Timeline of Monterrey, Mexico

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

Prior to 20th century

1560 - Santa Lucia de León founded.^[1]
1584 - Ojos de Santa Lucia outpost established by Spaniards.^[2]
1596 - Settlement named "Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Senora de Monterrey" by Diego de Montemayor and made a city.^[3]^[1]
1603 - Cathedral construction begins.^[2]
1730 - Church of San Francisco rebuilt.^[4]
1775 - Population: 258.^[2]
1777 - Monterrey becomes seat of Catholic Linares bishopric.^[3]^[1]
1790 - Bishop's Palace built.^[4]
1791 - Monterrey Cathedral building completed.
1824 - Monterrey becomes capital of Nuevo León state.^[3]
1833 - Cathedral consecrated.^[4]
1846 - Battle of Monterrey - town occupied by United States forces.^[2]^[1]
1847 - American Pioneer newspaper begins publication.^[5]
1864 - Town occupied by French forces.^[2]
1866 - French occupation ends.^[3]
1881 - Railway constructed.^[3]
1890 - Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc (brewery) founded.^[3]
1892 - Monterrey News English-language newspaper in publication.^[6]
1896 - El Espectador newspaper begins publication.^[5]
1899 - Banco Mercantil de Monterrey established.^[7]
1900 - Population: 62,266.^[1]

20th century

1901 - Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railroad sold.
1908 - Palacio de Gobierno built.^[3]
1909 - 28 August: Flood.^[1]
1919 - El Porvenir newspaper begins publication.^[5]
1936 - February: Antigovernment demonstration.^[8]
1940 - Population: 190,074.^[6]
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.^[3]
1950 - Population: 331,771.^[10]
1960 - Population: 601,086; metro 708,400.^[6]
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.^[2]
1988
- September: Hurricane Gilbert.^[2]
- Plaza Fiesta San Agustín shopping mall in business.
1990 - Labor Party (Mexico) founded in Monterrey.
1991 - Monterrey Metro begins operating.^[3]

21st century

2002 - Monterrey Mexico Temple (an LDS Church) dedicated.
2005 - Paseo San Pedro shopping mall in business.
2006 - KidZania (leisure centre) in business.
2010 - Population: 1,135,512; metro 4,089,962.^[11]
2011 - Air pollution in Monterrey reaches annual mean of 36 PM2.5 and 86 PM10, more than recommended.^[12]
2012 - May: Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurs near city.^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 341 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Lonely Planet 1998.
^ ^a ^b ^c Campbell 1909.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Marley 2005.
^ Pablo Livas [in Spanish] (1909). El estado de Nuevo León, su situación económica al aproximarse el Centenario de la Independencia de México (in Spanish). Monterrey.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Snodgrass 1998.
^ "Movie Theaters in Monterrey, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 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.
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva, archived from the original on March 28, 2014{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.

Bibliography

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.[1]
Reau Campbell (1909), "Monterey", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
"Monterrey" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 774.
W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Monterey", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
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 (2): 127–158. doi:10.2307/2560958. JSTOR 2560958.
Harley L. Browning and Waltraut Feindt (1971). "Patterns of Migration to Monterrey, Mexico". International Migration Review. 5 (3): 309–324. doi:10.1177/019791837100500304. JSTOR 3002646. S2CID 147067883.
"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)
José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Monterrey". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.
Vivienne Bennett. 1995. The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
"Northeast Mexico: Monterrey", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
Michael David Snodgrass (1998). "Birth and Consequences of Industrial Paternalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890-1940". International Labor and Working-Class History (53): 115–136. JSTOR 27672459.
"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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
David Marley (2005), "Monterrey", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 267–276, ISBN 1576070271

External links

"Publicaciones editadas en Nuevo Leon". Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico (National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. (includes Monterrey )
Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Monterrey, Mexico, various dates

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[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Britannica 1910.

[baedeker1994-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 341 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)

[FOOTNOTELonely_Planet1998-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Lonely Planet 1998.

[FOOTNOTECampbell1909-4] Campbell 1909.

[CRL-5] "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

[FOOTNOTEMarley2005-6] Marley 2005.

[7] Pablo Livas [in Spanish] (1909). El estado de Nuevo León, su situación económica al aproximarse el Centenario de la Independencia de México (in Spanish). Monterrey.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[FOOTNOTESnodgrass1998-8] Snodgrass 1998.

[CinemaTreasures-9] "Movie Theaters in Monterrey, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

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

[11] "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.

[12] World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva, archived from the original on March 28, 2014{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[britannica2013-13] Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.

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