The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Chile.
Incumbents
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- 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.
February
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- February 8 - The newspaper La Estrella de Arica is founded.
- February 9 - The XVII International Song Festival of Viña del Mar is held. Hosted by Antonio Vodanovic, his debut, and Ana María Thieman.
- February 18 - United States suspends military aid to Chile.
- 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.
- 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.
September
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- The Social Democratic Labor Movement is constituted.
- September 12 - On a beach in Los Molles (Valparaíso Region) the body of the communist teacher Marta Ugarte, arrested on August 9, 1976, is found.
- 21 September – Letelier assassination
- October 14 - The first issue of Cosas magazine appears with the French singer Sylvie Vartan on its cover.
- October 19 - The first Santa Isabel supermarket is inaugurated in Valparaíso.
- October 30 - Chile leaves the Andean Pact, due to differences regarding foreign investments.
November
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- November 18 - The broadcasts of the informative El Diario de Cooperativa begin through Radio Cooperativa.
December
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