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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.
• 1709 - "San Francisco de Cuellar" community founded by Antonio de Deza y Ulloa.
• 1718 - Settlement named "San Felipe el Real de Chihuahua."
• 1717 - Church of Saint Francis of Assisi construction begins.
• 1721 - Royal House built.
• 1731 - Santa Rita Church built.
• 1763 - Population: nearly 5000.
• 1789 - Church of San Francisco building completed.
• 1791 - Population: 4,077.
• 1811 - Execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla early in the Mexican War of Independence.
• 1821 - Population: 4,441.
• 1826
  • Church of Saint Francis of Assisi construction completed.
  • Guadalupe Church built.
• 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.
• 1864 - Benito Juárez makes the town temporary capital of Mexico.
• 1882 - Paso del Norte-Chihuahua City railroad begins operating.
• 1891
  • Government Palace of Chihuahua built.
  • Catholic Diocese of Chihuahua established.
• 1895 - Population: 18,279.
• 1900 - Population: 30,405.

20th century

• 1902 - El Correo de Chihuahua newspaper begins publication.
• 1905 - American Smelting and Refining Company facility built (approximate date).
• 1907
  • City Hall of Chihuahua built.
  • Francisco Villa Museum built.
• 1908 - March 1: Banco Minero robbed.
• 1910
  • Museo Casa Chihuahua (known as the Federal Palace) rebuilding completed.
  • Quinta Gameros mansion built.
• 1913 - Headquarters of Pancho Villa established in city.
• 1921 - Antonio Guizar y Valencia becomes Catholic bishop of Chihuahua.
• 1926 - Escuela Benito Juárez (school) active.
• 1927 - El Heraldo newspaper begins publication.
• 1947 - El Mexicano newspaper begins publication.
• 1948 - Chihuahua Institute of Technology established.
• 1949 - Del Real Hotel built.
• 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.
• 1975 - Legislature building constructed.
• 1981 - Telmex Tower built.
• 1986 - July: Local election.
• 1990 - Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
• 1997 - Archivo Histórico del Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura established.
• 1998 - Gate to Chihuahua sculpture installed.
• 2000 - Punto Alto built.

21st century

• 2001 - Tribunales Federales building constructed.
• 2002 - Alejandro Cano Ricaud becomes municipal president.
• 2003 - Angel of Liberty monument erected.
• 2004 - Juan Blanco Zaldivar becomes municipal president.
• 2005 - International Festival of Chihuahua begins.
• 2006 - Museo Casa Chihuahua opens.
• 2008 - Nordam Mexico in business.
• 2010
  • June: Attack on Faith and Life Center.
  • Álvaro Madero Muñoz becomes municipal president, succeeded by Marco Adán Quezada Martínez.
  • Population: 809,232; metro 852,533.
• 2011 - Monument Tower built.
• 2012
  • Centro Cultural Bicentenario inaugurated.
  • Cenit Tower built.
• 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

• Chihuahua history (city)
• List of municipal presidents of Chihuahua
• Chihuahua (state) history
  • History of Chihuahua state (in Spanish)

References

1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 393, OL 6112221M
2. ^ Hall, Prentice (1994), Baedeker's Mexico, Prentice Hall Books, p. 187+, ISBN 9780671874780 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
3. ^ Martin 2000.
4. ^ Britannica 1910.
5. 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
6. Clark 2003.
7. "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
8. Wasserman 1980.
9. Sandels 1971.
10. "Historia" (in Spanish). Arquidiócesi de Chihuahua. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
11. ^ "Publicaciones periódicas". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Gobierno de Mexico. Retrieved March 7, 2020. Datos SIC
12. Roderic Ai Camp (1996). Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535535-2.
13. "Archivos Históricos en Chihuahua" (in Spanish). Retrieved March 20, 2014.
14. "Nordam celebrates 40 years of flight", Tulsa World, Oklahoma, USA, October 28, 2009 – via LexisNexis Academic
15. "Gunmen Kill 19 at Drug Rehab Center in Northern Mexico". New York Times. June 11, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
16. "Mexican mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
17. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
18. "Inauguran Centro cultural bicentenario Carlos Montemayor". Crónica de Chihuahua (in Spanish). August 12, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2014.

Bibliography

In English

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
• "Chihuahua (city)" . 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

• 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

• "Publicaciones editadas en Chihuahua". Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico (National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Europeana. Items related to Chihuahua, Mexico, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Chihuahua, Mexico, various dates

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