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Situation of the island of Hispaniola during the Devastations of Osorio, 1605-1606. The Devastations of Osorio (in Spanish, las Devastaciones de Osorio) refer to a period in the colonial history of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, modern day Dominican Republic in the early 17th century.
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The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the Caribbean. The native Taíno people, an Arawakan people, had inhabited the island during the pre-Columbian era, dividing it into five chiefdoms.
In 1605, as a result of the population changes and devastations faced by the governor of Santo Domingo, Antonio de Osorio, the inhabitants of San Juan happened to occupy Bayaguana, north of Santo Domingo, along with the rest of the Spanish uprooted from the unpopulated areas. San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic cathedral church.
1501- Calle Las Damas [], first street in the New World, is constructed 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Juan Ponce de León, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Pedro de Alvarado, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, among others)
The siege of Santo Domingo was fought between April 23, 1655 and April 30, 1655, at the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo.A force of 2,400 Spanish troops led by Governor Don Bernardino Meneses y Bracamonte, Count of Peñalba successfully resisted a force of 13,120 soldiers led by General Robert Venables and 34 ships under Admiral Sir William Penn of the English Commonwealth.
The territory that the province of Monte Plata occupies today, was part of the Taino chiefdom of Higüey or Icayagua. The establishment of the population that today lives in the northern enclaves of the city of Santo Domingo and that bear the names Monte Plata and Bayaguana are a consequence of the so-called devastations of Ozorio (1605-1606), the Spanish authorities, in 1603 decided by means ...
First Spanish Capitancy 1492–1801 Governors and Viceroys of the Indies 1492–1500 Admiral Christopher Columbus, as Viceroy of the Indies 1496–1498 Bartolomeo Columbus, as Adelantado 1500–1502 Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla, as Governor of the Indies 1502–1509 Comendador Frey Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, as Governor of the Indies 1509–1518 Second Admiral Diego Columbus, as ...