The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
15th century
16th century
- 1502- , first street in the New World, is constructed
- 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Juan Ponce de León, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Pedro de Alvarado, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, among others)
- 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the official headquarters for the exploration and conquest of the New World
- 1502- Monastery of San Francisco, first monastery in America, is built.
- 1503- Casa de Contratacion is created in Sevilla to regulate trade with the Americas
- 1503- Hospital San Nicolás de Bari, first hospital in the Americas, begins construction.
- 1505 - Fortaleza Ozama, first fortress in the Americas, is built.
- 1509- Reales Atarazanas, first warehouse complex in the New World, is built
- 1510- , first church in the New World, is built
- 1511
- Roman Catholic diocese of Santo Domingo established.
- Alcázar de Colón (Columbus Alcazar), first castle or viceroyal residence in the Americas, is built
- The Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo, first court in the New World, is established
- 1513- Laws of Burgos are passed concerning the treatment of the indigenous people.
- 1514 - Maria de Toledo, serve as regent of the colony during the absence of her spouse the governor until 1520.
- 1522- Jean Fleury commits the first recorded attack of piracy against Spanish ships
- 1538 - Universidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino, first university in the New World, is founded.
- 1540 - Cathedral Primate of the Americas, first cathedral in the Americas, is built.
- 1543 - Fort San Genaro, today La Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate), construction begins.
- 1574- Francisco Tostado de la Peña, and write the first sonnets in the New World
- 1586- Francis Drake captures Santo Domingo in the Battle of Santo Domingo
- 1588- writes the first theatrical play in the New World
- 1600- After the gold mines were exhausted most colonists had decided to become conquistadors and explorers and had left for the mines of Mexico and Peru. Others decide to settle and become hateros (herders), farmers and merchants.
17th century
18th century
- 1716 - Privateers corsairs from the colony of Santo Domingo take action during the Golden Age of Piracy
- 1724 - Guadalupe and Tolosa Shipwreck in Samana
- 1741 - Battle of Cartagena de Indias- Santo Domingo participates in the Spanish victory against the English Navy
- 1760 - Population is bolstered by immigration from the Canary Islands resettling the northern part of the island. Population grows from 6,000 to 125,000 by 1790.
- 1775 - Saint-Domingue becomes one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire
- 1791 - Haitian Revolution takes place in Saint-Domingue
- 1795 - Era de Francia begins after the Treaty of Basel where Spain ceded the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola to France in exchange for keeping Gipuzkoa, ending the War of the Pyrenees.
- 1796 - Massive emigration of the colonial families to Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico where they become cultural pioneers and intellectual figures Famous figures and descendants of the Treaty of Basel diaspora include Jose Maria Heredia, Severiano de Heredia, Jose-Maria de Heredia Girard, Domingo del Monte, Esteban Pichardo, Francisco Javier Caro, brothers, , Juan Vicente Moscoso, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Rafael Maria Baralt, , Francisco Javier Foxa, Emilio Portes Gil, Antonio Melendez Bazan, Pedro Agustin Morel de Santa Cruz, Antonio del Monte y Tejada, Andres Lopez Medrano, Ramon Emeterio Betances, Raimundo Rendon Sarmiento, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo, among others.
- 1797 - The University of Santo Tomas de Aquino closes which, along with the emigration of the intellectual class, causes a big "brain drain"
19th century
20th century
21st century
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This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
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