Timeline of Matanzas
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- 1693 - City laid out.[1]
- 1694 - Ayuntamiento (town council) established.[1]
- 1813 - Francisco Camero sets up first publishing business in Matanzas.[3]
- 1815 - Mantanzas becomes capital of its department.[1]
- 1818 - Custom house built.[4]
- 1835 - Public library established.[5]
- 1844
- 1846 - Hurricane occurs.[1]
- 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.[1]
- 1873 - Matanzas Baseball Club formed.[6]
- 1880 - November: International exhibition held in Matanzas.[7]
- 1884 - El Correo de Matanzas newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1892 - Population: 27,000.[9]
- 1894 - El Club de Ciclistas de Matanzas active (bicycle club) (approximate date).[6]
- 1899 - Population: 36,374.[10][1]
- 1900 - El Heraldo Espanol newspaper begins publication.[8]
20th century
- 1907 - Population: 36,009 city.[11][1]
- 1912 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas established.[12]
- 1916 - Teatro Velasco opens.[13]
- 1919 - Population: 62,638.[14]
- 1952 - Los Muñequitos de Matanzas rumba group formed.[15]
- 1966 - Population: 81,000.[16]
- 1968 - Archivo Historico Provincial de Matanzas (archives) established.[17]
- 1976 - Centro Universitario de Matanzas and Instituto Superior Pedagogico de Matanzas established.[18]
- 1978 - Jardín botánico de Matanzas (garden) established.
- 1984 - Population: 104,583 (estimate).[19]
- 1999 - Population: 124,754.[20]
21st century
- 2014 - Population: 136,486.[21]
See also
- Matanzas history
- Timelines of other cities in Cuba: Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba
References
- Britannica 1910.
- Francisco Calcagno (1878). Diccionario biográfico cubano (in Spanish). New York: N. Ponce de Leon.
- Santana García 2011.
- Miguel Viciedo Valdés (2005), "Breve reseña sobre la biblioteca pública en Cuba antes de 1959", Acimed (in Spanish), Havana: Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas, vol. 14, no. 1, ISSN 1024-9435
- Louis A. Pérez Jr. (2008) [1999]. On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-0141-0.
- Figarola y Caneda 1881.
- "Cuba: Matanzas", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1902
- "Spain: Colonies: Cuba and Porto Rico". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368325.
- 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.
- "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- "Movie Theaters in Matanzos, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- Rebecca M. Bodenheimer (2015). Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba. USA: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-684-8.
- Alfonso González (1971). "Population of Cuba". Caribbean Studies. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. 11 (2): 74–84. JSTOR 25612382.
- "Atenas: el Portal de la Cultura Matancera" (in Spanish). Dirección Provincial Matanzas. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- International Association of Universities (1992). "Cuba". World List of Universities (19th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
- 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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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
- "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.
Bibliography
- in English
- C. D. Tyng (1868), "Matanzas", The Stranger in the Tropics: Being a Hand-book for Havana and Guide Book for Travellers in Cuba, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, New York: American News Co.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 875. .
- New York Public Library (1912). "Cuba: History and Description: Matanzas (City)". List of Works Relating to the West Indies. USA. pp. 174–175.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Miguel A. Bretos (2011). Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3810-0.
- in Spanish
- D. José Garcia de Arboleya (1859). "Idea de las ciudades principales: San Carlos de Matanzas". Manual de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Havana: Imprenta del Tiempo – via Google Books.
- Jacobo de la Pezuela (1863). "Matanzas". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106005876096 – via HathiTrust.
- Domingo Figarola y Caneda (1881). Guía oficial de la Exposición de Matanzas (in Spanish). Matanzas: Impr. La Nacional – via HathiTrust.
- "Matanzas". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 12. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1893. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203969706 – via HathiTrust.
- "Matanzas", Directorio mercantil de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish), Habana: Imprenta 'Avisador Comercial', 1901, hdl:2027/nyp.33433016910840 – via HathiTrust
- "Matanzas". 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.
- Adolfo Dollero (1919). La provincia de Matanzas y su evolución. hdl:2027/uc1.$c21524.
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- Alicia Santana García (2003). "Matanzas, del ideario a la realidad urbana". Revista Universidad de la Habana (in Spanish) (257). ISSN 0253-9276.
- Gabino la Rosa Corzo (2003). "Matanzas". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)
- Odlanyer Hernández De Lara (2011). "Arqueologia urbana y patrimonio arqueologico en la ciudad de Matanzas, Cuba". Arquitectura y Urbanismo (in Spanish). 32 (1) – via Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría.
- Alicia Santana García (2011). "Julio Sagebien, arquitecto de Matanzas, ingeniero de Cuba". Arquitectura y Urbanismo (in Spanish). 32 (1) – via Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría.
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