• President of Chile: Juan Antonio Ríos

January edit

• 20 January - After pressure from the United States in the context of World War II, the President of the Republic, Juan Antonio Rios, in agreement with the Senate, decided to break relations with the Axis countries, Germany, Italy and Japan.

April edit

• 6 April - At 12:07 p.m. there is a Earthquake 8.2 degrees in the Richter magnitude scale whose epicenter was located in the city of Ovalle, Coquimbo Region. It had a balance of 12 dead, 49 wounded and 23,250 victims.

July edit

• 9 July - The Organic Code of Courts enters into force, a legal body that regulates the organization and powers of the courts of justice as well as the statute and functions of those in charge of the administration of justice.^{[citation needed]}

October edit

• 15 October - The first edition of the newspaper Las Noticias de Última Hora circulates.

December edit

• 1 December – Endesa (Chile) is created as a subsidiary of CORFO.
• 30 December - The latest edition of the newspaper El Progreso de Coquimbo circulates.

• 16 March – Manuel Astorga
• 19 March – Francisco Valdés (d. 2009)
• 26 March – Guillermo Yávar
• 7 May – Orlando Ramírez (footballer) (d. 2018)
• 2 June – José Miguel Insulza
• 13 September – Adolfo Zaldívar (d. 2013)^[1]
• 23 September – Ignacio Prieto
• 3 October – Adriana Valdés

• 26 July – Luis Barros Borgoño (b. 1858)