Timeline of Havana
The following is a timeline of the history of Havana , Cuba.
Prior to 18th century
18th century
1702 – City walls built.
1704 – Jesuit college built.
1728 – Royal and Pontifical University of Saint Jerome established (University of Havana ).[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 Havana. 1853
Map of Havana. 1866
Map of Havana, 1888
Map of Havana, 1898
Map of Havana, 2016
20th century
Map of Havana, 1909
1900s–1940s
1950s–1990s
1952 – 1952 Cuban coup d'état
1953 – Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar (church) and Embassy of the United States built.
1954 – Cuban general election
1956 – FOCSA Building .
1957
1958
1959
1960 – International Ballet Festival of Havana begins.
1961
1962 – Cuban National Ballet School established.
1963 – Cuban Journalists Union headquartered in Havana.[40]
1964
1965
1968 – Jardín botánico Nacional de Cuba [es ] (garden) established.[42]
1970 – Population: 1,008,500 city; 1,751,216 urban agglomeration.[43]
1971 – Danza Contemporanea de Cuba active.
1975 – December: 1st Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba held in Havana.
1976 – Arroyo Naranjo , Boyeros , Centro Habana , Cerro , Cotorro , Diez de Octubre , Guanabacoa , La Habana del Este , La Habana Vieja , La Lisa , Marianao , Playa , Plaza de la Revolución , Regla , San Miguel del Padrón administrative municipalities created.
1977 – Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Cuba 's Editorial Letras Cubanas publishing house headquartered in Havana.[40]
1978 – City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students .
1979
1982
1983 – Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas [es ] headquartered in Havana.
1984 – Havana Biennial Art Exhibition begins.
1987
1991
1993 – Population: 2,175,888 city (estimate).[45]
1994
1998 – January: Catholic Pope visits Havana.
1999 – Population: 2,189,716 city; 2,891,500 province.[40]
21st century
2001 – Ballet Rakatan founded.
2003
2005 – December: World Trade Union Congress held in city.[48]
2011
2012 – Population: 2,105,291.[49]
2014
Fábrica de Arte Cubano cultural space established.
Population: 2,121,871.[50]
2015
2016
March: U.S. president Obama visits Havana.
7 April: Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba held in Havana.
2019
An EF4 tornado seriously damage the city and kills at least three.[53]
Havana's celebrates its 500th anniversary of founding.[54]
2022 – Hotel Saratoga explosion
See also
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in Spanish
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in Spanish
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Published in the 21st century
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Joseph L. Scarpaci; Roberto Segre [in Spanish] ; Mario Coyula (2002). Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (Revised ed.). University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807827002 .
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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 .
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Guadalupe Garcia (2015). Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-96137-1 .
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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Haroldo Dilla Alfonso [in Spanish] (2014). Ciudades en el Caribe: un estudio comparado de La Habana, San Juan, Santo Domingo y Miami (in Spanish). Mexico: Latin American Social Sciences Institute . ISBN 978-607-9275-36-5 .
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