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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of
Camaguey
,
Cuba
.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1528 - Santa Maria del Puerto Principe 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 Lazaro hospital built.
[1]
- 1741 - Epidemic outbreak.
- 1779 - Iglesia de Nuestra Senora 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 Gomez de Avellaneda
born in Puerto Principe.
[8]
- 1817 - Town becomes a city.
[1]
- 1842 - Filarmonica (music society) founded.
- 1850 - El Principal theatre opens.
- 1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.
[10]
- 1864
- 1872 - Casino Espanol (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
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1900s?1940s
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- 1902 -
El Camagueyano
newspaper begins publication.
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citation needed
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- 1903
- 1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.
[16]
- 1912
- 1913
- Teatro Avellaneda opens.
[19]
- Camaguey Jazz Band formed.
- 1919
- Banda Municipal de Musica formed.
- Population: 98,193.
[20]
- 1932 - Hurricane.
[21]
- 1935 - Hurricane.
[21]
- 1938 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.
[22]
- 1948 - Cine Casablanca opens.
[19]
1950s?1990s
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- 1956 -
El Cubano Libre
student newspaper begins publication.
- 1959 -
Huber Matos
becomes governor of province.
[24]
- 1961 - Coro de Camaguey (musical group) formed.
- 1963 - Biblioteca provincial de Camaguey Julio Antonio Mella (library) established.
[25]
- 1964 - Population: 153,100.
[26]
- 1965 -
Estadio Candido Gonzalez
(stadium) built.
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citation needed
]
- 1966 - Population: 171,000.
[27]
- 1967
- 1968 - Archivo Historico provincial de Camaguey (archives) established.
[25]
- 1970 - Population: 197,720.
[30]
- 1976
- Instituto Superior Pedagogico established.
[31]
- Museo Estudiantil "Jesus Suarez Gayol" opens.
[18]
- 1981 - Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas de Camaguey established.
[31]
- 1983 - Festival de Teatro de Camaguey (theatre festival) begins.
[32]
- 1988 -
Sister city
relationship established with
Madison, Wisconsin
, USA.
- 1994 -
Creole Choir of Cuba
established.
- 1998
- January: Catholic pope
visits
Camaguey.
- Office of City Historian established.
- 1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.
[34]
21st century
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- 2008
- 2014 - Population: 304,027.
[36]
See also
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References
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Roberto Segre
[in Spanish]
, "Camaguey",
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 Capitania General. 1795.
hdl
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2027/wu.89059055202
.
- ^
Camaguey, Cuba
,
Lonely Planet
, retrieved
September 25,
2016
- ^
Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximacion a la cronologia de un monumento".
Santiago
(in Spanish) (89). University of Santiago de Cuba.
ISSN
0581-653X
.
- ^
Gonzalo de Quesada
;
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(1905).
Cuba
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- ^
"Del Camaguey, historia de sus letras y periodicos"
(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
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,
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(1900).
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.
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, eds. (1909).
Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907
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- ^
"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba"
. Norway:
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. Retrieved
September 23,
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.
- ^
a
b
"Cultura Camaguey"
(in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura
. Retrieved
September 24,
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.
- ^
a
b
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.
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.
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"Cuba"
.
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a
b
"Near Panic at Camaguey City",
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, September 28, 1935
- ^
Miguel Viciedo Valdes (2005),
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,
Acimed
(in Spanish), vol. 14, no. 1, Havana: Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas,
ISSN
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- ^
"Obituary: Huber Matos"
,
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, March 15, 2014
- ^
a
b
Vanessa Oliveira; Xavier Calmettes, eds. (2016).
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Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos
[
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]
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10.4000/nuevomundo.69135
.
ISSN
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.
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"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants".
Demographic Yearbook 1965
. New York:
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Alfonso Gonzalez (1971). "Population of Cuba".
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JSTOR
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"Actuara Ballet de Camaguey en el Teatro Mella de La Habana"
,
Granma
(in Spanish), September 1, 2015
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Miguel Cabrera (2010).
El ballet en Cuba: nacimiento de una escuela en el siglo XX
(in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Balletin Dance Ediciones.
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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.
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a
b
International Association of Universities
(1992). "Cuba".
World List of Universities
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ISBN
978-1-349-12037-6
.
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"Portal Cultural Principe"
(in Spanish). Camaguey
. Retrieved
September 25,
2016
.
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South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002
. Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications
. 2001.
ISBN
978-1-85743-121-6
.
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"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
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- in English
- in Spanish
- D. Jose Maria de la Torre (1845).
Elementos de cronologia universal y particular de Espana, Isla de Cuba y Puerto-Rico
(in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Havana: Impr. del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M.
- Ordenanzas municipales de la ciudad de Puerto Principe
(in Spanish). Imprenta del Fanal. 1856.
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.
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.
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,
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Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administracion de Espana, sus colonias, Cuba, Puerto-Rico y Filipinas, estados hispano-americanos y Portugal
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Apuntes de Camaguey
[
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] (in Spanish)
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[
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] (in Spanish)
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Centro historico de Camaguey
[
Historic Centre of Camaguey
] (in Spanish)
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Centro historico de Camaguey: Compendio de resultados
[
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] (in Spanish)
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AU
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- Cuadernos de Historia Principena
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- Fulgencio Ramon Nodal-Reyes; Ramon Lemay Nodal-Laugart (2014). "Edicion clandestina del periodico El Cubano Libre en Camaguey durante la lucha contra la dictadura batistiana" [Clandestine edition of the newspaper El Cubano Libre in Camaguey during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship].
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