1515
Santiago de Cuba was the first capital of Cuba
from 1515 to 1556 under Spanish colonial rule.
On this day
July 26
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on July 26 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
3 events
3 centuries
3 countries
1822
July 26-27, 1822
Guayaquil was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana in 1538 (his more-famous later achievement was the 1541-1542 descent of the Amazon River from Quito to the Atlantic — the first European traversal of the Amazon basin).
1979
Mother Teresa
(born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje) — the significant Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, and was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016 — was born and significantly grew up in Skopje to ethnically…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →