Timeline of León, Mexico
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Prior to 20th century[edit]
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- 1576 - León founded by Spaniards.[1][2]
- 1582 - Cárcel Municipal de León (Guanajuato) (jail) built.
- 1767 - Iglesia de La Compañia Nueva (León) (church) built.
- 1792 - Population: 23,711 town; 54,952 parish.[3]
- 1836 - León attains city status.[2]
- 1856 - León Municipal Palace built.
- 1863 - Catholic Diocese of León established.[4]
- 1866 - Cathedral of León, Guanajuato consecrated.
- 1880 - Teatro Doblado (theatre) opens.[5]
- 1882 - Population: 70,022 city; 172,432 parish.[3]
- 1889 - Flood.[1][2]
- 1895 - Population: 90,978.[2]
- 1896 - Heroes' Causeway Arch erected.
- 1900 - Population: 62,623.[2]
20th century[edit]
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- 1901 - Teatro del Círculo Leonés Mutualista (theatre) founded.[5]
- 1915 - León becomes capital of Guanajuato state.[6]
- 1921 - Templo Expiatorio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (León) (church) construction begins.
- 1926 - June: Flood.[7]
- 1928 - Partido Socialista Leones (labor group)[8] and Unión de Curtidores football club formed.
- 1943 - Club León football club formed.
- 1945 - Union Civica Leonesa (political group) founded.[9]
- 1946
- 1948 - Archivo Histórico Municipal de León (city archive) inaugurated.[11]
- 1950 - Population: 122,585.[12]
- 1965 - Boletín del Archivo Municipal de León (history journal) begins publication.
- 1967 - Estadio León (stadium) opens.
- 1969 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.[13]
- 1972 - Instituto Tecnológico de León established.
- 1978 - Convention Center established.[citation needed]
- 1979 - León Zoological Park opens.
- 1988 - Carlos Medina Plascencia becomes mayor.
- 1990 - Del Bajío International Airport opens near city.
- 1991 - Eliseo Pérez Martínez becomes mayor.[14]
- 2000 - Cultural Institute of Leon[5] and Teatro María Grever (theatre)[11] established.
21st century[edit]
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- 2002 - León Hot Air Balloon Festival begins.
- 2003
- Optibús transit system begins operating.
- Ricardo Alaníz Posada becomes mayor.
- 2004 - Lechugueros de León basketball team formed.
- 2005 - Population: 1,278,087 municipality.[15]
- 2006
- 6 July: 2006 Guanajuato state election held.
- Vicente Guerrero Reynoso becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato (museum) opens.[2]
- 2009 - Francisco Ricardo Sheffield Padilla becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Teatro del Bicentenario (theatre) opens.[3]
- Population: 1,436,480 municipality.[15]
- 2012 - 23 March: Catholic pope visits city.[16]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1041, OL 6112221M
- ^ a b c d e Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b Brading 1973.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia 1910.
- ^ a b c "Instituto Cultural de León" (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^ a b "León de los Aldama: 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 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Huge Wall of Water Hits Leon, Mexico", New York Times, 25 June 1926
- ^ Newcomer 2004.
- ^ Guadalupe Valencia García (1998). Guanajuato: sociedad, economía, política y cultura (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. ISBN 978-968-36-5982-8.
- ^ "Many Reported Dead in Riot in Mexico", New York Times, 3 January 1946
- ^ a b "Guanajuato: Leon". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Mexico: Secretariat of Public Education. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- ^ "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ "En León, competencia cerrada del PAN con el ex panista Eliseo Martínez". La Jornada (in Spanish). 3 July 2003.
- ^ a b "Municipio de León". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^ "An Endorsement That's a Blessing", New York Times, 29 May 2013
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography[edit]
in English[edit]
- Published in the 19th century
- Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Leon", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Leon", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
- Published in the 20th century
- Reau Campbell (1909), "Leon", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 443.
- Herbermann, Charles George (1910). "Leon". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Leon", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Leon", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
- D. A. Brading & Celia Wu (1973). "Population Growth and Crisis: Leon, 1720-1860". Journal of Latin American Studies. 5 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00002200. JSTOR 156000. PMID 11614758. S2CID 46572827.
- Baedeker's Mexico, Baedekers Guides, 1994, p. 269, OL 11077410M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- "North Central Highlands: Leon", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998, OL 8314651M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- Published in the 21st century
- Daniel Newcomer (2002). "Symbolic Battleground: The Culture of Modernization in 1940s León, Guanajuato". Mexican Studies. 18.
- Daniel Newcomer (2004). Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s Leon, Mexico. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3349-3.
in Spanish[edit]
- Luis Manrique, Brevisima relacion historica . .. de la ciudad de Leon (Leon, 1854)
- Antonio García Cubas [in Spanish] (1896). "Leon". Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (in Spanish). Vol. 3. México: Antigua Imprenta de las Escalerillas. hdl:2027/coo.31924056282340 – via Hathi Trust. + via Google Books
- Wigberto Jiménez Moreno, “Ciudad de León,” Enciclopedia de México (Mexico, 1974)
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to León (Guanajuato).
- "Publicaciones editadas en Guanajuato". Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico (National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. (includes Leon)
