1963 in Chile

The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Chile.

Incumbents

 * President of Chile: Jorge Alessandri

January

 * 1 January – The Deportes Ovalle football club is founded.

February

 * The fourth version of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival takes place.

April

 * 7 April - Municipal elections are held, which largely favored the Christian Democrats.
 * 21 April - The first prize of Miss World Chile is given to Maria Pilar Aguirre Gómez.
 * 30 April - The Jackal of Nahueltoro is murdered under Capital punishment, convicted of murdering his former partner and his five children (only hers).

May

 * 6 May - an explosion of a cyclopropane balloon in the San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago caused the death of 6 people (2 surgeons, 2 patients and 2 anesthesiologists) and left another 2 surgeons and 12 assistants seriously injured.

July

 * 3 July - The first edition of the Juan Pinto Duran Cup is held.

December

 * 16 December - The statutes and regulations of Rugby in Chile, founded 10 years before, were made official.

Births

 * 16 January – Tomás Jocelyn-Holt
 * 11 March – Hugo González
 * 13 March – Aníbal González
 * 24 March – Iván Morovic
 * 25 March – Jaime Vera
 * 21 April – Eduardo Vilches
 * 23 April – Fernando Luis Capurro

Deaths

 * 8 December – Juana Rosa Aguirre (b. 1877)