2021 in Chile

Events in the year 2021 in Chile.

Incumbents

4 January - The University Transition Test that replaced the PSU is carried out, with fewer questions and with a strict health protocol due to the pandemic.
7 January – Former GOPE sergeant Carlos Alarcón is found guilty of the murder of Camilo Catrillanca. A few days later he is sentenced to 16 years in prison.
30 January – A fire at San Borja Arriarán hospital in Santiago required 20 companies of firefighters to control, but the patients were all safely evacuated to nearby hospitals.
5 February – Hundreds protest and municipal buildings are set on fire in Panguipulli after police kill a street performer.
10 February – The government announces it will deport 2,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Venezuela. The town of Colchane, Tamarugal Province, has expanded from a population of 300 to 1,700 since 1 February.
11 February – Mónica Zalaquett, Minister of Women and Gender Equity, condemns comments by councilor Iván Roca of Lota, Biobío Region, excusing his 33-year-old son′s rape of a 12-year-old girl because the girl had ″the body of a woman″.
15 February – COVID-19: 779,541 total cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, 19,624 deaths, 2,147,272 doses of vaccine administered
4 March – Tsunami alert following earthquakes near the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

10-11 April – Scheduled date for the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election. President Piñera proposed holding the election in May to allow greater vaccination.
21 November – Scheduled date for the 2021 Chilean general election, to elect the President and National Congress. In the 2021 elections 27 members of the Senate will be elected, replacing 20 outgoing senators.

3 January – Manola Robles, journalist.
20 January - Mario Gutiérrez, musician, member of Los Ángeles Negros
22 January - Juan Guzmán Tapia, judge,.
27 January – Ignacio Tejeda, 17, tennis player; cancer.
31 January - Oliver Welden, award-winning poet
7 February – Mario Osbén, 69, footballer ; heart attack.
10 March – Tomás Vidiella, 83, film director and actor; COVID-19.
13 March – Uruguay Graffigna, 73, Uruguayan-Chilean footballer ; complications from COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease.
19 March – Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, jazz trumpeter; COVID-19.
27 March – Eugenio Mimica Barassi, 71, writer.
8 April – Elsa Bolívar, 91, painter.
14 April – Tati Penna, 61, singer, journalist and television personality; cancer.
22 April – Armando Jofré, 44, artist and puppet maker ; COVID-19.
6 May – Humberto Maturana, 92, philosopher and biologist.
25 July – Fernando Karadima, 90, catholic priest accused of sexual abuse.
25 September – Patricio Manns, 84, singer
3 October – Jorge Medina, 94, cardinal.
5 October – Reinaldo Solari, 96, businessman.