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    The Supreme Director of Chile was the Head of State and of Government of Chile in the periods of 1814 and 1817-1826. The first Supreme Director was Francisco...
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  • Provinces of the Río de la Plata (modern Argentina), from 1814 to 1820. The Supreme Director of Chile, from 1814 to 1826, except for the period of Royalist...
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    of Chile (September 18, 1810) and the resignation of Bernardo O'Higgins as Supreme Director of Chile (January 28, 1823). It is also subdivided into three...
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    was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head...
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    O'Higgins as Supreme Director in 1823. Not long after becoming the Supreme Director of Chile, O'Higgins sent the Aguila, a ship captured in the port of Valparaiso...
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    Ramón Freire (category Supreme Directors of Chile)
    9, 1851) was a Chilean political figure. He was head of state on several occasions, and enjoyed a numerous following until the War of the Confederation...
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    Francisco de la Lastra (category Supreme Directors of Chile)
    was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile (1814). He was born on 4 October 1777 in Santiago de Chile, the son of Antonio...
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    Agustín Eyzaguirre (category Supreme Directors of Chile)
    was a Chilean political figure. He served as Provisional President of Chile between 1826 and 1827. He was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of the Basque...
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  • Juan Mackenna, general, Chilean patriot Pablo Mackenna, writer, TV host, poet Bernardo O'Higgins, Supreme Director of Chile Sandra O'Ryan, actress Benjamín...
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    O'Higgins family (category Chilean families of Irish ancestry)
    Bernardo O'Higgins (died 1842), second Supreme Director of Chile Petronila Riquelme (1808–1870), daughter of Bernardo O'Higgins, posthumously known as...
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    government of Peru. Bernardo O'Higgins, as Supreme Director of Chile, appointed José de San Martín chief of the United Liberation Army of Chile and the former...
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    Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile. According...
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    establishment of the first armed forces of an independent Chile: the Corps was founded by Don Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme on June 16, 1818, through a Supreme Decree...
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  • Verdugo, Chilean general, considered one of the founders of independent Chile, leader under the junta government, Supreme Director of Chile José Carreras...
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    In the 1820s, some of them helped liberate the continent. Bernardo O'Higgins was the first Supreme director of Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima...
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    Antonio José de Irisarri (category Supreme Directors of Chile)
    politician who served as Interim Supreme Director of Chile in 1814. He is considered one of the fathers of Chilean journalism together with Fr. Camilo...
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    important collections. The Supreme Director of Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins, named professor Manuel de Salas as the first director of the Biblioteca Nacional...
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    San Martín as Supreme Director of Chile. He declined the offer and proposed O'Higgins in his stead: he recommended that the Supreme Director should be someone...
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  • regardless of whether president, vice-president, supreme director, interim or junta. Presidents died before the end of term: Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Pedro...
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    The first lady of Chile (Spanish: Primera dama de Chile) is the title for the wife of the president of Chile, who is traditionally responsible for directing...
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    French Légion d'honneur. The Supreme Director of Chile (as the Chilean head of state was then known) was established as the head of the Legion. The order was...
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  • President (1814) Supreme Director of Chile Antonio José de Irisarri, Supreme Director (1814) Francisco de la Lastra, Supreme Director (1814) José Miguel...
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    Ballynary (category Townlands of County Sligo)
    Viceroy of Peru, then part of the Spanish Empire. His son Bernardo O'Higgins became the first Supreme Director of Chile. The Chilean city of Vallenar...
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  • was enacted in 1814 and created the figure of Supreme Director and a seven-member Senate. Derogated when Chile was reconquered by Spain. After the victory...
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    Supreme Director of Chile, led the Army over the Andes in a move that turned the tables on the royalists. By 10 February, San Martín had control of northern...
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    British politician (d. 1841) August 20 – Bernardo O'Higgins, Supreme Director of Chile (d. 1842) August 21 – Lewis Weston Dillwyn, British politician...
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  • 1818 in Chile. Supreme Director of Chile: Bernardo O'Higgins Royal Governor of Chile: Mariano Osorio (4 January-5 April) 12 February - The Chilean Declaration...
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  • lists events that happened during 1824 in Chile. Supreme Director of Chile: Ramón Freire 1 April - Battle of Mocopulli date unknown - Francisco Bascuñán...
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    The flag of Chile consists of two equal-height horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton,...
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  • August 20 (redirect from 20th of August)
    composer (d. 1785) 1778 – Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean general and politician, 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (d. 1842) 1779 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish...
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