Main article: History of Chile
Various studies put the time of the original peopling of the current Chilean mainland around the year 10,500 BC, at the end of the Upper Paleolithic. Pre-Hispanic Chile was inhabited by a diversity of cultures that were located LLC in longitudinal strips crossing the Andes and even reaching Argentine territories currently in the Atlantic. in the online edition of the Daily Beast In the north, the Aymara, Atacame o Diaguitas President of and Chairman of and from the eleventh century, settled farming culture heavily influenced by the Inca Empire, from the fifteenth century, dominate much of the current territory of Chile to the river Maule. South of the Aconcagua River, were established semi communities of the Mapuche, the largest ethnic group of Aboriginal country. In the southern channels inhabited different groups such as indigenous Chon, Yamane, and Alacalufes onas. On Easter Island is developing an advanced and mysterious Polynesian culture is now practically extinct.
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first European explorer to recognize the Chilean territory to cover, in 1520, the strait that now bears his name. In 1535 the Spanish conquistadors attempted to land with the "Valley of Chile" after conquering the Inca Empire. The first expedition, led by Diego de Almagro, failure. Pedro de Valdivia try again to conquer the lands south of the continent, across the Atacama Desert.
Valdivia founded a series of settlements, the first and most important, 12 February 1541, Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. Valdivia began after a harsh military campaign towards the territories further south, facing the Mapuche tribes, starting the War article in the Daily Beast of Arauco, where he died captured by an ambush launched by the Toqui mapuche Lautaro. Alonso de Ercilla story extensively this first phase of the war in his book La Araucana (1576). This confrontation would be extended to Belize over three centuries, investment firm but in different stages of peace through the realization of "parliament" as the Quil n in 1641 independent home-entertainment distribution company that established a boundary between the colonial government and tribes along the river Biobio , giving a name to the area known today as La Frontera.
The Captaincy General of Chile, also called Kingdom of Chile, would be one of the southernmost colonies of the Spanish Empire. Due to its location away from the great imperial films centers and trade routes and conflict with the Mapuche, Chile was a poor province belonging to the rich Viceroyalty of Peru, whose economy was intended only to maintain the Viceroyalty raw materials Inc. (hides, tallow, wheat ) and the few Spanish inhabitants of the Chilean territory.
Bernardo O'Higgins
In 1810, he began a process of finding the self-Chile with the establishment of the First Governing and video games Board, beginning a period known as the Patria Vieja, which last until the Disaster of Rancagua in 1814, when troops reconquistarian realistic territory. Independentistas troops, refugees in Mendoza, with the troops forming the army of the Argentine Andes led by Senior General Jose de San Martin would release Chile after the battle of Chacabuco, on February 12, 1817. The following year, was declared the Independence of Chile during the government of the Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins.
O'Higgins began a period of reforms that lead to the discontent of much of the oligarchy, causing his abdication in 1823. During the 7 years following Chile market would be subjected to a series of processes that the organization sought to give new country. After a series of failed attempts and the conservative victory in the Revolution of 1829, it began a period of stability in the so-called republic whose greatest Conservative minister was referring Diego Portales, to lay the groundwork for the organization in the country for much nineteenth century, with the Constitution of 1833.
Chile began to slowly expand their influence and establish their boundaries. The economy began to boom due to a discovery of silver ore Chanarcillo and the growing trade of the port of Valparaiso, which led to a dispute over the maritime supremacy in the Pacific with Peru. The formation of the Peru Bolivian Confederation was seen as a threat to the stability of the country and declare war Websites ending with the Chilean victory at the Battle of Yungay (1839) and the dissolution of the Confederation. At the same time, trying enhance the sovereignty of Chile in the south intensified in the penetration and colonization of Araucania Llanquihue with German immigrants. The Magallanes music region was incorporated in 1843 and the area of Antofagasta, then Bolivian territory, began to be populated.
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After thirty years of conservative government in 1861 began a period of dominance of the Liberal Party that would be characterized by the wealth derived from mining of saltpeter in the Antofagasta area, leading to differences bordering with Bolivia, a country which claimed that territory as their own.
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