- Ruled as a military dictator of Chile from 1973 - 1990.
- He bought significant economic reform to Chile, but his regime also committed human rights violations, including murder and torture.
- More than 3,000 people were killed or disappeared during his rule.
- He entered Chile's leading Military College, the Escuela Militar, 1933.
- Later continued his studies at the War Academy and later also taught there.
- After rising steadily in rank, Pinochet was named Commander in Chief of the Army on August 25 1973.
- Pinochet took part in a military Coup on Sept. 11 1973 that overthrew democratically elected government of Salvador Allende Gossens.
- Pinochet quickly emerged as the dominant figure in the military Junta and was named it's President.
- In 1974, he officially became President of the republic.
- President Pinochet reserved Allende's socialist Policies, adopted a free market economic model, and returned industries and land to private ownership. He also disbanded the congress and restricted political parties and labor unions.
- He stifled opposition by using force and torture.
- Chileans voted Pinochet out of office in 1988, and he stepped down in 1998.
- Then took the part of Senator for life, but retired as a senator in 2002.
- 1998 Pinochet was arrested in the UK on international charges of murder and torture.
- 2002 was released on grounds that he was medically unfit to stand trial, and he returned to Chile.
- 2001, Chilean courts charged Pinochet with covering up kidnappings and murders shortly after he rose to power in 1973.
- But higher Courts later said his health was to poor for him to stand trial.
-In 2004, a Chileans appeals Court ruled that Pinochet was no longer immune for legal prosecution.
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