Manuel Blanco Encalada | |
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.jpg) Oil painting by Manuel Blanco Encalada attributed to Nataniel Hughes, circa 1853 | |
| 1st President of Chile (Provisional President of the Republic) | |
| In office 9 July – 9 September 1826 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Agustín Eyzaguirre |
| 1th and 14th Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy | |
| In office 25 June 1847 – "officially" until 1852 | |
| Preceded by | José Santiago Aldunate |
| Succeeded by | Julián Riesco Droguett |
| In office 26 June 1818 – "officially" until 1821 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | José Ignacio Zenteno |
| Intendant of Valparaiso | |
| In office 25 June 1847 – "officially" until 1852 | |
| Preceded by | José Santiago Aldunate |
| Succeeded by | Julián Riesco Droguett |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manuel José Antonio Blanco y Calvo Encalada 21 April 1790 Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Spanish Monarchy (present-day Argentina) |
| Died | 5 September 1876 (aged 86) Santiago, Chile |
| Resting place | Santiago General Cemetery |
| Nationality | Chilean |
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| Children | Florencio, Félix, Carmen, Mercedes, Teresa and Adolfo |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy of Midshipmen |
| Occupation | Military, political and diplomatic |
| Profession | Naval officer |
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| Allegiance |  Spain (1807–1812).svg){kind=small}
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| Branch/service | Spanish Navy Chilean Army Chilean Navy Peruvian Navy |
| Years of service | 1807–1875 |
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Manuel José Antonio Blanco y Calvo Encalada (Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Spanish Monarchy, 21 April 1790 – Santiago, Republic of Chile, 5 September 1876), known simply as Manuel Blanco Encalada (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel ˈβlaŋko eŋkaˈlaða])
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Blanco Encalada was born into a noble and aristocratic family. His father was the Spanish jurist Lorenzo Blanco Cicerón (1743–1790), originally from Galicia, from a noble family,[Note 1] who was for much of his life an official of the Spanish Monarchy who served first as a prosecutor and then as a oidor. In America, he held such positions in the royal audiences of Santiago, Charcas and Buenos Aires from 1777 to 1790, the year of his death.[2]
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- ^ According to the Chilean historian Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Loreno Blanco Cicerón descended from one of the four counts of the Kingdom of Castile who were assassinated by King Ordoño II of León for wanting to become kings.[1]
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- ^ Fuenzalida Bade 1976, p. 559.
- ^ Barrientos Grandon, Javier. "Lorenzo Blanco Cicerón". Diccionario Biográfico Español (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
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- Estado Mayor General del Ejército (1988). Galería de hombres de armas de Chile: Períodos hispánico y de la independencia, 1535-1826 (in Spanish). Vol. I. Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Militar.
- Fuenzalida Bade, Rodrigo (September–October 1976). "Centenario de la muerte del almirante don Manuel Blanco Encalada" (PDF). Revista de Marina (in Spanish). 95 (714). Viña del Mar, Chile.
- Boutin, Luis (July–August 2001). "Don Manuel Blanco Encalada: Un bosquejo de su vida. Coincidencias con don Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelrne" (PDF). Revista de Marina (in Spanish). 118 (863). Viña del Mar, Chile.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1917). El almirante don Manuel Blanco Encalada (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Universitaria.
- Figueroa, Pedro Pablo (1898). Álbum militar de Chile 1810-1879 (in Spanish). Vol. I. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona.
- Valdés, Ambrosio (1890). El almirante don Manuel Blanco Encalada: Rasgos biográficos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Victoria.
- Figueroa, Virgilio (1928). Diccionario histórico, biográfico y bibliográfico de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. II. Santiago, Chile: Establecimientos Gráficos Balcells.