The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Camagüey, Cuba.
- 1528 - Santa María del Puerto Príncipe established by settlers relocating from Caonao, and previously from Punta del Guincho.[1]
- 1599 - Convento de San Francisco founded.[3]
- 1616 - Fire.
- 1617 - Cathedral first built.
- 1668 - City raided by Welsh pirate Henry Morgan.
- 1720 - San Francisco de Paula monastery rebuilt.[1]
- 1723 - Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje church built.[1]
- 1728 - Hospital de Caridad de San Juan de Dios established.[1]
- 1730 - Hospital de Nuestra Senora del Carmen founded.
- 1733 - City Hall construction begins.
- 1737 - San Lázaro hospital built.[1]
- 1741 - Epidemic outbreak.
- 1779 - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (church) built.[7]
- 1800 - Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial supreme court) relocated to Puerto Principe from Santo Domingo.
- 1814 - Future poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda born in Puerto Principe.[8]
- 1817 - Town becomes a city.[1]
- 1842 - Filarmónica (music society) founded.
- 1850 - El Principal theatre opens.
- 1851 - Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railroad begins operating.[10]
- 1864
- 1872 - Casino Español (music society) formed.
- 1874 - March: Battle of Las Guasimas (1874) fought; Cuban rebels win.
- 1886 - El Arrebol newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1898 -
- 1899
- El Eco Mercantil newspaper begins publication.[14]
- Population: 25,102 city; 53,140 district; 88,234 province.[15]
1900s–1940s
- 1902 - El Camagüeyano newspaper begins publication.[citation needed]
- 1903
- 1907 - Population: 29,616 city; 66,460 municipality; 118,269 province.[16]
- 1912
- 1913
- Teatro Avellaneda opens.[19]
- Camagüey Jazz Band formed.
- 1919
- Banda Municipal de Música formed.
- Population: 98,193.[20]
- 1932 - Hurricane.[21]
- 1935 - Hurricane.[21]
- 1938 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.[22]
- 1948 - Cine Casablanca opens.[19]
1950s–1990s
- 1956 - El Cubano Libre student newspaper begins publication.
- 1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province.[24]
- 1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group) formed.
- 1963 - Biblioteca provincial de Camagüey Julio Antonio Mella (library) established.[25]
- 1964 - Population: 153,100.[26]
- 1965 - Estadio Cándido González (stadium) built.[citation needed]
- 1966 - Population: 171,000.[27]
- 1967
- Universidad de Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz [es] established.
- Ballet de Camagüey founded.[28][29]
- 1968 - Archivo Histórico provincial de Camagüey (archives) established.[25]
- 1970 - Population: 197,720.[30]
- 1976
- Instituto Superior Pedagógico established.[31]
- Museo Estudiantil "Jesús Suárez Gayol" opens.[18]
- 1981 - Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Camagüey established.[31]
- 1983 - Festival de Teatro de Camagüey (theatre festival) begins.[32]
- 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1994 - Creole Choir of Cuba established.
- 1998
- January: Catholic pope visits Camagüey.
- Office of City Historian established.
- 1999 - Population: 306,049 city; 785,800 province.[34]
- 2008
- 2014 - Population: 304,027.[37]
Calendario manual y guia de forasteros de la Isla de Cuba [Almanac and Guide for Strangers to Cuba] (in Spanish). Havana: Imprenta de la Capitanía General. 1795. hdl:2027/wu.89059055202.
Enma Presilla Andreu (2000). "Aproximación a la cronología de un monumento". Santiago (in Spanish) (89). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X.
"Cultura Camaguey" (in Spanish). Cuba: Sectorial Municipal de Cultura. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
"Near Panic at Camaguey City", New York Times, September 28, 1935
- in English
- in Spanish
- D. Jose Maria de la Torre (1845). Elementos de cronología universal y particular de España, Isla de Cuba y Puerto-Rico (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Havana: Impr. del Gobierno y Capitanía General por S.M.
- Ordenanzas municipales de la ciudad de Puerto Principe (in Spanish). Imprenta del Fanal. 1856.
- Jacobo de la Pezuela (1866). "Ciudad de Santa Maria de Puerto-Principe". Diccionario geografico, estadístico, historico, de la isla de Cuba (in Spanish). Vol. 4. Madrid: Mellado. hdl:2027/uc1.32106005876096 – via HathiTrust.
- Tomás Pío Betancourt (1877). "Historia de Puerto-Principe". Los tres primeros historiadores de la isla de Cuba. Vol. 3. Havana. pp. 503–564. hdl:2027/uc1.b3613495.
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- Jose Maria Abraido y Sarmiento (1882). Una villa de Espana y una ciudad de Cuba (in Spanish). Havana: J. Pulido y Comp.
- Juan Torres Lasqueti (1888). Coleccion de datos historicos-geograficos y estadisticos de Puerto del Príncipe y su jurisdicion (in Spanish). Havana: Impr. 'El Retiro'.
- P. Antonio Perpina (1889). El Camagüey: viajes pintorescos por el interior de Cuba y por sus costas, con descripciones del país [Camagüey: Scenic Travels Around Cuba and its Coast, with Descriptions of the Country] (in Spanish). Barcelona: J. A. Bastinos – via Internet Archive.
- "Puerto Principe". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 16. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1895. pp. 593–594. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203983426 – via HathiTrust.
- "Puerto Principe", Directorio mercantil de la Isla de Cuba (in Spanish), Habana: Imprenta 'Avisador Comercial', 1901, hdl:2027/nyp.33433016910840 – via HathiTrust
- "Camaguey". Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administracion de España, sus colonias, Cuba, Puerto-Rico y Filipinas, estados hispano-americanos y Portugal [Yearbook of Commerce, Industry, Judiciary and Administration of Spain, its Colonies Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Spanish American States and Portugal] (in Spanish). Madrid: Bailly-Bailliere e Hijos. 1908 – via Google Books.
- Jorge Juárez Cano (1929), Apuntes de Camagüey [Notes of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- A. Pérez (1944), El Camagüey legendario [Legendary Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- "Camagüey, otra carga al machete", Cuba internacional (in Spanish), vol. 6, no. 56, Havana: Prensa Latina, 1974, ISSN 0011-2593
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1989), Centro histórico de Camagüey [Historic Centre of Camagüey] (in Spanish)
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (1992), Centro histórico de Camagüey: Compendio de resultados [Historic Centre of Camagüey: Summary of results] (in Spanish)
- Roberto Segre (1998), "Camagüey o Santa Maria del Puerto Príncipe" [Camagüey or Santa Maria del Puerto Principe], AU (in Spanish), no. 4, Havana: Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, pp. 8–14, OCLC 173702610
- Cuadernos de Historia Principeña (in Spanish), Camaguey: Editorial Ácana, 2001, ISBN 959267065X. 2001-
- Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía (2003). Cuba, cronología: cinco siglos de historia, política y cultura (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Verbum [es]. ISBN 978-84-7962-248-0. (chronology)
- Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2002), "Símbolos republicanos en la ciudad de Camagey", AU: Arquitectura y urbanismo (in Spanish), vol. 23
- Gabino La Rosa Corzo (2003). "Camaguey". In Louis A. Pérez; Rebecca Jarvis Scott (eds.). The Archives of Cuba: Los Archivos de Cuba (in Spanish). University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 118–132. ISBN 0822941953. (fulltext)
- Marcos Antonio Tamames Henderson (2005). La ciudad como texto cultural: Camagüey 1514-1837 (in Spanish). Camagüey: Ed. Ácana.
- Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (2009). "El Centro Histórico Urbano de Camagüey, Patrimonio Mundial. Planeamiento, gestión y manejo". Apuntes: Journal of Cultural Heritage Studies (in Spanish). 22 (2). Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. ISSN 1657-9763.
- Fulgencio Ramón Nodal-Reyes; Ramón Lemay Nodal-Laugart (2014). "Edición clandestina del periódico El Cubano Libre en Camagüey durante la lucha contra la dictadura batistiana" [Clandestine edition of the newspaper El Cubano Libre in Camagüey during the struggle against the Batista dictatorship]. Santiago (in Spanish) (133). University of Santiago de Cuba. ISSN 0581-653X.
- En torno a la música: del Príncipe a Camagüey [About Music: from Principe to Camaguey] (in Spanish), Oficina del Historiador de la ciudad de Camagüey, 2014, archived from the original on February 23, 2015
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