Chilean liberals and regionalists unsuccessfully take up…

Chilean liberals and regionalists unsuccessfully take up arms against Bulnes's Conservative successor, Manuel Montt Torres (president, 1851-61).

Thousands die in one of the few large civil wars in nineteenth-century Chile.

The rebels of 1851 denounce Montt's election as a fraud perpetrated by the centralist forces in and around Santiago.

Some entrepreneurs in the outlying provinces also back the rebellion out of anger at the government's neglect of economic interests outside the sphere of the central landowning elites.

Montt puts down the uprising with help from British commercial ships.