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Timeline of Caracas

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

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Prior to 18th century

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  • 1567 – 25 July: Santiago de León de Caracas established by Spaniard Diego de Losada.{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = USA |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |ol=5812502M }}{{sfn|Semple|1812}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1577 – Town becomes capital of Venezuela Province, Spanish Empire.
  • 1584 – St. George's Cathedral, Caracas built.{{sfn|Marley|2005}}
  • 1591 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Caracas coat of arms|es|3=Escudo de armas de Caracas}} granted.
  • 1593 – Iglesia de San Francisco (church) built.
  • 1595 – Town captured by English troops led by George Somers and Amyas Preston{{cite journal|last1=Shorto|first1=Gavin|title=George Somers, Amyas Preston and the Burning of Caracas|journal=The Bermudian|date=June 13, 2013|url=http://www.thebermudian.com/heritage/1055-the-burning-of-caracas|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513110245/http://www.thebermudian.com/heritage/1055-the-burning-of-caracas|archive-date=May 13, 2016}}
  • 1638 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Caracas founded.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Venezuela |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/venezuela |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 30 June 2015 }}
  • 1641 – 11 June: Earthquake.
  • 1674 – Caracas Cathedral built.
  • 1679 – Town "pillaged by the French."{{sfn|Hirst|1915}}
  • 1700 – Population: 6,000.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}

18th century

  • 1721 – University of Caracas founded.{{Citation |publisher = T.F. Unwin |location = London |title = Venezuela |author = Leonard V. Dalton |date = 1912 |oclc = 1720084 |ol = 6549000M }}
  • 1749 – 20 April: Economic demonstration led by {{Interlanguage link multi|Juan Francisco de León|es}}.{{sfn|Marley|2005}}
  • 1763 – Measles outbreaks begin.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1765 – Population: 12,500.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1770 – Population: 20,000.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1777
  • City becomes capital of Captaincy General of Venezuela.{{sfn|Ferry|1989}}
  • Santa Rosalia parish established.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1779 – City divided into eight administrative wards (barrios).{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1781 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Church of the Holy Trinity (Caracas)|es|3=Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad (Caracas)}} built.
  • 1782 – Theatre built.{{cite book |title=McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama |edition=2nd |year= 1984}}
  • 1787 – Real Audiencia of Caracas installed.
  • 1793 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.{{citation |author=Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. |chapter= Merchant Guilds |title= Encyclopedia of World Trade |editor= Cynthia Clark Northrup |publisher= Routledge |year= 2013 |orig-year=2005 |isbn=9780765682680 }}{{sfn|Marley|2005}}

19th century

  • 1802 – Population: 24,000–42,000.{{cite book |author=John V. Lombardi |title= People and Places in Colonial Venezuela |location=Bloomington |year= 1976 }}
  • 1808 – Gazeta de Caracas newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Marley|2005}}{{cite web |url=http://salalm.org/laser/laser-newspapers/ |title=Venezuela |work=Union List of Newspapers |publisher=Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials |location=USA |access-date=30 June 2015 }}
  • 1810 – Revolt from Spanish control.
  • 1811
  • City becomes capital of First Republic of Venezuela.
  • Divina Pastora parish established.{{sfn|Waldron|1981}}
  • 1812 – 26 March: Earthquake.{{Citation |publisher = S. Converse |location = New Haven |author1 = Jedidiah Morse |author-link1=Jedidiah Morse |author2=Richard C. Morse |title = A New Universal Gazetteer |date = 1823 |edition= 4th |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00morsrich#page/152/mode/1up |chapter=Caraccas }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1813
  • August: City taken by forces of Bolivar.
  • City becomes capital of Second Republic of Venezuela.
  • 1814 – July: 1814 Caracas Exodus.
  • 1818 – Academy of music founded.{{sfn|Plaza|1943}}
  • 1820 – City becomes capital of Venezuela Department of Gran Colombia.
  • 1821 – 29 June: Bolívar takes city.
  • 1835 – Academia de Dibujo y Pintura (art academy) founded (approximate date).{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=10®ion=sa#/Key-Events |title= South America, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date=30 July 2014 }}
  • 1861 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela|es}} established.{{sfn|Carnegie Institution|1908}}
  • 1870 – 27 April: April Revolution (Venezuela).{{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter= Venezuela |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776?urlappend=%3Bseq=1480 |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |hdl = 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776?urlappend=%3Bseq=1480 }}
  • 1874
  • National Pantheon of Venezuela established.
  • Bolívar statue erected in Bolívar Square.
  • 1881
  • Teatro Municipal de Caracas opens.
  • City becomes part of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Distrito Federal de Venezuela|es}}.
  • Population: 55,638.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1882 – Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.{{sfn|Stann|1975}}
  • 1883
  • La Guaira-Caracas railway begins operating.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Basilica of Santa Capilla (church) built.
  • Academia Venezolana Correspondiente de la Real Española established.{{sfn|Carnegie Institution|1908}}
  • 1887 – Academia de Musica y Declamacion (music school) and Academia de Bellas Artes (art school) active.{{cite book |title=Enciclopedia de la música en Venezuela |location=Caracas |publisher=Fundación Bigott |year= 1998 |author1=José Peñín |author2= Walter Guido |language=es }}
  • 1889 – Academia Nacional de la Historia de Venezuela inaugurated.{{sfn|Carnegie Institution|1908}}
  • 1891 – Population: 72,429.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1894 – Valencia-Caracas railway begins operating.{{sfn|Rivera|1897}}
  • 1895 – Electricidad de Caracas in business.
  • 1897 – Miraflores Palace built.

20th century

21st century

{{see also|Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests|Timeline of the 2015 Venezuelan protests|Timeline of the 2017 Venezuelan protests}}

  • 2002 – 11 April: Demonstration.
  • 2004
  • Juan Barreto becomes mayor.
  • Estrella Roja Football Club formed.
  • 17 October: Fire in Parque Central Complex.
  • 2005 – Venezuela International Book Fair begins.
  • 2006
  • January: World Social Forum held.
  • Libertador Simón Bolívar Terminal opens.
  • 2007
  • May: RCTV closure demonstration.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19652436 |title=Venezuela Profile: Timeline |date=19 September 2012 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=8 March 2013}}
  • Squatters occupy Centro Financiero Confinanzas.{{citation |title=The Tower of David: Venezuela's 'vertical slum' |author= Jorge Silva |date=April 2, 2014 |work=Photographer's Blog |publisher=Reuters |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/04/02/the-tower-of-david-venezuelas-vertical-slum/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406211009/http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/04/02/the-tower-of-david-venezuelas-vertical-slum/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 6, 2014 }}
  • 2008
  • Antonio Ledezma becomes mayor.
  • Real Esppor football club formed.
  • 2010 – Metrocable (gondola) begins operating.
  • 2011 – Population: 2,104,423.{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2011.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 2012 – 20 August: Yare prison riot.
  • 2014 – February: 2014–2018 Venezuelan protests begin.
  • 2015 - Population: 2,082,130.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/index.cshtml |work=Demographic Yearbook 2016 |year=2017 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title= Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 2017 - July: Strike in protest against president Maduro.{{citation |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-strike-idUSKBN1A51ET |publisher=Reuters |date= 20 July 2017 |title=Anti-Maduro strike paralyzes swathes of Venezuela }}{{citation |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40667309 |title=Venezuela crisis: Deadly clashes as millions join strike |date=21 July 2017 }}
  • 2019 - January: Venezuelan Presidential crisis begins, leading to the 2019 Venezuelan protests

See also

References

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This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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;Published in the 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Robert Baldwin |author = Robert Semple |title = Sketch of the present state of Caracas |date = 1812

|oclc = 4107713 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/sketchpresentst00sempgoog#page/n61/mode/2up |chapter=(Santiago de Leon de Caracas)

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Harper & Bros. |location = New York |author = William Eleroy Curtis | author-link=William Eleroy Curtis |title = The Capitals of Spanish America |date = 1888 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/capitalsofspanis00curt#page/256/mode/2up |chapter=Caracas |via=Internet Archive }}
  • {{cite book |title=The Capitals of the Globe |editor=Archibald Wilberforce |location=New York |publisher=Peter Fenelon Collier |year= 1893 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnkgAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA548 |chapter=Caracas }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Paris of South America |author=Richard Harding Davis |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7gAwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA104 |journal = Harper's New Monthly Magazine

|year=1895

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  • {{cite book |title=Illustrated Guide to Caracas |author= Arturo Rivera

|year=1897

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;Published in the 20th century

  • {{cite book

|title=Handbook of Learned Societies and Institutions: America |year=1908|publisher= Carnegie Institution of Washington |location=USA |chapter=Venezuela: Caracas |series=Publication no. 39 |hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5t72q98c?urlappend=%3Bseq=551 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5t72q98c?urlappend=%3Bseq=551 |via=Hathi Trust

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  • {{cite book |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |chapter= Caracas |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024854435?urlappend=%3Bseq=380 |location=New York |year=1908

|via=Hathi Trust

|title-link= Catholic Encyclopedia |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015024854435?urlappend=%3Bseq=380 }}

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Carácas |volume= 5 | page = 298 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Macmillan Company |location = New York |author = William Alfred Hirst |title = Guide to South America

|date = 1915

|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/guidetosouthamer00hirsrich#page/326/mode/2up |chapter=Caracas

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  • {{Citation

|publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |department=United States. Dept. of Commerce |title=Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook

|date = 1922

|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/venezuelaacomme00bellgoog#page/n146/mode/2up |chapter=Caracas and Commercial District |author=P.L. Bell }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = E. P. Dutton & Company |location = New York |author = Annie Smith Peck |title = Industrial and Commercial South America |date = 1922 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/industrialcommer00peckiala#page/62/mode/2up |chapter=Venezuela |author-link = Annie Smith Peck }}
  • {{cite book

|year=1928

|title=Collier's Encyclopedia |location=New York |publisher= P.F. Collier & Son |chapter=Caracas |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073302005?urlappend=%3Bseq=395

|title-link=Collier's Encyclopedia |hdl=2027/mdp.39015073302005?urlappend=%3Bseq=395 }}

  • {{cite journal |title=Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770–1811) |author1= Juan Bautista Plaza |author2= Conchita Rexach |journal= Musical Quarterly |year= 1943

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  • {{cite journal |title=Urban Electoral Behavior in Latin America: The Case of Metropolitan Caracas, 1958-1968 |author1= John D. Martz |author2= Peter B. Harkins |journal= Comparative Politics |volume= 5 |issue= 4 |pages= 523–549 |year= 1973 |jstor=421395

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  • {{cite journal |title=Transportation and Urbanization in Caracas, 1891–1936 |author= E. Jeffrey Stann |journal= Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs |volume=17 |issue= 1 |pages= 82–100 |year= 1975 |jstor=174789

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|doi= 10.2307/174789 }}

  • {{cite journal

|title=Social Urbanization and Caracas: A Historical Anthropological Analysis |author= Robert H. Lavenda |journal= Urban Anthropology |volume= 8

|issue= 3/4 |pages= 365–381 |year=1979

|jstor=40552889

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  • {{cite journal |title=Public Land Policy and Use in Colonial Caracas |author= Kathy Waldron |journal= Hispanic American Historical Review |volume= 61 |issue= 2 |pages= 258–277 |year= 1981

|jstor=2513831

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  • {{cite book

|author=Robert J. Ferry|title=The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567–1767|url=https://archive.org/details/colonialeliteofe0000ferr

|url-access=registration|year=1989

|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06399-0

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  • {{Citation

|title= Venezuela |year= 1998

|publisher = Lonely Planet |chapter=Caracas |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/lonelyplanetvene00krzy#page/114/mode/2up |page= 114+

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  • {{Citation

|publisher = Routledge |isbn = 9780415272650 |title = Planning Latin America's Capital Cities, 1850–1950 |editor = A. Almondoz |date = 2002

|chapter=Caracas |author=Lorenzo Gonzalez Casas |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MZzhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA214

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  • {{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |isbn = 1576070271 |location =USA |title = Historic Cities of the Americas |author = David Marley |date = 2005

|chapter=Caracas |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=q1a4j2HNmjUC&pg=PA829

| ref = {{harvid|Marley|2005}}

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