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February 27: Independence Day, national holiday [2] Friday of Holy Week, March or April: Good Friday, national holiday [2] May 1: Labour Day, national holiday [2] Second Thursday after Pentecost, May or June: Corpus Christi, national holiday [4] August 16: Restoration Day, national holiday [2] [5]
The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration (Spanish: Guerra de la Restauración), called War of Santo Domingo in Spain (Guerra de Santo Domingo), [2] was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between Dominican nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.
Dominican Republic: Independence Day: 30 November: 1821 Spanish Empire: Independence from Spain in November 1821. [49] 27 February: 1844 Haiti: Independence re-declared from Haiti in 1844, after a 22-year occupation. Start of the Dominican War of Independence. Restoration Day: 16 August: 1863 Spanish Empire: Day of Grito del Capotillo on August ...
In 1861, the country reverted to Spanish rule but once again won its independence again in 1865 after the Dominican Restoration War. The day falls within Carnaval de la Vega, a month-long ...
José Cabrera Gómez (1810 – March 14, 1884) was a Dominican soldier and politician who was a prominent figure in the Dominican War of Independence and the Dominican Restoration War. In the latter conflict, he was one of the leaders behind the Grito del Capotillo, which triggered the start of the war against the Kingdom of Spain.
Peoples of the Dominican Republic Peoples of Haiti in Port-de-Paix in Haiti. Hispaniola is the most populous Caribbean island with a combined population of 23 million inhabitants as of July 2023. [69] The Dominican Republic is a Hispanophone nation of approximately 11.3 million people. Spanish is spoken by essentially all Dominicans as a ...
The Battle of Jura was a military confrontation of the Dominican Restoration War that took place on October 1, 1863, during the reign of Isabella II of Spain in which the Spanish royal army commanded Eusebio Puello, faced the troops of the Dominican Army under the command of General José Durán.
The Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración (Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration) is a monument in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. It is the highest building in Santiago, and a major tourist attraction for the area.