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
[usurped] ,
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
[usurped] , Antonio del Monte y Tejada,
Andres Lopez Medrano
[usurped] ,
Ramon Emeterio Betances ,
Raimundo Rendon Sarmiento [
permanent dead link ] ,
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
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"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Dominican Republic" . Norway:
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ISBN
978-0-313-34154-0 .
^ A. Hyatt Verrill (1914),
Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today , New York: Dodd, Mead
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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 .
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"Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) Newspapers" . WorldCat . USA:
Online Computer Library Center . Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
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"Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York:
Statistical Office of the United Nations .
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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. {{
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^
"Quienes somos?" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - República Dominicana. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .
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1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
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ISBN
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^
"Santo Domingo Journal" , New York Times , June 14, 1999
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This article incorporates information from the
Spanish Wikipedia .
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