1957 in Chile

The following lists events that happened during 1957 in Chile.

← 1956 1955 1954 1957 in Chile → 1958 1959 1960
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1957 Timeline of Chilean history

Incumbents

• President of Chile: Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Events

March

• 3 March – Chilean parliamentary election, 1957

April

• 2 April and 3 April - The so-called "battle of Santiago" takes place. Due to the economic crisis in the country, protests took place that left more than 20 dead and serious clashes with the police. In the last hours of April 3, President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo is forced to declare a state of siege and take the army out into the streets

July

• 24 July - Influenza outbreak in the port of Valparaíso. Between August and September it would expand to all of Chile.
• 28 July - Christian Democratic Party is founded.

October

• 5 October - In Valparaíso, UCV Televisión, the first Chilean television channel, begins its transmissions.

December

• 22 December – Two buses collide near San Antonio, killing 21.

Births

• date unknown – Roberto Brodsky
• 3 January – Héctor Hoffens
• 13 July – Benedicto Villablanca
• 8 August – Roberto Rojas
• 25 August – Lizardo Garrido
• 2 November – Osvaldo Heriberto Hurtado Galeguillo
• 5 December – Raquel Argandoña
• 21 December – Roberto Cifuentes

Deaths

• 10 January – Gabriela Mistral, poet (born 1889)
• 9 April – Pedro Opaso (born 1876)
• 12 May – Guillermo Saavedra (born 1903)
• 10 July – Ernesto Chaparro (born 1901)
• 25 September – Max Westenhöfer (born 1871)