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In 1514, Diego Velázquez founded the city San Cristóbal de la Habana, which meant "Saint Christopher of the Habana".Habana was the name of the local people group. It has been theorized that the name derived from Habaguanex, who was a chief of the Native American tribe.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded San Cristóbal de la Habana in 1514, on the southern coast of the island, near the present town of Surgidero de Batabanó, or more likely on the banks of the Mayabeque River close to Playa Mayabeque. All attempts to found a city on Cuba's south coast failed, however, an early map of Cuba drawn in 1514 places ...
The thirty by forty-nine meters rectangular church serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana. [1] Christopher Columbus’s remains were kept in the cathedral between 1796 and 1898 before they were taken to Seville Cathedral. [2] It was built between 1748 and 1777 [3] and was consecrated in 1782. [4]
The first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar leads a group of settlers in Baracoa. 1512: Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519: Havana founded as San Cristóbal de la Habana (north coast) 1523: Emperor Charles V authorizes 4,000 gold pesos for the construction of cotton mills ...
San Cristobal de la Habana may refer to: The historic name of Havana; San Cristobal de la Habana (cigar) This page was last edited on 12 ...
In 1693 the temple was enlarged, rebuilt and converted into auxiliary of the Parochial Major Church by Bishop Diego Evelino de Compostela, who later elevated it to a parish in 1703. In 1899 the church was given to the parishioners of the Order of San Agustín. It was the second parish of the city, after the Iglesia del Espíritu Santo. [1]
Antonio Maceo Monument. La Casa de Beneficencia, the hotel Manhattan on Calles Belascoáin and San Lazaro, by the U.S. Engineering firm of Purdy and Henderson, and the Hotel Vista Alegre also at the beginning of Calle Belascoáin, anchored a geographically important corner close to the sea of the large expanse of land known as El Barrio San Lazaro and within it and immediately to the north was ...
Historia de la conquista de la Habana. (1762), Perry and McMillan, Philadelphia. La toma de La Habana por los ingleses (Spanish) Kuethe, Alan (1981). The Development of the Cuban Military As a Sociopolitical Elite, 1763–83. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 695–704; Lavery, Brian (1983).