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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
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
Santo Domingo, on eastern Hispaniola, under French control. The war between Spain and the Convention ended with the cession of the eastern part of the island of Santo Domingo to France, in exchange for the return of the peninsular territories occupied by the French army, as stipulated in the Treaty of Basel, signed on July 22, 1795, between both countries.
The Captain-General of Santo Domingo, José de la Gándara, adopted a strategy of occupying the northern ports to isolate the dissident Dominican government in Santiago from outside support. However, he overlooked his forces' lack of supplies and poor equipment, as many rifles and cannons were obsolete, and several warships were unseaworthy. [32]
On 22 July 1795, Spain ceded to France the remaining Spanish part of the island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic), in the second Treaty of Basel, ending the War of the Pyrenees. The people of the eastern part of Saint-Domingue (French Santo Domingo) [7] [8] [9] were opposed to the arrangements and hostile toward the ...
The Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (Spanish: Anexión de la República Dominicana a España) or Reintegration of Santo Domingo (Reintegración de Santo Domingo) was a brief period in 1861–1865 during which the Dominican Republic returned to the sovereignty of Spain, following the request of Dominican dictator Pedro Santana. [1]
La reconquista de la Parte Española de la isla de Santo Domingo, 1808–1809 (Mimeografiado). Delafosse, J. B. Lemonier. Segunda campaña de Santo Domingo. Santiago, 1946. Del Monte y Tejada, Antonio. Historia de Santo Domingo. 3 vols. Ciudad Trujillo, 1951. García, José Gabriel. Compendio de la historia de Santo Domingo. 4 vols. Santo ...
The first settlement of what is now Santo Domingo was established by Bartholomew Columbus on the East bank of the Ozama River near the end of the 15th century. After the 1502 hurricane that claimed Francisco de Bobadilla among its victims, however, the city was relocated on the West bank under the leadership of Nicolás de Ovando.