exercised its dominion to that willingly, gave up their lands for the foundation of the future city of Rancagua, plus donation of twenty blocks from the Estancia El Carmen by Don Gabriel De Soto and C�rdova, who inherited his nephew Francisco De Soto, later called Fundo El Puente, which is the House of Culture today. The foundation was held on October 5 in 1743 with the name "Villa Santa Cruz de Triana" and was led by the President of the Court and Governor of the Kingdom of Chile , Jos� Antonio Manso de Velasco , approved by Royal Decree of 29 July of 1749.
Monument to Jos� Antonio Manso de Velasco in Rancagua.
As he had done in planning various colonial cities , Manso de Velasco projected the city along the plane orthogonal (also called checkerboard ), widely used in Spain , which is a level similar to a chessboard , 8 by 8 blocks blocks. Each block was divided into four parts, called solar. The villa was surrounded on four sides by ditches (in calls Ca�adillas). He said planting some trees, especially poplars , which led years later to the " Alameda ".
Since that time, the town began to organize. The Protector of the Villa, Gregorio Mart�n J�uregui , blocks and distributed the solar demarcated for the various functions of the time. Among these nominations, won 2 blocks (8 solar) to the order of the Franciscans . This field is currently the two blocks bounded by streets State , Almarza , Mill�n and Ibieta . In 1807 , the Franciscan fathers rose in the southeast corner of the current streets State and Ibieta his temple, the Church of San Francisco .
Battle of Rancagua
Disaster of Rancagua .
The city of Rancagua witnessed the battle that marked the end of the first projects by Republicans Chilean Independence .The incident took place on 1 and 2 October of 1814 . Brigadier Bernardo O'Higgins , the command of Jos� Miguel Carrera , locked himself in the town square to stop the troops
