Timeline of Monterrey, Mexico

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1584 - Ojos de Santa Lucia outpost established by Spaniards.^[1]
• 1596 - Settlement named "Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Senora de Monterrey" by Diego de Montemayor.^[2]
• 1603 - Cathedral construction begins.^[1]
• 1730 - Church of San Francisco rebuilt.^[3]
• 1775 - Population: 258.^[1]
• 1777 - Monterrey becomes seat of Catholic Linares bishopric.^[2]
• 1790 - Bishop's Palace built.^[3]
• 1824 - Monterrey becomes capital of Nuevo León state.^[2]
• 1833 - Cathedral consecrated.^[3]
• 1846 - Town occupied by United States forces.^[1]
• 1847 - American Pioneer newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1864 - Town occupied by French forces.^[1]
• 1866 - French occupation ends.^[2]
• 1881 - Railway constructed.^[2]
• 1890 - Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc (brewery) founded.^[2]
• 1892 - Monterrey News English-language newspaper in publication.^[5]
• 1896 - El Espectador newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1899 - Banco Mercantil de Monterrey established.^[6]

20th century

• 1900 - Population: 62,266.^[7]
• 1908 - Palacio de Gobierno built.^[2]
• 1909 - August 28: Flood.^[7]
• 1919 - El Porvenir newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1936 - February: Antigovernment demonstration.^[8]
• 1940 - Population: 190,074.^[5]
• 1943 - Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education established.
• 1945
  • Club de Fútbol Monterrey formed.
  • Cine Elizondo opens.^[9]
• 1946 - Iglesia de La Purisima church built.^[2]
• 1950 - Population: 333,422.^[5]
• 1960 - Population: 601,086; metro 708,400.^[5]
• 1969 - Universidad de Monterrey and Universidad Regiomontana established.
• 1977 - Monterrey College of Music and Dance established.
• 1983 - Galerías Monterrey shopping mall in business.
• 1984 - Gran Plaza opens.^[1]
• 1988
  • September: Hurricane Gilbert.^[1]
  • Plaza Fiesta San Agustín shopping mall in business.
• 1990 - Labor Party (Mexico) founded in Monterrey.
• 1991 - Monterrey Metro begins operating.^[2]

21st century

• 2000 - Fernando Larrazábal Bretón elected mayor.^[10]
• 2005 - Paseo San Pedro shpping mall in business.
• 2006 - KidZania (leisure centre) in business.
• 2010 - Population: 1,135,512; metro 4,089,962.^[11]
• 2012 - May: Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurs near city.^[12]

See also

• Monterrey history
• History of Monterrey
• History of Nuevo León

References

1. Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 341+ (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
2. "Northeast Mexico: Monterrey", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
3. Reau Campbell (1909), "Monterey", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
4. "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
5. David Marley (2005), "Monterrey", Historic Cities of the Americas 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 267–276, ISBN 1576070271
6. Pablo Livas (1909). El estado de Nuevo León, su situación económica al aproximarse el Centenario de la Independencia de México (in Spanish). Monterrey.
7. "Monterrey", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
8. Michael David Snodgrass (1998). "Birth and Consequences of Industrial Paternalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890-1940". International Labor and Working-Class History (53). JSTOR 27672459.
9. "Movie Theaters in Monterrey, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
10. "Mexican Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
11. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
12. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Monterey", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
• Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Monterey", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
• Guide to Monterey. Monterey Guide Pub. 1894.

Published in the 20th century

• W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Monterey", Anglo-South American Handbook 1, New York: Macmillan
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Monterey", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Samuel N. Dicken (1939). "Monterrey and Northeastern Mexico". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 29. doi:10.2307/2560958. JSTOR 2560958.
• Harley L. Browning and Waltraut Feindt (1971). "Patterns of Migration to Monterrey, Mexico". International Migration Review 5. JSTOR 3002646.
• "Social and Economic Context of Migration to Monterrey, Mexico," in Francine F. Rabinovitz and Felicity M. Trueblood, eds., Latin American Urban Annual, Vol. 1 (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1971).
• Alex Saragoza, The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880-1940 (Austin, 1988)
• Vivienne Bennett. 1995. The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• "Northeast Mexico: Nuevo Leon: Monterrey", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
• John Fisher (1999), "Between the Sierras: Northeast Routes: Monterrey", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 151+, OL 24935876M

External links

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

Coordinates: 25°40′00″N 100°18′00″W / 25.666667°N 100.3°W