Timeline of Guantánamo

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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]

See also

• Guantánamo history (in Spanish)
• Timeline of Guantánamo Bay — Spanish, Cuban, & American events.
• Timelines of other cities in Cuba: Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Havana, Holguín, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba

References

1. Britannica 1910.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cuba". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
12. South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85743-121-6.
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.

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)