Supreme Director of Chile: Bernardo O'Higgins (-28 January), Ramón Freire (4 April-)

President of the Government Junta of Chile (1823): Agustín Eyzaguirre (28 January-4 April)

• date unknown - Slavery is abolished in Chile.

January edit

• 28 January - O'Higgins is deposed by a conservative coup. An interim Government Junta takes power.

• 1 January - Manuel Baquedano^[1] (d. 1897)
• 19 January - Francisco Bilbao (d. 1865)