Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
[Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico] San Juan, PR // Northeastern Caribbean // Atlantic Time (The Island of Enchantment [La Isla del Encanto]) |
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Claimed for the Kingdom of Spain: |
November 19, 1493
by Christopher Columbus (* 1451, † 1506) |
First European settlement founded: |
Caparra on August 8, 1508
by Juan Ponce de León (* 1460, † 1521) |
Invasion of US forces: |
July 25, 1898 at Guanica Bay during the
Spanish-American War[1] |
US citizenship granted: | March 2, 1917 |
Commonwealth proclaimed: | July 25, 1952 |
[1] Spain ceded Puerto Rico, along with the Philippines and Guam, then under Spanish sovereignty, to the USA under the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. | |
On November 6, 2012 the people of Puerto Rico voted in a referendum to be admitted into the USA as 51st state. | |
View map of Puerto Rico |
#4318 // August 11, 2011
(self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Tody |
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View Puerto Rico quarter |
PR #210 // 1899 |
PR #215 // 1900 |
PR #211 // 1899 |
PR #216 // 1900 |
overprint "PORTO/PUERTO RICO" on US #279
Benjamin Franklin (* 1706, † 1790), one of the US Founding Fathers, and first US Postmaster |
overprint "PORTO/PUERTO RICO" on US #279Bf
George Washington (* 1732, † 1799), one of the US Founding Fathers, and first US President, in office 1789 - 1797 |
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Provisional issues of 1899/1900 with overprint "PORTO/PUERTO RICO" on US regular issues (1¢, 2¢, 5¢, 10¢) from the series "Universal Postal Union Colors" issued in 1898 and on regular issue #272 (8¢), July 1895. Misspellings of the overprint PORTU and/or FORTO and/or RICU are actually broken letters P or O. After the overprinted provisional issues of 1900, unoverprinted US stamps replaced those of Puerto Rico. | |||
Puerto Rican personalities featured on US stamps |
Puerto Rican Stamped Postal Card (PR #UX3)
with imprinted stamp 1¢ black (Thomas Jefferson) and additional affixed overprinted US stamp 1¢ yellow green (Benjamin Franklin, PR #215/ US #279) mailed in August 1900 from Mayaguez, PR, USA to Dresden, Germany. |
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