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He was a Castilian Spanish nobleman and conquistador. Territorial Lord of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century. He managed to enter the island of Tenerife by signing a peace treaty with the menceys. -
He arrived on the island with a plan of conquest. Most of those who made up his army were a mix of Europeans and Canaries and horses. -
After several battles that pitted the Castilian warriors against the Guanches, they surrendered and ceded their island to the Crown of Castile. -
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He was an English admiral who intended to seize the cargo of the New Spain fleet. He was repulsed by the troops of the Island -
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When the Trevejo volcano erupted (May 5), the lava hills reached the port of Garachico. With which they opened a new port in Santa Cruz. -
General Lorenzo de Villavicencio moved to Santa Cruz. He previously stayed in La Laguna. -
Thanks to this event, the Canarian written press developed. -
Among the towns they founded, San Bernardo stands out. -
On July 25, the day of Santiago, one of the most important and outstanding military events in the history of the city took place: troops and citizens of Santa Cruz defended themselves, under the command of General Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero, from the English naval attack Led by Horatio Nelson. That day Nelson lost an arm to a shot from the Tiger cannon, and ordered the British Army to withdraw. -
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Set of economic measures that came to mean the liberalization of the entry and exit of goods from the Canary Islands -
In 1859 it obtained the title of "City" by Royal Order of October 10, and in 1894 it was granted the title of "very beneficial" by Royal Decree of April 23, for the behavior of its inhabitants in the face of the cholera epidemic. of the year 1893. -
The García Sanabria municipal park, built in 1926, is located between Numancia, Méndez Núñez, Dr. José Naveiras and Rambla de Santa Cruz streets. It was built to give the city a large garden area, with fountains and architectural groups. It is the largest urban park in the Canary Islands, and has an area of 67,230 m². In 2016, it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the Canary Islands, and its vegetation is made up of a wide variety of exotic plants. -
In 1927, during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Canary Islands were divided into the two provinces we have today; thus creating the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Province of Las Palmas. In this way, the rivalry between the two main cities of the archipelago was resolved. The city of Santa Cruz became the capital of the province with that name. -
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This phenomenon was the frequent fall of torrential rains accompanied by electrical equipment. It affected the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz and the area of San Andrés. The rains caused 8 deaths, 12 missing, and dozens of injuries, in addition to costly material damage, such as the lack of electricity and the destruction of 400 homes. In 2010 another large flood took place causing an electrical blackout that affected the entire island, but without fatalities. -
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