Timeline of Chihuahua City

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chihuahua, Mexico.

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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]

• 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.

• 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.

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

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.

• 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.

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