Timeline of León, Mexico

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

Prior to 20th century[]

1576 - León founded by Spaniards.^[1]
1582 - [es] (jail) built.
1767 - [es] (church) built.
1792 - Population: 23,711 town; 54,952 parish.^[2]
1836 - León attains city status.^[3]
1856 - [es] built.
1863 - Catholic Diocese of León established.^[4]
1866 - [es] consecrated.
1880 - Teatro Doblado (theatre) opens.^[5]
1882 - Population: 70,022 city; 172,432 parish.^[2]
1888 - Flood.^[1]
1896 - Heroes' Causeway Arch erected.
1900 - Population: 62,623.^[3]

20th century[]

1901 - Teatro del Círculo Leonés Mutualista (theatre) founded.^[5]
1915 - León becomes capital of Guanajuato state.^[6]
1921 - [es] (church) construction begins.
1926 - June: Flood.^[7]
1928 - Partido Socialista Leones (labor group)^[8] and Unión de Curtidores football club formed.
1943 - Club León football club formed.
1945 - Union Civica Leonesa (political group) founded.^[9]
1946
- 2 January: Political protest; crackdown.^[6]^[10]
- El Sol de León newspaper in publication.[1]
1948 - Archivo Histórico Municipal de León (city archive) inaugurated.^[11]
1950 - Population: 122,585.^[12]
1965 - Boletín del Archivo Municipal de León (history journal) begins publication.
1967 - Estadio León (stadium) opens.
1969 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.^[13]
1972 - [es] established.
1978 - Convention Center established.^{[citation needed]}
1979 - León Zoological Park opens.
1988 - Carlos Medina Plascencia becomes mayor.
1990 - Del Bajío International Airport opens near city.
1991 - Eliseo Pérez Martínez becomes mayor.^[14]
2000 - Cultural Institute of Leon^[5] and Teatro María Grever (theatre)^[11] established.

21st century[]

2002 - [es] begins.
2003
- Optibús transit system begins operating.
- Ricardo Alaníz Posada becomes mayor.
2004 - Lechugueros de León basketball team formed.
2005 - Population: 1,278,087 municipality.^[15]
2006
- 6 July: 2006 Guanajuato state election held.
- [es] becomes mayor.
2008 - Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato (museum) opens.[2]
2009 - [es] becomes mayor.
2010
- Teatro del Bicentenario (theatre) opens.[3]
- Population: 1,436,480 municipality.^[15]
2012 - 23 March: Catholic pope visits city.^[16]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1041, OL 6112221M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Brading 1973.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Britannica 1910.
^ Catholic Encyclopedia 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Instituto Cultural de León" (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "León de los Aldama: 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 18 May 2011.
^ "Huge Wall of Water Hits Leon, Mexico", New York Times, 25 June 1926
^ Newcomer 2004.
^ Guadalupe Valencia García (1998). Guanajuato: sociedad, economía, política y cultura (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. ISBN 978-968-36-5982-8.
^ "Many Reported Dead in Riot in Mexico", New York Times, 3 January 1946
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Guanajuato: Leon". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Mexico: Secretariat of Public Education. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
^ "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
^ "En León, competencia cerrada del PAN con el ex panista Eliseo Martínez". La Jornada (in Spanish). 3 July 2003.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Municipio de León". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
^ "An Endorsement That's a Blessing", New York Times, 29 May 2013

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English[]

Published in the 19th century

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

Published in the 20th century

Reau Campbell (1909), "Leon", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
"Leon", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
"Leon". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York. 1910.
W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Leon", Anglo-South American Handbook, 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Leon", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
D. A. Brading & Celia Wu (1973). "Population Growth and Crisis: Leon, 1720-1860". Journal of Latin American Studies. 5 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00002200. JSTOR 156000. PMID 11614758.
Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 269 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
"North Central Highlands: Leon", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)

Published in the 21st century

Daniel Newcomer (2002). "Symbolic Battleground: The Culture of Modernization in 1940s León, Guanajuato". Mexican Studies. 18.
Daniel Newcomer (2004). Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s Leon, Mexico. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3349-3.

in Spanish[]

Luis Manrique, Brevisima relacion historica . .. de la ciudad de Leon (Leon, 1854)
[es] (1896). "Leon". Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (in Spanish). 3. México: Antigua Imprenta de las Escalerillas. hdl:2027/coo.31924056282340 – via Hathi Trust.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) + via Google Books
Wigberto Jiménez Moreno, “Ciudad de León,” Enciclopedia de México (Mexico, 1974)

External links[]

"Publicaciones editadas en Guanajuato". Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico (National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. (includes Leon)

Coordinates: 21°07′00″N 101°41′00″W / 21.116667°N 101.683333°W / 21.116667; -101.683333

[seltzer1952-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1041, OL 6112221M

[FOOTNOTEBrading1973-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Brading 1973.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTECatholic_Encyclopedia1910-4] Catholic Encyclopedia 1910.

[InstitutoCultural-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Instituto Cultural de León" (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2014.

[enciclo-cronologia-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "León de los Aldama: 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 18 May 2011.

[7] "Huge Wall of Water Hits Leon, Mexico", New York Times, 25 June 1926

[FOOTNOTENewcomer2004-8] Newcomer 2004.

[García1998-9] Guadalupe Valencia García (1998). Guanajuato: sociedad, economía, política y cultura (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. ISBN 978-968-36-5982-8.

[10] "Many Reported Dead in Riot in Mexico", New York Times, 3 January 1946

[sic-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Guanajuato: Leon". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Mexico: Secretariat of Public Education. Retrieved December 17, 2014.

[12] "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.

[13] "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

[14] "En León, competencia cerrada del PAN con el ex panista Eliseo Martínez". La Jornada (in Spanish). 3 July 2003.

[SEDESOL-15] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Municipio de León". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 17, 2014.

[16] "An Endorsement That's a Blessing", New York Times, 29 May 2013

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Timeline of León, Mexico

Contents

Prior to 20th century[]

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

in English[]

in Spanish[]

External links[]