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Havana in time
Year 1566
-The construction of the Zanja Real began, the first hydraulic work to be built in Cuba. Francisco de Calona began this work.
Its construction was started by the master Francisco de Calona, and it was completed 26 years later under the direction of the engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli at a cost of 35 thousand pesos. It was extended from t
Year 1569
-FEBRUARY 26. The graduate Gamarra, graduated in Alcalá, Spain, a surgeon and pharmacist, was the first to create an apothecary and was authorized to perform the functions of doctor and apothecary. He was the only one authorized to cure the inhabitants of the city and to examine whoever wanted to practice that profession.
Year 1573
-It was entrusted to officers such as tailors, carpenters, shoemakers and blacksmiths to make inventions and games for the Corpus Christi.
-The Royal Hospital of San Felipe and Santiago was completed, later San Juan de Dios.
-In this year it was known the existence in the Hato de Guanicanamar of a village of Indians located on the
