Timeline of Holguín
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Holguín, Cuba.
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- 1720
- 1751 - Holguin becomes a city.[1]
- 1752 - Jurisdicción de Holguín established.[citation needed]
- 1760 - Hospital de San Juan de Dios built.[3]
- 1809 - San Jose Church built.[3]
- 1820 - San Isidore Church built.
- 1868
- October 30: City taken by rebel mambises at start of the Ten Years' War.[4]
- December 6: Spanish in power again.[4]
- 1872 - December 19: City taken by Cuban forces.[4][5]
- 1893 - Railway begins operating between port of Gibara and Holguin.[6]
- 1895 - El Eco de Holguin newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1899 - Population: 6,054 city; 34,506 district; 327,715 province.[8]
20th century
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- 1907 - Population: 7,592 city; 50,224 municipality; 455,086 province.[9]
- 1916 - Statue of Calixto García erected in Parque Calixto Garcia.[2][10]
- 1962 - Ahora newspaper begins publication.
- 1966 - Population: 91,000.[11]
- 1976 - Centro Universitario de Holguin and Instituto Superior Pedagogico de Holguin established.[12]
- 1978 - Holguín Province[citation needed] and Jardín botánico de Holguín (garden) established.
- 1979 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Holguín established.[13]
- 1986 - Ediciones Holguín (publisher) established.[2]
- 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
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- 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
- Holguin history (in Spanish)
- Other cities in Cuba
- Timeline of Camagüey
- Timeline of Cienfuegos
- Timeline of Havana
- Timeline of Matanzas
- Timeline of Santiago de Cuba
References
- ^ a b Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c "EcuRed" (in Spanish). Cuba. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ^ a b De La Pezuela 1871.
- ^ a b c "Holguin". Rough Guide to Cuba (4th ed.). 2007. ISBN 978-1-84353-811-0.
- ^ "Cuba: Regulars All Sent to Holguin", New York Times, January 3, 1873
- ^ Vega Suñol 2003.
- ^ "Cuba: Holguin", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ 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.
- ^ Holguin, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 28, 2016
- ^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. 11. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. JSTOR 25612382.
- ^ International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
- ^ Associated Press (August 8, 2004), "Drought Brings Hardship and Withered Crops to Eastern Cuba", New York Times
- ^ "Holguín renace en sus parques", Ahora (in Spanish), Holguin, March 29, 2015
- ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ "Pope Francis holds mass for 100,000 people in Holguín, Cuba", The Guardian, September 21, 2015
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- in English
- "Holguin", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
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- 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 – via HathiTrust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - 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); External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (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 – via HathiTrust
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Holguin". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 10. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1892 – via HathiTrust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "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.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - 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)
- 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)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holguín.
- "(Holguin)" – via Digital Library of the Caribbean.
- "Holguín (municipio)". EcuRed (in Spanish). Cuba: Joven Club de Computación.
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