbanism (2006–2010) (b. 1946)

April

*2 April – Leonel Sánchez, 85, footballer ( Universidad de Chile, Colo-Colo, national team) and manager (b. 1936) *17 April –

Mireya Baltra Mireya Baltra Moreno (25 February 1932 – 17 April 2022) was a Chilean sociologist, journalist, and politician of the Communist Party of Chile. She was a councillor (1963–1969) and a deputy (legislator), deputy (1969–1973) for Santiago de C ...

, 90, journalist and politician, deputy (1969–1973) and minister of labor (1972).Fallece Mireya Baltra, ex ministra del Trabajo del gobierno de Salvador Allende

References

{{Year in South America, 2022 Chile Chile 2020s in Chile Years of the 21st century in Chile