Timeline of Tijuana
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1889 - Tijuana founded in Baja California Territory.
- 1900 - Population: 243.[1]
20th century
1900s-1950s
- 1914 - El Hispano Americano newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1916 - Hippodrome opens.[3]
- 1924 - Caesar salad invented by restaurateur Caesar Cardini.[4]
- 1925 - La Voz de Tijuana newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1928 - Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel in business.
- 1929 - Agua Caliente Racetrack opens.
- 1940 - Population: 16,486.[3]
- 1943 - Red Cross established.[5]
- 1944 - Cine Zaragoza (movie theatre) opens.[6]
- 1946 - Jai alai arena opens.[7]
- 1950 - Population: 59,962.[3]
- 1951 - Cine Bujazan (movie theatre) opens.[8]
- 1953 - City becomes part of Tijuana Municipality in the state of Baja California.
- 1954 - Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo becomes mayor.
- 1957 - Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana established in Mesa de Otay.
- 1958 - Tijuana Airport opens.
- 1959
- Dorian's in business.
- Solo Angels Motorcycle Club formed.
1960s-1990s
- 1960 - XEWT-TDT television begins broadcasting.
- 1961 - XETRA radio begins all-news format.[9]
- 1964
- Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe established.[10]
- Tijuana Christian mission founded.
- 1965 - National Border Industrialization Program begins.[11]
- 1970 - Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior campus established.
- 1971 - Escuela Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas (school) and Highland Prince Academy de Mexico active.
- 1973
- 1976 - Estadio Nacional de Tijuana (stadium) opens.
- 1977 - La Casa de la Cultura Tijuana (cultural institution) established.[13]
- 1980
- 1982
- Tijuana Cultural Center opens.
- Plaza Río Tijuana (shopping centre)[15] and Las Torres built.
- Northwest Aeronautical Institute established.
- 1984 - Associacion de Mixtecos Residentes en Tijuana established.[16]
- 1986 - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte established.[17]
- 1990
- Orquesta de Baja California headquartered in city.[18]
- Population: 698,752.
- 1992
- Tijuana No! (musical group) active.
- inSITE art exhibition begins.[19][20]
- 1993 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.[21]
- 1994
- Cinépolis multiplex movie theatre in business.
- March 23: Politician Luis Donaldo Colosio assassinated.
- 1995 - Population: 966,097.
- 1998 - Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura established.
- 1999 - Nortec Collective (musical group) active.[22]
- 2000 - Population: 1,148,681.
21st century
- 2003
- 2005
- Hospital Angeles Tijuana opens.
- Tijuana Cimarrones baseball team formed.
- 2007
- Club Tijuana Xoloscuintles football team formed.[25]
- Centro Médico Excel built.
- 2008
- Police retrained.[26]
- Park Towers built.
- Casa del Tunel art gallery[27] and District 10 Gallery[28] open.
- 2009 - Green View Tower and VIA Corporativo built.
- 2010
- April 4: 2010 Baja California earthquake.
- Masyid Al Islam (mosque) and La Caja Galería[28] open.
- Carlos Bustamante Anchondo becomes mayor.
- Population: 1,300,983; municipality 1,559,683.
- 2012 - Museum of Mariachi and Tequila opens.
- 2015 - October: San Diego-Tijuana drug tunnel discovered.[29]
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See also
- List of mayors of Tijuana
- History of Tijuana (in Spanish)
- Baja California history (state)
References
- Taylor 2001.
- "Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- Lawrence A. Herzog (1990), Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, Center for Mexican American Studies, ISBN 029279049X
- "Caesar Salad". Snopes.com. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- María del Consuelo López Arámburo (2004). "La educación femenina en Baja California 1920-1930" [Female education in Baja California 1920-1930]. Ciudad: Historia (in Spanish). City of Tijuana.
- "Movie Theaters in Tijuana, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816514410.
- Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz (1999). Baja California: ritos y mitos cinematográficos (in Spanish). Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. ISBN 9687326980.
- Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
- "Historia" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- Kun 2012.
- Jorge R. Mancillas (January 25, 1993). "It Is Poverty That Kills People--Not Rain". Los Angeles Times.
- "Casa de la Cultura Tijuana" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- "Tijuana newspaper uncowed by drug cartels". NBC News. April 4, 2011.
- Lawrence A. Herzog (2001), From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801866432
- M. Laura Velasco Ortiz (2005), Mixtec transnational identity, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816523276
- "Acerca de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte" (in Spanish). Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- "Semblanza" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Orquesta de Baja California. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- "San Diego and Tijuana: inSITE97". Sculpture. New Jersey, USA: International Sculpture Center. February 1998.
- "Side by Side". Los Angeles Times. October 21, 2000.
- "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- Alejandro L. Madrid (2008), Nor-tec rifa! electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world, New York: Oxford University Press
- "About COFAC". Tijuana and Pasadena: Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
- "Antonia Brenner, 'Prison Angel' Who Took Inmates Under Her Wing, Is Dead at 86", New York Times, October 21, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic
- "Tijuana Rising". New York Times. April 18, 2012.
- "500 police officers replaced in Tijuana". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 2008.
- "Amid Growing Violence, Art Flourishes In Tijuana". USA: National Public Radio. February 23, 2009.
- New York Times 2012.
- "Mexican police find Tijuana-San Diego drugs tunnel", BBC News, October 23, 2015
- This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in 20th century
- John A. Price (1973), Tijuana: urbanization in a border culture, Indiana, USA: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0268004773
- Robert W. Duemling (1981), San Diego and Tijuana: conflict and cooperation between two border communities; a case study, Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs, Rosslyn, Va.: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute
- T.D. Proffitt. 1994. Tijuana: The History of a Mexican Metropolis. San Diego: San Diego State University Press.
- John Fisher (1999), "Baja California and the Pacific Northwest: Tijuana", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 66+, OL 24935876M
- Harry Crosby (2000), Paul Ganster (ed.), Tijuana 1964: a photographic and historic view, San Diego, CA: San Diego State University Press, Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, ISBN 0925613312
- Published in 21st century
- Glen Sparrow (2001). "San Diego-Tijuana: Not quite a binational city or region". GeoJournal. 54 (1): 73–83. doi:10.1023/A:1021144816403. JSTOR 41147639.
- Lawrence D. Taylor (2001). "The Mining Boom in Baja California from 1850 to 1890 and the Emergence of Tijuana as a Border Community". Journal of the Southwest. 43 (4): 463–492. JSTOR 40170167.
- Brisa Violeta Carrasco Gallegos (2009). "Tijuana: Border, Migration, and Gated Communities". Journal of the Southwest. 51 (4): 457–475. doi:10.1353/jsw.2009.0007. JSTOR 40599703.
- Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo, ed. (2012), Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822352907
- Sam Lubell (September 21, 2012). "Tijuana Rebuilds on Its Art". New York Times.
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