Álvaro Jara (

16 June Events Pre-1600 * 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (''shah'') of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran). *1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son K ...

1923 In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ' ...

– 20 April

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

) was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

who won the National History Award in 1990. His major work is ''War and Society in Chile'', which was not originally published in

but in

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with the title of ''Guerre et société au Chili'' in 1961. This work included a new view on the themes of the conquest of Chile.

Works

*''Pineda and Bascuñan man of his time'' (1954) *''Chilean Indian Law'' (1956) *''The salary of the Indians and the gold sesmos'' Rate Santillan (1961) *''Guerre et société au Chili'' (1961) (Spanish version War and Society in Chile in 1971) *''Sources for the history of labor in the Kingdom of Chile'' (1965) *''Three essays on Latin American mining economy'' (1966) *''Captivity and happy individual reason dilated wars of the Kingdom of Chile'' (1973) *''Indigenous Employment and wage sixteenth century'' (1987) 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers 1923 births 1998 deaths University of Chile alumni University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Chile Academic staff of the University of Concepción People from Talca Chilean people of German descent Chilean people of Danish descent Chilean people of French descent Chilean expatriates in France {{chile-historian-stub