Timeline of Monterrey, Mexico
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Prior to 20th century
    
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- 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 - August 28: 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
    
- Britannica 1910.
 - Baedeker's Mexico, 1994, p. 341+ (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
 - Lonely Planet 1998.
 - Campbell 1909.
 - "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
 - Marley 2005.
 - Pablo Livas (1909). El estado de Nuevo León, su situación económica al aproximarse el Centenario de la Independencia de México (in Spanish). Monterrey.
 - 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
 - Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 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.
 - Reau Campbell (1909), "Monterey", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
 - . 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
 - 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.
 - "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
 - David Marley (2005), "Monterrey", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 267–276, ISBN 1576070271
 
External links
    
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Monterrey. | 
- "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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