Timeline of Camagüey

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

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* 1528 - Santa María del Puerto Príncipe established by settlers relocating from Caonao, and previously from Punta del Guincho.[1][2]
* 1599 - Convento de San Francisco founded.[3]
* 1616 - Fire.[4]
* 1617 - Cathedral first built.[2]
* 1668 - City raided by Welsh pirate Henry Morgan.[2]
* 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.[5][1]
* 1730 - Hospital de Nuestra Senora del Carmen founded.[5]
* 1733 - City Hall construction begins.[2]
* 1737 - San Lázaro hospital built.[1]
* 1741 - Epidemic outbreak.[6]
* 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.[2]
* 1814 - Future poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda born in Puerto Principe.[8]
* 1817 - Town becomes a city.[1]
* 1842 - Filarmónica (music society) founded.[9]
* 1850 - El Principal theatre opens.[4]
* 1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.[10]
* 1864
* Benemérita Popular Santa Cecilia (music society) formed.[9]
* Our Lady of Candelaria Cathedral rebuilt.
* 1872 - Casino Español (music society) formed.[9]
* 1874 - March: Battle of Las Guasimas (1874) fought; Cuban rebels win.
* 1886 - El Arrebol newspaper begins publication.[11]
* 1898 -
* Lope Recio Loynaz leading the third cavalry regiment makes a triumphal entry in the city, marking the end of the Cuban War of Independence for Camagūey, [12]
* Pedro Mendoza Guerra becomes governor of province.[13]
* 1899
* El Eco Mercantil newspaper begins publication.[14]
* Population: 25,102 city; 53,140 district; 88,234 province.[15][2]

## 20th century

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### 1900s–1940s

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* 1902 - El Camagüeyano newspaper begins publication.[citation needed]
* 1903
* Porto Principe renamed "Camagüey."[1]
* City becomes seat of Camagüey Province.[1]
* 1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.[16][2]
* 1912
* Roman Catholic diocese of Camagüey established.[17]
* Ignacio Agramonte monument erected in Agramonte Park.[18]
* 1913
* Teatro Avellaneda opens.[19]
* Camagüey Jazz Band formed.[9]
* 1919
* Banda Municipal de Música formed.[9]
* 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.[23]
* 1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province.[24]
* 1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group) formed.[9]
* 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
* Universidad de Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz [es] established.
* Ballet de Camagüey founded.[28][29]
* 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.[9]
* 1998
* January: Catholic pope visits Camagüey.
* Office of City Historian established.[33]
* 1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.[34]

## 21st century

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* 2008
* September: Hurricane Ike occurs.[35][36]
* Old town designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
* Museo de San Juan de Dios (museum) opens.
* 2014 - Population: 304,027.[37]

## See also

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* Camagüey history
* Timelines of other cities in Cuba: Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana, Holguín, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h Roberto Segre [in Spanish], "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
2. ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ a b Bonavía 2003.
5. ^ a b Armstrong 1900.
6. ^ De La Torre 1845.
7. ^ Camagüey, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 25, 2016
8. ^ Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish) (89). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X.
9. ^ a b c d e f g Historiador de Camagüey 2014.
10. ^ Gonzalo de Quesada; International Bureau of the American Republics (1905). Cuba. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
11. ^ "Del Camagüey, historia de sus letras y periódicos" (in Spanish). Camaguey: Biblioteca Provincial Julio Antonio Mella. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
12. ^ "General Lope Recio Loynaz". www.eduardozayas-bazan.com. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
13. ^ Hispanic Society of America (1919). William Belmont Parker (ed.). Cubans of To-Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. hdl:2027/nyp.33433067286611.
14. ^ "Cuba: Puerto Principe", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
15. ^ War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
16. ^ Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census. p. 153.
17. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
18. ^ a b "Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
19. ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Camaguey, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
20. ^ "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
21. ^ a b "Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935
22. ^ 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
23. ^ Nodal-Reyes 2014.
24. ^ "Obituary: Huber Matos", The Economist, March 15, 2014
25. ^ 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.+[fr]&rft.atitle=Guide+du+chercheur+américaniste:+Enquête+de+terrain+et+travail+de+recherche+à+Cuba&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info:doi/10.4000/nuevomundo.69135&rft.issn=1626-0252&rft_id=http://nuevomundo.revues.org/69135#tocto2n7&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Timeline+of+Camagüey" class="Z3988">
26. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
27. ^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. 11 (2). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus: 74–84\. JSTOR 25612382.
28. ^ "Actuará Ballet de Camagüey en el Teatro Mella de La Habana", Granma (in Spanish), September 1, 2015
29. ^ Miguel Cabrera (2010). El ballet en Cuba: nacimiento de una escuela en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Balletin Dance Ediciones.
30. ^ 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)
31. ^ 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.
32. ^ "Portal Cultural Principe" (in Spanish). Camaguey. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
33. ^ Gómez Consuegra 2009.
34. ^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
35. ^ "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba", The Guardian, September 9, 2008
36. ^ Weaver, Matthew (September 9, 2008). "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
37. ^ "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

* S.T. Armstrong (April 7, 1900). "Hospitals of Puerto Principe, Cuba". Philadelphia Medical Journal. 5.
* "Puerto Príncipe" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 634.
* New York Public Library (1912). "Cuba: History and Description: Puerto Principe (City)". List of Works Relating to the West Indies. USA. pp. 175–176.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Sergio Díaz-Briquets (1994). "Cuba". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. pp. 173–187\. ISBN 0313259372. (Includes profile of Camagüey)

in Spanish

* D. Jose Maria de la Torre (1845). Elementos de cronología universal y particular de España, Isla de Cuba y Puerto-Rico (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Havana: Impr. del Gobierno y Capitanía General por S.M.
* Ordenanzas municipales de la ciudad de Puerto Principe (in Spanish). Imprenta del Fanal. 1856.
* Jacobo de la Pezuela (1866). "Ciudad de Santa Maria de Puerto-Principe". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 4\. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106005876096 – via HathiTrust.
* Tomás Pío Betancourt (1877). "Historia de Puerto-Principe". Los tres primeros historiadores de la isla de Cuba. Vol. 3\. Havana. pp. 503–564\. hdl:2027/uc1.b3613495.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Jose Maria Abraido y Sarmiento (1882). Una villa de Espana y una ciudad de Cuba (in Spanish). Havana: J. Pulido y Comp.
* Juan Torres Lasqueti (1888). Coleccion de datos historicos-geograficos y estadisticos de Puerto del Príncipe y su jurisdicion (in Spanish). Havana: Impr. 'El Retiro'.
* P. Antonio Perpina (1889). El Camagüey: viajes pintorescos por el interior de Cuba y por sus costas, con descripciones del país [Camagüey: Scenic Travels Around Cuba and its Coast, with Descriptions of the Country] (in Spanish). Barcelona: J. A. Bastinos – via Internet Archive.
* "Puerto Principe". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 16\. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1895. pp. 593–594\. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203983426 – via HathiTrust.
* "Puerto Principe", Directorio mercantil de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish), Habana: Imprenta 'Avisador Comercial', 1901, hdl:2027/nyp.33433016910840 – via HathiTrust
* "Camaguey". 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 – via Google Books.
* Jorge Juárez Cano (1929), Apuntes de Camagüey [Notes of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
* A. Pérez (1944), El Camagüey legendario [Legendary Camagüey] (in Spanish)
* "Camagüey, otra carga al machete", Cuba internacional (in Spanish), vol. 6, no. 56, Havana: Prensa Latina, 1974, ISSN 0011-2593
* Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1989), Centro histórico de Camagüey [Historic Centre of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
* Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1992), Centro histórico de Camagüey: Compendio de resultados [Historic Centre of Camagüey: Summary of results] (in Spanish)
* Roberto Segre (1998), "Camagüey o Santa Maria del Puerto Príncipe" [Camagüey or Santa Maria del Puerto Principe], AU (in Spanish), no. 4, Havana: Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, pp. 8–14, OCLC 173702610
* Cuadernos de Historia Principeña (in Spanish), Camaguey: Editorial Ácana, 2001, ISBN 959267065X. 2001-
* 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.+[es]&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-84-7962-248-0&rft.au=Leopoldo+Fornés+Bonavía&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJduKDMU8pcC&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Timeline+of+Camagüey" class="Z3988"> (chronology)
* Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2002), "Símbolos republicanos en la ciudad de Camagey", AU: Arquitectura y urbanismo (in Spanish), vol. 23
* Gabino La Rosa Corzo (2003). "Camaguey". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 118–132\. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)
* Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2005). La ciudad como texto cultural: Camagüey 1514-1837 (in Spanish). Camagüey: Ed. Ácana.
* Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (2009). "El Centro Histórico Urbano de Camagüey, Patrimonio Mundial. Planeamiento, gestión y manejo". Apuntes: Journal of Cultural Heritage Studies (in Spanish). 22 (2). Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. ISSN 1657-9763.
* Fulgencio Ramón Nodal-Reyes; Ramón Lemay Nodal-Laugart (2014). "Edición clandestina del periódico El Cubano Libre en Camagüey durante la lucha contra la dictadura batistiana" [Clandestine edition of the newspaper El Cubano Libre in Camagüey during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship]. Santiago (in Spanish) (133). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X.
* En torno a la música: del Príncipe a Camagüey [About Music: from Principe to Camaguey] (in Spanish), Oficina del Historiador de la ciudad de Camagüey, 2014, archived from the original on February 23, 2015

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* "(Camaguey)" – via Digital Library of the Caribbean.
* "Camagüey: Historia". Catálogo Biblioteca SIGB en línea (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí.
* Items related to Camagüey, various dates (via Europeana)
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