21st Century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | A general census is performed all over the country. | |
| 2004 | The Chilean Supreme Court declares that Pinochet is mentally competent to stand trial. | |
| 2005 | The Pinochet trial continues. The presidential election of December 11 puts Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera into a second round. | |
| 2006 | In the second round of the presidential election the socialist leader Michelle Bachelet emerges the winner. 790,000 students adhere to the 2006 student protests in Chile. Death of Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (10 December 2006) | |
| 2007 | Los Ríos Region and Arica-Parinacota Region are created. | |
| 2010 | Sebastián Piñera is elected President of Chile. |
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Chilean History
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)