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In 1520 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe Ferdinand Magellan discovered the southern passage now named after him the Strait of Magellan.
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After Declaring independence by Spain in 1818 -
Chile emerges in 1830s as relatively stable authoritarian republic
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From 1879-83 after defeating Peru and Boliva
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in the 1880 the mapuche resistance was ending and gaining its northern territory.
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the emerging middle and working classes were powerful enough to elect a reformist president, Arturo Alessandri -
the country experienced severe left-right political polarization and turmoil.
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The regime ended in 1990 and referendum in 1988
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the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva led the coalition to victory. -
On 5 August 2010 the access tunnel collapsed at the San Jose copper and gold mine in the Atacama desert near copiapo in northern Chile trapping 33 men 700 meters below the ground
