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Bernardo O'Higgins

1778 - 1842

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Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (Spanish pronunciation: [beɾˈnaɾðo oˈ(x)iɣins] ; 20 August 1778 – 24 October 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardo O'Higgins has received more than 1,176,844 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Bernardo O'Higgins is the 2,209th most popular politician (up from 2,421st in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Chile and the 5th most popular Chilean Politician.

Bernardo O'Higgins is most famous for being the first president of Chile.

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  • 64.99

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 2,209 out of 19,576. Before him are Aeschines, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Seleucus II Callinicus, Amenemhat IV, Adolfo Suárez, and Wen Jiabao. After him are Sher Shah Suri, Aemilianus, Kuchlug, Frederick III of Sicily, Ferdinand I of Portugal, and Louis I, Duke of Bourbon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 10. Before him are Humphry Davy, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, José de San Martín, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. After him are Fernando Sor, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Among people deceased in 1842, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 4. Before him are Stendhal, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Luigi Cherubini. After him are Constanze Mozart, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Dominique Jean Larrey, Pierre Cambronne, and Peter Fendi.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 9 out of 321. Before him are Pablo Neruda (1904), Víctor Jara (1932), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Michelle Bachelet (1951), and Sebastián Piñera (1949). After him are Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Claudio Arrau (1903), Violeta Parra (1917), and Roberto Bolaño (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In Chile

Among politicians born in Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 5. Before him are Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), Michelle Bachelet (1951), and Sebastián Piñera (1949). After him are Patricio Aylwin (1918), Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Ricardo Lagos (1938), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), Luis Corvalán (1916), Jorge Alessandri (1896), and Orlando Letelier (1932).

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