1973 in Chile

Incumbents

• President: Salvador Allende until September 11, Augusto Pinochet as President of the Government Junta of Chile
• Commander-in-Chief

• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Clodomiro Almeyda, Orlando Letelier, Clodomiro Almeyda, Ismael Huerta
• Minister of the Interior: Carlos Prats until August 23, Gerardo Espinoza, Orlando Letelier
• Minister of National Defense: Jose Toha, Clodomiro Almeyda, Carlos Prats, Orlando Letelier, Patricio Carvajal

  Events

• March 4 – Chilean parliamentary election, 1973
• June 27 – Alejandrina Cox incident
• June 29 – Tanquetazo
• September 11 – 1973 Chilean coup d'etat
• September 15 – General Prats leaves Chile for exile in Argentina

  Births

• February 14 – Sebastián Keitel
• March 12 – Pablo Illanes
• May 9 – Francisca Merino
• June 12 – Marco Enríquez-Ominami
• October 16 – María Eugenia Larraín
• December 12 – Rodrigo Peñailillo

  Deaths

• September 11 – Salvador Allende, President
• September 15 – Victor Jara, singer-songwriter
• September 19 – Charles Horman, American journalist documentary filmmaker
• September 24 – Arnoldo Camu
• October 1 – Carlos Schneeberger
• October 3 – José Gregorio Liendo
• October 13 – Carlos Fariña