The following lists events that happened during 1996 in Chile.

Incumbents President of Chile: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

Events December 5 December – The Canada–Chile Free Trade Agreement is signed.

Deaths 4 January – Ramón Vinay, operatic tenor (born 1911) 18 March – Osvaldo Rodríguez (Chilean), poet (born 1943) 30 August – José Toribio Merino, admiral (born 1915) 6 September – Ester Soré, musician (born 1915) 13 September – César Mendoza, police officer and politician (born 1918) 7 December – José Donoso, writer (born 1924)

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