Timeline of Havana

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The following is a timeline of the history of Havana, Cuba.

Prior to 18th century[]

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  • 1515 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds settlement.
  • 1537 – Town sacked.[1]
  • 1555 – Town sacked by Jacques de Sores.[2]
  • 1577 – Castillo de la Real Fuerza built.
  • 1578 – Church of Santo Domingo built.[3]
  • 1589 – Governor's residence relocated to Havana from Santiago de Cuba.[1]
  • 1591 – Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis built.
  • 1592 – City status granted.[4]
  • 1607 – Havana becomes capital of Cuba.[5]
  • 1608 – San Agustin church built.[1]
  • 1630 – San Salvador de la Punta Fortress built.[citation needed]
  • 1640 – Morro Castle built.[1]
  • 1644 – Convent of Santa Clara founded.[4][6]
  • 1648 – Epidemic.[4]
  • 1668 –  [es] construction begins.[citation needed]
  • 1688 – Recollect Dominicans of Santa Cataline de Siena founded.[6]
  • 1693 – San Felipe church built.[1]
  • 1700
    • Discalced Carmelites of Santa Teresa de Jesus founded.[6]
    • Santa Catalina church built.[1]

18th century[]

  • 1702 – City walls built.[1]
  • 1704 – Jesuit college built.[1]
  • 1728 – Royal and Pontifical University of Saint Jerome established.[7]
Map of Havana, 1739
Plan of Havana, 1758
Map of Havana, 1762
Detail of the plan of the city, port and castles of San Christobal de La Habana-1776

19th century[]

Map of Habana. 1853
Map of Habana. 1866
Map of Havana, 1888
Map of Havana, 1898
Map of Havana, 2016
  • 1806 - Espada Cemetery|
  • 1810 – Hurricane.[1]
  • 1811 – Population: 94,023.[1]
  • 1813 – El Lucero de la Habana newspaper begins publication.
  • 1817
  • 1828 – El Templete built in the Plaza de Armas.[1]
  • 1832 – El Noticioso y Lucero de la Habana newspaper begins publication.
  • 1834 – President's Palace built.[3]
  • 1835
    • Fernando VII aqueduct constructed.[1]
    • Mercado de Cristina (market) built on Plaza Vieja.[15]
  • 1837 – Railway (Havana-Bejucal), Mercado de Cristina, and city jail[1] constructed.
  • 1838 – Teatro Tacón opens.[4]
  • 1840 – Plaza del Vapor
  • 1844
  • 1846 – Great Havana Hurricane.
  • 1847 – Premiere of Bottesini's opera Cristoforo Colombo.[19]
  • 1853
  • 1854 – Colegio de Belén founded.[7]
  • 1856 – Hotel Inglaterra built.[14]
  • 1861 – Royal Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences established.[7][21]
  • 1863
  • 1868
  • 1871 – 27 November: Students executed.[3](es)
  • 1876 – Hotel Pasaje built.[23]
  • 1877
    • Villalba palace built.[14]
    • Payret Theatre opens.[24]
  • 1878
  • 1880 – Colegio de Abogados de La Habana (bar association) founded.[7]
  • 1881 – Jane Theater-Circus built.[14]
  • 1882 – School of arts and trades opens.[1]
  • 1884 – La Lucha newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1888 – La Discusion newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1889 – Population: 200,000.[25]
  • 1890 – Alhambra Theatre opens.[26]
  • 1894 – Manzana de Gómez built.[14]
  • 1898 – 15 February: United States Navy Ship Maine explosion.[27]
  • 1899 – U.S. military occupation begins.[1]

20th century[]

Map of Havana, 1909

1900s–1940s[]

1950s–1990s[]

21st century[]

See also[]

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This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

Published in the 18th–19th century[]

in English
in Spanish

Published in the 20th century[]

in English
  • "Havana". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
  • José Toribio Medina (1904). La imprenta en La Habana (1707–1810) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Havana, arranged chronologically)
  • "Havana", The United States, with Excursions to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909
  • Charles B. Reynolds (1909), "Havana", Standard Guide to Cuba, Havana: Foster & Reynolds, OCLC 21914222
  • "Havana", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: New York : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Havana", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
  • New York Public Library (1912). "Cuba: History and Description: Havana (City)". List of Works Relating to the West Indies. USA. pp. 170–74.
  • J.W. Sanger (1919), "Publications in Habana", Advertising Methods in Cuba, Special Agents Series, Washington DC: United States Department of Commerce
  • U.S. Merchant Marine, Social Service Bureau (1920). "Havana, Cuba". Seaman's Handbook for Shore Leave (2nd ed.). Boston: Custom House.
  • Walker Evans: Havana 1933. Thames and Hudson. 1989.
  • Juliet Barclay (1993). Havana: Portrait of a City. Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-84403-127-6.
  • Sergio Díaz-Briquets (1994). "Cuba". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. pp. 173–87. ISBN 0313259372. (Includes profile of Havana)
  • Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin, ed. (1995). "Havana". Americas. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. pp. 279+. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
  • Jean-François Lejeune, John Beusterien and Narciso G. Menocal (1996). "The City as Landscape: Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier and the Great Urban Works of Havana, 1925–1930". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. 22. ISSN 2326-4632.
  • Carlos Venegas Fornias, Narciso G. Menocal and Edward Shaw (1996). "Havana between Two Centuries". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts.
in Spanish
  • "Gremios de la Habana", Directorio mercantil de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish), Habana: Imprenta 'Avisador Comercial', 1901 – via HathiTrust + Directoria de las calles de la Habana (etc.)
  • "Republica Cubana: Habana". 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 (in Spanish). 4. Madrid: Bailly-Bailliere e Hijos. 1908. pp. 14–220.
  • Eusebio Leal Spengler (1988). La Habana, ciudad antigua (in Spanish). Editorial Letras Cubanas.

Published in the 21st century[]

in English
  • Joseph L. Scarpaci;  [es]; Mario Coyula (2002). Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (Revised ed.). University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807827002.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Joseph L. Scarpaci (2002). "Havana: the dynamics of local executive power". In David J. Myers; Henry A. Dietz (eds.). Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and Empowerment. Lynne Rienner. ISBN 978-1-58826-040-6.
  • Mario Coyula Cowley; Jill Hamberg (2003). "The Case of Havana, Cuba". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London.
  • Antoni Kapcia (2005). Havana: The Making of Cuban Culture. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-85973-837-5.
  • Luc J. A. Mougeot, ed. (2005). "(Havana)". Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture. International Development Research Centre. ISBN 978-1-55250-186-3.
  • Dick Cluster; Rafael Hernández (2006). The History of Havana. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-60397-4.
  • Alfredo José Estrada (2007). Havana: Autobiography of a City. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-11466-2.
  • Anke Birkenmaier; Esther Katheryn Whitfield, eds. (2011). Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822350521.
  • Matthew J. Hill (2012). "Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba". In Marina Peterson; Gary McDonogh (eds.). Global Downtowns. City in the Twenty-First Century. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0805-4.
  • Adriana Premat (2012). Sowing change: the making of Havana's urban agriculture. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 9780826518583.
  • Michael J. Totten (Spring 2014), "The Last Communist City: a Visit to the Dystopian Havana that Tourists Never See", City Journal, New York
  • Francisco Sùrez Viera (2014). "Port of Havana: The Gateway of Cuba (1850-1920)". In Miguel Bosa Suirez (ed.). Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation c. 1850–1930. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-32798-7.
  • Guadalupe Garcia (2015). Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-96137-1.
  • Naomi Larsson (5 September 2016), "Havana's dirty truths", The Guardian, Cities
  • Helen F. Wilson (2016). "Encountering Havana: texts, aesthetics and documentary encounters". In Jonathan Darling; Helen F. Wilson (eds.). Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York. Routledge. p. 203+. ISBN 978-1-317-14395-6.
in Spanish

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