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1519
San Cristóbal de La Habana Village is settled.
16 de Noviembre de 1519
San Cristóbal de La Habana Village is settled where, according to tradition, there was a corpulent ceiba tree whose shadow sheltered those gathered to celebrate the first mass and the first Cabildo (Official Government Assembly) of Havana City. Nowadays, in that very place there is a ceiba tree which evokes the former and the Templete (Small Temple) built in 1827, commemorating that historical event. One day ,which can not be precisely established, from 1512, the San Cristóbal de La Habana Village neighbours definitely settled close the Carenas Port. Remains of two important settlements were left behind. The former in the South Coast, the latter, according to acts and testimonies, lead us to suppose that it should be at the level of present-day Puentes Grandes (Big Bridges) neighborhood, named Pueblo Viejo (Old Town), close to the rapids which conform the present-day Almendares river. In 1553 Havana is tactically recognized Capital of the Island, when the Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo authorized the governors to reside in it. Some years later, by the Real Cédula from December 20th, 1592, it became CITY and received the titles of Antemural de las Indias Occidentales (Foremural of Western Indies) and Llave del Nuevo Mundo (Key of the New World).
1857
Writer Miguel Teurbe Tolón y de la Guardia died
16 de Noviembre de 1857
He was born in Matanzas, in September 29th 1820. He studied in a public school in his birthplace and with a group of private professors. With them he learned latinity, rhetorics, natural sciences and philosophy. Besides he studies English, French and Italian. He collaborated Aguinaldo Matancero and in La Aurora del YumurÃ, daily in which he became Chief Editor.
He settled La Guirnalda, supressed by the Spanish Government. He was official interpreter of the Real Hacienda (Royal Treasure Department) and professor of history, philosophy, English, fencing and rhetorics. He explained Natural Philosophy in the Sociedad Filarmónica de Matanzas.His theatre plays Un casorio (A Marriage) and Una noticia (A News) were staged in Matanzas. In un cenacle of that city he made public his Course on Literature, which he did not published. He imparted classes on literature in the Auxiliary School of the University of Havana.
In 1848 he was appointed facultative associate of the Liceo ArtÃstico y Literario de La Habana. He collaborated in La Prensa, El Faro Industrial, Flores del Siglo, Diario de Avisos, La Floresta Cubana, La Piragua, Brisas de Cuba, El Duende. He was forced to emigrate to the United States in 1848 because of his independentist ideas. In New York he dedicated to teaching and took up the Secretaryship of the Junta Cubana Anexionista. He worked in the expeditionary projects led by Narciso López.
He was secretary of the Legation of the Repúblic of Costa Rica in Washington. He published El Tiple Cubano and El Tiple Libre in the United States of America; He was editor in chief of La Verdad, and directed El Cubano, El Papagayo and El Cometa; He was in charge of the Hispanic American section of the Herald, from Nueva York. The majority of his poems written in English were published in Waverley Magazine, from Boston. The anthology El laúd del desterrado (1858) gahers some of his poetries. He translated from English the History of the United States, Emma Williard, and The Common Sense, by Tomás Payne. He returned to Cuba, already ill, in August 1857, after having been supressed the death penalty against him. He made use of the pseudonyms Lola, La Lola filibustera, Tello Rubio Montegú, Alfonso de Torquemada. 1857.
1962
The Teatro LÃrico Rodrigo Prats (Lyrical Theatre Rodigo Prats) from HolguÃn was settled.
16 de Noviembre de 1962
The Teatro LÃrico Rodrigo Prats (Lyrical Theatre Rodigo Prats) from HolguÃn was settled in November 16th, 1962, by baritone Raúl Camayd, who directed it for more than 25 years, until his death.
The first zarzuela premiered by the company was Los Gavilanes, and among its wide repertory are MarÃa la O, Cecilia Valdés and the opera La Traviata. The Lyrical Theatre Rodigo Prats was getting deeper in people´s choice and prestigeous within national and international cultural media. Among its successes are their presentations in Lima, Perú, and main Cuban cities along these 40 years.
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