22 January - Due to the strike of the workers of the Mapocho Saltpeter Offices and Humberstone, who sued Cosatan for the rise in prices in the grocery stores, the Minister of Labor Mariano Bustos annuls the legal personality of the unions. Due to the failure of the
Communist senators
Elías Lafertte and
Pablo Neruda, the workers call for a march on the 28th of the month.
28 January - In
Plaza Bulnes, after a march by various nitrate unions from Plaza Los Artesanos, the police, following superior orders, fired on the workers, killing 6 people in what is known as the Plaza Bulnes Massacre.
June
June 27 - died of cancer at his home in Villa Paidahue,
La Reina,
Santiago the incumbent President of the Republic,
Juan Antonio Rios, unable to finish his presidential term. 3 days of national mourning are decreed.
28 June -
Alfredo Duhalde Vásquez, Minister of the Interior of Juan Antonio Ríos, takes possession of the country, his first act is the call for presidential elections for September 4 of the same year.
August
August 2 - At 3:19 p.m. local time, an
earthquake measuring 8.3 degrees on the
Richter scale with an epicenter in the
Chilean Sea, near the town of
Caldera, affecting the entire northern part of the country; and causing the death of 8 people. Minutes later, a
Tsunami with waves up to 2 meters high affected the coasts of that area of the country.
