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of the city of

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in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

15th century

* 1492- First Viceroyalty in the

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is established in Santo Domingo ( Viceroyalty of the Indies) * 1496 - Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, first permanent settlement in the New World, is established. *1498- The city of Santo Domingo is founded by

Bartholomew Columbus Bartholomew Columbus ( lij, label= Genoese, Bertomê Corombo; pt, Bartolomeu Colombo; es, Bartolomé Colón; it, Bartolomeo Colombo; – 1515) was an Italian explorer from Genoa and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Biography Bor ...

, brother of

Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...

16th century

* 1501- , first street in the New World, is constructed * 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors ( Hernán Cortés,

Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro González, Marquess of the Atabillos (; ; – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro chose ...

Vasco Núñez de Balboa Vasco Núñez de Balboa (; c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an ...

'',''

Alonso de Ojeda Alonso de Ojeda (; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He travelled through modern-day Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia. He navigated with Amerigo Vespucci who is famou ...

, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés'','' Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar'','' Juan Ponce de León,

Rodrigo de Bastidas Rodrigo de Bastidas (; Triana, Seville, Andalusia, c. 1465 – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 28 July 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta. ...

, Pedro de Alvarado,

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1480 – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United State ...

, among others) * 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the official headquarters for the exploration and conquest of the New World *1502- Monastery of San Francisco, first monastery in America, is built. * 1503- Casa de Contratacion is created in Sevilla to regulate trade with the Americas *1503- Hospital San Nicolás de Bari, first hospital in the Americas, begins construction. * 1505 -

Fortaleza Ozama The Ozama Fortress ( es, Fortaleza Ozama), also formerly known as the city wall's Homage tower. It is one of the surviving sections of the Walls of Santo domingo, which is recognized by UNESCO as being the oldest military construction of European ...

, first fortress in the Americas, is built. * 1509- Reales Atarazanas, first warehouse complex in the New World, is built * 1510- , first church in the New World, is built * 1511 ** Roman Catholic diocese of Santo Domingo established. **

Alcázar de Colón The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. It is located in the Dominican Republic's colonial area of Santo Domingo city, and forms part of the Ciudad Colonial UNESCO's World Heritage ...

(Columbus Alcazar), first castle or viceroyal residence in the Americas, is built ** The Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo, first

court A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in acco ...

in the New World, is established * 1513-

Laws of Burgos The Laws of Burgos ( es, Leyes de Burgos), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous pe ...

are passed concerning the treatment of the indigenous people. * 1514 - Maria de Toledo, serve as regent of the colony during the absence of her spouse the governor until 1520. * 1522-

Jean Fleury Jean Fleury (or Florin) (died 1527) was a French naval officer and privateer. He is best known for the capture of two out of the three Spanish galleons carrying the Aztec treasure of Hernán Cortés from Mexico to Spain and one ship from Santo Do ...

commits the first recorded attack of piracy against Spanish ships * 1538 - Universidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino, first university in the New World, is founded. * 1540 - Cathedral Primate of the Americas, first cathedral in the Americas, is built. * 1543 - Fort San Genaro, today La Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate), construction begins. * 1574- Francisco Tostado de la Peña, Elvira de Mendoza and Leonor de Ovando write the first sonnets in the New World * 1586- Francis Drake captures Santo Domingo in the Battle of Santo Domingo * 1588- Cristobal de Llerena writes the first theatrical play in the New World * 1600- After the gold mines were exhausted most colonists had decided to become conquistadors and explorers and had left for the mines of

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and

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. Others decide to settle and become hateros (herders), farmers and merchants.

17th century

* 1602- Colony of Santo Domingo is bypassed by immigrants from Spain and enters decline due to depopulation * 1605- Devastaciones de Osorio take place in the North Coast to prevent illicit trade with colonies other than Spain * 1620- The Brotherhood of the Coast is formed by pirates in the Tortuga island * 1630- The fight against the

buccaneer Buccaneers were a kind of privateers or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 168 ...

s and filibusters begins (

Piracy in the Caribbean ]The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with colonies in the Caribbean began combating pirates. The period during which pirates were ...

) * 1654-

Capture of Fort Rocher The Capture of Fort Rocher took place on 9 February 1654, during the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659). Equipped with one siege battery, a Spanish expedition of 700 troops attacked the buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga, capturing the Fort de Ro ...

- The Spaniards capture the Tortuga Island from the French for the 4th and last time. * 1655- English invasion of Penn and Venables is defeated by the criollos * 1691- Battle of Sabana Real is won against the French * 1697 - Island of Hispaniola divided into Spanish

and French Saint-Domingue ( Haiti) per

Treaty of Ryswick The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697. They ended the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), Gran ...

that settled the Nine Years' War.

18th Century

* 1716- Privateers corsairs from the colony of Santo Domingo take action during the

Golden Age of Piracy The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, the Indian Ocean, North America, and West Africa ...

* 1724
Guadalupe and Tolosa Shipwreck
in Samana * 1741-

Battle of Cartagena de Indias The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ( es, Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit=Siege of Cartagena de Indias) took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war w ...

- Santo Domingo participates in the Spanish victory against the English Navy * 1760- Population is bolstered by immigration from the Canary Islands resettling the northern part of the island. Population grows from 6,000 to 125,000 by 1790. * 1775- Saint-Domingue becomes one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire * 1791- Haitian Revolution takes place in Saint-Domingue * 1795 - Era de Francia begins after the Treaty of Basel where Spain ceded the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola to France in exchange for keeping

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, ending the

War of the Pyrenees The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of Spain and Portug ...

. * 1796- Massive emigration of the colonial families to Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico where they become cultural pioneers and intellectual figures Famous figures and descendants of the Treaty of Basel diaspora include Jose Maria Heredia,

Severiano de Heredia Severiano de Heredia (8 November 1836 – 9 February 1901) was a Cuban-born biracial politician, a freemason, a left-wing republican, naturalized as French in 1870, who was president of the municipal council of Paris from 1 August 1879 to 12 Febru ...

, Jose-Maria de Heredia Girard, Domingo del Monte, , Francisco Javier Caro, Angulo Guridi brothers, Jacobo de Villaurrutia, Juan Vicente Moscoso, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Rafael Maria Baralt, Arístides Rojas Espaillat, Francisco Javier Foxa,

Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Cándido Portes Gil (; 3 October 1890 – 10 December 1978) was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930, one of three to serve out the six-year term of President-elect General Álvaro Obregón, who had been assassinated in 1928. Since th ...

, Antonio Melendez Bazan, , Antonio del Monte y Tejada, , Ramon Emeterio Betances
Raimundo Rendon Sarmiento
Eugenio Maria de Hostos,

Máximo Gómez Máximo Gómez y Báez (November 18, 1836 – June 17, 1905) was a Dominican Generalissimo in Cuba's War of Independence (1895–1898). He was known for his controversial scorched-earth policy, which entailed dynamiting passenger trains a ...

, Antonio Maceo, among others. * 1797- The University of Santo Tomas de Aquino closes which, along with the emigration of the intellectual class, causes a big "brain drain"

19th century

* 1808- Battle of Palo Hincado. Criollos from the Island beat the French Napoleonic troops and make Santo Domingo a Spanish colony again. * 1809 - 2nd Spanish colony or

España Boba In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of ''España Boba'' (Spanish: "Meek Spain") lasted from 1809 to 1821, during which the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo was under Spanish rule, but the Spanish government exercised minimal ...

("Foolish Spain") after La Reconquista takes place. * 1821- Ephemeral Independence from Spain takes place * 1822 - Unification of the island. Haitians in power. Further emigration takes place * 1838- La Trinitaria is created * 1844- Dominican War of Separation from Haiti starts * February: La Trinitaria take Ozama Fortress. * July:

Pedro Santana Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (June 29, 1801June 14, 1864) was a Dominican military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a pr ...

in power. * City becomes capital of newly independent

* 1845- El Dominicano, first political newspaper, begins circulation *1854- First cultural society " Los Amantes de las Letras" ("Lovers of the Letters") is created *1854- First cultural newspapers El Progreso and El Oasis appear *1860- First Dominican theater is established by society "Los Amantes de las Letras" * 1861 - 3rd Spanish Colony begins to prevent further Haitian occupation. Spanish in power again. * 1862- First printing press company, Garcia Hermanos, is established * 1863- Dominican-Spanish War (1863-1865) also known as the Dominican Restoration War begins * 1865- 2nd Republic begins * 1866- The University Instituto Profesional (later

University of Santo Domingo A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

) is established * 1875- Sugar mills emerge and urban development takes place * 1889 - ''

Listín Diario ''Listín Diario'' (Lit. ''Small Daily List'') is one of the leading newspapers in the Dominican Republic, and the oldest still being published.

20th century

* 1907 - Licey baseball club formed. * 1914 - El Placer de los Estudios built. * 1916 - United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins. * 1921 - Escogido baseball club formed. * 1924 - United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends. * 1930 - September: Hurricane San Zenon. * 1930- Era of Trujillo begins * 1935 - Population: 71,297. * 1936 ** City renamed "Trujillo City". ** Colombina avenue built. * 1938 - Breakwater built in harbour. * 1941 - La Jaragua hotel built. * 1942 - National School of Fine Arts and Teatro Olimpia (cinema) open. * 1944 -

National Palace Buildings called National Palace include: * National Palace (Dominican Republic), in Santo Domingo *National Palace (El Salvador), in San Salvador *National Palace (Ethiopia), in Addis Ababa; also known as the Jubilee Palace * National Palace (Guate ...

built. * 1948 - ''El Caribe''

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in publication. * 1950 - Population: 181,553. * 1953 - Base Aérea Trujillo (airbase) in operation near city. * 1955 ** December: Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World opens. **

Estadio Quisqueya Quisqueya Stadium Juan Marichal is a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is often used as a multi-use stadium. Football club Atlético Pantoja used the venue for their inaugural Caribbean football championship match. The Qu ...

(baseball stadium) opens. * 1956 -

National Pantheon of the Dominican Republic The National Pantheon was built from 1714 to 1746 by the Spaniard Geronimo Quezada y Garçon and was originally a Jesuit church. The structure was constructed in the neoclassic-renaissance style. Today, the structure stands as a national symbo ...

(mausoleum) established. * 1961 - May 30: Trujillo assassinated near city. * 1961- November 19: Rebellion of the Pilots. Trujillo family flees the country * 1965 ** April 24:

Dominican Civil War The Dominican Civil War (), also known as the April Revolution (), took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civilian and military supporters of the overthrown democraticall ...

** April 28: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins. * 1966 ** July 1: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends. ** '' El Nacional'' newspaper begins publication. * 1970 - Population: 673,470 city; 817,645 urban agglomeration. * 1972 -

Santo Domingo Institute of Technology Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo —or Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (also known as INTEC), is a private university located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was founded on October 9, 1972, by a group of connoted professional ...

founded. * 1973 -

Museo de las Casas Reales The Museo de las Casas Reales (English: ''Museum of the Royal Houses'') is one of the important cultural monuments built during the colonial era in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial district of Santo Domingo. ...

(museum) established. * 1974 ** City hosts

1974 Central American and Caribbean Games The 12th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from February 27 to March 13, 1974, and included 1,928 athletes from 23 nations competing in 18 sports. Sports * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Referenc ...

. **

Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto The Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto is an 8,337-seat multi-purpose arena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, built in 1974 for the XII Central American and Caribbean Games. It currently hosts local sporting events and concerts an ...

, and

Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte (translation: Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center) is a multi-venued athletic complex in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was initially built for the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, and also hosted m ...

(sports venues) open. * 1976 - Moscoso National Botanical Garden founded. * 1979 - August:

Hurricane David Hurricane David was an extremely deadly hurricane which caused massive loss of life in the Dominican Republic in August 1979, and was the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the country in recorded history. A Cape Verde hurricane that rea ...

. * 1986 -

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established in city. * 1992- Faro a Colon (The

Columbus Lighthouse Columbus Lighthouse ( es, Faro a Colón, links=no, meaning "Lighthouse to Columbus") is a mausoleum monument located in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic, in tribute to Christopher Columbus. Construction began in 1986, using plans drawn in ...

) is erected in honor of the 500th anniversary of the

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* 1993 - Population: 2,134,779. * 1997 -

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installed. * 1998 **

Autodrómo Internacional de Las Américas Autodrómo Internacional de Las Américas is a paved circuit built in 1998, located near the capital city of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. Its full-length layout is officially approved by the FIA as a Grade Four course. While only an 11 ...

opens near city. **

Johnny Ventura Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano (8 March 1940 – 28 July 2021), better known as Johnny Ventura nicknamed , was a Dominican singer and band leader of merengue and salsa. The merengue legend was a legislator of the Lower House between 1982 and 198 ...

becomes mayor. * 1999 -

Museo Bellapart The Museo Bellapart is a private art museum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Its collection includes artwork from the mid-19th century to the 1960s.

founded.

21st century

* 2001 - November 12:

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in New York of Santo Domingo-bound airplane. * 2002 - Roberto Salcedo becomes mayor. * 2003 ** August: City hosts

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

. ** Malecon towers built. * 2009 -

Santo Domingo Metro The Santo Domingo Metro ( es, Metro de Santo Domingo) is a rapid transit system in Greater Santo Domingo. Serving the capital of the Dominican Republic, it is the most extensive metro system in the insular Caribbean and Central American region by ...

begins operating. * 2010 - Population: 965,040; metro 2,907,100.

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