Timeline of Santo Domingo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic .
15th century
16th century
1501- Calle Las Damas [es ] , first street in the New World, is constructed
1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés , Francisco Pizarro , Vasco Núñez de Balboa , Alonso de Ojeda , Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar , Juan Ponce de León , Rodrigo de Bastidas , Pedro de Alvarado , Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón , among others)
1502- Santo Domingo becomes the official headquarters for the exploration and conquest of the New World
1502- Monastery of San Francisco , first monastery in America, is built.
1503- Casa de Contratacion is created in Sevilla to regulate trade with the Americas
1503- Hospital San Nicolás de Bari , first hospital in the Americas, begins construction.
1505 - Fortaleza Ozama , first fortress in the Americas, is built.
1509- Reales Atarazanas , first warehouse complex in the New World, is built
1510- Church of the Convent of the Dominican Order [es ] , first church in the New World, is built
1511
1513- Laws of Burgos are passed concerning the treatment of the indigenous people.
1514 - Maria de Toledo , serve as regent of the colony during the absence of her spouse the governor until 1520.
1522- Jean Fleury commits the first recorded attack of piracy against Spanish ships
1538 - Universidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino , first university in the New World, is founded.[ 3]
1540 - Cathedral Primate of the Americas , first cathedral in the Americas, is built.[ 4]
1543 - Fort San Genaro , today La Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate), construction begins.
1574- Francisco Tostado de la Peña , Elvira de Mendoza and Leonor de Ovando write the first sonnets in the New World[relevant? ]
1586- Francis Drake captures Santo Domingo in the Battle of Santo Domingo
1588- Cristobal de Llerena writes the first theatrical play in the New World[relevant? ]
1600- After the gold mines were exhausted most colonists had decided to become conquistadors and explorers and had left for the mines of Mexico and Peru . Others decide to settle and become hateros (herders), farmers and merchants.
17th century
18th Century
1716- Privateers corsairs from the colony of Santo Domingo take action during the Golden Age of Piracy
1724- Guadalupe and Tolosa Shipwreck in Samana
1741- Battle of Cartagena de Indias - Santo Domingo participates in the Spanish victory against the English Navy
1760- Population is bolstered by immigration from the Canary Islands resettling the northern part of the island. Population grows from 6,000 to 125,000 by 1790.
1775- Saint-Domingue becomes one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire [citation needed ]
1791- Haitian Revolution takes place in Saint-Domingue
1795 - Era de Francia begins after the Treaty of Basel where Spain ceded the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola to France in exchange for keeping Gipuzkoa , ending the War of the Pyrenees .
1796- Massive emigration of the colonial families to Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico where they become cultural pioneers and intellectual figures[ 1] Famous figures and descendants of the Treaty of Basel diaspora include Jose Maria Heredia , Severiano de Heredia , Jose-Maria de Heredia Girard , Domingo del Monte , Esteban Pichardo, Francisco Javier Caro , Angulo Guridi brothers, Jacobo de Villaurrutia , Juan Vicente Moscoso , Manuel Márquez Sterling , Rafael Maria Baralt , Arístides Rojas Espaillat , Francisco Javier Foxa , Emilio Portes Gil , Antonio Melendez Bazan, Pedro Agustin Morel de Santa Cruz, Antonio del Monte y Tejada, Andres Lopez Medrano, Ramon Emeterio Betances , Raimundo Rendon Sarmiento, Eugenio Maria de Hostos , Máximo Gómez , Antonio Maceo , among others.
1797- The University of Santo Tomas de Aquino closes which, along with the emigration of the intellectual class, causes a big "brain drain"[citation needed ]
19th century
20th century
21st century
2001 - November 12: Crash in New York of Santo Domingo-bound airplane.[ 1]
2002 - Roberto Salcedo becomes mayor.
2003
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. 29 August 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Dominican Republic" . Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 23 January 2017 .
^ 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 "Dominican Republic" . Europa World Year Book 2003 . Taylor & Francis. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5 .
^ 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 Lauren H. Derby (2009). The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo . Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-9086-2 .
^ 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 .
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations .
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 247– 289.{{cite book }}
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^ "Quienes somos?" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - República Dominicana. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .
^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262– 321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
^ 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 .
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