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| 1823 |
| | | Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's first liberal reformer, is so unpopular that he has to resign | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Conservative 'bigwigs' and liberal 'novices' emerge as Chile's two main political parties | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Diego Portales begins a 30-year spell as Chile's conservative dictator | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The War of the Pacific brings Chile new mineral wealth at the expense of Bolivia and Peru | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Great Valparaiso Earthquake damages much of central Chile and is felt from Peru to Buenos Aires | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda | |
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| 1924 |
| | | 20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth') | |
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