Timeline of Holguín

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

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## Prior to 20th century

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Republic of Cuba (1959–)

* Consolidation of the revolution (1959–1962)
* Cuban exodus (1959–)
* Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
* Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
* Grey years (1971-76)
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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

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* 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

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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

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* Holguin history (in Spanish)
* Timelines of other cities in Cuba: Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba

## References

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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

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In English

* Ingram, Thomas Allan (1910). "Holguín" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). p. 583.

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.+[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+Holguín" class="Z3988"> (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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