Timeline of Puebla

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

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Prior to 18th century

• 1531 – Puebla founded.[1] First mass celebrated 16 April 1531 by Toribio Motolinia.[2]
• 1533-1545 - Indios de Servicio provide labor to Puebla.[3]
• 1537 – College of the Holy Ghost founded by Jesuits.[4]
• 1541 – Textile mill in operation.[5]
• 1542 – School established.[5]
• 1543 – Catholic Diocese of Tlaxcala headquartered in Puebla.[6]
• 1551 – San Francisco Convent active.[7]
• 1552 – Puebla Cathedral construction begins.[4]
• 1555 – Fountain installed in Plaza Mayor.[5]
• 1556 – Joseph designated city patron saint.[8]
• 1580 – Casa del Deán built.[7]
• 1592 – Hospital de San Roque founded.[5]
• 1609 – Convent of Santa Monica founded.[7]
• 1629 – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla becomes Cathedral maestro de capilla.[8]
• 1632 – Hospital de San Bernardo opens.[5]
• 1639-1653 - Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Puebla
• 1640 – Printing press in operation (approximate date).[5]
• 1646 – Biblioteca Palafoxiana founded.
• 1649 – Cathedral consecrated.[5]
• 1653 – Potters' guild established.[9]
• 1659 – Church of Santo Domingo built (approximate date).
• 1678 – Population: 68,800.[5]
• 1688 - Death of Catarina de San Juan, "la China Poblana"
• 1690 – Capilla del Rosario (Puebla) (chapel) built in the Church of Santo Domingo.[7]

18th and 19th centuries

• 1728 – Museum of antiquities established.[1]
• 1760 – Teatro Principal inaugurated.[10]
• 1764 – Estaban Bravo de Rivero becomes mayor.[5]
• 1767 – La Compania (Jesuit church) built.[7][10]
• 1771 – Jose Merino Ceballos becomes mayor.[5]
• 1793 – Population: 56,859.[5]
• 1813 – Academia de Bellas Artes founded.[11]
• 1827 – El Poblano newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1844 – Paseo Bravo (street) laid out.[5]
• 1846 – El Patricio newspaper in publication.[12]
• 1847 – Siege of Puebla by United States forces.[4]
• 1862
  • May 5: Battle of Puebla occurs near city.
  • City renamed "Puebla de Zaragoza".
• 1863 – May 16–17: Siege of Puebla by French forces.[1]
• 1868 – Guerrero theatre opens.[10]
• 1869 – Apizaco-Puebla Mexican Railway line built.[13]
• 1879 – Population: 64,588.[5]
• 1891 – Penitenciaria (prison) built.[10]
• 1893 – Velodrome in use.[5]
• 1895 – Population: 91,917.[1]
• 1897 – Railway station built.[5]
• 1898 – Rancho de la Magdalena becomes part of city.[5]
• 1900 – Population: 93,521.[14]

20th century

• 1901 – Franco-Mexican monument erected (approximate date).[15]
• 1906 – Palacio Municipal de Puebla built.
• 1910
  • Victoria Market opens.[5]
  • Population: 101,214.[14]
• 1911 – Gaceta de Puebla newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1924 – La Opinion newspaper in publication.[12]
• 1926 – Mexico City-Puebla highway completed.[5]
• 1931
  • 400th anniversary of city founding.[5]
  • Population: 124,063.[5]
• 1937 – University of Puebla founded.[16]
• 1944
  • Club de Fútbol Puebla formed.
  • El Sol de Puebla newspaper begins publication.[17]
  • Museo José Luis Bello y González (museum) opens.
• 1950 – Population: 206,840.[18]
• 1960 – Population: 297,257.[5]
• 1962 – Area of city expanded.[5]
• 1964 – Volkswagen automotive manufactory begins operating.
• 1968 – Estadio Cuauhtémoc (stadium) opens.
• 1973 – Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla and Museo de Arte Cultural Poblano established.
• 1985 – Hermanos Serdán International Airport inaugurated.
• 1987
  • Historic Downtown area designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • Jardín Botánico Universitario de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (garden) established.[19]
• 1988 – Central de Autobuses Puebla (depot) inaugurated.
• 1991 – Amparo Museum inaugurated.[7]

21st century

• 2002 – San Pedro Museum of Art active.
• 2005 – Enrique Dóger becomes mayor.
• 2008 – Blanca Alcalá becomes mayor.
• 2010
  • Eduardo Rivera Pérez elected mayor.[20]
  • Population: 1,434,062; metro 2,668,437.[21]
• 2014 – José Antonio Gali Fayad becomes mayor.

See also

• Puebla history (city)
• List of mayors of Puebla (city)
• History of Puebla (state)
• List of governors in the Viceroyalty of New Spain: Province of Puebla
• List of Governors of Puebla (state)

References

1. Chambers 1901.
2. Sierra Silva 2018,p.24
3. Hirschberg, "Alternative to Encomienda"
4. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1526, OL 6112221M
5. Marley 2005.
6. Camillus Crivelli (1913). "Tlaxcala". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
7. Baedeker 1994.
8. Catalyne 1966.
9. Lister 1984.
10. Caballero 1892.
11. Palma y Campos 1898.
12. "International Coalition on Newspapers". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
13. Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702, OL 6637165M
14. Robert Joseph MacHugh (1914), Modern Mexico, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 2785484, OL 6566716M
15. "Las fiestas Presidenciales en Puebla", El Mundo Ilustrado (in Spanish), 8, January 13, 1901, hdl:2027/mdp.39015034750839
16. Pansters 1990.
17. "Mexico". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
18. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
19. "Garden Search: Mexico". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
20. "Mexican Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
21. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Altman, Ida, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico 1560-1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2000.
• David Marley (2005), "Puebla", Historic Cities of the Americas, 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 288–301, ISBN 1576070271
• Ramos, Frances L. Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla. Tucson: University of Arizona Press ISBN 978-0-8165-2117-3
• "Puebla". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
• "History and Description: Special Places: Puebla (City)". List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Mexico. New York Public Library. 1909.
• "Puebla", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Puebla", Anglo-South American Handbook, 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
• Alice Ray Catalyne (1966). "Music of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in the Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico". Anuario. 2: 75–90. doi:10.2307/779767. JSTOR 779767.
• Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister (1984). "Potters' Quarter of Colonial Puebla, Mexico". Historical Archaeology. 18 (1): 87–102. doi:10.1007/BF03374041. JSTOR 25615476.
• Wil Pansters (1990). "Social Movement and Discourse: The Case of the University Reform Movement in 1961 in Puebla, Mexico". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 9 (1): 79–101. doi:10.2307/3338217. JSTOR 3338217.
• José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Puebla". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.

• Nancy E. Churchill (1999). "El Paseo del Río San Francisco: Urban Development and Social Justice in Puebla, Mexico". Social Justice. 26 (3 (77)): 156–173. JSTOR 29767166.
• Jones and Varley (1999). "Reconquest of the historic centre: urban conservation and gentrification in Puebla, Mexico". Environment and Planning. 31 (31): 1547–1566. doi:10.1068/a311547.

Guidebooks

• Josiah Conder (1830), "Puebla", Mexico and Guatimala, The Modern Traveller, 25, London: J.Duncan
• Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Puebla", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
• Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Puebla", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
• "Puebla", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
• "Mexico: Puebla", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
• Reau Campbell (1909), "Puebla", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
• John Fisher (1999), "Puebla", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 341+, OL 24935876M
• "Central Mexico: Puebla", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
• "Around Mexico City: Puebla", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
• Thomas Philip Terry (1923). "Puebla". Terry's Guide to Mexico. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Works in Spanish

• Manuel Caballero (1892). "Puebla y su Capital: Ciudad de Los Angeles". Primer directorio general del Estado de Puebla (in Spanish). Mexico: Tip. de E. Dublán y Comp.
• Miguel Palma y Campos (1898). Guia del turista en la ciudad de Puebla (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Imprenta de M. Corona Cervantes.
• J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Puebla". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico: R. de S. N. Araluce. (includes directory)
• José Toribio Medina (1908). La imprenta en la Puebla de los Angeles (1640-1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Puebla, arranged chronologically)
• "Puebla de Zaragoza", Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 389+ (fulltext via OpenLibrary)

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Puebla, Mexico, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Puebla, Mexico, various dates