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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 ... 5 May - Labour Day; 9 June ...
In what was referred to as la danza de los millones, with the destruction of European sugar-beet farms during World War I, sugar prices rose to their highest level in history, from $5.50 in 1914 to $22.50 per pound in 1920. Dominican sugar exports increased from 122,642 tons in 1916 to 158,803 tons in 1920, earning a record $45.3 million. [65]
1501- Calle Las Damas [], 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)
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.
The podcast "Sisters of the Underground" by Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez is on the Mirabal sisters who helped topple Dominican Republic's Trujillo dictatorship.
Seal of the French department of Santo-Domingo. In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of Era de Francia ("Era of France", "French Era" or "French Period") occurred in 1795 when France acquired the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, annexed it into Saint-Domingue and briefly came to acquire the whole island of Hispaniola by the way of the Treaty of Basel, allowing Spain to cede ...