en Timeline of Guantánamo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Guantánamo, Cuba.

19th century

1741 - An English naval force landed here to attack Santiago.^[1]
1822 - Town established.^[1]
1856 - Ferrocarril de Guantánamo (railway) begins operating (approximate date).^[2]
1899
- La Voz del Pueblo newspaper begins publication.^[3]
- Population: 7,137 city; 28,063 district; 327,715 province.^[4]

20th century

1903 - U.S. military Guantanamo Bay Naval Base established near city.^[5]
1907 - Population: 14,559 city; 43,300 municipality; 455,086 province.^[6]
1919
- Teatro Fausto built.^[7]
- Population: 68,883.^[8]
1955 - Local MR-26-7 political group active.^[9]
1957 - Teatro Luisa opens.^[7]
1964 - Population: 122,400.^[10]
1998 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa established.^[11]
1999 - Population: 208,030 city; 512,300 province.^[12]

21st century

2002 - U.S. military Guantanamo Bay detention camp established near city.^[13]
2014 - Population: 217,978.^[14]

References

^ ^a ^b Britannica 1910.
^ Oscar Zanetti [in Spanish]; Alejandro García (1987). Sugar & Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959. Translated by F. Knight; M. Todd. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4692-6.
^ "Cuba: Guantanamo", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902
^ War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
^ Staten 2005.
^ Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census.
^ ^a ^b "Movie Theaters in Guantanamo, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
^ "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ Stephen Cushion (2016). A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas' Victory. Monthly Review Press. pp. 107+. ISBN 978-1-58367-583-0.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
^ South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
^ "Cuba Profile: Timeline", BBC News, 12 September 2012, retrieved September 28, 2016
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.

Bibliography

in English

"Guantánamo" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910.
Clifford L. Staten (2005). "Timeline of Historical Events". History of Cuba. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6259-1.

in Spanish

Jacobo de la Pezuela (1863). "Guantánamo (pueblo)". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106019739041 – via HathiTrust.
"Guantánamo". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 9. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1892. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203983301 – via HathiTrust.
"Oriente: Guantanamo". 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.
Olga Portuondo Zuniga (2003). "Guantánamo". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 200–210. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)
David Rubio Méndez (2016), "La comunidad emergente. Una aproximación a la realidad de los inmigrantes espontáneos no controlados en la Ciudad de Guantánamo" [The Emerging Community. An Approach to the Reality of Spontaneous Uncontrolled Immigrants in Guantanamo City], Estudios del Desarrollo Social: Cuba y América Latina (in Spanish), vol. 4, Latin American Social Sciences Institute, ISSN 2308-0132

External links

Items related to Guantánamo, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Guantánamo, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] Britannica 1910.

[zanetti1987-2] Oscar Zanetti [in Spanish]; Alejandro García (1987). Sugar & Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959. Translated by F. Knight; M. Todd. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4692-6.

[Ayer1902-3] "Cuba: Guantanamo", American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N.W. Ayer & Son, 1902

[4] War Department (1900). Census of Cuba, 1899. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.

[FOOTNOTEStaten2005-5] Staten 2005.

[6] Victor H. Olmsted; Henry Gannett, eds. (1909). Cuba: Population, History and Resources 1907. Washington DC: United States Bureau of the Census.

[cinema-7] "Movie Theaters in Guantanamo, Cuba". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles, USA: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 28, 2016.

[8] "Cuba". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[Cushion2016-9] Stephen Cushion (2016). A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas' Victory. Monthly Review Press. pp. 107+. ISBN 978-1-58367-583-0.

[10] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.

[katolsk-11] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 28, 2016.

[Europa2002-12] South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.

[bbc-timeline-13] "Cuba Profile: Timeline", BBC News, 12 September 2012, retrieved September 28, 2016

[14] "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.

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