Timeline of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, United States.

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18th-19th centuries

• 1760 - Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Our Lady of Candlemas) settlement established by Spanish colonist Faustino Martínez de Matos.[1]
• 1763 - Settlement of Mayaguez formally separated from the larger San Germán area.[2]
• 1770 - Population: 1,800.[3]
• 1823 - José María Ramírez de Arellano becomes mayor.[3]
• 1836
  • Mayaguez becomes a villa (chartered town).[3]
  • Public warehouse and dock constructed.[2]
• 1841
  • Fire.[4]
  • "Entry port privilege" relocated to Mayaguez from Cabo Rojo (approximate date).[1]
• 1845 - Mayagüez City Hall built.[2]
• 1848 - El Imparcial and El Propagador newspapers begins publication.[5][6]
• 1849 - Jail built.[2]
• 1850 - El Semanario Mayaguezano begins publication.[5]
• 1852 - Fire.[2]
• 1860
  • Market building constructed.[2]
  • San Antonio Hospital active (approximate date).[2]
• 1863 - Avisador del Comercio newspaper begins publication.[6]
• 1870 - Cemetery established.[2]
• 1874 - Biblioteca Popular de Mayagüez (public library)[7] and Circulo de Amigos[8] founded.
• 1877 - Mayagüez attains city status.[1]
• 1883 - Population: 26,705 in ayuntamiento (city); 123,583 in departamento (province).[9]
• 1893 - Sociedad Anónima Tranvía de Mayagüez (transit entity) active (approximate date).[3]
• 1894
  • Escuela Libre de Música (music school) founded.
  • City coat of arms granted.[3]
• 1896 - Statue of Christopher Columbus erected in the Plaza Colón.
• 1899 - Hormigueros becomes part of Mayagüez.

20th century

• 1901
  • U.S. Tropical Agriculture Research Station founded.[10]
  • Voz de la Patria newspaper begins publication.[6]
• 1909 - Teatro Yagüez built.
• 1910 - Diario del Oeste newspaper begins publication.[6]
• 1911 - College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opens.[3] The US Department of Agriculture sends a field agent to the area of Mayagüez and Hormigueros to document everything he sees.[11]
• 1912 - Masonic Logia Adelphia built.
• 1913
  • Mayagüez Tramway Company formed.[3]
  • Centro Español built.[8]
• 1918 - October 11: 1918 San Fermín earthquake.[1]
• 1919 - June 19: Teatro Yagüez burns down.
• 1920 - Population: 19,069.[12]
• 1926 - Tram service ends.[3]
• 1930 - Population: 37,060.[13]
• 1937
  • WPRA radio begins broadcasting.[14]
  • Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico in business.
• 1938 - Indios de Mayagüez baseball team formed.
• 1940 - Population: 50,376.[13]
• 1946 - WKJB radio begins broadcasting.[14]
• 1955 - WORA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[15]
• 1966 - University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez active.
• 1969 - Benjamin Cole becomes mayor.[16]
• 1970 - Population: 68,872.[17]
• 1976 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mayagüez established.[18]
• 1983 - First newspaper originating in Mayagüez begins publication.[16]
• 1993 - José Guillermo Rodríguez becomes mayor.
• 2000 - Population: 78,647.[19]

21st century

• 2010
  • Isidoro García Stadium and Mayagüez Athletics Stadium open.
  • Parque del Litoral (park) built.
  • 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games sport event held in Mayagüez.
  • Population: 89,080.[20]

See also

• History of Mayagüez
• List of mayors of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mayagüez
• Timeline of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Ponce, San Juan

References

1. Federal Writers' Project 1940.
2. Hartzell 1903.
3. "Municipalities: Mayagüez". Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico (in English and Spanish). San Juan: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. OCLC 234072526. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
4. Britannica 1910.
5. "Media and Communication". Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico (in English and Spanish). San Juan: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. OCLC 234072526. Archived from the original on 2017-04-19.
6. "(Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)". Chronicling America: U.S. Newspaper Directory. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
7. "Puerto Rico". World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. American Library Association. 1993. pp. 692+. ISBN 978-0-8389-0609-5.
8. Adolfo de Hostos; Oficina del Historiador Oficial, eds. (1949). Tesauro de datos historicos (in Spanish). San Juan: Imprenta del Gobierno de Puerto Rico.
9. José Gimeno Agius (1885). "Poblacion y comercio de la isla de Puerto Rico". Revista de España (in Spanish). Madrid. 102: 546+.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
10. "Garden Search: Puerto Rico". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
11. https://archive.org/details/portorico19111900wetmb/page/n1
12. "United States of America: Outlying Territories: Porto Rico". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
13. U.S. Bureau of the Census (1943), Leon E. Truesdell (ed.), "Puerto Rico: Housing, General Characteristics", Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 (in English and Spanish), Washington DC: Government Printing Office
14. "United States AM Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive
15. "United States TV Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive
16. Heine 1993.
17. "General Population Characteristics: Puerto Rico", 1970 Census of Population (in English and Spanish), Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1971
18. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Puerto Rico". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
19. "United States Commonwealth Territories: Puerto Rico". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
20. "Mayagüez Municipio, Puerto Rico". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 16, 2017.

Bibliography

in English

• M. de Magalhães (1898). "Mayaguez". Colonial Business Directory of the Island of Puerto Rico. New York. OCLC 39940968. (Also description of town)
• Robert Thomas Hill (1899), "Cities of Porto Rico: (Mayaguez)", Cuba and Porto Rico (2nd ed.), New York: Century Company
• Frederick A. Ober (1899), "Cities and Towns of the Coast: Mayaguez", Puerto Rico and its Resources, New York: D. Appleton and Co.
• "Porto Rico: Mayaguez". Official Commercial Directory of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Entire West Indies, with Bermuda. New York: Spanish-American Directories Company. 1901. pp. 423+.
• Charles Hartzell, ed. (1903), "Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages: Mayaguez", Register of Porto Rico, San Juan: Louis E. Tuzo and Co., pp. 191–192
• "Mayaguez". Commercial Guide and Business Directory of Porto Rico. New York: F.E. Platt. 1910. pp. 103–118.
• "Mayaguez", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mayaguez", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Mayaguez", Puerto Rico: a Guide to the Island of Boriquén, American Guide Series, New York: University Society, pp. 252+, OCLC 245805 – via HathiTrust
• Jorge Heine (1993). The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7691-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (About Bejamín Cole era)

in Spanish

• Manuel Ubeda y Delgado (1878). "Mayaguez". Isla de Puerto Rico: estudio histórico, geográfico y estadístico de la misma (in Spanish). Puerto Rico. (reprint 1998)
• "Mayaguez". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). 12. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1893.
• Subcomité de la Historia de Mayagüez (1960). Historia de Mayagüez, 1760-1960 (in Spanish). OCLC 38531160.
• Pedro Luis Perea Roselló (1962), Los periódicos y los periodistas de Mayagüez (in Spanish), Ponce: Ediciones Aldecoa, OCLC 912547459
• Silvia Aguiló Ramos (1986). Mayagüez: notas para su historia (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). San Juan: Comité Historia de los Pueblos. OCLC 16636824.

External links

• Nancy Abreu Báez; et al. (eds.). "Indice de Temas: (Mayagüez (P.R.))" [Topic Index]. Conuco: Indice de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). OCLC 772645549. (Includes bibliographic information on Mayagüez history)
• Items related to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, various dates (via University of Puerto Rico's Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña)
• Items related to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• Digitized materials related to Mayagüez in the Archivo Histórico Nacional of Spain, records of the Ministerio de Ultramar; via Portal de Archivos Españoles