Bernardo O’Higgins rules Chile with a progressive,…
1823 CE
Bernardo O’Higgins rules Chile with a progressive, if autocratic, regime, reducing debt and improving public services.
Despite these positives, the church and aristocracy have resisted his liberal social reforms, while liberals increasingly regard O’Higgins as intolerably undemocratic.
Faced with an 1823 army revolt led by General Ramon Freire and backed by Chile’s landed aristocracy, O’Higgins resigns to live in Peru.