Timeline of Camagüey
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Camagüey , Cuba .
Prior to 20th century
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.[3]
1616 - Fire.
1617 - Cathedral first built.
1668 - City raided by Welsh pirate Henry Morgan .
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.[1]
1730 - Hospital de Nuestra Senora del Carmen founded.
1733 - City Hall construction begins.
1737 - San Lázaro hospital built.[1]
1741 - Epidemic outbreak.
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 .
1814 - Future poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda born in Puerto Principe.[8]
1817 - Town becomes a city.[1]
1842 - Filarmónica (music society) founded.
1850 - El Principal theatre opens.
1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.[10]
1864
1872 - Casino Español (music society) formed.
1874 - March: Battle of Las Guasimas (1874) fought; Cuban rebels win.
1886 - El Arrebol newspaper begins publication.[11]
1898 -
1899
El Eco Mercantil newspaper begins publication.[14]
Population: 25,102 city; 53,140 district; 88,234 province.[15]
20th century
1900s–1940s
1902 - El Camagüeyano newspaper begins publication.[citation needed ]
1903
1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.[16]
1912
1913
Teatro Avellaneda opens.[19]
Camagüey Jazz Band formed.
1919
Banda Municipal de Música formed.
Population: 98,193.[20]
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.
1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province.[24]
1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group) formed.
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
Instituto Superior Pedagógico established.[31]
Museo Estudiantil "Jesús Suárez Gayol" opens.[18]
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.
1998
January: Catholic pope visits Camagüey.
Office of City Historian established.
1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.[34]
21st century
2008
2014 - Population: 304,027.[37]
See also
References
^ a b c d e f g h Roberto Segre [in Spanish] , "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online . Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ 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 .
^ Camagüey, Cuba , Lonely Planet , retrieved September 25, 2016
^ Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish) (89). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X .
^ 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), vol. 14, no. 1, Havana: Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas, ISSN 1024-9435
^ "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 [fr ] (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 . 11 (2). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus : 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 }}
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^ 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 .
^ 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
^ Weaver, Matthew (September 9, 2008). "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved June 14, 2024 .
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2014 . United Nations Statistics Division .
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