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Events on Saturday 1 October 1814 1
1814Battle of RancaguaSpanish royalists crush Chilean independence forcesRoyalist troops defeated Chilean patriot forces led by Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera at Rancagua. The defeat ended the period of Chilean self-rule known as the Patria Vieja and restored Spanish colonial control. Surviving patriot leaders fled across the Andes to Argentina, where they regrouped for a later campaign of liberation.