Timeline of Chihuahua City
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chihuahua, Mexico.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1707 - Settlement founded by Francisco Munoz.[1]
- 1709 - "San Francisco de Cuellar" community founded by Antonio de Deza y Ulloa.[2]
- 1718 - Settlement named "San Felipe el Real de Chihuahua."[3][4][5]
- 1717 - Church of Saint Francis of Assisi construction begins.[1]
- 1721 - Royal House built.[4]
- 1731 - Santa Rita Church built.[2]
- 1763 - Population: nearly 5000.[4]
- 1789 - Church of San Francisco building completed.[2][4]
- 1791 - Population: 4,077.[3]
- 1811 - Execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla early in the Mexican War of Independence.[1][4]
- 1821 - Population: 4,441.[3]
- 1826
- Church of Saint Francis of Assisi construction completed.[2]
- Guadalupe Church built.[2]
- 1835 - Literary and Scientific Institute of Chihuahua founded.
- 1847
- February 28: Battle of the Sacramento River occurs near town.
- March: Town taken by United States forces under command of Alexander William Doniphan and Sterling Price.[4]
- 1864 - Benito Juárez makes the town temporary capital of Mexico.[4]
- 1882 - Paso del Norte-Chihuahua City railroad begins operating.[6]
- 1891
- Government Palace of Chihuahua built.
- Catholic Diocese of Chihuahua established.
- 1895 - Population: 18,279.[4]
- 1900 - Population: 30,405.[4]
20th century
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- 1902 - El Correo de Chihuahua newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1905 - American Smelting and Refining Company facility built (approximate date).[8]
- 1907
- City Hall of Chihuahua built.
- Francisco Villa Museum built.
- 1908 - March 1: Banco Minero robbed.[9]
- 1910
- Museo Casa Chihuahua (known as the Federal Palace) rebuilding completed.[4]
- Quinta Gameros mansion[2] built.
- 1913 - Headquarters of Pancho Villa established in city.[2]
- 1921 - Antonio Guizar y Valencia becomes Catholic bishop of Chihuahua.[10]
- 1926 - Escuela Benito Juárez (school) active.
- 1927 - El Heraldo newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1947 - El Mexicano newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1948 - Chihuahua Institute of Technology established.
- 1949 - Del Real Hotel built.[citation needed]
- 1954 - University of Chihuahua established.
- 1961 - Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico (tourist railway) opened
- 1969 - Adalberto Almeida y Merino becomes Catholic archbishop of Chihuahua.
- 1972 - Museo Casa Juárez established.[citation needed]
- 1975 - Legislature building constructed.
- 1981 - Telmex Tower built.
- 1986 - July: Local election.[12]
- 1990 - Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
- 1997 - Archivo Histórico del Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura established.[13]
- 1998 - Gate to Chihuahua sculpture installed.[citation needed]
- 2000 - Punto Alto built.
21st century
[edit]- 2001 - Tribunales Federales building constructed.
- 2002 - Alejandro Cano Ricaud becomes municipal president.
- 2003 - Angel of Liberty monument erected.[citation needed]
- 2004 - Juan Blanco Zaldivar becomes municipal president.
- 2005 - International Festival of Chihuahua begins.
- 2006 - Museo Casa Chihuahua opens.
- 2008 - Nordam Mexico in business.[14]
- 2010
- June: Attack on Faith and Life Center.[15]
- Álvaro Madero Muñoz becomes municipal president, succeeded by Marco Adán Quezada Martínez.[16]
- Population: 809,232; metro 852,533.[17]
- 2011 - Monument Tower built.[citation needed]
- 2012
- Centro Cultural Bicentenario inaugurated.[18]
- Cenit Tower built.[citation needed]
- 2013 - July: Javier Garfio Pacheco elected municipal president.
- 2017 - March: Journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea is shot and killed by a gunman as she drives away from her home.
See also
[edit]- Chihuahua history (city)
- List of municipal presidents of Chihuahua
- Chihuahua (state) history
- History of Chihuahua state (in Spanish)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 393, OL 6112221M
- ^ a b c d e f g Hall, Prentice (1994), Baedeker's Mexico, Prentice Hall Books, p. 187+, ISBN 9780671874780 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- ^ a b c Martin 2000.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Britannica 1910.
- ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886), History of the North Mexican States and Texas, Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918. Works,v.15-16, vol. 1: 1531-1800, San Francisco, California: History Company
- ^ Clark 2003.
- ^ "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ Wasserman 1980.
- ^ Sandels 1971.
- ^ "Historia" (in Spanish). Arquidiócesi de Chihuahua. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ a b "Publicaciones periódicas". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Gobierno de Mexico. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
Datos SIC
- ^ Roderic Ai Camp (1996). Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535535-2.
- ^ "Archivos Históricos en Chihuahua" (in Spanish). Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Nordam celebrates 40 years of flight", Tulsa World, Oklahoma, USA, October 28, 2009 – via LexisNexis Academic
- ^ "Gunmen Kill 19 at Drug Rehab Center in Northern Mexico". New York Times. June 11, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Mexican mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Inauguran Centro cultural bicentenario Carlos Montemayor". Crónica de Chihuahua (in Spanish). August 12, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
Bibliography
[edit]In English
[edit]Published in the 19th century
- Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Chihuahua", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Chihuahua", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
- Cristobal Hidalgo (1900), "Important Cities: Chihuahua", Guide to Mexico, San Francisco, California: Whitaker & Ray Co.
Published in the 20th century
- Reau Campbell (1909), "Chihuahua", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 134.
- W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Chihuahua", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Chihuahua", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
- Robert Sandels (1971). "Silvestre Terrazas and the Old Regime in Chihuahua". The Americas. 28 (2). Academy of American Franciscan History: 191–205. doi:10.2307/980264. JSTOR 980264. S2CID 146982926.
- Mark Wasserman (1980). "The Social Origins of the 1910 Revolution in Chihuahua". Latin American Research Review. 15 (1). Latin American Studies Association: 15–38. doi:10.1017/S0023879100032520. JSTOR 2503092. S2CID 253154369.
- Daniel D. Arreola and James R. Curtis (1994), "Ciudad Chihuahua: Its Changing Morphology and Landscape", Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 20: 73–85, JSTOR 25765800
- "Central North Mexico: Chihuahua", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998, OL 8314651M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- "Northwest Mexico: Chihuahua", Mexico, Let's Go, Let's Go Publications, 1999, OL 10387112M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- John Fisher (1999), "Between the Sierras: Northeast Routes: Chihuahua", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 132+, OL 24935876M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Cheryl English Martin (2000). Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4168-2.
Published in the 21st century
- Edwina Antonia Clark (2003). "Rails to Chihuahua: A Letter from Edwin Lyon Dean, September 22, 1882". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 107 (1): 96–105. JSTOR 30239426.
- Thomas M. Fullerton Jr. and Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz (2004). "Maquiladora Employment Dynamics in Chihuahua City, Mexico". Journal of Developing Areas. 38 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1353/jda.2005.0005. JSTOR 20066691. S2CID 153398337.
In Spanish
[edit]- Francisco R. Almada (1984). Guía histórica de la ciudad de Chihuahua [Historical Guide to Chihuahua City] (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua.
- Jorge Carrera Robles (1998). Crónica urbana: la ciudad de Chihuahua al inicio del nuevo milenio [Urban Chronicle: Chihuahua City to the new millennium] (in Spanish). Chihuahua, Chih., Ḿexico: Ayuntamiento Chihuahua.
- Carlos Lazcano Sahagún (2002). Chihuahua: historia de una ciudad (in Spanish). Editorial México Desconocido.
External links
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- Europeana. Items related to Chihuahua, Mexico, various dates.
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