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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.[
citation needed ]
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 .
[3]
1872 - December 19: City taken by Cuban forces.
[3]
[4]
1893 - Railway begins operating between port of
Gibara and Holguin.
1895 - El Eco de Holguin newspaper begins publication.
[6]
1899 - Population: 6,054 city; 34,506 district; 327,715 province.
[7]
20th century
21st century
2003 - Drought.
[17]
2004 - Construction of Parque de Los Tiempos (park) begins.
[18]
2014 - Population: 291,560.
[19]
2015 - September: Catholic pope
visits Holguin.
[20]
See also
References
^
a
b McAuslan, Fiona; Norman, Matthew (2007). "Holguin".
Rough Guide to Cuba (4th ed.). Penguin.
ISBN
978-1-84353-811-0 .
^
"Cuba: Regulars All Sent to Holguin" , New York Times , January 3, 1873
^
"Cuba: Holguin" , 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 .
^
Holguin, Cuba ,
Lonely Planet , retrieved September 28, 2016
^ Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies . 11 (2).
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus : 74–84.
JSTOR
25612382 .
^
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 )
^
International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba".
World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152.
ISBN
978-1-349-12037-6 .
^
"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba" . Norway:
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
^ Roberto Valcárcel Rojas and César A. Rodríguez Arce (2005). "El Chorro de Maíta". In L. Antonio Curet (ed.).
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology . University of Alabama Press.
ISBN
978-0-8173-5187-8 .
^
South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002 . Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications . 2001.
ISBN
978-1-85743-121-6 .
^
"Drought Brings Hardship and Withered Crops to Eastern Cuba" , New York Times , Associated Press, August 8, 2004
^
"Holguín renace en sus parques" ,
Ahora (in Spanish), Holguin, March 29, 2015
^
"Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2014 .
United Nations Statistics Division .
^
"Pope Francis holds mass for 100,000 people in Holguín, Cuba" ,
The Guardian , September 21, 2015
Bibliography
In English
In Spanish
Jacobo de la Pezuela (1863).
"Ciudad de San Isidoro de Holguin" . Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Madrid: Mellado.
hdl :
2027/uc1.32106019739058 – via HathiTrust.
Jacobo de la Pezuela (1871).
"Descripcion de la Isla de Cuba: San Isidore de Holguin" . Cronica de las Antillas (in Spanish). Madrid: Rubio, Grilo y Vitturi.
Caine y Carricaburu, ed. (1879),
"Profesiones de la Isla de Cuba: Provincia Santiago de Cuba: Holguin" , Directorio Hispano-Americano (in Spanish), Havana: Imprenta del Directorio,
hdl :
2027/uc1.31175012500693 – via HathiTrust
"Holguin" .
Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 10. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1892.
hdl :
2027/mdp.35112203969698 – via HathiTrust.
"Oriente: Holguin" . 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.
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)
José Vega Suñol (2003).
"Holguin" . In Louis A. Pérez;
Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish).
University of Pittsburgh Press . pp. 144–157.
ISBN
0822941953 . (fulltext)
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