Timeline of Ciudad Juárez

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1659 - Mission de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe founded.[1]
• 1682 – Ysleta Mission established.
• 1826 - Town named "Villa Paso del Norte."[2]
• 1848 – Across the Rio Grande, El Paso becomes part of the U.S. state of Texas per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.[3]
• 1882 – Bridge built.[4]
• 1888
  • El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez.[3]
  • Customs Office building constructed.
• 1892 - Bridge built.[4]
• 1895 - Population: 6,917.[5]

20th century

• 1906 - Escuela Superior de Agricultura "Hermanos Escobar" (school) founded.[1]

Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz, historic first presidential summit, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1909

• 1909 - William Howard Taft - Porfirio Díaz , historic first Presidential summit and the near assassination of both Presidents.[6]
• 1910 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.[1]
• 1911
  • April–May: Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911); city taken by revolutionaries.[3]
  • World's "first" aerial reconnaissance flown via airplane (El Paso-Ciudad Juarez), for Mexican government.[7]
• 1912 - Mexico North Western Railway (Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua) in operation.[8]
• 1922 - Teatro-Cine Alcazar (theatre) opens.[9]
• 1930 - Quevedo crime gang active.[10]
• 1933 - Cervecería Cruz Blanca (brewery) established.[1]
• 1938 – El Paso Ysleta Port of Entry, USA, established.
• 1940
  • Teófilo Borunda becomes mayor.
  • Population: 48,881.[3]
  • Following the 1940 Sun Bowl, the local Knights of Columbus in El Paso took the Catholic University Cardinals over the border for lunch[11] in the "squalid but colorful Mexican town" of Ciudad Juárez.[12]
• 1942 - Ysleta–Zaragoza Bridge rebuilt.[4]
• 1943 - El Fronterizo newspaper begins publication.[13]
• 1946 - Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Transformación de Ciudad Juárez, CANACINTRA established*
• 1947 - Cine Plaza (cinema) opens.[14]
• 1950 - Population: 122,598.[15]
• 1957 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez established.[16]
• 1958 - Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez established.[17]
• 1964 - Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez established.
• 1967
  • Bridge built.[4]
  • U.S.-Mexico Chamizal land dispute resolved.[1]
• 1968 - RCA Corporation maquila begins operating.[18]
• 1970 - Parque Público Federal El Chamizal (park) created.
• 1973 - Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez established.[1]
• 1974 - Asociacion de Maquiladoras (labor group) founded.
• 1976 - El Diario de Juárez newspaper in publication.[19]
• 1980
  • XHIJ-TV begins broadcasting.
  • Grupo Intermedia television company established.
  • Population: 567,365 municipality.[1]
• 1981 - Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez (stadium) opens.
• 1982 - Nipona maquila begins operating.[20]
• 1983 - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (institute) regional headquarters established.[21]
• 1988 - Club de Fútbol Cobras (football club) active.
• 1990
  • Norte newspaper in publication.[19]
  • Museo Histórico de Ciudad Juárez opens.
  • Population: 798,499 municipality.[1]
• 1995 - Population: 1,011,786 municipality.[1]
• 2000
  • XHEM-FM radio begins broadcasting.
  • Mormon temple built.
  • Museo de la Lealtad Republicana (museum) opens.

21st century

• 2001 - Astros de Ciudad Juárez football club formed.
• 2003 - Frontera Women's Foundation established.
• 2004
  • Museo del Concorde opens.
  • International news media reports on ongoing Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez area.[22]
  • Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
• 2005 - Indios de Ciudad Juárez (football club) formed.
• 2007 - José Reyes Ferriz becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
• 2008 - Juárez Hoy newspaper begins publication.
• 2009
  • March: "Warfare erupts between rival drug gangs."[23]
  • 2 September: Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack.
• 2010
  • 31 January: Villas de Salvárcar massacre.
  • Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality again.
  • Population: 1,321,004 city; 1,332,131 municipality.[24]
• 2013
  • ViveBús begins operating.
  • Monumento a la Mexicanidad installed.
  • Enrique Serrano Escobar becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
• 2014 - Railroad hub opens in nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico, USA.[25]
• 2016 - Pope Francis visits Ciudad Juárez in February.[26]

See also

• Ciudad Juárez history
• List of municipal presidents of Juárez
• Chihuahua (state) history
  • History of Chihuahua state (in Spanish)
• Timeline of El Paso, Texas, USA

References

1. "Juárez: 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 17 June 2011.
2. University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
3. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 413, OL 6112221M
4. Arreola 1994.
5. Figueroa Doménech 1899.
6. Harris, Charles H. III; Sadler, Louis R. (2009). The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4652-0.
7. Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
8. Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702, OL 6637165M
9. Laura Isabel Serna (2010). "Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border: American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930". In Alexis McCrossen (ed.). Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-9078-7.
10. Mottier 2009.
11. "Baugh to Greet C.U. Players". The Washington Post. December 14, 1939. p. 26.
12. "Card Gridders Liked Texas, But Not 0–0 Tie". Washington Post. January 6, 1940. p. 16.
13. Felix Padilla, ed. (1994). Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the United States: Sociology. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-165-6.
14. "Movie Theaters in Juarez, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
15. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
16. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mexico". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved December 16, 2014.
17. University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez, 1671-1945, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
18. Jefferson R. Cowie (1999). Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.
19. "Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
20. Staudt 2010.
21. "Colef" (in Spanish). Tijuana. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
22. Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. lxiii–lxxii. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
23. BBC News. "Mexico Profile: Timeline". Retrieved December 16, 2014.
24. "Juárez". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
25. "New Rail Hub Opens Along Border in New Mexico", New York Times, 28 May 2014
26. "Pope Francis, Mass in Juárez brought out emotions". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory, 1885 – via University of Texas at El Paso
• "Ciudad Juarez", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1441-0.
• Nicole Mottier (2009). "Drug Gangs and Politics in Ciudad Juárez: 1928–1936". Mexican Studies. 25.
• Kathleen Staudt; et al., eds. (2010). Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11291-9.

in Spanish

• J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Chihuahua: Ciudad Juarez". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). 2. R. de S. N. Araluce. hdl:2027/mdp.39015051117227 – via Hathi Trust.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America, USA. Items related to Ciudad Juárez, various dates