Timeline of Mexico City
The following is a timeline of the history of Mexico City, Mexico.
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Prior to 1900s
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- 1325 – Tenochtitlán founded by Aztecs.[1]
- 1521 – City sacked by Spanish forces led by Cortés.[1]
- 1524 – México Tenochtitlán municipality established.
- 1527 – Spanish Royal Audiencia of Mexico established.
- 1537 – Mint built.[1]
- 1539 - Printer Juan Pablos active.[2]
- 1543 – Convento Grande de San Francisco painting school established (approximate date).[3]
- 1551 – Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico founded.[1]
- 1588 – San Ildefonso College founded by Jesuits.
- 1592
- Consulado established.[4]
- Alameda Central park created.
- 1629 – Flood.[1]
- 1645 – Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.[1]
- 1690 – Church of San Bernardo consecrated.
- 1692 – Uprising against Spanish rule.[1]
- 1720 – Church of La Profesa dedicated.[5]
- 1736 – Palace of the Inquisition built.
- 1752 – Teatro Principal built.[5]
- 1766 – House of the Marquis of Uluapa built.
- 1776 – National Pawn Shop opens.[5]
- 1777 – Sacro y Real Monte Pío de Animas founded.
- 1778
- School of fine arts founded.[1]
- La Enseñanza Church consecrated.
- 1785 – Palace of Iturbide (residence) built.
- 1790 – Population: 112,926.[6]
- 1813 – School of Mines built.[6]
- 1824 – Federal District created.
- 1831 - El Cocinero Mexicano (cookbook) published.[7]
- 1833 – National Institute of Geography and Statistics established.[8]
- 1847
- August 19–20: Battle of Contreras.
- September 8–15: Battle for Mexico City.
- 1848 – February 2: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed, ending the Mexican–American War.
- 1863
- "French troops occupied Mexico City."[9]
- La Merced Market buildings constructed.
- 1865 – Drogueria de la Profesa (drugstore) in business.[10]
- 1866 – National Conservatory of Music founded.
- 1868 - La Concordia restaurant in business.[7]
- 1875 – Arbeu Theatre opens.[5]
- 1887
- Fabrica Linera (textile mill) established.[11]
- Monument to Cuauhtémoc erected.[12]
- 1888 – Posada printer in business.[12]
- 1891 – El Palacio de Hierro (shop) in business.[13]
1900s
- 1900
- 1903 – Mexico City Banking Co. established.[11]
- 1905 – General Hospital of Mexico opens.[14]
- 1907 – Post office built.[1]
- 1910 – El Ángel monument erected on Paseo de la Reforma.
- 1917 – Excélsior newspaper begins publication.[15]
- 1918 – Teatro Esperanza Iris opens.
- 1919 – Academia Mexicana de la Historia established.
- 1921 – Secretariat of Public Education headquartered in city.
- 1928
- Federal District of Mexico City divided into 16 boroughs.
- Teatro Ulises active.
- 1930 – La Aficion newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1932 – Teatro Orientación founded.
- 1934 – Palacio de Bellas Artes inaugurated.
- 1937
- Taller de Gráfica Popular established.[17]
- Hotel Majestic opens in the Portal de Mercaderes.
- 1940
- 21 August: Leon Trotsky assassinated.
- Palacio Chino (cinema) opens.[18]
- 1941 – Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation building constructed.
- 1943
- Colegio Nacional founded.
- Tepeyac Teatro opens.[18]
- 1945 – Bimbo Bread in business.[19]
- 1947 – Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos begins operation.
- 1948 – New Federal District building constructed.
- 1952 – National Auditorium opens.
- 1954 – Ciudad Universitaria campus built in Coyoacán.
- 1957 – July 28: Earthquake.
- 1960 – Cine Latino (cinema) opens.[18]
- 1962
- Library of the Congress of Mexico established.
- El Día newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1964 – Museum of the City of Mexico and National Museum of Anthropology inaugurated.
- 1966 - Estadio Azteca (stadium) opens.[20]
- 1968
- October 2: Tlatelolco massacre.[9]
- October: 1968 Summer Olympics held.
- 1969
- First line of Mexico City Metro (subway system) opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.[21]
- 1971
- June 10: Corpus Christi massacre.
- Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros opens.
- 1978
- Templo Mayor excavated.
- Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra founded.[22]
- 1980
- Cuestion newspaper begins publication.[16]
- El Parnaso bookshop in business.
- 1982
- Central de Abasto (market) built.
- National Museum of Art opens.[23]
- 1985 – September 19: 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
- 1986 – Franz Mayer Museum opens.
- 1990 – Population: 8,235,744; metro 15,047,685.[6]
- 1992 – Supreme Court built.[17]
- 1993 – Cafebrería el Péndulo bookshop/cafe opens.
- 1995 – World Trade Center Mexico City opens.
- 1997 – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas elected Head of Government of the Federal District.
2000s
- 2000 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador becomes Head of Government of the Federal District.
- 2001 – Pujol (restaurant) in business.
- 2003 – Policia de Barrio program established.[24]
- 2004 – Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco established.
- 2005
- Mexico City Metrobús begins operating.
- Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez becomes interim Head of Government of the Federal District, succeeded by reinstated Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
- 2006
- Marcelo Ebrard elected Head of Government of the Federal District.
- Centro Cultural Bella Epoca bookshop opens.
- 2008 – November 4: Plane crash in Las Lomas.
- 2010 – Population: 8,851,080; metro 20,116,842.
- 2012
- Homeless World Cup football contest held.
- Miguel Ángel Mancera becomes Head of Government of the Federal District.[25]
- 2013 – January 31: Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion.
See also
- History of Mexico City
- Mexico City's boroughs
- List of heads of government of the Mexican Federal District
- Chronology of the Mexican Federal District (Spanish)
- Tenochtitlan, 1325-1521
- Greater Mexico City
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Mexico City", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
- ↑ "Mexico, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup, Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
- 1 2 3 4 Harold R. Maxson (1920), A Practical Handbook with Useful Information Regarding Mexico City and Vicinity, Mexico City: American Book & Printing Co., OCLC 8753962
- 1 2 3 David Marley (2005), "Mexico City", Historic Cities of the Americas, 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 247–266, ISBN 1576070271
- 1 2 Jeffrey M. Pilcher (2012). Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-991158-5.
- ↑ "Mexico". Handbook of Learned Societies and Institutions: America. Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1908.
- 1 2 "Timelines: History of Mexico from 1810 to 2008", World Book, USA, (subscription required (help))
- ↑ "Growth of Business in Mexico", Overland Monthly, San Francisco, California, 56, July 1910
- 1 2 Mexican Year Book. McCorquodale & Company. 1912.
- 1 2 "Mexico and Central America, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- ↑ José María Marroquí (1900). La Ciudad de México (in Spanish). 1. Tip. y Lit. "La Europea" de J. Aguilar Vera y Ca.
- ↑ Gustavo G. Garza Merodio (2006). "Technological innovation and the expansion of Mexico City, 1870-1920". Journal of Latin American Geography. 5. JSTOR 25765142.
- ↑ "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Mexico". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
- 1 2 "Mexico and Central America, 1900 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Movie Theaters in Mexico City". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ Robert Weis (2009). "Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Bread, and Class Negotiation in Postrevolutionary Mexico City". Mexican Studies. 25. doi:10.1525/msem.2009.25.1.71.
- ↑ Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
- ↑ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ↑ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
- ↑ Alex M. Saragoza; et al., eds. (2012). "Chronology of Contemporary Mexico". Mexico Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. USA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34948-5.
- ↑ Markus-Michael Müller (2010). "Community Policing in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico City". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (88). JSTOR 25676405.
- ↑ "Mexican Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Further reading
Published in the 1700s-1800s
- Antonio de Solís; Thomas Townsend (1738). "Description of the City of Mexico". History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. London.
- R. H. Bonnycastle (1819). "Metropolis of New Spain". Spanish America. Philadelphia: A. Small.
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Mexico", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mexico", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Town of Mexico". Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
- Josiah Conder (1830), "City of Mexico", Mexico and Guatimala, The Modern Traveller, 25, London: J.Duncan
- John Frost (1853), "Mexico", Great Cities of the World in their Glory and in their Desolation, Auburn, New York: Alden, Beardsley & Co.
- Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Mexico". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 3. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
Mejico
- Albert S. Evans (1870), "Mexico", Our Sister Republic: a Gala Trip through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70, Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Co.
- William Eleroy Curtis (1888), "Mexico", The Capitals of Spanish America, New York: Harper & Bros.
- Emil Riedel (1892), Practical guide of the city and valley of Mexico, City of Mexico: I. Epstein, OCLC 9712451
- Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "City of Mexico and Environs", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- Archibald Wilberforce, ed. (1893). "Mexico". Capitals of the Globe. NY: Peter Fenelon Collier.
- Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Mexico City", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
- "City of Mexico", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
Published in the 1900s
- 1900s-1950s
- "Mexico City". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- Robert South Barrett (1903), Standard guide to the city of Mexico and vicinity, City of Mexico: Modern Mexico
- Mexico: the Magazine Guide. 1. Mexico City: W.J. de Lamater Company. 1907.
- "Mexico: City of Mexico", United States, with Excursions to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- Reau Campbell (1909), "City of Mexico", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
- "History and Description: Special Places: Mexico (City and Valley)". List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Mexico. New York Public Library. 1909.
- "North America's Oldest Metropolis", National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C., 58, 1930 (describes Mexico City)
- Artemio de Valle-Arizpe (1939). Historia de la ciudad de México según los relatos de sus cronistas [History of Mexico City according to the accounts of its chroniclers] (in Spanish). México, D.F.: P. Robredo. OCLC 6945299.
- 1960s-1990s
- Frieden, Bernard. The search for housing policy in Mexico City. Town Planning Review. 36 (1965)
- "Mexico, the City That Founded a Nation", National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C., 143, 1973
- "Mexico City: An Alarming Giant", National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C., 166, 1984
- Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan. 1987. The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City, Jonathan Kandell. New York: Random House, 1988 ISBN 0-394-540697
- Peter M. Ward (1990). Mexico City: The Production and Reproduction of an Urban Environment. Belhaven Press. ISBN 978-1-85293-041-7.
- José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Mexico City". In Gerald Michael Greenfield. Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.
- "Mexico City: Pushing the Limits", National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C., 190, 1996 – via Gale, (subscription required (help))
- Diana Davis. Social Construction of Mexico City. Journal of Urban History. 24 (1998), 364-415
- John Fisher (1999), "Mexico", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 267+, OL 24935876M
Published in the 2000s
- Keith Pezzoli (2000). Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-66114-0.
- "Mexico City". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
- Peter M. Ward (2004). México Megaciudad: Desarrollo y Política, 1970-2002 (in Spanish). Colegio Mexiquense. ISBN 978-970-701-447-3.
- Emily Wakild (2007). "Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City". Mexican Studies. 23. JSTOR 10.1525/msem.2007.23.1.101.
- Rubén Gallo, ed. (2009). The Mexico City Reader. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-19713-1.
- Diane Davis (2010). Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0485-5.
- Moises Gonzales (2012). "From Myth to Megacity: Transformation of the Urban Landscape of Mexico City". Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. 24. JSTOR 41945785.
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