Timeline of Camagüey

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Prior to 20th century

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    • 1528 - Santa María del Puerto Príncipe established by settlers relocating from Caonao, and previously from Punta del Guincho.[1]
    • 1599 - Convento de San Francisco founded.[2]
    • 1616 - Fire.[3]
    • 1617 - Cathedral built.[4]
    • 1668 - City raided by Welsh pirate Henry Morgan.[4]
    • 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.[4]
    • 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.[4]
    • 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.[3]
    • 1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.[10]
    • 1864
    • 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 - Pedro Mendoza Guerra becomes governor of province.[12]
    • 1899
      • El Eco Mercantil newspaper begins publication.[13]
      • Population: 25,102 city; 53,140 district; 88,234 province.[14]

    20th century

    1900s-1940s

    • 1902 - El Camagüeyano newspaper begins publication.
    • 1903
    • 1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.[15]
    • 1912
    • 1913
      • Teatro Avellaneda opens.[18]
      • Camagüey Jazz Band formed.[9]
    • 1919
      • Banda Municipal de Música formed.[9]
      • Population: 98,193.[19]
    • 1932 - Hurricane.[20]
    • 1935 - Hurricane.[20]
    • 1938 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.[21]
    • 1948 - Cine Casablanca opens.[18]

    1950s-1990s

    • 1956 - El Cubano Libre student newspaper begins publication.[22]
    • 1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province.[23]
    • 1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group) formed.[9]
    • 1963 - Biblioteca provincial de Camagüey Julio Antonio Mella (library) established.[24][25]
    • 1964 - Population: 153,100.[26]
    • 1965 - Estadio Cándido González (stadium) built.
    • 1966 - Population: 171,000.[27]
    • 1967
      • Universidad de Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz established.[24]
      • Ballet de Camagüey founded.[28][29]
    • 1968 - Archivo Histórico provincial de Camagüey (archives) established.[25]
    • 1970 - Population: 197,720.[30]
    • 1976
      • Instituto Superior Pedagógico established.[31]
      • Museo Estudiantil "Jesús Suárez Gayol" opens.[17]
    • 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
      • January: Catholic pope visits Camagüey.
      • Office of City Historian established.[33]
    • 1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.[34]

    21st century

    See also

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Roberto Segre, "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online, (Subscription required (help)) . Retrieved September 25, 2016.
    2. ↑ 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.
    3. 1 2 Bonavía 2003.
    4. 1 2 3 4 Britannica 1910.
    5. 1 2 Armstrong 1900.
    6. ↑ De La Torre 1845.
    7. ↑ Camagüey, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 25, 2016
    8. ↑ Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish). University of Santiago de Cuba (89). ISSN 0581-653X. (Subscription required (help)).
    9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Historiador de Camagüey 2014.
    10. ↑ Gonzalo de Quesada; International Bureau of the American Republics (1905). Cuba. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
    11. ↑ "Del Camagüey, historia de sus letras y periódicos" (in Spanish). Camaguey: Biblioteca Provincial Julio Antonio Mella. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
    12. ↑ Hispanic Society of America (1919). William Belmont Parker, ed. Cubans of To-Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
    13. ↑ "Cuba: Puerto Principe", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
    14. ↑ War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
    15. ↑ Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census.
    16. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
    17. 1 2 "Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
    18. 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Camaguey, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
    19. ↑ "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
    20. 1 2 "Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935, (Subscription required (help))
    21. ↑ 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, 14 (1), ISSN 1024-9435
    22. ↑ Nodal-Reyes 2014.
    23. ↑ "Obituary: Huber Matos", The Economist, March 15, 2014
    24. 1 2 3 "EcuRed". EcuRed (in Spanish). Cuba: Joven Club de Computación. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
    25. 1 2 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). ISSN 1626-0252.
    26. ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
    27. ↑ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. 11. JSTOR 25612382.
    28. ↑ "Actuará Ballet de Camagüey en el Teatro Mella de La Habana", Granma (in Spanish), September 1, 2015
    29. ↑ Miguel Cabrera (2010). El ballet en Cuba: nacimiento de una escuela en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Balletin Dance Ediciones.
    30. ↑ 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.
    31. 1 2 International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
    32. ↑ "Portal Cultural Principe" (in Spanish). Camaguey. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
    33. ↑ Gómez Consuegra 2009.
    34. ↑ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
    35. ↑ "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba", The Guardian, September 9, 2008
    36. ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.

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