Timeline_of_Guanajuato_City Knowpia

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

Prior to 20th century edit

1554 - Guanajuato founded.^[1]^[2]
1558 - Mine shaft in operation, per Spaniards.^[3]
1679 - Town charter granted.^[4]
1732 - Hospice of the Holy Trinity founded.
1741 - Guanajuato attains city status.^[2]
1760 - Flood.^[5]
1765 - Compania church built.^[4]
1785 - Chamber of Commerce built.^[6]
1788 - Templo de San Cayetano (church) dedicated.^[3]
1809 - Alhóndiga de Granaditas built.
1810 - Town besieged by forces of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.^[6]
1812 - Mint established.^[2]
1867 - National College of Guanajuato active.
1872 - El Pensamiento Público newspaper in publication (approximate date).^[7]
1895 - Population: 39,404.^[2]
1898 - Plaza de la Paz built.^[3]
1900
- Electricity installed (approximate date).^[8]
- Population: 41,486.^[2]

20th century edit

1903 - Teatro Juarez (theatre) inaugurated.^[3]
1911 - El Hearaldo Guanajuatense and El Triunfo de la Justicia newspapers begin publication.^[7]
1960 - Population: 55,107.^[9]
1972 - Festival Internacional Cervantino active.
1990 - Population: 73,100.^[9]
1998 - Expresión en Corto International Film Festival begins.

21st century edit

2005 - Festival Medieval de Guanajuato begins.
2007 - MM Cinemas open.^[10]
2009
- Abejas de Guanajuato basketball team formed.
- Nicéforo Guerrero Reynoso elected mayor.^[11]
2010 - Population: metro 171,709.^[12]
2021 - Location for Forza Horizon 5

References edit

^ Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 729, OL 6112221M
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Walsh 1995.
^ ^a ^b Campbell 1909.
^ Endfield 2004.
^ ^a ^b Martin 1906.
^ ^a ^b "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
^ Rankine 1992.
^ ^a ^b Marley 2005.
^ "Movie Theaters in Guanajuato, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
^ "Mexican Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography edit

in English edit

Published in the 19th century

Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Guanaxuato". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 3. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
Albert S. Evans (1870), "Guanajuato", Our Sister Republic: a Gala Trip through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70, Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Co.
Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guanajuato", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Guanajuato", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
"Guanajuato", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
Vera Granville (1899), "The Ancient City of Guanajuato", Overland Monthly, 33, San Francisco, hdl:2027/inu.30000080737624

Published in the 20th century

Robert McF. Doble (1904), "The Guanajuato Mexico Power Transmission", Electrical World and Engineer, 44, New York
Percy F. Martin (1906), Mexico's Treasure House (Guanajuato): an Illustrated and Descriptive Account of the Mines, New York: Cheltenham Press, OCLC 1159847, OL 6976885M
Reau Campbell (1909), "Guanajuato", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
"Guanajuato (city)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 650.
William English Carson (1914), "Silver City", Mexico, New York: Macmillan
Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Guanajuato", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Margaret E. Rankine (1992). "Mexican Mining Industry in the Nineteenth Century with Special Reference to Guanajuato". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 11 (1): 29–48. doi:10.2307/3338598. JSTOR 3338598.
Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 236+ (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
Laurie L. Walsh (1995). "Guanajuato". In Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin (ed.). Americas. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. pp. 272–274. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
"North Central Highlands: Guanajuato", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
John Fisher (1999), "The Bajio: Guajajuato", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 235+, OL 24935876M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Central Mexico: Guanajuato", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)

Published in the 21st century

Georgina H. Endfield; et al. (2004). "Conflict and Cooperation: Water, Floods, and Social Response in Colonial Guanajuato, Mexico". Environmental History. 9 (2): 221–247. doi:10.2307/3986085. JSTOR 3986085. S2CID 144963832.
David Marley (2005), "Guanajuato", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 237+, ISBN 1576070271

in Spanish edit

Antonio García Cubas [in Spanish] (1896). "Guanajuato". Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (in Spanish). Vol. 3. México: Antigua Imprenta de las Escalerillas. hdl:2027/coo.31924056282340.
Féliz Ramos y Duarte (1899), "Ciudad de Guanajuato", Diccionario de curiosidades historicas, geograficas, hierograficas, cronologicas, etc., de la Republica Mejicana [Dictionary of historical curiosities, geographical, hierograficas, timelines, etc.., Of the Mexican Republic], Méjico: E. Dublán, OCLC 11673485