1950 in Chile

← 1949 1948 1947 1950 in Chile → 1951 1952 1953
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1950 Timeline of Chilean history

The following lists events that happened during 1950 in Chile.

Incumbents

• President of Chile: Gabriel González Videla

Events

January

• 24 January – The Chilean Government orders troops to their garrisons in response to strikes.^[1]

• 18 March – The Chilean Government abolishes 'emergency zones' created around vital economic areas created in 1947 to deter strikes.^[2]

• 19 June – Empresa Nacional del Petróleo
  is created.

• 7 July - The newspaper La Tercera de La Hora, edited in Santiago and owned by Copesa
  , is founded.

• 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]

• 4 February – Teresita Reyes
• 9 March – Jorge Marchant Lazcano
• 21 March – Julio Crisosto
• 24 April – Rafael González (Chilean footballer)
• 25 June – Paco Saval
• 5 July – Carlos Caszely
• 11 July – Hernán Rivera Letelier
• 14 July – Mario Osbén (d. 2021)
• 17 September –
  Patricia Maldonado Aravena
• 26 October – Jorge Socías

Deaths

• 27 January – Augusto d'Halmar (b. 1882)
• 24 August -Arturo Alessandri (b. 1868)

References