Port of Spain

City · c. 1976 CE · in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Capital of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (1976–today).

Victoria (c. 1976 CE): Capital of Seychelles (1976–today).
Dhaka (c. 1973 CE): Capital of People's Republic of Bangladesh (1973–today).
Abu Dhabi (c. 1973 CE): Capital of United Arab Emirates (1973–today).
Suva (c. 1973 CE): Capital of Republic of Fiji (1973–today).
Roseau (c. 1979 CE): Capital of Commonwealth of Dominica (1979–today).
Honiara (c. 1979 CE): Capital of Solomon Islands (1979–today).
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (c. 1972 CE): Capital of Sri Lanka (1972–today).
Belmopan (1970 CE): Capital of Belize (1983–today).
Lobamba (c. 1969 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
Aden (c. 1969 CE): Capital of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969–1989), Republic of Yemen (1990–1990).

Around the same time and place

Gabriel García Márquez (1927 CE – 2014 CE): Colombian novelist, a master of magical realism and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Nobel Prize in Literature 1982.
2010 Haiti earthquake (2010 CE): A magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Port-au-Prince killed well over 100,000 people and devastated the capital.
Hugo Chávez (1954 CE – 2013 CE): Venezuelan army officer and president from 1999 until his death, leader of the socialist "Bolivarian Revolution".