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Juan Isidro Pérez
Juan Isidro Pérez de la Paz (November 19, 1817 – February 7, 1868) was a Dominican activist who was a key member and co-founder of the secret society La Trinitaria. He was a hero of the Dominican War of Independence. Early life He was born in Santo Domingo on November 19, 1817. He was the son of María Josefa Pérez de la Paz y Valerio (1788–1855), and the priest Valentín Morales. He was the uncle of Juan Isidro Jimenes and brother-in-law of Manuel Jimenes. He was a student of Gaspar Hernández, with whom he studied Latin and philosophy. He was also known for his skills as a swordsman. Activism He actively fought against the Haitian leader Jean Pierre Boyer in the Reform Revolution carried out in Praslin in 1843. That same year, he was declared captain of one of the companies of the National Guard. Due to the persecution launched by the Haitians, Juan Isidro Pérez was one of the rebels who was forced to abandon the cause along with Juan Pablo Duarte and Pedro Aleja ...
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Nacional, city center had a population of 1,029,110 while its Metropolitan area, the Greater Santo Domingo, had a population of 4,274,651. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 by the Spanish Empire and is the oldest continuously inhabited European colonization of the Americas, European settlement in the Americas. It was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World, the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is the site of the first university, cathedral, castle, monastery, and fortress in the New World. The city's Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Colonial Zone was declared as a World Herit ...
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18 Dominican Brumaire
The Coup of 18 Dominican Brumaire was a Coup d'état, military coup d'état that took place on June 9, 1844, in the Dominican Republic. This event was part of the Dominican War of Independence. In May 1844, after the defeat of Haitian president Charles Rivière-Hérard, political dissidence arose between the independent La Trinitaria (Dominican Republic), Trinitarios and the ruling conservative government led by Tomás Bobadilla. Bobadilla, a staunch annexationist, favored the idea of the Dominican Republic becoming a French protectorate to protect the country from further Haitian aggression. While negotiations with France was still in motion, General Juan Pablo Duarte and a group of his followers began plotting a military coup to take power in the nascent Dominican Republic to confront the possible French invasion. Background In the days following the proclamation of Dominican independence on February 27, 1844, the new nation was faced with immediate dangers. The Haitian governme ...
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19th-century Dominican Republic Politicians
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ...
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