The following lists events that happened during 1950 in Chile.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 24 January – The Chilean Government orders troops to their garrisons in response to strikes.[1]
March
- 18 March – The Chilean Government abolishes ’emergency zones’ created around vital economic areas created in 1947 to deter strikes.[2]
June
- 19 June – Empresa Nacional del Petróleo is created.
July
- 7 July – The newspaper La Tercera de La Hora, edited in Santiago and owned by Copesa, is founded.
December
- 9 December – An intraplate earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurs inside the Department of Loa, near Calama
- 29 December – Admiral Carlos Torres accepts the transfer of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville to the Chilean Navy under the Mutual Defense Assistance Act.[3]
Births
- 4 February – Teresita Reyes, actress (died 2025)
- 9 March – Jorge Marchant Lazcano, writer, playwright, screenwriter, novelist and journalist
- 21 March – Julio Crisosto, former footballer
- 24 April – Rafael González, former footballer
- 25 June – Paco Saval, keyboard player, producer, composer and singer
- 5 July – Carlos Caszely, former footballer
- 7 July – Mónica Briones, painter and sculptor (died 1984)
- 11 July – Hernán Rivera Letelier, novelist
- 14 July – Mario Osbén, former footballer (died 2021)
- 17 September – Patricia Maldonado Aravena, singer and television presenter
- 26 October – Jorge Socías, former footballer
Deaths
- 27 January – Augusto d’Halmar, writer, art critic and diplomat (born 1882)[4]
- 24 August – Arturo Alessandri, politician and the 18th and 22nd President of Chile (born 1868)
References
- ^ “A State of Alert in Chile”. New York Times. 25 January 1950. ProQuest 111535326.
- ^ “Chile Ends Emergency Zones”. New York Times. 19 March 1950. ProQuest 111496438.
- ^ “CHILE ACCEPTS 2 CRUISERS: Names Admiral to Transfer U.S. Craft to Valparaiso”. New York Times. 30 December 1950. ProQuest 111461787.
- ^ “Augusto D’Halmar (1882-1950)”. Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Digital National Library of Chile. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
