On February 10th, 1828, Salvador Escolástico Cisneros Betancourt was born. Only male child. He has lost his mother since he was two years old. In 1841 he is sent to
Fernando María Figueredo Socarrás was born in Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, on February 9th, 1846. He was educated in Bayamo and it is in this city that he rises up in
Francisco Sánchez Betancourt was born on January 31st, 1827 in Puerto Príncipe. He married Concepción Agramante Boza on June 12th, 1852, with whom he had ten children: four girls and
Manuel de Quesada Loynaz was born in Puerto Príncipe on March 29th, 1833. He was a member of the secret independence organization Libertarian Society of Puerto Príncipe. His decision to
On the morning of January 29th, 1812 at 6:00 in the morning in the Plaza de Armas, today Agramonte Park, the eight leaders of the Aponte rebellion in Camagüey were
The LIS Magazine was created in a familiar context during the first years of the second decade of the twentieth century for an educated, knowledgeable and above all intelligent people
On January 9th, 1915, Gonzalo de Quesada Aróstegui, the son of Camagüey parents, died in the city of Berlin. His remains remained there until August 29th, 1919. This Cuban patriot
Also known as Manuel Antonio de Varona Miranda, he was born in Sibanicú, Camagüey on January 1st, 1856. The cry of La Demajagua on October 10th, 1868 began the Ten
The Municipal Ordinances of Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, came into force on January 1st, 1857. They were registered in 1856 by El Fanal printing company, under the observance of the Government
The antecedents of liberating educational practices in Camagüey in the context of the nation are long-standing. Joaquín de Agüero y Agüero (1816-1851) stands out who in 1842 founded a free
When Major General Antonio Maceo y Grajales was waging a successful campaign in the easternmost part of Cuba, despite the 81,000 troops that Valeriano Weyler had concentrated to kill him,
The year 1898 is intense in mixed events. On February 15th, the US ship the Maine exploded, a matter that promoted authorization and powers to adopt measures to allow “the
The old Pueyo Avenue begins its journey with an obelisk as a tribute to the Mambises who shed their generous blood for the Independence of Cuba. Beautiful and necessary gesture,
Fernando Espinosa Socarrás together with Brigadier General Ángel del Castillo, in 1869 he marched towards the jurisdiction of Sancti Spíritus, and in 1871 he returned to Camagüey. Under the orders
Of the 24 delegates to the Constituent Assembly, only Salvador Cisneros Betancourt had participated in the Constitution of Jimaguayú. The delegates of the various army corps were mostly professionals, lawyers
The Third Corps of the Liberation Army was constituted during the Ten Years’ War and lasted until the end of the 1995 War, having as its base of operations Puerto
The creation of an Institute of Second Education in Puerto Príncipe was granted by Royal Order on July 15th, 1863, which materialized on June 1st, 1864. The initial teaching program
Rosa Castellanos Castellanos was born in Bayamo, the former East province. Daughter of slaves from Africa, personally suffer the ignominy of oppression. Consequently, she had knowledge of the insides of
On February 24th, 1895, the War for Independence restarted. From the beginning of the war and in accordance with the tradition born in Guáimaro, there was a consensus that it
The breath held before the shot, the placement of the feet on the starting block according to the height of the sprinter, the concentration to start on time and not
The Cuban labor movement to date had made important progress, in addition to the fact that within it the tendencies were diverse: anarchists, reformists, socialists of different nuaces, alike were
Vélez was born in 1869, at the height of the struggles for Cuban independence. His father Vicente Vélez Piloña, a mambí, was married to Luisa Vázquez, both from Puerto Príncipe.
This building dates from the early nineteenth century, but in 1878, a mortgage document divided the house into two houses. This house not only saw the birth of the National
On July 4th, 1949, the Camagüey Delegation was founded as part of the Democratic Federation of Cuban Women. In the house located at 558 Oscar Primelles Street, 49 women from
A significant event Puerto Príncipe, today Camagüey, was the protagonist of primitive events in the set of historical processes on the Island of Cuba, in favor of a Spanish anti-colonial
On July 1st, 1871, Federico Fernández-Cavada Howard was shot. The General was trying to leave the north coast of Camagüey to the United States of America to seek support for
The heroes with time appear quasi-hieratic. Many times comparable with bronze or marble, also with oil paintings of great dimensions made by a skilled craftsman. The sacrifice of heroism for
______ Por el fuego las almas henchidas Y latiendo con fe el corazón A la patria y a las artes unidas Vuelva abrirse risueña mansión.[1] ______ A visual impact José
Genesis in historical perspective To perfect the power structure in a unified way between the metropolis and its colonies, in the 18th century, King Felipe V organized an entire administrative
In 1899, the Antonio Maceo Grajales association was established in the city of Camagüey, by the Mambises of the Wars of Independence who decided to reorganize themselves into associative spaces
Its origins go back to the “Victory Club” founded in 1893 in the bosom of Nueva Aurora by the mambises who went to the insurgent battlefield in the War of
The ritual of the first stone is an act that since ancient times has symbolized the presence of monuments, buildings, of great scope. It consists of burying some objects such
The initial project In the then Municipal College of Accountants, I quote in Cisneros no. 301, by General Gómez Street, would begin the enrollment process for a new university in
Origins and family Eugenio, (1865-1933) belonged to a legion of champions for the independence of Cuba. His father Francisco Sánchez-Pereira y Betancourt took up arms in Camagüey in November 1868
The constitutional milestone April 10th, 1869, is a date dignified by his transcendence in the history of Jurisprudence in Cuba. In the midst of the Ten Years’ War, which began
Prologue A study focused on Afro-descendant thinking in Cuba is a debt that has yet to be paid. Social Sciences have devoted not enough time to the epistemology developed by
NO, we don’t understand each other! It was the phrase that on March 15th, 1878, captured the eyes of global society in the most advanced and radical of Cuban thought.
