Timeline of Aguascalientes City

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The following is a timeline of the history of Aguascalientes City, Mexico.

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Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes is the capital of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes and its most populous city, as well as the head of the Aguascalientes Municipality, with a population of 948,990 inhabitants in 2012 and 1,225,432 in the metro area. The metropolitan area also includes the municipalities of Jesús María and San Francisco de los Romo. It is located in North-Central Mexico, which roughly corresponds to the Bajío region within the central Mexican plateau. The city stands on a valley of steppe climate at 1880 meters above sea level, at 21°51′N 102°18′W. Originally the territory of the nomadic Chichimeca peoples, the city was founded on October 22, 1575, by Spanish families relocating from Lagos de Moreno under the name of Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de las Aguas Calientes, in reference to the chosen patron saint and the many thermal springs found close to the village, which still remain to this day. It would serve as an outpost in the Silver Route, while politically, it was part of the kingdom of Nueva Galicia. In 1835, President Antonio López de Santa Anna made Aguascalientes the capital of a new territory in retaliation to the state of Zacatecas, eventually becoming capital of a new state in 1857. During the Porfiriato era, Aguascalientes was chosen to host the main workshops of the Mexican Central Railway company; bringing an industrial and cultural explosion. The city hosted the Revolutionary Convention of 1914, an important meeting of war generals during the Mexican Revolution. Formed on a tradition of farming, mining and railroad and textile industry; contemporary Aguascalientes has attracted foreign investment of automobile and electronics companies due to its peaceful business climate, strategic location and existing infrastructure. The city is home to two Nissan automobile manufacturing plants and a shared facility by Nissan and Mercedes, which has given the city a significant Japanese immigrant community. Other companies with operations in the city include Jatco, Coca-Cola, Flextronics, Texas Instruments, Donaldson and Calsonic Kansei. The city of Aguascalientes is also known for the San Marcos Fair, the largest fair celebrated in Mexico and one of the largest in North America.

Landmark Settlement

José Guadalupe Posada Museum

The José Guadalupe Posada Museum is located in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes, capital of the State of Aguascalientes, and birthplace of the graphic artist José Guadalupe Posada. The museum displays the original signed printed plates with which he created his graphic images.

Art Museum

Aguascalientes Cathedral

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption Also Aguascalientes Cathedral It is the main Catholic building of the city of Aguascalientes in Mexico, and one of the emblematic monuments of the city. It is located in the Plaza de la Patria. The construction of the current temple was initiated by the priest Antonio Flores de Acevedo in 1704, finishing the parish priest Manuel Colón de Larreátegui in 1738. The image of the Virgin of the Assumption was brought from Spain. The construction consists of atrial bard composed of quarry pillars and trellis with lateral accesses and to the north a sundial on a pillar. Twin towers showing a neoclassical style on their curved pediments. The main front of the temple is in its entirety carved in pink quarry, which consists of three bodies and auction; In the first one the access is through an arch of half point with key of archangel; To the sides salomonic columns of vegetal reliefs and compound capital. In the lateral façades, the doorway of the accesses with a semicircular arch is highlighted, flanked by smooth columns that support entablature with broken fronton and florones at the sides.

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Congress of Aguascalientes

The Congress of Aguascalientes or by its full name Congress of the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes is the depository body of the legislative power of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, It is a unicameral assembly made up of twenty-seven deputies, of whom eighteen are elected by relative majority and nine by proportional representation.

Government

Museum of Contemporary Art

The Aguascalientes Museum of Contemporary Art is an art gallery located in the city of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico and has 6 galleries. In the "Jesús F. Contreras" gallery there are art works by contemporary Mexican artists. These were rewarded works from the Young Encounter of Arts; in another gallery is the work of Enrique Guzmán Villagómez, a recognized artist whose work is expressionist in nature. In the Arts Library gallery, there are works by photographers from a variety of backgrounds and styles. In the first floor Saturnino Herrán gallery, temporary exhibitions by recognized Mexican and international artists are exhibited.

Art Museum

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Prior to 20th century

1575 – Aguascalientes founded. 1604 – San Marcos Fair begins. 1857 – Town becomes capital of Aguascalientes state. 1867 – School of Agriculture established. 1870 – El Despertador newspaper in publication. 1883 – León-Aguascalientes railway established. 1885 – Teatro Morelos opens. 1899 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Aguascalientes established.

20th century

1903 – State Teaching School built. 1911 – Population: 44,800. 1964 – Museo de la Insurgencia opens. 1972 – Posada Museum opens. 1973 – Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established. 1975 – Rieleros de Aguascalientes baseball team formed. 1982 – Aguascalientes State Historical Archive established.[1] 1987 – El Heraldo de Aguascalientes newspaper begins publication. 1988 – Museo Regional de Historia de Aguascalientes established. 1989 – Jardín Botánico Rey Netzahualcoyotl (garden) active. 1991 – Teatro Aguascalientes opens. 2000 – Population: 594,092.

21st century

2003 Estadio Victoria (stadium) opens. Club Necaxa football team active. 2010 – Population: 722,250; metro 932,369. 2011 Lorena Martínez Rodríguez becomes mayor. Línea Verde project begins. Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes 2011 (beauty pageant) held in city. 2013 – New Nissan Motor Company manufactory begins operating.

Charles W. Zaremba (1883). "State of Aguascalientes". Merchants' and Tourists' Guide to Mexico. Chicago: Althrop Publishing House. Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Aguascalientes", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265 "Aguas Calientes", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896 Cristobal Hidalgo (1900), "Important Cities: Aguas Calientes", Guide to Mexico, San Francisco, California: Whitaker & Ray Co. Published in the 20th century

"Aguas Calientes". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York. 1907.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Reau Campbell (1909), "Aguas Calientes", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015 "Aguascalientes" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 427. W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Mexico: Chief Towns: Aguascalientes", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728 Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Aguascalientes", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office "North Central Highlands: Aguascalientes", Mexico, Lonely Planet, 1998, OL 8314651M (fulltext via OpenLibrary) John Fisher (1999), "The Bajio: Aguascalientes", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 231+, OL 24935876M: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Northeast Mexico: Aguascalientes", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999, p. 267+, ISBN 9780312194901 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)

In Spanish

Antonio García Cubas [in Spanish] (1896). "Aguascalientes". Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (in Spanish). Vol. 1. México: Antigua Imprenta de las Escalerillas. hdl:2027/coo.31924020385047. J. Figueroa Doménech (1899). "Estado de Aguascalientes: Aguascalientes". Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana (in Spanish). Vol. 2. R. de S. N. Araluce. Jesus Gomez Serrano (2005). "Una ciudad pujante: Aguascalientes durante el porfiriato". In Anne Staples (ed.). Bienes y vivencias, el siglo XIX [Goods and experiences, the nineteenth century]. Historia de la vida cotidiana en México (History of everyday life in Mexico) (in Spanish). El Colegio de México. pp. 253–286. ISBN 978-968-16-7762-6.