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Timeline Of Guantánamo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Guantánamo, Cuba. 19th century * 1741 - An English naval force landed here to attack Santiago. * 1822 - Town established. * 1856 - Ferrocarril de Guantánamo (railway) begins operating (approximate date). * 1899 ** ''La Voz del Pueblo'' newspaper begins publication. ** Population: 7,137 city; 28,063 district; 327,715 province. 20th century * 1903 - U.S. military Guantanamo Bay Naval Base established near city. * 1907 - Population: 14,559 city; 43,300 municipality; 455,086 province. * 1919 ** Teatro Fausto built. ** Population: 68,883. * 1955 - Local MR-26-7 political group active. * 1957 - Teatro Luisa opens. * 1964 - Population: 122,400. * 1998 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa established. * 1999 - Population: 208,030 city; 512,300 province. 21st century * 2002 - U.S. military Guantanamo Bay detention camp established near city. * 2014 - Population: 217,978. See also * Guantánamo history (in Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guantánamo
Guantánamo (, , ) is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy. History The city was founded in 1797 in the area of a farm named ''Santa Catalina''. The toponym "Guantánamo" means, in Taíno language, "land between the rivers".Guantánamo on EcuRed Geography The municipality is mountainous in the north, at Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, where it overlays the Sierra Maestra (mountains), and borders the Windward Passage of the Caribbean Sea in the south. It is crossed by the Bano, Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés, and Sabanalamar rivers. The city is spread with a sq ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cuba History-related Lists
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Guanahatabey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Public Library Of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of development. Overview The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. It was started by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2010, with financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and has subsequently received funding from several foundations and government agencies, including the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It "aims to unify such disparate sources as the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, various academic collections, and presumably any other collection that would be meaningful to include. ... They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europeana
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet), launched in 2008. The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana. History Europeana had its beginnings after a letter was jointly sent in April 2005 by Jacques Chirac, President of France, and the premiers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Hungary to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. It urged the creation of a virtual European library in order to make Europe's cultural heritage more accessible to everyone. The letter helped to give added support to work that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin American Social Sciences Institute
The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences ( es, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, pt, Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais or FLACSO) is a graduate-only university and inter-governmental autonomous organization for Latin America dedicated to research, teaching and spreading of social sciences. Headquartered in Costa Rica, it has several campuses and centers spread across Latin America. It was created on April 17, 1957, following a UNESCO initiative at the Latin American Conference on Social Sciences in Rio de Janeiro. Its goal was to promote academic research and development in the region. Its membership is open to Latin American and Caribbean countries that subscribe to the FLACSO agreement. Current members include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Suriname and Uruguay. Josette Altmann Borbón, a historian and former First Lady of Costa Rica, was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pittsburgh Press
The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh. The university and the press are located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The press publishes several series in the humanities and social sciences, including Illuminations—Cultural Formations of the Americas; Pitt Latin American Series; Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literary, and Culture; Pittsburgh/Konstanz Series in Philosophy and History of Science; Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment; Central Eurasia in Context, and Latinx and Latin American Profiles. The press is especially known for literary publishing, particularly its Pitt Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The press also publishes the winner of the annual Donald Hall Prize, awarded by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and the winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Santiago De Cuba
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santiago, Cuba. Prior to 20th century * 1514 - August: Santiago de Cuba founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. * 1518 - Roman Catholic diocese of Baracoa established. * 1522 ** Capital of Cuba relocated to Santiago from Baracoa. ** Coat of arms granted. ** Santiago de Cuba Cathedral named as a cathedral by Pope Adrian VI. * 1526 - Fire. * 1535 - Fire. * 1553 - Santiago was occupied and plundered by French corsairs. * 1603 - Sacked by English pirates. * 1607 - Capital of Cuba relocated from Santiago to Havana. * 1613 - Fire. * 1638 - Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (fort) construction begins. * 1662 - British military force from Jamaica occupied and plundered the town. * 1722 - San Basilio el Magno seminary established. * 1741 - A British squadron from Jamaica and operated unsuccessfully against Santiago. * 1755 - Population: 15,471. * 1767 - 11 June: Earthquake. * 1774 - Population: 18,374. * 1787 - Sociedad Ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Matanzas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Matanzas, Cuba. Prior to 20th century * 1693 - City laid out. * 1694 - Ayuntamiento (town council) established. * 1813 - Francisco Camero sets up first publishing business in Matanzas. * 1815 - Mantanzas becomes capital of its department. * 1818 - Custom house built. * 1835 - Public library established. * 1844 ** executed. ** Hurricane occurs. * 1846 - Hurricane occurs. * 1853 - William R. King takes the oath for Vice President of the United States in Matanzas. * 1863 - Sauto Theater opens. * 1870 - Hermitage of Monteserrate established on hill near city. * 1873 - Matanzas Baseball Club formed. * 1880 - November: International exhibition held in Matanzas. * 1884 - ''El Correo de Matanzas'' newspaper begins publication. * 1892 - Population: 27,000. * 1894 - El Club de Ciclistas de Matanzas active (bicycle club) (approximate date). * 1899 - Population: 36,374. * 1900 - ''El Heraldo Espanol'' newspaper begins publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Holguín
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Holguín, Cuba. Prior to 20th century * 1720 ** Settlement established (approximate date). ** Plaza de Armas (square) laid out. * 1751 - Holguin becomes a city. * 1752 - Jurisdicción de Holguín established. * 1760 - Hospital de San Juan de Dios built. * 1809 - San Jose Church built. * 1820 - San Isidore Church built. * 1868 ** October 30: City taken by rebel mambises at start of the Ten Years' War. ** December 6: Spanish in power again. * 1872 - December 19: City taken by Cuban forces. * 1893 - Railway begins operating between port of Gibara and Holguin. * 1895 - ''El Eco de Holguin'' newspaper begins publication. * 1899 - Population: 6,054 city; 34,506 district; 327,715 province. 20th century * 1907 - Population: 7,592 city; 50,224 municipality; 455,086 province. * 1916 - Statue of Calixto García erected in Parque Calixto Garcia. * 1962 - '' Ahora'' newspaper begins publication. * 1966 - Population: 91,000. * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Havana
The following is a timeline of the history of Havana, Cuba. Prior to 18th century * 1514 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds settlement. * 1519 - Current location of the city * 1537 – Town sacked. * 1555 – Town sacked by Jacques de Sores. * 1577 – Castillo de la Real Fuerza built. * 1578 – Church of Santo Domingo built. * 1589 – Governor's residence relocated to Havana from Santiago de Cuba. * 1591 – Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis built. * 1592 – City status granted. * 1607 – Havana becomes capital of Cuba. * 1608 – San Agustin church built. * 1630 – San Salvador de la Punta Fortress built. * 1640 – Morro Castle built. * 1644 – Convent of Santa Clara founded. * 1648 – Epidemic. * 1668 – construction begins. * 1688 – Recollect Dominicans of Santa Cataline de Siena founded. * 1693 – San Felipe church built. * 1700 ** Discalced Carmelites of Santa Teresa de Jesus founded. ** Santa Catalina church built. 18th century * 1702 – City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Cienfuegos
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Prior to 20th century * 1494 - Christopher Columbus visited Cienfuegos Bay. * 1745 - Castillo de Jagua (fort) built. * 1819 ** April 22: Fernandina de Jagua founded by Luis de Clouet in Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Cuba. ** December: Population: 231. * 1825 - Town "destroyed by a hurricane and rebuilt". * 1829 - Town renamed "Villa de Cienfuegos." * 1831 - Town coat of arms designed. * 1833 - Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral first completed. * 1844 - Governor's house built. * 1880 - Cienfuegos becomes a city. * 1890 - Tomás Terry Theatre opens. * 1892 - Population: 27,430. * 1898 ** ''La Correspondencia'' newspaper begins publication. ** Two vessels of the United States fleet under Admiral Schley blockaded the port. * 1899 - Population: 30,038 city; 59,128 district; 356,536 province. 20th century * 1901 - Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos founded. * 1903 ** Roman Catholi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
