Foundation
The city of Talca was founded in 1692 , by the Governor General of the Kingdom of Chile, Tom�s Mar�n de Poveda , in the place where today the town of Maule , so that its foundation was neighbor to the gold mine The Chivato . Subsequently the population was moving northward.On May 12th of 1742 was refounded as Villa de San Agustin de Talca in its current location, by Governor Jos� Manso de Velasco . He founded the Convent of the Augustinians, in the place where now stands the city jail.
On June 6th of 1796 Talca received, by royal decree of King Carlos IV , the title of city and, on 6 December of that year, the title of "Very Noble and Loyal".
The nascent city met former neighbors of colonial ancestry that would help standardize the Chilean cultural space, being effective civilizing focus between the two major cities of the country, Santiago and Concepcion. One such illustrious neighbors was Don Nicolas de la Cruz y Bahamonde , son of an Italian immigrant, and awarded the noble title of Count of Maule . In the hacienda Guaracul�n, near Talca, was born in 1742 the wise and naturalist Abate Juan Ignacio Molina , who bequeathed the construction of a school for Talca. He also lived in this city the Portuguese trader John Albano Pereira , with whom he spent some years of his childhood Bernardo O'Higgins , hero of the independence of Chile .
Role in the Independence and Republic
Casa de Don Juan Albano Pereira, where he grew Bernardo O'Higgins and where they signed the Act of Independence of Chile. Actual O'Higginiano and Museum of Fine Arts.
During Independence, Talca was notable epicenter of events, as the site of Talca (1814) and in the Old Country , the Cancharayada Combat (1817). The draft of the Declaration of Independence was signed in these soils on February 12, 1818. At church, this time in Talca had considerable importance by the presence of Bishop Jos� Ignacio Cienfuegos , active promoter
