1990 in Chile

← 1989 1988 1987 1990 in Chile → 1991 1992 1993
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1990 Timeline of Chilean history

The following lists events that happened during 1990 in Chile.

• President of Chile: Augusto Pinochet (until 11 March), Patricio Aylwin (starting 11 March).

• February 18 :
  • A bus from the Ramos Cholele company collides with a truck near Taltal, leaving 22 dead and 30 injured.
  • The shipwreck of the fishing boat "Calypso I" that transported members of the amateur football club "Barrio Miraflores" in the bay of Corral, near Valdivia, takes place. Leaving 21 deceased.

• March 8 – Admiral José Toribio Merino accepts his resignation as the Commander in Chief of the Chilean Navy.
• March 10 – The Organic Constitutional Law on Education was published for the first time.
• March 11 – Patricio Aylwin assumes as president, marks the end of the 17 year dictatorial of Augusto Pinochet.
• March 21 – In an attack initially attributed to the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Gustavo Leigh, suffers serious injuries and loses an eye, but survives.
• 31 March – Death of Jonathan Moyle

• 31 May – The Pisagua case begins.

• 19 July – The political party Union of the Centrist Center is founded.

• 7 & 8 December – The 1990 Chilean telethon takes place.

• Chile national football team 1990
• 1990 Copa Apertura

• 2 January – Ignacio Hasbún
• 9 August – Sebastián Ubilla

• 31 May – Clotario Blest