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  2. History of Chile - Wikipedia

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    The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish invaders began to raid the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony between 1540 and 1818, when it gained independence from Spain. The country's economic development was successively marked by the export of first agricultural ...

  3. Chile–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    Chile. United Kingdom. President Sebastián Piñera, and Prime Minister David Cameron, at 10 Downing Street in 2010. British–Chile relations are foreign relations between the United Kingdom and Chile. The two countries maintain strong cultural ties as Chilean culture was somewhat anglicised after independence, seeing many mutual investments ...

  4. Chilean Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Chilean Declaration of Independence is a document declaring the independence of Chile from the Spanish Empire. It was drafted in January 1818 and approved by Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818 at Talca, despite being dated in Concepción on 1 January 1818. [1] [2] The ceremony of independence was performed on 12 ...

  5. Timeline of Chilean history - Wikipedia

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    The territories of Cuyo, previously governed as part of Chile, become part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. (See History of Argentina.) 1778: Direct commerce between Chile and Spain is allowed. 1788: May: Ambrosio O'Higgins, father of future Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins, is named governor of Chile.

  6. Chilean War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Chilean War of Independence ( Spanish: Guerra de la Independencia de Chile, 'War of Independence of Chile') was a military and political event that allowed the emancipation of Chile from the Spanish Monarchy, ending the colonial period and initiating the formation of an independent republic. It developed in the context of the Spanish ...

  7. Bernardo O'Higgins - Wikipedia

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    Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme ( Spanish pronunciation: [beɾˈnaɾðo oˈ (x)iɣins] ⓘ; 20 August 1778 – 24 October 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque - Spanish and Irish ancestry. [1] Although he was the second Supreme Director of ...

  8. Economic history of Chile - Wikipedia

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    When Chile became an independent nation in 1818 it was the poorest [clarification needed] territory in the Americas, [4] [5] by the 1890s it had become richer [clarification needed] than Sweden, and twice as rich than Japan [6] and it became one of the 15 richest [clarification needed] nations in the world, [7] a position it would retain for ...

  9. Chile’s constitution gives outsize power to ... - AOL

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    Chile has written a new constitution that — if approved in a Sept. 4 plebiscite — will give extraordinary political powers to indigenous minorities. But there are growing concerns about ...