2022 in Chile
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The following is a list of events in the year 2022 in Chile.
Incumbents
- President:
- Sebastián Piñera (RN, until 11 March)
- Gabriel Boric (CS, from 11 March)
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
January
- 1–15 January - 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and tsunami
February
- 1 February - Chile beats Bolivia 3–2 at a football match in La Paz, eliminating the latter from participating in the final tournament of the FIFA World Cup.[1][2]
March
- 2 March – Chile voted on a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.[3][4]
September
- 4 September – A proposed new constitution is rejected by 61% of voters.[5]
Sport
Deaths
January
- 7 January – Luis Pareto González, 93, politician (b. 1928)[6]
- 13 January – Arturo Frei Bolívar, 82, politician (b. 1939)[7]
- 21 January – Leonor Oyarzún, 102, family therapist, first lady (1990–1994) (b. 1919)[8]
February
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- 4 February – Sergio Bravo, 72, screenwriter (b. 1949)[9]
- 10 February – Mane Nett, 73, actress and cultural manager (b. 1948)[10]
- 12 February – Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, 76, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1935)[11]
- 16 February – Cristina Calderón, 93, Yaghan singer, ethnographer, and writer (b. 1928)[12]
March
- 5 March – Patricio Renán, 77, singer (b. 1945)[13]
- 7 March
- Héctor Vargas Bastidas, 70, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1951)[14]
- Benjamín Prado Casas, 96, politician (b. 1926)[15]
- 20 March – Adriana Hoffmann, 82, botanist, environmentalist and author (b. 1940)[16]
- 31 March – Patricia Poblete, 75, economist, Minister of Housing and Urbanism (2006–2010) (b. 1946)[17]
April
- 2 April – Leonel Sánchez, 85, footballer (Universidad de Chile, Colo-Colo, national team) and manager (b. 1936)[18]
- 17 April – Mireya Baltra, 90, journalist and politician, deputy (1969–1973) and minister of labor (1972).[19]