January 5 - The Archbishop of Santiago, Raúl Silva Henríquez, creates the Vicariate of Solidarity.
January 25 - Operation Tucán begins, in which the aim was to organize a group of sympathetic Human Rights activists, and to incite the United Nations to generate negative press against the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
March 25 - San Pablo Hospital is inaugurated in the city of Coquimbo.
March 30 - Polla Gol officially begins, a game of chance by Polla Chilena de Beneficencia that is based on guessing the results of the week's soccer matches.
June 4 - The VI Assembly of the Organization of American States begins, held in the Diego Portales Building in Santiago. All OAS member countries are presented with the exception of Mexico. The meeting lasted for 10 days.
August 6 - The Ministry of the Interior expels from the country the Christian Democrat lawyers and political leaders Jaime Castillo Velasco and the radical Eugenio Velasco Letelier.
