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

Prior to 20th century

  • 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

  • 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
    • 2 January: Political protest; crackdown.[6][10]
    • El Sol de León newspaper in publication.
  • 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.
  • 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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1041, OL 6112221M
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.
  3. 1 2 Brading 1973.
  4. ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia 1910.
  5. 1 2 3 "Instituto Cultural de León" (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "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.
  7. ↑ "Huge Wall of Water Hits Leon, Mexico", New York Times, 25 June 1926
  8. ↑ Newcomer 2004.
  9. ↑ Guadalupe Valencia García (1998). Guanajuato: sociedad, economía, política y cultura (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. ISBN 978-968-36-5982-8.
  10. ↑ "Many Reported Dead in Riot in Mexico", New York Times, 3 January 1946
  11. 1 2 "Guanajuato: Leon". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Mexico: Secretariat of Public Education. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  13. ↑ "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  14. ↑ "En León, competencia cerrada del PAN con el ex panista Eliseo Martínez". La Jornada (in Spanish). 3 July 2003.
  15. 1 2 "Municipio de León". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  16. ↑ "An Endorsement That's a Blessing", New York Times, 29 May 2013

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 19th century
Published in the 20th century
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

  • 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)
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)

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