Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga

Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga (died August 24, 1768) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Panama and Royal Governor of Chile.

Arauco War

Governor Guill y Gonzaga celebrated the "Parliament of Nacimiento" with the Mapuches in 1764, where he tried to impose his scheme to make them live in towns. This provoked the Mapuche Uprising of 1766 under the command of the toqui Curiñancu, which lasted until Agustín de Jáuregui made a peace in 1774.

In addition he was ordered to carry out the expulsion of the Jesuits on August 27, 1767 from Chile.

During his government, he declared Talcahuano as a “Port of registry". In 1765 he founded the Villa San Luis Gonzaga de Rere and Tucapel Nuevo, the following year San Carlos de Yumbel was founded, all of them in the region of Concepcion. On Chiloé, San Carlos de Chonchi was founded in 1767 and San Carlos de Ancud in 1768.^[1]

He died in Santiago on August 24, 1768. He was succeaded by Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán as the interim governor.

See also

• Arauco War
• Suppression of the Society of Jesus
• Manuel de Montiano

Notes

Sources

• Castedo, Leopoldo (1954). Resumen de la Historia de Chile de Francisco Antonio Encina (in Spanish) 2. Santiago, Chile: Empresa Editora Zig-Zag. 
• Encina, Francisco Antonio (1940–1952). Historia de Chile: desde la prehistoria hasta 1891 (in Spanish) I–XX. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Nascimento. 
• Guarda, Gabriel (1978). El Auge Fundacional. Historia urbana del Reino de Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. 
• Medina, José Toribio (1906). Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elziviriana. pp. 1,006. 

• Molina, Juan Ignacio (1809). The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili II. London, UK: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 

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