Timeline of Santo Domingo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1496 - Spanish colony established.[1]
- 1505 - Fortaleza Ozama (fort) built.
- 1538 - Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo founded.[2]
- 1540 - Cathedral built.[3]
- 1543 - Fort San Genaro construction begins.
- 1552 - Hospital San Nicolás de Bari built.
- 1697 - Island of Hispaniola divided into Spanish Santo Domingo and French Saint-Domingue (Haiti) per Treaty of Ryswick.[1]
- 1795 - French in power.[1]
- 1808 - Spanish in power.[1]
- 1822 - Haitians in power.[1]
- 1844
- February: La Trinitaria take Ozama Fortress.
- July: Pedro Santana in power.[4]
- City becomes capital of newly independent Dominican Republic.
- 1861 - Spanish in power.[4]
- 1889 - Listín Diario newspaper begins publication.[5]
20th century
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- 1907 - Licey baseball club formed.[6]
- 1914 - El Placer de los Estudios built.[7]
- 1916 - United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins.
- 1921 - Escogido baseball club formed.[6]
- 1924 - United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends.
- 1930 - September: Hurricane San Zenon.[8]
- 1935 - Population: 71,297.[4]
- 1936
- 1938 - Breakwater built in harbour.[4]
- 1941 - La Jaragua hotel built.[9]
- 1942 - National School of Fine Arts and Teatro Olimpia (cinema)[10] open.
- 1944 - National Palace built.
- 1948 - El Caribe newspaper in publication.[11]
- 1953 - Base Aérea Trujillo (airbase) in operation near city.
- 1955
- December: Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World opens.[8]
- Estadio Quisqueya (baseball stadium) opens.
- 1956 - National Pantheon of the Dominican Republic (mausoleum) established.
- 1961 - May 30: Trujillo assassinated near city.
- 1965 - April 28: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins.
- 1966
- July 1: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends.
- El Nacional newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1970 - Population: 671,402.[4]
- 1972 - Santo Domingo Institute of Technology founded.
- 1973 - Museo de las Casas Reales (museum) established.
- 1974
- City hosts 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games.
- Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez, Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto, and Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte (sports venues) open.
- 1976 - Moscoso National Botanical Garden founded.
- 1979 - August: Hurricane David.[4]
- 1986 - Latin American Social Sciences Institute established in city.[12]
- 1997 - Internet exchange point installed.[13]
- 1998
- Autodrómo Internacional de Las Américas opens near city.
- Johnny Ventura becomes mayor.[14]
- 1999 - Museo Bellapart founded.[15]
21st century
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- 2001 - November 12: Crash in New York of Santo Domingo-bound airplane.[1]
- 2002 - Roberto Salcedo becomes mayor.
- 2003
- August: City hosts 2003 Pan American Games.
- Malecon towers built.
- 2009 - Santo Domingo Metro begins operating.
- 2010 - Population: 965,040; metro 2,907,100.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Dominican Republic Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ D. H. Figueredo (2007). Latino Chronology. Chronologies of the American Mosaic. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-34154-0.
- ^ A. Hyatt Verrill (1914), Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today, New York: Dodd, Mead
- ^ a b c d e f g David Marley (2005), "Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 91–106, ISBN 1576070271
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Dominican Republic". Europa World Year Book 2003. Taylor & Francis. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Rob Ruck (1999). The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-8978-2.
- ^ a b Marcos Barinas Uribe (2010). "Setting the City in Motion: Urban Landscape and Modernity in Santo Domingo". Caribbean Modernist Architecture. Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana. UTech Jamaica and Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-775-9.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Lauren H. Derby (2009). The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-9086-8.
- ^ Roberto Segre (2003). Arquitectura antillana del siglo XX (in Spanish). Havana: Editorial Arte y Literature. ISBN 978-959-03-0129-2.
- ^ "Movie Theaters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ "Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ "Quienes somos?" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - República Dominicana. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
- ^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
- ^ "Santo Domingo Journal", New York Times, June 14, 1999
- ^ "Museo Bellapart" (in Spanish). Retrieved May 4, 2014.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Further reading
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- Nathan Appleton (1891). "Santo Domingo City". Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York. 23.
- Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (2008). A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After 1950. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12338-1.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Santo Domingo.
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Santo Domingo, various dates
- Arnoldus Montanus (1671), "Eiland Hispaniola", De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (in Dutch), Antwerp: J. Meurs
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