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

Prior to 20th century

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

1900s–1940s

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

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

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Roberto Segre [in Spanish], "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Britannica 1910.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Bonavía 2003.
^ ^a ^b Armstrong 1900.
^ De La Torre 1845.
^ Camagüey, Cuba, Lonely Planet, retrieved September 25, 2016
^ Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish) (89). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Historiador de Camagüey 2014.
^ Gonzalo de Quesada; International Bureau of the American Republics (1905). Cuba. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
^ "Del Camagüey, historia de sus letras y periódicos" (in Spanish). Camaguey: Biblioteca Provincial Julio Antonio Mella. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ "General Lope Recio Loynaz". www.eduardozayas-bazan.com. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
^ Hispanic Society of America (1919). William Belmont Parker (ed.). Cubans of To-Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. hdl:2027/nyp.33433067286611.
^ "Cuba: Puerto Principe", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
^ 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. p. 153.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Movie Theaters in Camaguey, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
^ "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ ^a ^b "Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935
^ 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
^ Nodal-Reyes 2014.
^ "Obituary: Huber Matos", The Economist, March 15, 2014
^ ^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.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. 11 (2). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus: 74–84. JSTOR 25612382.
^ "Actuará Ballet de Camagüey en el Teatro Mella de La Habana", Granma (in Spanish), September 1, 2015
^ Miguel Cabrera (2010). El ballet en Cuba: nacimiento de una escuela en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Balletin Dance Ediciones.
^ 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)
^ ^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.
^ "Portal Cultural Principe" (in Spanish). Camaguey. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ Gómez Consuegra 2009.
^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
^ "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba", The Guardian, September 9, 2008
^ Weaver, Matthew (September 9, 2008). "Hurricane Ike forces mass evacuation in Cuba". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.

Bibliography

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. (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

External links

"(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)
Items related to Camagüey, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

[Segre-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Roberto Segre [in Spanish], "Camagüey", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] ^ ^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.

[FOOTNOTEBonavía2003-4] Bonavía 2003.

[FOOTNOTEArmstrong1900-5] Armstrong 1900.

[FOOTNOTEDe_La_Torre1845-6] De La Torre 1845.

[Planet-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.

[FOOTNOTEHistoriador_de_Camagüey2014-9] ^ ^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.

[Parker1919-13] Hispanic Society of America (1919). William Belmont Parker (ed.). Cubans of To-Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. hdl:2027/nyp.33433067286611.

[Ayer1902-14] "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.

[katolsk-17] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

[Cultura-18] "Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[cinema-19] "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.

[NYT1935-21] "Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935

[Valdes2005-22] 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

[FOOTNOTENodal-Reyes2014-23] Nodal-Reyes 2014.

[24] "Obituary: Huber Matos", The Economist, March 15, 2014

[Oliveira2016-25] 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.

[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

[Cabrera2010-29] 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)

[Universities1992-31] International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.

[PrincipeCultural-32] "Portal Cultural Principe" (in Spanish). Camaguey. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[FOOTNOTEGómez_Consuegra2009-33] Gómez Consuegra 2009.

[Europa2002-34] 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.

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References

Bibliography

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