Allende elected in Chile
1970 · Event
Salvador Allende becomes the first Marxist freely elected to lead a Latin American state, until the 1973 coup.
On these timelines: Latin America, Cold War, Master
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1970
- The Beatles (1960)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)