Timeline of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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1500s-1700s
Porto Rico, 17th century[1]
- 1521 - "Ciudad de Puerto Rico" founded by Spanish colonists from nearby Caparra.
- 1533 - La Fortaleza built.
- 1539 - Castillo San Felipe del Morro construction begins.
- 1540 - Cathedral of San Juan Bautista built.
- 1595 - November 22: Battle of San Juan.
- 1598 - Boquerón battery sacked by British forces.
- 1625 - September 24: Town besieged by Dutch forces.
- 1651 - Monastery of Our Lady Carmen of San José inaugurated.
- 1735 - San José Church built.
- 1769 - Powder house built.
- 1783 - Castillo de San Cristóbal built.
- 1787
- May 2: 1787 Boricua earthquake.
- May 3: Fiesta de Cruz begins.[2]
- 1797 - April: San Juan besieged by British forces.[3]
1800s
- 1820 - Population: 7,658.[4]
- 1822 - Board of charity established.[5]
- 1832 - Coliseo (theatre) in use.[6]
- 1845 - Town divided into barrios San Francisco, San Juan, Santa Barbara, Santo Domingo, and Ballaja.[7]
- 1853
- 1857 - Carretera Central (road) built.[8]
- 1859 - Town expands (adding barrios De la Marina and Puerta de Tierra).[9]
- 1863 - Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery established.
- 1864 - Ballajá Barracks built.
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La Plaza, San Juan, ca. 1900
- 1865 - Colegio de Párvulos built.
- 1879 - Jose Ramon Becerra y de Garrete becomes mayor.
- 1898
- May 12: Bombardment of San Juan by United States forces.
- June 22: Second Battle of San Juan.
- June 28: Third Battle of San Juan.
- August 12: End of hostilities between US and Spanish military forces. United States Military Government begins.
- October: Francisco del Valle becomes mayor.[10]
- San Juan News begins publication.[11]
- Railway built (approximate date).[12]
- 1899 - Population: 32,048.[13]
- April 11: Town becomes part of United States-annexed Puerto Rico per Treaty of Paris.
1900s
- 1900
- Insane asylum established.[5]
- May 1: Foraker Act comes into force, civil government for Puerto Rico begins. United States Military Government ends.
- 1901 - San Juan high school opens.[14]
- 1902 - Town government formed into legislative and executive branches.[15]
- 1903
- University of Puerto Rico established.
- Roberto H. Todd Weels becomes mayor.
- 1909 - Harbor enlarged.[16]
- 1910
- 1913 - Cine Luna opens.[18]
- 1918 - October 11: 1918 San Fermín earthquake.
- 1921 - Academia del Perpetuo Socorro founded.
- 1923 - United States Army Garrison Fort Buchanan established.
- 1925 - Academia San Jorge founded.
- 1928
- Luis Muñoz Rivera Park laid out.
- September: San Felipe Segundo hurricane.
- 1929 - Capitol of Puerto Rico building constructed.
- 1932 - September–October: San Ciprian hurricane.
- 1940 - United States Naval Air Station Isla Grande established.[19]
- 1946 - Felisa Rincón de Gautier becomes mayor.[20]
- 1948 - City flag design adopted.
- 1949
- Caribe Hilton Hotel built.
- San Juan National Historic Site United States National Park Service established.
- 1950
- October 30: San Juan Nationalist revolt.
- Residencial Las Casas housing complex built.
- 1951 - Río Piedras becomes part of city.[21]
- 1952 - City becomes part of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- 1955 - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport opens.
- 1958 - Casa del Libro established.[22][23]
- 1959 - The San Juan Star newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1960 - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico formed.
- 1962 - Hotel El Convento in business.
- 1966
- Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and San Juan Children's Choir established.
- July: 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games held.
- 1968 - Plaza Las Américas shopping mall in business.
- 1971 - San Juan Botanical Garden inaugurated.
- 1976 - June: 2nd G7 summit held near city.
- 1979 - July: 1979 Pan American Games held.
- 1983 - Old San Juan designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 1984 - Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art established.
- 1989 - September: Hurricane Hugo.
- 1992 - Museo de Las Américas founded.[24]
2000s
- 2000
- Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico established.
- Population: 395,326.
- 2004 - September: Hurricane Jeanne occurs.
- 2008 - September: Hurricane Kyle occurs.
- 2009 - May: Economic protest.[25]
- 2013 - Carmen Yulín Cruz becomes mayor.[26]
See also
- San Juan history
- Subdivisions of San Juan, Puerto Rico
- National Register of Historic Places listings in metropolitan San Juan, Puerto Rico
- List of mayors of San Juan, Puerto Rico
- History of Puerto Rico
- other cities in Puerto Rico
References
- ↑ Montanus 1671.
- ↑ Davis 1972.
- ↑ Forts 1998.
- ↑ Kinsbruner 1978.
- 1 2 Annual Report of the Insane Asylum of San Juan Porto Rico 1906. NY.
- ↑ Donald Thompson (1990). "Notes on the Inauguration of the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Municipal Theater". Latin American Music Review. 11.
- ↑ Joseph 1992.
- 1 2 3 Matos Rodríguez 1999.
- ↑ Kinsbruner 1990.
- ↑ "New Mayor of San Juan", New York Times, October 30, 1898
- 1 2 3 "San Juan (P.R.) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ Sanchez 1991.
- ↑ Baedeker 1909.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Governor of Porto Rico. Washington DC. 1902.
- ↑ "Historia breve de la Asamblea Municipal" [Brief history of the Municipal Assembly] (in Spanish). Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- 1 2 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ "Porto Rico". Nelson Chesman & Co.'s Newspaper Rate Book. USA. 1922.
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in San Juan, Puerto Rico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Bases in South America and the Caribbean Area, Including Bermuda". Building the Navy's Bases in World War II. Washington DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office. 1947. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Felisa Rincon de Gautier, 97, Mayor of San Juan". New York Times. September 19, 1994.
- ↑ "San Juan, Puerto Rico: Breve Historia del Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de San Juan Bautista, Ciudad Capital de Puerto Rico" [San Juan, Puerto Rico: A Brief History of Urban Development of the City of San Juan Bautista, City Capital of Puerto Rico] (in Spanish). Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Pynson Printers records, 1927-1933". Research Collections. New York Public Library. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Casa del Libro". San Juan. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Orígenes, Historia y Misión" (in Spanish). Museo de Las Américas. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Timeline: Puerto Rico". BBC News. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
Bibliography
Published in the 1600s-1800s
- in English
- Antonio de Alcedo; G.A. Thompson (1812), "Puerto Rico", Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies [Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América], London: Printed for James Carpenter,
Puerto Rico, the capital
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Porto Rico", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- William Drysdale (January 18, 1891). "In Porto Rico's Capital". New York Times.
- Frederick A. Ober (1899), "San Juan, the Capital", Puerto Rico and its Resources, New York: D. Appleton and Co.
- Robert Thomas Hill (1899), "Cities of Porto Rico", Cuba and Porto Rico (2nd ed.), New York: Century Company
- in Spanish
- Antonio de Alcedo (1788), "Puertorico", Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América (in Spanish), Madrid: Manuel Gonzalez
- Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1866), Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la Isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico [Geographic, civil and natural history of the island of Saint John the Baptist of Puerto Rico] (in Spanish), Puerto-Rico: Imp. y Librería de Acosta, OCLC 82511773
- Waldo Jiménez de la Romera (1887), "La capital", Cuba, Puerto-Rico y Filipinas (in Spanish), Barcelona: D. Cortezo y ca., OCLC 3153821
- in other languages
- Joannes de Laet (1625), "St. Juan de Porto Rico", Nieuwe wereldt, ofte, Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien [New World, Description of the West Indies] (in Dutch), Tot Leyden: Isaack Elzevier
- Arnoldus Montanus (1671). "Porto Rico". De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld [The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland]. Antwerp: J. Meurs.
Published in the 1900s
- in English
- "San Juan", Register of Porto Rico for 1903, San Juan: Office of the Secretary, (Louis E. Tuzo and Co.), 1903
- "Porto Rico", The United States, with Excursions to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "San Juan", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- A. Hyatt Verrill (1914), "San Juan", Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today, New York: Dodd, Mead
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "San Juan", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Govt. Print. Office
- Frank Otto Gatell (1959). "Puerto Rico in the 1830's; The Journal of Edward Bliss Emerson". The Americas. 16.
- Martha Ellen Davis (1972). "Social Organization of a Musical Event: The Fiesta de Cruz in San Juan, Puerto Rico". Ethnomusicology. 16.
- Jay Kinsbruner (1978). "The Pulperos of Caracas and San Juan during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century". Latin American Research Review. 13.
- Jay Kinsbruner (1990). "Caste and Capitalism in the Caribbean: Residential Patterns and House Ownership among the Free People of Color of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1823-46". Hispanic American Historical Review. 70.
- Joseph P. Sanchez (1991). "Infrastructure of Puerto Rico in the 19th Century". Second International Symposium on Historic Preservation in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. San Juan, Puerto Rico: U.S. National Park Service, San Juan National Historic Site.
- J. W. Joseph; Stephen C. Bryne (1992). "Socio-Economics and Trade in Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico: Observations from the Ballaja Archaeological Project". Historical Archaeology. 26.
- Ramón Grosfoguel (1994). "World Cities in the Caribbean: The Rise of Miami and San Juan". Review. Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York. 17 (3). JSTOR 40241296. (Abstract)
- Forts of Old San Juan: San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico. Washington, D.C.: United States National Park Service. c. 1998.
- Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (1999), Women and urban change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ISBN 0813016762
- in Spanish
- Adolfo de Hostos (1966). Historia de San Juan: Citudad muitirada, 1521-1898 [History of San Juan: Walled City, 1521-1898] (in Spanish). San Juan.
Published in the 2000s
- in English
- Ramón Grosfoguel (2003), "World Cities in the Caribbean: Miami and San Juan", Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520230200
- David Marley (2005), "San Juan", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576070271
- in Spanish
- Silvia Alvarez-Curbelo; Aníbal Sepúlveda-Rivera (2011). De vuelta a la ciudad: San Juan de Puerto Rico 1997-2001 [Back to the city: San Juan de Puerto Rico 1997-2001] (in Spanish). San Juan, P.R.: Fundación Sila M. Calderón. ISBN 9780982080603.
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- "San Juan", American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection, USA – via University of Wisconsin, ca.1766-2003
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- Works related to San Juan, PR, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
- Map of San Juan, 1982
- Map of San Juan, 1940
Coordinates: 18°27′00″N 66°04′00″W / 18.45°N 66.066667°W
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