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

Prior to 19th century

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1542 – February 14: Guadalajara founded in New Spain.^[1]
1560
- Town becomes capital of Nueva Galicia province.^[2]
- Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara relocated to Guadalajara from Compostela.
1591 – Jesuit college founded.^{[citation needed]}
1618 – Guadalajara Cathedral built.^[3]
1690 – Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora del Carmen founded.^{[citation needed]}
1692 – Templo de San Francisco de Asís (church) built.
1774 – Governor's Palace built on Plaza de Armas.^[4]
1786 – Spanish intendancy established.^[5]
1792
- University of Guadalajara founded.
- Population: 24,249.^[6]
1795 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[7]

19th century

1811 – Mint built.^[3]
1817 – May 31: Severe earthquake.^[8]
1829 – Hospicio Cabañas inaugurated.^[9]
1848 – Panteón de Belén (cemetery) established.
1849 – Earthquake.
1854 – Guadalajara Cathedral towers rebuilt.
1859 – War of Reform (approximate date).^[8]
1861 – Public Library of the State of Jalisco established.^[10]
1863 – French occupation begins.^[4]
1866
- Teatro Degollado inaugurated.
- French occupation ends.^[4]
1867 – Club Popular de Artesanos active.^{[citation needed]}
1875 – Earthquake.^[3]
1895 – Population: 83,934.^[3]
1896 – Casa de los Perros built.
1897 – Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento (church) construction begins.^[4]
1900 – Population: 101,208.^[3]

20th century

1906 – Club Deportivo Guadalajara (football club) formed.^[11]
1907 – Automobile Club of Guadalajara conducts car race near city.^[12]
1908 – Southern Pacific railway begins operating.^[13]
1914 – Mexican Revolution.^[8]
1916 – Club Atlas (football club) formed.
1917 – El Informador newspaper begins publication.^[14]
1925 – University of Guadalajara re-established.
1932 – June 3: 1932 Jalisco earthquake.
1939 – José Clemente Orozco paints murals in the Hospicio Cabañas.^[4]
1942
- El Occidental newspaper begins publication.
- Alameda Theatre opens.^[15]
1950
- Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra established.^[16]^[17]
- Population: 378,423.^[18]
1952 – Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres and Town Hall built.^[4]
1954 – XEWK-AM radio begins broadcasting.
1958 – San Juan de Dios Market inaugurated.
1960
- Jalisco Stadium opens.
- Population: 740,396.^[1]
1966 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport opens.
1968 – Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial founded.
1969 – Plaza del Sol shopping mall in business.
1972 – Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento (church) built.
1973 – Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre formed.^[19]
1975 – Federation of Low-Income Neighbourhoods formed.^[20]
1976 – Trolleybuses begin operating.
1979 – Supermercados Gigante (supermarket) opens.^[21]
1983 – Sister city relationship established with Portland, Oregon, USA.^[22]
1986 – Guadalajara International Film Festival begins.
1987 – Guadalajara International Book Fair begins.
1988
- Guadalajara Zoo opens.
- Festival Cultural de Mayo begins.
1989 – Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
1990 – Population: 1,650,042.^[1]
1991 – XHGJG-TV begins broadcasting.
1992 – April 22: Gasoline explosions in Analco.
1994 – Encuentro del Mariachi begins.^[23]
1996 – Guadalajara Gay Pride inaugurated.
1997 – December: "Freak snowfall."^[24]
1998 – Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña becomes mayor.^{[citation needed]}

21st century

2002 – Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (art space) founded.^[25]
2004 – EU-Latin American-Caribbean summit held;^[26] prompts protest.
2005 – City designated an American Capital of Culture.
2007
- Pan American Volleyball Complex opens.
- Alfonso Petersen becomes mayor.^{[citation needed]}
2008 – Nissan Gymnastics Stadium opens.
2009
- Guadalajara Macrobús begins operating.
- Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz elected mayor.^[27]
2010
- Telcel Tennis Complex and Pan American Hockey Stadium open.
- Population: 1,495,182.^[28]
2011 – October: 2011 Pan American Games held.
2012
- May: Peace march.^[29]
- Ramiro Hernández García becomes Municipal President.^{[citation needed]}

References

Bibliography

in English

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Published in the 19th century

Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Guadalaxara, city", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
Albert S. Evans (1870), "Guadalajara", Our sister republic: a gala trip through tropical Mexico in 1869–70, Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Co.
John Lewis Geiger (1874), "Guadalajara", A peep at Mexico: narrative of a journey across the republic from the Pacific of the Gulf in December 1873 and January 1874, London: Trübner & Co.
Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guadalajara", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
"Guadalajara", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
Cristóbal Hidalgo (1900), "Guadalajara", Guide to Mexico, San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Co.

Published in the 20th century

Reau Campbell (1909), "Guadalajara", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
"Guadalajara (Mexico)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 644.
Eric Van Young (1979). "Urban Market and Hinterland: Guadalajara and Its Region in the Eighteenth Century". Hispanic American Historical Review. 59 (4): 593–635. doi:10.1215/00182168-59.4.593. JSTOR 2514067.
Nikki Craske (1994). "Women and Regime Politics in Guadalajara's Low-Income Neighbourhoods". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 13 (1): 61–78. doi:10.2307/3338701. JSTOR 3338701.
José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Guadalajara". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.
John Fisher (1999), "Guadalajara", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 166+, OL 24935876M((citation)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Published in the 21st century

"Guadalajara Census History: 1600–1850". Guadalajara Census Project. Florida State University, Department of History. 2003. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
David Marley (2005), "Guadalajara", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, p. 226+, ISBN 1576070271
John Harner (2007). "Globalization of Food Retailing in Guadalajara, Mexico: Changes in Access Equity and Social Engagement". Journal of Latin American Geography. 6 (2): 33–53. doi:10.1353/lag.2007.0041. JSTOR 25765177. S2CID 143811175.
Carlos Barba Solano; et al. (2013). "Mexico: Guadalajara". In Ian Shirley, Carol Neill (ed.). Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns. Routledge. ISBN 9780415632041.

in Spanish

Joaquín Romo (1888), Guadalajara: Apuntes históricos, biográficos, estadísticos y descriptivos de la capital del estado de Jalisco (in Spanish), México: I. Paz, OCLC 11440546, OL 6720017M
Eduardo A. Gibbon (1893), Guadalajara: (La Florencia Mexicana) Vagancias Y Recuerdos (in Spanish), Guadalajara: Imp. del "Diario de Jalisco", OCLC 1703445
José Toribio Medina (1904). La imprenta en Guadalajara de México (1793–1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Guadalajara, arranged chronologically)

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