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Source: [2] 1 January - New Year's Day; 6 January - Epiphany 21 January - Our Lady of High Grace 26 January - Duarte's Birthday 27 February – Independence Day 18 April – Good Friday
2.3 Dominican Republic. 2.4 Haiti. 2.5 Trinidad and Tobago. 3 Commonwealth Realms. ... 2020s in political history; 2025 Atlantic hurricane season; Caribbean Community;
Other events of 2025; Timeline of Dominican history; Events in the year 2025 in Dominica. Incumbents ... 3–4 March – Carnival;
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the Caribbean. The native Taíno people, an Arawakan people, had inhabited the island during the pre-Columbian era, dividing it into five chiefdoms.
A project by actors, producers and activists Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez puts a spotlight on a family of Dominican women who fought against a brutal dictatorship and gave up everything in the ...
April 24: Dominican Civil War; April 28: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins. 1966 July 1: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends. El Nacional newspaper begins publication. [6] 1970 - Population: 673,470 city; 817,645 urban agglomeration. [14] 1972 - Santo Domingo Institute of Technology founded.
23 April - The High Court of Dominica strikes down a ban on consensual same-sex relations in the country as unconstitutional following a petition from a gay man. [1]3 August – Thea LaFond clinches Dominica's first ever Olympic medal after winning gold in the Women's triple jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
1 History. 2 Demographics. 3 Notable people. 4 References. ... Dominican Americans; ... This page was last edited on 2 January 2025, ...