Timeline of Albuquerque, New Mexico
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
18th-19th centuries
- 1706 - Town founded as a trading post between the Tiwa Puebloan peoples and the Hispanos in Nuevo México by Francisco Cuervo y Valdés for New Spain.[1]
- 1793 - San Felipe de Neri Church built.
- 1837 - Unrest.[2]
- 1846 - U.S. army fort built.[3]
- 1850 - Town becomes part of U.S. New Mexico Territory.
- 1862 - Town occupied by U.S. Confederate troops.[4]
- 1867 - Military post closes.[3]
- 1871 - Menaul School established.[5]
- 1873 - Jesuit College established.[6]
- 1879 - Albuquerque Academy, now known as "Albuquerque High School," established (not to be confused with the present-day Albuquerque Academy).
- 1880
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot built near town.[3]
- New town platted.[7]
- Albuquerque Daily Journal newspaper begins publication.[8]
- Albuquerque Indian School[5] and Albuquerque Street Railway Company established.[9]
- 1881 - Territorial Exposition held.[10]
- 1882
- First Methodist Episcopal Church built in new town.
- Albuquerque Browns baseball team[11] and St. Vincent Academy[5] established.
- 1883
- Germania club founded.[12]
- Ladies' Library Association active.
- 1885
- 1889 - University of New Mexico founded.
- 1890 - Population: 3,785.[4]
- 1891
- 1894 - Harwood Industrial School established.[5]
- 1895 - La Bandera Americana newspaper begins publication.[15]
- 1897 - El Nuevo Mundo newspaper begins publication.[15]
- 1899 - Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company building constructed.
20th century
- 1901 - Albuquerque Public Library opens.[16][17]
- 1902 - Alvarado Hotel in business.[18]
- 1903
- 1904 - Electric streetcar begins operating.[19]
- 1906 - Southwest Presbyterian Sanatorium founded.[20]
- 1910 - Population: 11,020.[4]
- 1912
- City becomes part of the new State of New Mexico.
- New Mexico State Fair begins.[21]
- Albuquerque Independent Society formed.[22]
- 1914
- Albuquerque High School building constructed.
- Home Circle Club chartered.[22]
- 1917 - City Charter adopted.[13]
- 1919 - New Mexico Workers Chronicle begins publication.[23]
- 1920 - People's Sanatorium opens.[22]
- 1922 - First National Bank Building (Albuquerque) constructed.
- 1924 - Sunshine Theatre opens.[24]
- 1925 - Santa Fe Railway Shops (Albuquerque) built.
- 1926 - Courthouse relocated to New Town from Old Town.[3]
- 1927
- Rio Grande Zoo opens.
- KiMo Theater built.[25]
- 1928
- Oxnard Field, Albuquerque's first airport, is constructed.
- KGGM radio begins broadcasting.[26]
- 1929
- First commercial airline service by Western Air Express and Transcontinental Air Transport
- West Mesa Airport constructed.
- 1930 - Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express merge to become TWA.[relevant?]
- 1932 - Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico established.
- 1933 - KKOB (AM) radio headquartered in city.
- 1934 - Continental Airlines begins service.
- 1936 - Albuquerque Little Theater dedicated.[27]
- 1938 - Lobo Theater[24] and New Mexico State Fair grounds open.[26]
- 1939
- Albuquerque Municipal Airport constructed.
- Hitlon Hotel built.
- 1942 - Kirtland Air Force Base established.
- 1943 - POW Camp Albuquerque established.
- 1946 - U.S. military Sandia Base (nuclear weapons installation) active.[26]
- 1947 - Old Town Historical Society established.[28]
- 1948 - Ernie Pyle House/Library branch established.
- 1949 - Old Town annexed to city.[26]
- 1954 - Simms Building constructed.
- 1956 - Albuquerque Petroleum Club founded.
- 1957 - Tingley Coliseum dedicated.
- 1959 - Uncle Cliff’s Kiddieland opens.
- 1960 - New Mexico Genealogical Society headquartered in city.[citation needed]
- 1961
- Winrock Shopping Center in business.
- Bank of New Mexico Building constructed.
- TWA begins the first commercial jet service with the Boeing 707 and the Convair 880.[relevant?]
- 1963
- Circle Autoscope Drive-In cinema opens.[24]
- First National Bank Building East constructed.
- Albuquerque Municipal Airport renamed to Albuquerque Sunport
- 1965
- New terminal opens at the Albuquerque Sunport.
- Coronado Center shopping mall in business.
- Albuquerque Press Club founded.
- 1967 - Albuquerque Museum of Art and History established.
- 1970 - Anti-war protest.[29]
- 1972
- Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins.[26]
- Glenwood Hills Association established.[30]
- 1974
- City adopts mayor-council form of government.[13]
- TWA begins the first jumbo jet aircraft service with the Lockheed 1011.[relevant?]
- 1976 - Indian Pueblo Cultural Center opens.
- 1979
- National Solar Thermal Test Facility established.
- TWA begins the first nonstop flights to New York.[relevant?]
- American Airlines begins service.
- 1980
- Southwest Airlines begins service.
- Population: 331,767.[31]
- 1982 United Airlines begins service.
- 1983 Delta Air Lines begins service.
- 1986
- Albuquerque Petroleum Building constructed.
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science founded.
- 1987-1989 Albuquerque International Sunport undergoes a major expansion.
- 1990
- Albuquerque Plaza built.
- American International Rattlesnake Museum opens.
- Population: 384,736.[32]
- 1991 - National Museum of Nuclear Science & History chartered.
- 1993 - ¡Explora! Science Center and Children's Museum opens.
- 1994
- Albuquerque Poetry Slam begins.[33]
- Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in business.
- 1996
- April: City website online.[34][35]
- Rio Grande Botanic Garden and Albuquerque Aquarium open.
- 1997 - Jim Baca elected mayor.[36]
21st century
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- 2000 - National Hispanic Cultural Center opens.
- 2001 - TWA merges into American Airlines.[relevant?]
- 2002 - Alvarado Transportation Center opens.
- 2003 - Metropolitan Courthouse built.
- 2004 - Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara established.[37][38]
- 2005
- Duke City Derby (roller derby) league formed.
- Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum opens.
- ¡Globalquerque! music fest begins.
- 2007 - Alamosa Skatepark built.[39]
- 2009 - Richard J. Berry becomes mayor.[40]
- 2010 - Population: 545,852.[13]
- 2011 - I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange planned.[13]
- 2012 - Population: 555,417.[13]
- 2013 - I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange construction started.[13]
- 2015 - Panhandler jobs program begins.[41]
See also
- Albuquerque history
- List of mayors of Albuquerque
- List of historic landmarks in Albuquerque
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico
- Template:Req[2]
References
- ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 173: "Albuquerque"
- ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 423: "Chronology"
- ^ a b c d Andres 2000.
- ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c d e Patterson's American Educational Directory. Vol. 13. Chicago. 1916.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Helen Haines (1891), History of New Mexico, New York: New Mexico Historical Pub. Co., OCLC 1687045
- ^ Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 24, OCLC 3832886
- ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Chronological Table". New Mexico Blue Book. Santa Fe. 1915.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ W. G. Ritch (1883), Illustrated New Mexico, Santa Fé, N.M: New Mexican printing and publishing co., OCLC 2201395
- ^ L.M Sutter (2010), New Mexico Baseball: miners, outlaws, Indians, and isotopes, 1880 to the present, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., ISBN 9780786441228
- ^ Tomas Jaehn (2004), Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 0826334989
- ^ a b c d e f g h Budget 2014.
- ^ Rafael Chabran; Richard Chabran (1993). "Spanish-Language and Latino Press of the United States: Newspapers and Periodicals". Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. p. 360+. ISBN 1558850740.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b A. Gabriel Meléndez (2005), Spanish-Language Newspapers in New Mexico, 1834-1958, Tucson, Ariz: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0816524726
- ^ Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library. "Albuquerque Libraries: It's a Grand Old History". abcreads. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ^ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Jakle 1996.
- ^ a b Kammer 2004.
- ^ Ferenc Morton Szasz (2004), The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and the Mountain West, 1865-1915, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803293119
- ^ Richard Melzer (2011), New Mexico, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith
- ^ a b c Jamane Yeager (2011). "New Mexico". In Alton Hornsby Jr. (ed.). Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 545+. ISBN 1573569763.
- ^ "New Mexico: Albuquerque", Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c "Movie Theaters in Albuquerque, NM". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Tricentennial 2008.
- ^ Kathryn A. Flynn (2012), Public art and architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, ISBN 9780865348813
- ^ University of New Mexico - Zimmerman Library. "Albuquerque Historical Society records, 1940-2002". ArchiveGrid. Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ^ Lou Hoffman (ed.). "Viêt Nam War Narrative and Analysis – A New Mexican Perspective". New Mexico Military History. City of Albuquerque. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Neighborhood Associations". City of Albuquerque, Planning Department. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ McAllister 2008.
- ^ "City Seeks Net Role to Raise Quality of Residents' Lives", Albuquerque Journal, May 13, 1996 – via Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library
- ^ "City of Albuquerque". Archived from the original on June 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
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"Mayor". City of Albuquerque. Archived from the original on May 1, 1998.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "History". Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ^ Pluralism Project. "Albuquerque, New Mexico". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ^ "Albuquerque, New Mexico". Skatepark.org. Portland, OR: Skaters for Public Skateparks. 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "This Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working", Washington Post, August 11, 2016
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- "New Mexico: Albuquerque", Where to Go to Become Rich: Farmers', Miners' and Tourists' Guide to Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1880
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Albuquerque". Complete Business Directory of New Mexico, and Gazetteer of the Territory for 1882. Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - William M. Berger (1883), "Albuquerque", Berger's tourists' guide to New Mexico, Kansas City, Mo: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, OCLC 16658991
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Albuquerque". Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory. Chicago: Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser. 1884.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - C.A. Higgins (1894), "New Mexico: Albuquerque", New guide to the Pacific coast, Chicago: Rand, McNally, OCLC 2163219
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- Published in the 20th century
- Hudspeth Directory Company. Hudspeth’s Albuquerque City Directory. El Paso: 1901, 1904, 1907-1956.
- Max. Frost and Paul A.F. Walter, ed. (1906), "Albuquerque", Land of sunshine: a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico, Santa Fé, N.M: New Mexico Bureau of Immigration, OCLC 1806416
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - H.B. Hening and E. Dana Johnson. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chief City of a New Empire in the Great Southwest. Albuquerque, 1908.
- "Albuquerque", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Hudspeth’s Albuquerque City Directory. 1919 – via Google Books.
- George Wharton James (1920), "Albuquerque, the Commercial Metropolis of New Mexico", New Mexico, Boston: Page Company
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Federal Writers' Project (1940). "Albuquerque". New Mexico: a Guide to the Colorful State. American Guide Series. NY: Hastings House. p. 173+.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - George Fitzpatrick; Harvey Caplin (1976), Albuquerque: 100 years in pictures, 1875-1975 (2nd ed.), Albuquerque, N.M: Modern Press, ISBN 091075036X
- Marc Simmons. Albuquerque: A Narrative History. Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1982.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Albuquerque", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- Michael F. Logan (1995), "Albuquerque", Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: resistance to urban growth in the Southwest, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, p. 95+, ISBN 0816515123
- John A. Jakle; et al. (1996), "The Motel in Albuquerque", The Motel in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801869181
- Published in the 21st century
- Benny J. Andres Jr. (2000). "La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): the Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s". In David Maciel, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry (ed.). The Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. p. 239+. ISBN 0826321992.
- David Kammer. "Albuquerque's 20th-Century Suburban Growth". New Mexico Office of the State Historian. New Mexico State Record Center and Archives. Retrieved August 11, 2013.. circa 2004
- "Albuquerque History Timeline". Albuquerque Tricentennial. Albuquerque Historical Society. 2008.
- Susan McAllister, ed. (2008), A bigger boat: the unlikely success of the Albuquerque poetry slam scene, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 9780826344830
- "Fiscal Year 2014 Approved Budget". City of Albuquerque. 2013.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- "Local History". Subject Guides. Albuquerque: ABC Library.
- "Albuquerque". New Mexico's Digital Collections. University of New Mexico, University Libraries.
- Items related to Albuquerque, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- Items related to Albuquerque, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division)
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