Timeline of Holguín

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Holguín, Cuba.

Prior to 20th century

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  • 1720-Settlement established (approximate date).[1]Plaza de Armas (square) laid out.
  • 1751 - Holguin becomes a city.[1]
  • 1752 - Jurisdicción de Holguín established.[citation needed]
  • 1760 - Hospital de San Juan de Dios built.[2]
  • 1809 - San Jose Church built.[2] [1]
  • 1820 - San Isidore Church built.
  • 1868-October 30: City taken by rebel mambises at start of the Ten Years' War.[3]
  • 1872 - December 19: City taken by Cuban forces.[3][4]
  • 1893 - Railway begins operating between port of Gibara and Holguin.[5]
  • 1895 - El Eco de Holguin newspaper begins publication.[6]
  • 1899 - Population: 6,054 city; 34,506 district; 327,715 province.[7]

20th century

  • 1907 - Population: 7,592 city; 50,224 municipality; 455,086 province.[8]
  • 1916 - Statue of Calixto García erected in Parque Calixto Garcia.[9]
  • 1962 - Ahora newspaper begins publication.
  • 1966 - Population: 91,000.[10]
  • 1970 - Population: 131,656.[11]
  • 1976 - Centro Universitario de Holguin and Instituto Superior Pedagogico de Holguin established.[12]
  • 1978 - Holguín Province[citation needed] and Jardín botánico de Holguín [es] (garden) established.
  • 1979 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Holguín established.[13]
  • 1986 - Ediciones Holguín (publisher) established.
  • 1988 - El Chorro de Maita archaeological site excavated in Holguin Province.[14][15]
  • 1999 - Population: 259,300 city; 1,029,700 province.[16]

21st century

  • 2003 - Drought.[17]
  • 2004 - Construction of Parque de Los Tiempos (park) begins.[18]
  • 2014 - Population: 291,560.[19]
  • 2015 - September: Catholic pope visits Holguin.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b De La Pezuela 1871.
  3. ^ a b McAuslan, Fiona; Norman, Matthew (2007). "Holguin". Rough Guide to Cuba (4th ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-84353-811-0.
  4. ^ "Cuba: Regulars All Sent to Holguin", New York Times, January 3, 1873
  5. ^ Vega Suñol 2003.
  6. ^ "Cuba: Holguin", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
  7. ^ War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  8. ^ Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census.
  9. ^ Holguin, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 28, 2016
  10. ^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. 11 (2). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus: 74–84. JSTOR 25612382.
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
  13. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  14. ^ Bonavía 2003.
  15. ^ Roberto Valcárcel Rojas and César A. Rodríguez Arce (2005). "El Chorro de Maíta". In L. Antonio Curet (ed.). Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5187-8.
  16. ^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
  17. ^ "Drought Brings Hardship and Withered Crops to Eastern Cuba", New York Times, Associated Press, August 8, 2004
  18. ^ "Holguín renace en sus parques", Ahora (in Spanish), Holguin, March 29, 2015
  19. ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.
  20. ^ "Pope Francis holds mass for 100,000 people in Holguín, Cuba", The Guardian, September 21, 2015

Bibliography

In English

In Spanish

  • Jacobo de la Pezuela (1863). "Ciudad de San Isidoro de Holguin". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106019739058 – via HathiTrust.
  • Jacobo de la Pezuela (1871). "Descripcion de la Isla de Cuba: San Isidore de Holguin". Cronica de las Antillas (in Spanish). Madrid: Rubio, Grilo y Vitturi. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Caine y Carricaburu, ed. (1879), "Profesiones de la Isla de Cuba: Provincia Santiago de Cuba: Holguin", Directorio Hispano-Americano (in Spanish), Havana: Imprenta del Directorio, hdl:2027/uc1.31175012500693 – via HathiTrust
  • "Holguin". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 10. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1892. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203969698 – via HathiTrust.
  • "Oriente: Holguin". 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.
  • Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía (2003). Cuba, cronología: cinco siglos de historia, política y cultura (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Verbum [es]. ISBN 978-84-7962-248-0. (chronology)
  • José Vega Suñol (2003). "Holguin". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 144–157. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)

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