Timeline of Tijuana

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Prior to 20th century

1829 - Land grant to Santiago Argüello in 1829, establishing Rancho Tía Juana in what was then, Alta California.
1839 - Kumeyaay raid on Tijuana.^[1]
1848 - End of the Mexican–American War. International border between US and Mexico formed north of Tijuana, Tijuana area is transferred to Baja California.
1889 - Tijuana founded in Baja California Territory.
1900 - Population: 243.^[2]

20th century

1900s-1950s

1911 - Magonista rebellion of 1911 erupts in Northern Baja California, Tijuana is occupied by the Magonistas for several weeks.
- May 8/9 - First Battle of Tijuana; Magonistas capture Tijuana.
- June 22 - Second Battle of Tijuana; Mexico recaptures Tijuana
1914 - El Hispano Americano newspaper begins publication.^[3]
1916 - Hippodrome opens.^[4]
1924 - Caesar salad invented by restaurateur Caesar Cardini.^[5]
1925 - La Voz de Tijuana newspaper begins publication.^[3]
1928 - Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel in business.
1929 - Agua Caliente Racetrack opens.
1930 - Baja California Territory split, Tijuana becomes part of Territorio Norte de Baja California.
1940 - Population: 16,486.^[4]
1943 - Red Cross established.^[6]
1944 - Cine Zaragoza (movie theatre) opens.^[7]
1946 - Jai alai arena opens.^[8]
1950 - Population: 59,962.^[4]
1951 - Cine Bujazan (movie theatre) opens.^[9]
1953 - City becomes part of Tijuana Municipality in the state of Baja California.
1954 - Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo becomes mayor.
1957 - Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana established in Mesa de Otay.
1958 - Tijuana Airport opens.
1959
- Dorian's in business.
- Solo Angels Motorcycle Club formed.

1960s-1990s

1960 - XEWT-TDT television begins broadcasting.
1961 - XETRA radio begins all-news format.^[10]
1964
- Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe established.^[11]
- Tijuana Christian mission founded.
1965 - National Border Industrialization Program begins.^[12]
1970 - Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior campus established.
1971 - Escuela Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas (school) and Highland Prince Academy de Mexico active.^{[citation needed]}
1973
- Cartolandia shantytown razed.^[13]
- Colonia Tierra y Libertad developed.^[13]
1976 - Estadio Nacional de Tijuana (stadium) opens.
1977 - La Casa de la Cultura Tijuana (cultural institution) established.^[14]
1980
- Zeta newspaper begins publication.^[15]
- Population: 461,267.
1982
- Tijuana Cultural Center opens.
- Plaza Río Tijuana (shopping centre)^[16] and Las Torres built.
- Northwest Aeronautical Institute established.
1984 - Associacion de Mixtecos Residentes en Tijuana established.^[17]
1986 - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte established.^[18]
1990
- Orquesta de Baja California headquartered in city.^[19]
- Population: 698,752.
1992
- Tijuana No! (musical group) active.
- inSITE art exhibition begins.^[20]^[21]
1993 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.^[22]
1994
- Cinépolis multiplex movie theatre in business.^{[citation needed]}
- March 23: Politician Luis Donaldo Colosio assassinated.
1995 - Population: 966,097.
1998 - Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura established.
1999 - Nortec Collective (musical group) active.^[23]
2000 - Population: 1,148,681.

21st century

2003
- Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura (arts organization) incorporated.^[24]
- Eudist Servants of the 11th Hour active (approximate date).^[25]
2005
- Hospital Angeles Tijuana opens.
- Tijuana Cimarrones baseball team formed.
2007
- Club Tijuana Xoloscuintles football team formed.^[26]
- Centro Médico Excel built.
2008
- Police retrained.^[27]
- Park Towers built.
- Casa del Tunel art gallery^[28] and District 10 Gallery^[29] open.
2009 - Green View Tower and VIA Corporativo built.
2010
- April 4: 2010 Baja California earthquake.
- Masyid Al Islam (mosque)^{[citation needed]} and La Caja Galería^[29] open.
- Carlos Bustamante Anchondo becomes mayor.
- Population: 1,300,983; municipality 1,559,683.
2012 - Museum of Mariachi and Tequila opens.^{[citation needed]}
2015 - October: San Diego-Tijuana drug tunnel discovered.^[30]
2016
- The Sistema Integral de Transporte de Tijuana opens for bus rapid transit service.^[31]
- Haitian migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana in October, forming the Pequeña Haití community.
2018 - Honduran migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana in November, many of whom are part of the LGBT community, settling mostly around the Playas de Tijuana area.
2020 - Population: 1,810 645; municipality 1, 922,523.
2022 - August: Tijuana is locked down after dozens of vehicles are burned around the city and a curfew is imposed purportedly by Jalisco New Generation Cartel.^[32]
2023 - Mayor Montserrat Caballero is relocated to a Mexican army base after receiving death threats.^[33]

Anticipated future event(s)

2024 - Tijuana and San Diego set to host World Design Capital 2024.

References

^ "KUMEYAAY MAP 1830s 1840s Kumeyaay Indians Attacks Mexican Mexico San Diego". www.kumeyaay.info. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
^ Taylor 2001.
^ ^a ^b "Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lawrence A. Herzog (1990), Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, Center for Mexican American Studies, ISBN 029279049X
^ "Caesar Salad". Snopes.com. 23 September 2002. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ María del Consuelo López Arámburo (2004). "La educación femenina en Baja California 1920-1930" [Female education in Baja California 1920-1930]. Ciudad: Historia (in Spanish). City of Tijuana.
^ "Movie Theaters in Tijuana, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816514410.
^ Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz (1999). Baja California: ritos y mitos cinematográficos (in Spanish). Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. ISBN 9687326980.
^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
^ "Historia" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ Kun 2012.
^ ^a ^b Jorge R. Mancillas (January 25, 1993). "It Is Poverty That Kills People--Not Rain". Los Angeles Times.
^ "Casa de la Cultura Tijuana" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ "Tijuana newspaper uncowed by drug cartels". NBC News. April 4, 2011. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013.
^ Lawrence A. Herzog (2001), From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801866432
^ M. Laura Velasco Ortiz (2005), Mixtec transnational identity, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816523276
^ "Acerca de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte" (in Spanish). Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ "Semblanza" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Orquesta de Baja California. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ "San Diego and Tijuana: inSITE97". Sculpture. New Jersey, USA: International Sculpture Center. February 1998.
^ "Side by Side". Los Angeles Times. October 21, 2000.
^ "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
^ Alejandro L. Madrid (2008), Nor-tec rifa! electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world, New York: Oxford University Press
^ "About COFAC". Tijuana and Pasadena: Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ "Antonia Brenner, 'Prison Angel' Who Took Inmates Under Her Wing, Is Dead at 86", New York Times, October 21, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic
^ "Tijuana Rising". New York Times. April 18, 2012.
^ "500 police officers replaced in Tijuana". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 2008.
^ "Amid Growing Violence, Art Flourishes In Tijuana". USA: National Public Radio. February 23, 2009.
^ ^a ^b New York Times 2012.
^ "Mexican police find Tijuana-San Diego drugs tunnel", BBC News, October 23, 2015
^ "Tijuana". Global BRTdata. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
^ Hernandez, David (2022-08-15). "Tijuana returns to normalcy after vehicle fires, cartel threats rock city, region". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
^ "Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero to live at army base after threats, 7 bodies found - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2023-06-13. Retrieved 2023-08-30.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 20th century

John A. Price (1973), Tijuana: urbanization in a border culture, Indiana, USA: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0268004773
Robert W. Duemling (1981), San Diego and Tijuana: conflict and cooperation between two border communities; a case study, Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs, Rosslyn, Va.: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute
T.D. Proffitt. 1994. Tijuana: The History of a Mexican Metropolis. San Diego: San Diego State University Press.
John Fisher (1999), "Baja California and the Pacific Northwest: Tijuana", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 66+, OL 24935876M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Harry Crosby (2000), Paul Ganster (ed.), Tijuana 1964: a photographic and historic view, San Diego, CA: San Diego State University Press, Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, ISBN 0925613312

Published in 21st century

Glen Sparrow (2001). "San Diego-Tijuana: Not quite a binational city or region". GeoJournal. 54 (1): 73–83. doi:10.1023/A:1021144816403. JSTOR 41147639. S2CID 153015715.
Lawrence D. Taylor (2001). "The Mining Boom in Baja California from 1850 to 1890 and the Emergence of Tijuana as a Border Community". Journal of the Southwest. 43 (4): 463–492. JSTOR 40170167.
Brisa Violeta Carrasco Gallegos (2009). "Tijuana: Border, Migration, and Gated Communities". Journal of the Southwest. 51 (4): 457–475. doi:10.1353/jsw.2009.0007. JSTOR 40599703. S2CID 110186426.
Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo, ed. (2012), Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822352907
Sam Lubell (September 21, 2012). "Tijuana Rebuilds on Its Art". New York Times.

External links

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[1] "KUMEYAAY MAP 1830s 1840s Kumeyaay Indians Attacks Mexican Mexico San Diego". www.kumeyaay.info. Retrieved 2021-05-15.

[FOOTNOTETaylor2001-2] Taylor 2001.

[worldcat-3] "Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[herzog1990-4] Lawrence A. Herzog (1990), Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, Center for Mexican American Studies, ISBN 029279049X

[5] "Caesar Salad". Snopes.com. 23 September 2002. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[6] María del Consuelo López Arámburo (2004). "La educación femenina en Baja California 1920-1930" [Female education in Baja California 1920-1930]. Ciudad: Historia (in Spanish). City of Tijuana.

[cinema-7] "Movie Theaters in Tijuana, Mexico". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[8] Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816514410.

[9] Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz (1999). Baja California: ritos y mitos cinematográficos (in Spanish). Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. ISBN 9687326980.

[anzovin2000-10] Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.

[11] "Historia" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[FOOTNOTEKun2012-12] Kun 2012.

[mancillas1993-13] Jorge R. Mancillas (January 25, 1993). "It Is Poverty That Kills People--Not Rain". Los Angeles Times.

[14] "Casa de la Cultura Tijuana" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[15] "Tijuana newspaper uncowed by drug cartels". NBC News. April 4, 2011. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013.

[16] Lawrence A. Herzog (2001), From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801866432

[17] M. Laura Velasco Ortiz (2005), Mixtec transnational identity, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816523276

[18] "Acerca de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte" (in Spanish). Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[19] "Semblanza" (in Spanish). Tijuana: Orquesta de Baja California. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[20] "San Diego and Tijuana: inSITE97". Sculpture. New Jersey, USA: International Sculpture Center. February 1998.

[21] "Side by Side". Los Angeles Times. October 21, 2000.

[22] "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

[23] Alejandro L. Madrid (2008), Nor-tec rifa! electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world, New York: Oxford University Press

[24] "About COFAC". Tijuana and Pasadena: Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

[25] "Antonia Brenner, 'Prison Angel' Who Took Inmates Under Her Wing, Is Dead at 86", New York Times, October 21, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic

[26] "Tijuana Rising". New York Times. April 18, 2012.

[27] "500 police officers replaced in Tijuana". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 2008.

[28] "Amid Growing Violence, Art Flourishes In Tijuana". USA: National Public Radio. February 23, 2009.

[FOOTNOTENew_York_Times2012-29] New York Times 2012.

[30] "Mexican police find Tijuana-San Diego drugs tunnel", BBC News, October 23, 2015

[31] "Tijuana". Global BRTdata. Retrieved 2023-08-30.

[32] Hernandez, David (2022-08-15). "Tijuana returns to normalcy after vehicle fires, cartel threats rock city, region". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2023-08-30.

[33] "Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero to live at army base after threats, 7 bodies found - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2023-06-13. Retrieved 2023-08-30.

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