The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Puebla, Mexico.
Prior to 18th century
edit- 1531
- Puebla founded by Toribio Motolinia & Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal.[1][2]
- First mass celebrated 16 April 1531 by Toribio Motolinia.[3]
- 1533-1545 - Indios de Servicio provide labor to Puebla.[4]
- 1537 – College of the Holy Ghost founded by Jesuits.[5]
- 1541 – Textile mill in operation.[6]
- 1542 – School established.[6]
- 1543 – Catholic Diocese of Tlaxcala headquartered in Puebla.[7]
- 1551 – San Francisco Convent active.[8]
- 1552 – Puebla Cathedral construction begins.[5]
- 1555 – Fountain installed in Plaza Mayor.[6]
- 1556 – Joseph designated city patron saint.[9]
- 1578 - Colegio del Espíritu Santo founded
- 1580 – Casa del Deán built.[8]
- 1592 – Hospital de San Roque founded.[6]
- 1609 – Convent of Santa Monica founded.[8]
- 1629 – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla becomes Cathedral maestro de capilla.[9]
- 1632 – Hospital de San Bernardo opens.[6]
- 1639-1653 - Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Puebla
- 1640 – Printing press in operation (approximate date).[6]
- 1646 – Biblioteca Palafoxiana founded.[2]
- 1649 – Puebla Cathedral consecrated.[6][2]
- 1653 – Potters' guild established.[10]
- 1659 – Church of Santo Domingo built (approximate date).
- 1678 – Population: 68,800.[6]
- 1688 - Death of Catarina de San Juan, "la China Poblana"
- 1690
- Capilla del Rosario (Puebla) (chapel) built in the Church of Santo Domingo.[8]
- Puebla Cathedral completed.
18th and 19th centuries
edit- 1728 – Museum of antiquities established.[1]
- 1760 – Teatro Principal inaugurated.[11]
- 1764 – Estaban Bravo de Rivero becomes mayor.[6]
- 1767 – La Compania (Jesuit church) built.[8][11]
- 1771 – Jose Merino Ceballos becomes mayor.[6]
- 1793 – Population: 56,859.[6]
- 1813 – Academia de Bellas Artes founded.[12]
- 1827 – El Poblano newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1844 – Paseo Bravo (street) laid out.[6]
- 1846 – El Patricio newspaper in publication.[13]
- 1847 – Siege of Puebla by United States forces.[5]
- 1862
- May 5: Battle of Puebla occurs near city.
- City renamed "Puebla de Zaragoza".
- 1863 – May 16–17: Siege of Puebla by French forces.[1]
- 1867 - Seized by Mexicans under Porfirio Díaz.[2]
- 1868 – Guerrero theatre opens.[11]
- 1869 – Apizaco-Puebla Mexican Railway line built.[14]
- 1879 – Population: 64,588.[6]
- 1891 – Penitenciaria (prison) built.[11]
- 1893 – Velodrome in use.[6]
- 1895 – Population: 91,917.[1]
- 1897 – Railway station built.[6]
- 1898 – Rancho de la Magdalena becomes part of city.[6]
- 1900 – Population: 93,521.[2][15]
20th century
edit- 1901 – Franco-Mexican monument erected (approximate date).[16]
- 1906 – Palacio Municipal de Puebla built.
- 1910
- 1911 – Gaceta de Puebla newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1924 – La Opinion newspaper in publication.[13]
- 1926 – Mexico City-Puebla highway completed.[6]
- 1931
- 1937 – University of Puebla founded.[17]
- 1942 - Colegio Americano de Puebla founded.
- 1944
- Club de Fútbol Puebla formed.
- El Sol de Puebla newspaper begins publication.[18]
- Museo José Luis Bello y González (museum) opens.
- 1950 – Population: 206,840.[19]
- 1960 – Population: 297,257.[6]
- 1962 – Area of city expanded.[6]
- 1964 – Volkswagen automotive manufactory begins operating.
- 1968 – Estadio Cuauhtémoc (stadium) opens.
- 1973 – Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla and Museo de Arte Cultural Poblano established.
- 1985 – Hermanos Serdán International Airport inaugurated.
- 1987
- Historic Downtown area designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Jardín Botánico Universitario de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (garden) established.[20]
- 1988 – Central de Autobuses Puebla (depot) inaugurated.
- 1991 – Amparo Museum inaugurated.[8]
21st century
edit- 2002 – San Pedro Museum of Art active.
- 2005 – Enrique Dóger becomes mayor.
- 2008 – Blanca Alcalá becomes mayor.
- 2010
- 2014 – José Antonio Gali Fayad becomes mayor.
- 2017 - Puebla earthquake
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Chambers 1901.
- ^ a b c d e Britannica 1910.
- ^ Sierra Silva 2018,p.24
- ^ Hirschberg, "Alternative to Encomienda"
- ^ a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1526, OL 6112221M
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Marley 2005.
- ^ Camillus Crivelli (1913). "Tlaxcala". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c d e f Baedeker 1994.
- ^ a b Catalyne 1966.
- ^ Lister 1984.
- ^ a b c d Caballero 1892.
- ^ Palma y Campos 1898.
- ^ a b c d "International Coalition on Newspapers". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ Fred Wilbur Powell (1921), Railroads of Mexico, Boston: Stratford Co., OCLC 1865702, OL 6637165M
- ^ a b Robert Joseph MacHugh (1914), Modern Mexico, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 2785484, OL 6566716M
- ^ "Las fiestas Presidenciales en Puebla", El Mundo Ilustrado (in Spanish), vol. 8, January 13, 1901, hdl:2027/mdp.39015034750839
- ^ Pansters 1990.
- ^ "Mexico". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
- ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- ^ "Garden Search: Mexico". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Mexican Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 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- Altman, Ida, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico 1560-1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2000.
- David Marley (2005), "Puebla", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 288–301, ISBN 1576070271
- Ramos, Frances L. Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla. Tucson: University of Arizona Press ISBN 978-0-8165-2117-3
- "Puebla". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "History and Description: Special Places: Puebla (City)". List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Mexico. New York Public Library. 1909.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 633. .
- W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Puebla", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
- Alice Ray Catalyne (1966). "Music of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in the Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico". Anuario. 2: 75–90. doi:10.2307/779767. JSTOR 779767.
- Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister (1984). "Potters' Quarter of Colonial Puebla, Mexico". Historical Archaeology. 18 (1): 87–102. doi:10.1007/BF03374041. JSTOR 25615476. S2CID 163002069.
- Wil Pansters (1990). "Social Movement and Discourse: The Case of the University Reform Movement in 1961 in Puebla, Mexico". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 9 (1): 79–101. doi:10.2307/3338217. JSTOR 3338217.
- José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Puebla". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.
- Nancy E. Churchill (1999). "El Paseo del Río San Francisco: Urban Development and Social Justice in Puebla, Mexico". Social Justice. 26 (3 (77)): 156–173. JSTOR 29767166.
- Jones and Varley (1999). "Reconquest of the historic centre: urban conservation and gentrification in Puebla, Mexico". Environment and Planning. 31 (31): 1547–1566. doi:10.1068/a311547. S2CID 155082267.
Guidebooks
edit- Josiah Conder (1830), "Puebla", Mexico and Guatimala, The Modern Traveller, vol. 25, London: J.Duncan
- Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Puebla", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Puebla", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
- "Puebla", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
- "Mexico: Puebla", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- Reau Campbell (1909), "Puebla", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
- John Fisher (1999), "Puebla", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 341+, OL 24935876M
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Central Mexico: Puebla", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- "Around Mexico City: Puebla", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
- Thomas Philip Terry (1923). "Puebla". Terry's Guide to Mexico. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Works in Spanish
edit- Manuel Caballero (1892). "Puebla y su Capital: Ciudad de Los Angeles". Primer directorio general del Estado de Puebla (in Spanish). Mexico: Tip. de E. Dublán y Comp.
- Miguel Palma y Campos (1898). Guia del turista en la ciudad de Puebla (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Imprenta de M. Corona Cervantes.
- J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Puebla". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico: R. de S. N. Araluce. (includes directory)
- José Toribio Medina (1908). La imprenta en la Puebla de los Angeles (1640-1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Puebla, arranged chronologically)
- "Puebla de Zaragoza", Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 389+ (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
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