title: 1990 in Chile
text: # 1990 in Chile
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1990 in Chile.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President of Chile: Augusto Pinochet (until 11 March), Patricio Aylwin (starting 11 March).
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * 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
  
  * 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
  
  ### May
  
  * 31 May – The Pisagua case begins.
  
  ### July
  
  * 19 July – The political party Union of the Centrist Center is founded.
  
  ### December
  
  * 7 & 8 December – The 1990 Chilean telethon takes place.
  
  ## Sport
  
  * Chile national football team 1990
  * 1990 Copa Apertura
  
  ## Births
  
  * 2 January – Ignacio Hasbún
  * 9 August – Sebastián Ubilla
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 31 May – Clotario Blest
  