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| 1973 |
| | | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Chilean author Isabel Allende publishes her first novel, The House of the Spirits | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet, the only candidate in Chile's presidential election, resigns when he wins less than half the votes cast | |
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| 1989 |
| | | With the fall of Pinochet, Chile returns eagerly to democracy - electing a Christian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin, as president | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile | |
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| 2010 October 13 |
| | | Thirty-three miners are brought safely to the surface after being trapped deep underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile | |
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