The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Chile.
Incumbents President of Chile: Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
Events October 10 October – The Santiago National football club is founded.
Undated Exceptionally heavy and frequent rains during the winter across the centre of the country produce the wettest year for which reliable records are available at Santiago and Valparaíso, both of which receive more than twice their normal rainfall, with Quinta Normal recording Paskoff, Roland P.; ‘Geomorphological Processes and Characteristic Landforms in the Mediterranean Regions of the World’; Mediterranean Type Ecosystems; in Ecological Studies, Volume 7, 1973, pp 53–60 and Valparaíso over Anuario del Servicio Meteorolójico de la Dirección del Territorio Marítimo, 1900 – with some sources suggesting Valparaíso accumulated as much as .Ortlieb, Luc; ‘Las mayores precipitaciones históricas en Chile central y la cronología de eventos ENOS en los siglos XVI-XIX’; in Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 67 (1994); pp. 463–485,
Births 5 April – Jorge González von Marées (died 1962) 21 May – Hernan Alessandri (died 1982) 13 July – Teresa of Los Andes (died 1920) 18 July – Juan Gómez Millas (died 1987)
Deaths
April April 9 - Eduardo de la Barra, geographical engineer, poet, and philologist (b. 1839)BCN. Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. (1970, January 1). Eduardo de la Barra Lastarria. Reseñas Biográficas Parlamentarias. bcn.cl. https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Eduardo_De_la_Barra_Lastarria
September September 18 - José Ravest y Bonilla, lawyer, writer, and judge (b. 1823)
Notes It’s likely that early meteorological annuals may have underestimated totals in Valparaíso as smaller falls may not have been recorded accurately.
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