Timeline of Ciudad Juárez

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Prior to 20th century

1659 - Mission de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe founded.^[1]
1682 – Ysleta Mission established.
1826 - Town named "Villa Paso del Norte."^[2]
1848 – Across the Rio Grande, El Paso becomes part of the U.S. state of Texas per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.^[3]
1882 – Bridge built.^[4]
1888
- El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez.^[3]
- Customs Office building constructed.
1892 - Bridge built.^[4]
1895 - Population: 6,917.^[5]

20th century

1906 - Escuela Superior de Agricultura "Hermanos Escobar" [es] (school) founded.^[1]

Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz, historic first presidential summit, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1909

1909 - William Howard Taft - Porfirio Díaz, historic first Presidential summit and the near assassination of both Presidents.^[6]
1910 - Biblioteca Municipal (library) established.^[1]
1911
- April–May: Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911); city taken by revolutionaries.^[3]
- World's "first" aerial reconnaissance flown via airplane (El Paso-Ciudad Juarez), for Mexican government.^[7]
1912 - Mexico North Western Railway (Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua) in operation.^[8]
1922 - Teatro-Cine Alcazar (theatre) opens.^[9]
1930 - Quevedo crime gang active.^[10]
1933 - Cervecería Cruz Blanca (brewery) established.^[1]
1938 – El Paso Ysleta Port of Entry, USA, established.
1940
- Teófilo Borunda becomes mayor.
- Population: 48,881.^[3]
- Following the 1940 Sun Bowl, the local Knights of Columbus in El Paso took the Catholic University Cardinals over the border for lunch^[11] in the "squalid but colorful Mexican town" of Ciudad Juárez.^[12]
1942 - Ysleta–Zaragoza Bridge rebuilt.^[4]
1943 - El Fronterizo newspaper begins publication.^[13]
1946 - Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Transformación de Ciudad Juárez, CANACINTRA established*
1947 - Cine Plaza (cinema) opens.^[14]
1950 - Population: 122,598.^[15]
1957 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez established.^[16]
1958 - Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez [es] established.^[17]
1964 - Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez established.
1967
- Bridge built.^[4]
- U.S.-Mexico Chamizal land dispute resolved.^[1]
1968 - RCA Corporation maquila begins operating.^[18]
1970 - Parque Público Federal El Chamizal [es] (park) created.
1973 - Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez established.^[1]
1974 - Asociacion de Maquiladoras (labor group) founded.
1976 - El Diario de Juárez newspaper in publication.^[19]
1980
- XHIJ-TV begins broadcasting.
- Grupo Intermedia television company established.^{[citation needed]}
- Population: 567,365 municipality.^[1]
1981 - Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez (stadium) opens.
1982 - Nipona maquila begins operating.^[20]
1983 - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (institute) regional headquarters established.^[21]
1988 - Club de Fútbol Cobras (football club) active.
1990
- Norte newspaper in publication.^[19]
- Museo Histórico de Ciudad Juárez [es] opens.
- Population: 798,499 municipality.^[1]
1995 - Population: 1,011,786 municipality.^[1]
2000
- XHEM-FM radio begins broadcasting.^{[citation needed]}
- Mormon temple built.
- Museo de la Lealtad Republicana (museum) opens.

21st century

2001 - Astros de Ciudad Juárez [es] football club formed.
2003 - Frontera Women's Foundation established.
2004
- Museo del Concorde opens.
- International news media reports on ongoing Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez area.^[22]
- Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
2005 - Indios de Ciudad Juárez (football club) formed.
2007 - José Reyes Ferriz becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
2008 - Juárez Hoy newspaper begins publication.
2009
- March: "Warfare erupts between rival drug gangs."^[23]
- 2 September: Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack.
2010
- 31 January: Villas de Salvárcar massacre.
- Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality again.
- Population: 1,321,004 city; 1,332,131 municipality.^[24]
2013
- ViveBús [es] begins operating.
- Monumento a la Mexicanidad [es] installed.
- Enrique Serrano Escobar becomes mayor of Juárez Municipality.
2014 - Railroad hub opens in nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico, USA.^[25]
2016 - Pope Francis visits Ciudad Juárez in February.^[26]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Juárez: 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 17 June 2011.
^ University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 413, OL 6112221M
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Arreola 1994.
^ Figueroa Doménech 1899.
^ Harris, Charles H. III; Sadler, Louis R. (2009). The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4652-0.
^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
^ Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702, OL 6637165M
^ Laura Isabel Serna (2010). "Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border: American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930". In Alexis McCrossen (ed.). Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-9078-7.
^ Mottier 2009.
^ "Baugh to Greet C.U. Players". The Washington Post. December 14, 1939. p. 26.
^ "Card Gridders Liked Texas, But Not 0–0 Tie". Washington Post. January 6, 1940. p. 16.
^ Felix Padilla, ed. (1994). Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the United States: Sociology. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-165-6.
^ "Movie Theaters in Juarez, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mexico". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez, 1671-1945, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014
^ Jefferson R. Cowie (1999). Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.
^ ^a ^b "Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ Staudt 2010.
^ "Colef" (in Spanish). Tijuana. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. lxiii–lxxii. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
^ BBC News. "Mexico Profile: Timeline". Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ "Juárez". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
^ "New Rail Hub Opens Along Border in New Mexico", New York Times, 28 May 2014
^ "Pope Francis, Mass in Juárez brought out emotions". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory, 1885 – via University of Texas at El Paso
"Ciudad Juarez", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1441-0.
Nicole Mottier (2009). "Drug Gangs and Politics in Ciudad Juárez: 1928–1936". Mexican Studies. 25.
Kathleen Staudt; et al., eds. (2010). Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11291-9.

in Spanish

J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Chihuahua: Ciudad Juarez". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). Vol. 2. R. de S. N. Araluce. hdl:2027/mdp.39015051117227 – via Hathi Trust.

External links

Digital Public Library of America, USA. Items related to Ciudad Juárez, various dates

[enciclo-cronologia-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Juárez: 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 17 June 2011.

[MunicipalArchives-2] University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014

[seltzer1952-3] Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 413, OL 6112221M

[FOOTNOTEArreola1994-4] Arreola 1994.

[FOOTNOTEFigueroa_Doménech1899-5] Figueroa Doménech 1899.

[Harris2009-6] Harris, Charles H. III; Sadler, Louis R. (2009). The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4652-0.

[Robertson2011-7] Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.

[8] Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702, OL 6637165M

[serna2010-9] Laura Isabel Serna (2010). "Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico border: American motion pictures and Mexican audiences, 1896/1930". In Alexis McCrossen (ed.). Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-9078-7.

[FOOTNOTEMottier2009-10] Mottier 2009.

[Baugh-11] "Baugh to Greet C.U. Players". The Washington Post. December 14, 1939. p. 26.

[squalid-12] "Card Gridders Liked Texas, But Not 0–0 Tie". Washington Post. January 6, 1940. p. 16.

[Kanellos-13] Felix Padilla, ed. (1994). Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the United States: Sociology. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-165-6.

[cinema-14] "Movie Theaters in Juarez, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2014.

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

[katolsk-16] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mexico". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[17] University Library Special Collections Department, Guide to the Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juárez, 1671-1945, Finding Aids, USA: University of Texas at El Paso, retrieved December 16, 2014

[Cowie1999-18] Jefferson R. Cowie (1999). Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.

[worldcat-19] "Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[FOOTNOTEStaudt2010-20] Staudt 2010.

[21] "Colef" (in Spanish). Tijuana. Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[candelaria2004-22] Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. lxiii–lxxii. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.

[bbc-timeline-23] BBC News. "Mexico Profile: Timeline". Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[SEDESOL-24] "Juárez". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[25] "New Rail Hub Opens Along Border in New Mexico", New York Times, 28 May 2014

[26] "Pope Francis, Mass in Juárez brought out emotions". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

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