The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Camagüey, Cuba.
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- 1528 - Santa María del Puerto Príncipe established by settlers relocating from Caonao, and previously from Punta del Guincho.[1][2]
- 1599 - Convento de San Francisco founded.[3]
- 1616 - Fire.[4]
- 1617 - Cathedral first built.[2]
- 1668 - City raided by Welsh pirate Henry Morgan.[2]
- 1720 - San Francisco de Paula monastery rebuilt.[1]
- 1723 - Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje church built.[1]
- 1728 - Hospital de Caridad de San Juan de Dios established.[5][1]
- 1730 - Hospital de Nuestra Senora del Carmen founded.[5]
- 1733 - City Hall construction begins.[2]
- 1737 - San Lázaro hospital built.[1]
- 1741 - Epidemic outbreak.[6]
- 1779 - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (church) built.[7]
- 1800 - Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial supreme court) relocated to Puerto Principe from Santo Domingo.[2]
- 1814 - Future poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda born in Puerto Principe.[8]
- 1817 - Town becomes a city.[1]
- 1842 - Filarmónica (music society) founded.[9]
- 1850 - El Principal theatre opens.[4]
- 1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.[10]
- 1864
- Benemérita Popular Santa Cecilia (music society) formed.[9]
- Our Lady of Candelaria Cathedral rebuilt.
- 1872 - Casino Español (music society) formed.[9]
- 1874 - March: Battle of Las Guasimas (1874) fought; Cuban rebels win.
- 1886 - El Arrebol newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1898 -
- Lope Recio Loynaz leading the third cavalry regiment makes a triumphal entry in the city, marking the end of the Cuban War of Independence for Camagūey, [12]
- Pedro Mendoza Guerra becomes governor of province.[13]
- 1899
20th century
1900s–1940s
- 1902 - El Camagüeyano newspaper begins publication.[citation needed]
- 1903
- Porto Principe renamed "Camagüey."[1]
- City becomes seat of Camagüey Province.[1]
- 1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.[16][2]
- 1912
- Roman Catholic diocese of Camagüey established.[17]
- Ignacio Agramonte monument erected in Agramonte Park.[18]
- 1913
- 1919
- 1932 - Hurricane.[21]
- 1935 - Hurricane.[21]
- 1938 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.[22]
- 1948 - Cine Casablanca opens.[19]
1950s–1990s
- 1956 - El Cubano Libre student newspaper begins publication.[23]
- 1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province.[24]
- 1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group) formed.[9]
- 1963 - Biblioteca provincial de Camagüey Julio Antonio Mella (library) established.[25]
- 1964 - Population: 153,100.[26]
- 1965 - Estadio Cándido González (stadium) built.[citation needed]
- 1966 - Population: 171,000.[27]
- 1967
- 1968 - Archivo Histórico provincial de Camagüey (archives) established.[25]
- 1970 - Population: 197,720.[30]
- 1976
- 1981 - Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Camagüey established.[31]
- 1983 - Festival de Teatro de Camagüey (theatre festival) begins.[32]
- 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1994 - Creole Choir of Cuba established.[9]
- 1998
- 1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.[34]
21st century
- 2008
- September: Hurricane Ike occurs.[35]
- Old town designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Museo de San Juan de Dios (museum) opens.
- 2014 - Population: 304,027.[36]
See also
- Camagüey history
- Timelines of other cities in Cuba: Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana, Holguín, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Roberto Segre [in Spanish], "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
- ^ Calendario manual y guia de forasteros de la Isla de Cuba [Almanac and Guide for Strangers to Cuba] (in Spanish). Havana: Imprenta de la Capitanía General. 1795. hdl:2027/wu.89059055202.
- ^ a b Armstrong 1900.
- ^ De La Torre 1845.
- ^ Camagüey, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 25, 2016
- ^ Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish). University of Santiago de Cuba (89). ISSN 0581-653X.
- ^ a b c d e f g Historiador de Camagüey 2014.
- ^ Gonzalo de Quesada; International Bureau of the American Republics (1905). Cuba. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Del Camagüey, historia de sus letras y periódicos" (in Spanish). Camaguey: Biblioteca Provincial Julio Antonio Mella. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^ "General Lope Recio Loynaz". www.eduardozayas-bazan.com. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
- ^ Hispanic Society of America (1919). William Belmont Parker (ed.). Cubans of To-Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. hdl:2027/nyp.33433067286611.
- ^ "Cuba: Puerto Principe", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
- ^ War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ^ Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census. p. 153.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ a b "Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Camaguey, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ^ a b "Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935
- ^ Miguel Viciedo Valdés (2005), "Breve reseña sobre la biblioteca pública en Cuba antes de 1959", Acimed (in Spanish), Havana: Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas, vol. 14, no. 1, ISSN 1024-9435
- ^ Nodal-Reyes 2014.
- ^ "Obituary: Huber Matos", The Economist, March 15, 2014
- ^ a b Vanessa Oliveira; Xavier Calmettes, eds. (2016). "Guide du chercheur américaniste: Enquête de terrain et travail de recherche à Cuba" [Americanist Researcher's Guide: Survey of Cuba]. Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos (in French). doi:10.4000/nuevomundo.69135. ISSN 1626-0252.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
- ^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. 11 (2): 74–84. JSTOR 25612382.
- ^ "Actuará Ballet de Camagüey en el Teatro Mella de La Habana", Granma (in Spanish), September 1, 2015
- ^ Miguel Cabrera (2010). El ballet en Cuba: nacimiento de una escuela en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Balletin Dance Ediciones.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
- ^ "Portal Cultural Principe" (in Spanish). Camaguey. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^ Gómez Consuegra 2009.
- ^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
- ^ "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba", The Guardian, September 9, 2008
- ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.
Bibliography
- in English
- S.T. Armstrong (April 7, 1900). "Hospitals of Puerto Principe, Cuba". Philadelphia Medical Journal. 5.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 634.
- New York Public Library (1912). "Cuba: History and Description: Puerto Principe (City)". List of Works Relating to the West Indies. USA. pp. 175–176.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Sergio Díaz-Briquets (1994). "Cuba". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. pp. 173–187. ISBN 0313259372. (Includes profile of Camagüey)
- in Spanish
- D. Jose Maria de la Torre (1845). Elementos de cronología universal y particular de España, Isla de Cuba y Puerto-Rico (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Havana: Impr. del Gobierno y Capitanía General por S.M.
- Ordenanzas municipales de la ciudad de Puerto Principe (in Spanish). Imprenta del Fanal. 1856.
- Jacobo de la Pezuela (1866). "Ciudad de Santa Maria de Puerto-Principe". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 4. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106005876096 – via HathiTrust.
- Tomas Pio Betancourt (1877). "Historia de Puerto-Principe". Los tres primeros historiadores de la isla de Cuba. Vol. 3. Havana. pp. 503–564. hdl:2027/uc1.b3613495.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Jose Maria Abraido y Sarmiento (1882). Una villa de Espana y una ciudad de Cuba (in Spanish). Havana: J. Pulido y Comp.
- Juan Torres Lasqueti (1888). Coleccion de datos historicos-geograficos y estadisticos de Puerto del Príncipe y su jurisdicion (in Spanish). Havana: Impr. 'El Retiro'.
- P. Antonio Perpina (1889). El Camagüey: viajes pintorescos por el interior de Cuba y por sus costas, con descripciones del país [Camagüey: Scenic Travels Around Cuba and its Coast, with Descriptions of the Country] (in Spanish). Barcelona: J. A. Bastinos – via Internet Archive.
- "Puerto Principe". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 16. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1895. pp. 593–594. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203983426 – via HathiTrust.
- "Puerto Principe", Directorio mercantil de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish), Habana: Imprenta 'Avisador Comercial', 1901, hdl:2027/nyp.33433016910840 – via HathiTrust
- "Camaguey". Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administracion de España, sus colonias, Cuba, Puerto-Rico y Filipinas, estados hispano-americanos y Portugal [Yearbook of Commerce, Industry, Judiciary and Administration of Spain, its Colonies Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Spanish American States and Portugal] (in Spanish). Madrid: Bailly-Bailliere e Hijos. 1908 – via Google Books.
- Jorge Juárez Cano (1929), Apuntes de Camagüey [Notes of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- A. Pérez (1944), El Camagüey legendario [Legendary Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- "Camagüey, otra carga al machete", Cuba internacional (in Spanish), Havana: Prensa Latina, vol. 6, no. 56, 1974, ISSN 0011-2593
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1989), Centro histórico de Camagüey [Historic Centre of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1992), Centro histórico de Camagüey: Compendio de resultados [Historic Centre of Camagüey: Summary of results] (in Spanish)
- Roberto Segre (1998), "Camagüey o Santa Maria del Puerto Príncipe" [Camagüey or Santa Maria del Puerto Principe], AU (in Spanish), Havana: Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, no. 4, pp. 8–14, OCLC 173702610
- Cuadernos de Historia Principeña (in Spanish), Camaguey: Editorial Ácana, 2001, ISBN 959267065X. 2001-
- Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía (2003). Cuba, cronología: cinco siglos de historia, política y cultura (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Verbum. ISBN 978-84-7962-248-0. (chronology)
- Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2002), "Símbolos republicanos en la ciudad de Camagey", AU: Arquitectura y urbanismo (in Spanish), vol. 23
- Gabino La Rosa Corzo (2003). "Camaguey". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 118–132. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)
- Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2005). La ciudad como texto cultural: Camagüey 1514-1837 (in Spanish). Camagüey: Ed. Ácana.
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (2009). "El Centro Histórico Urbano de Camagüey, Patrimonio Mundial. Planeamiento, gestión y manejo". Apuntes: Journal of Cultural Heritage Studies (in Spanish). Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 22 (2). ISSN 1657-9763.
- Fulgencio Ramón Nodal-Reyes; Ramón Lemay Nodal-Laugart (2014). "Edición clandestina del periódico El Cubano Libre en Camagüey durante la lucha contra la dictadura batistiana" [Clandestine edition of the newspaper El Cubano Libre in Camagüey during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship]. Santiago (in Spanish). University of Santiago de Cuba (133). ISSN 0581-653X.
- En torno a la música: del Príncipe a Camagüey [About Music: from Principe to Camaguey] (in Spanish), Oficina del Historiador de la ciudad de Camagüey, 2014, archived from the original on February 23, 2015
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Camagüey.
- "(Camaguey)" – via Digital Library of the Caribbean.
- "Camagüey: Historia". Catálogo Biblioteca SIGB en línea (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí.
- Items related to Camagüey, various dates (via Europeana)
- Items related to Camagüey, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
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