Timeline of Ciudad Juárez
The following is a timeline of the history of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 1659 - Mission de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe founded.[1]
- 1682 – Ysleta Mission established.
- 1826 - Town named "Villa Paso del Norte."[2]
- 1848 – Across the Rio Grande, El Paso becomes part of the U.S. state of Texas per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.[3]
- 1882 – Bridge built.[4]
- 1888
- El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez.[3]
- Customs Office building constructed.
- 1892 - Bridge built.[4]
- 1895 - Population: 6,917.[5]
20th century
- 1906 - Escuela Superior de Agricultura "Hermanos Escobar" (school) founded.[1]
- 1909 - William Howard Taft - Porfirio Díaz , historic first Presidential summit and the near assassination of both Presidents.[6]
- 1910 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.[1]
- 1911
- April–May: Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911); city taken by revolutionaries.[3]
- World's "first" aerial reconnaissance flown via airplane (El Paso-Cuidad Juarez), for Mexican government.[7]
- 1912 - Mexico North Western Railway (Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua) in operation.[8]
- 1922 - Teatro-Cine Alcazar (theatre) opens.[9]
- 1930 - Quevedo crime gang active.[10]
- 1933 - Cervecería Cruz Blanca (brewery) established.[1]
- 1938 – El Paso Ysleta Port of Entry, USA, established.
- 1940
- Teófilo Borunda becomes mayor.
- Population: 48,881.[3]
- 1942 - Ysleta–Zaragoza Bridge rebuilt.[4]
- 1943 - El Fronterizo newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1946 - Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Transformación de Ciudad Juárez, CANACINTRA established*
- 1947 - Cine Plaza (cinema) opens.[12]
- 1957 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez established.[13]
- 1958 - Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez established.[14]
- 1964 - Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez established.
- 1967
- Bridge built.[4]
- U.S.-Mexico Chamizal land dispute resolved.[1]
- 1968 - RCA Corporation maquila begins operating.[15]
- 1970 - Parque Público Federal El Chamizal (park) created.
- 1973 - Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez established.[1]
- 1974 - Asociacion de Maquiladoras (labor group) founded.
- 1976 - El Diario de Juárez newspaper in publication.[16]
- 1980
- XHIJ-TV begins broadcasting.
- Grupo Intermedia television company established.
- Population: 567,365 municipality.[1]
- 1981 - Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez (stadium) opens.
- 1982 - Nipona maquila begins operating.[17]
- 1983 - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (institute) regional headquarters established.[18]
- 1988 - Club de Fútbol Cobras (football club) active.
- 1990
- Norte newspaper in publication.[16]
- Museo Histórico de Ciudad Juárez opens.
- Population: 798,499 municipality.[1]
- 1995 - Population: 1,011,786 municipality.[1]
21st century
- 2000
- XHEM-FM radio begins broadcasting.
- Mormon temple built.
- Museo de la Lealtad Republicana (museum) opens.
- 2001 - Astros de Ciudad Juárez football club formed.
- 2003 - Frontera Women's Foundation established.
- 2004
- Museo del Concorde opens.
- International news media reports on ongoing Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez area.[19]
- Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
- 2005 - Indios de Ciudad Juárez (football club) formed.
- 2007 - José Reyes Ferriz becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
- 2008 - Juárez Hoy newspaper begins publication.
- 2009
- March: "Warfare erupts between rival drug gangs."[20]
- 2 September: Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack.
- 2010
- 31 January: Villas de Salvárcar massacre.
- Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality again.
- Population: 1,321,004 city; 1,332,131 municipality.[21]
- 2013
- ViveBús begins operating.
- Monumento a la Mexicanidad installed.
- Enrique Serrano Escobar becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
- 2014 - Railroad hub opens in nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico, USA.[22]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Juárez: Cronología de Hechos Históricos". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011.
- ↑ University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
- 1 2 3 4 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 413, OL 6112221M
- 1 2 3 4 Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1441-0.
- ↑ J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Chihuahua: Ciudad Juarez". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). 2. R. de S. N. Araluce – via Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Harris, Charles H. III; Sadler, Louis R. (2009). The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4652-0.
- ↑ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- ↑ Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702
- ↑ Laura Isabel Serna (2010). "Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border: American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930". In Alexis McCrossen. Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-9078-7.
- ↑ Nicole Mottier (2009). "Drug Gangs and Politics in Ciudad Juárez: 1928–1936". Mexican Studies. 25.
- ↑ Felix Padilla, ed. (1994). Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the United States: Sociology. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-165-6.
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Juarez, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mexico". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez, 1671-1945, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
- ↑ Jefferson R. Cowie (1999). Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.
- 1 2 "Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ Kathleen Staudt; et al., eds. (2010). Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11291-9.
- ↑ "Colef" (in Spanish). Tijuana. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. lxiii–lxxii. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
- ↑ BBC News. "Mexico Profile: Timeline". Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ "Juárez". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ↑ "New Rail Hub Opens Along Border in New Mexico", New York Times, 28 May 2014
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Further reading
- El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory, 1885 – via University of Texas at El Paso
- "Ciudad Juarez", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
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