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• 1542 – February 14: Guadalajara founded in New Spain.^[1]
• 1560
  • Town becomes capital of Nueva Galicia province.^[2]
  • Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara relocated to Guadalajara from Compostela.
• 1591 – Jesuit college founded.^{[citation needed]}
• 1618 – Guadalajara Cathedral built.^[3]
• 1690 – Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora del Carmen founded.^{[citation needed]}
• 1692 – Templo de San Francisco de Asís (church) built.
• 1774 – Governor's Palace built on Plaza de Armas.^[4]
• 1786 – Spanish intendancy established.^[5]
• 1792
  • University of Guadalajara founded.
  • Population: 24,249.^[6]
• 1795 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[7]

• 1811 – Mint built.^[3]
• 1817 – May 31: Severe earthquake.^[8]
• 1829 – Hospicio Cabañas inaugurated.^[9]
• 1848 – Panteón de Belén (cemetery) established.
• 1849 – Earthquake.
• 1854 – Guadalajara Cathedral towers rebuilt.
• 1859 – War of Reform (approximate date).^[8]
• 1861 – Public Library of the State of Jalisco established.^[10]
• 1863 – French occupation begins.^[4]
• 1866
  • Teatro Degollado inaugurated.
  • French occupation ends.^[4]
• 1867 – Club Popular de Artesanos active.^{[citation needed]}
• 1875 – Earthquake.^[3]
• 1895 – Population: 83,934.^[3]
• 1896 – Casa de los Perros built.
• 1897 – Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento (church) construction begins.^[4]
• 1900 – Population: 101,208.^[3]

• 1906 – Club Deportivo Guadalajara (football club) formed.^[11]
• 1907 – Automobile Club of Guadalajara conducts car race near city.^[12]
• 1908 – Southern Pacific railway begins operating.^[13]
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution.^[8]
• 1916 – Club Atlas (football club) formed.
• 1917 – El Informador newspaper begins publication.^[14]
• 1925 – University of Guadalajara re-established.
• 1932 – June 3: 1932 Jalisco earthquake.
• 1939 – José Clemente Orozco paints murals in the Hospicio Cabañas.^[4]
• 1942
  • El Occidental newspaper begins publication.
  • Alameda Theatre opens.^[15]
• 1950
  • Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra established.^[16][17]
  • Population: 378,423.^[18]
• 1952 – Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres and Town Hall built.^[4]
• 1954 – XEWK-AM radio begins broadcasting.
• 1958 – San Juan de Dios Market inaugurated.
• 1960
  • Jalisco Stadium opens.
  • Population: 740,396.^[1]
• 1966 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport opens.
• 1968 – Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial founded.
• 1969 – Plaza del Sol shopping mall in business.
• 1972 – Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento (church) built.
• 1973 – Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre formed.^[19]
• 1975 – Federation of Low-Income Neighbourhoods formed.^[20]
• 1976 – Trolleybuses begin operating.
• 1979 – Supermercados Gigante (supermarket) opens.^[21]
• 1983 – Sister city relationship established with Portland, Oregon, USA.^[22]
• 1986 – Guadalajara International Film Festival begins.
• 1987 – Guadalajara International Book Fair begins.
• 1988
  • Guadalajara Zoo opens.
  • Festival Cultural de Mayo begins.
• 1989 – Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
• 1990 – Population: 1,650,042.^[1]
• 1991 – XHGJG-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1992 – April 22: Gasoline explosions in Analco.
• 1994 – Encuentro del Mariachi begins.^[23]
• 1996 – Guadalajara Gay Pride inaugurated.
• 1997 – December: "Freak snowfall."^[24]
• 1998 – Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña becomes mayor.^{[citation needed]}

• 2002 – Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (art space) founded.^[25]
• 2004 – EU-Latin American-Caribbean summit held;^[26] prompts protest.
• 2005 – City designated an American Capital of Culture.
• 2007
  • Pan American Volleyball Complex opens.
  • Alfonso Petersen becomes mayor.^{[citation needed]}
• 2008 – Nissan Gymnastics Stadium opens.
• 2009
  • Guadalajara Macrobús begins operating.
  • Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz elected mayor.^[27]
• 2010
  • Telcel Tennis Complex and Pan American Hockey Stadium open.
  • Population: 1,495,182.^[28]
• 2011 – October: 2011 Pan American Games held.
• 2012
  • May: Peace march.^[29]
  • Ramiro Hernández García becomes Municipal President.^{[citation needed]}

• Guadalajara history
• History of Guadalajara [es]
• List of mayors of Guadalajara
• History of Jalisco [es] (state)

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Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Guadalaxara, city", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Albert S. Evans (1870), "Guadalajara", Our sister republic: a gala trip through tropical Mexico in 1869–70, Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Co.
• John Lewis Geiger (1874), "Guadalajara", A peep at Mexico: narrative of a journey across the republic from the Pacific of the Gulf in December 1873 and January 1874, London: Trübner & Co.
• Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guadalajara", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
• "Guadalajara", Vamos á México, Chicago: Southern Pacific Company, 1896
• Cristóbal Hidalgo (1900), "Guadalajara", Guide to Mexico, San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Co.

Published in the 20th century

• Reau Campbell (1909), "Guadalajara", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
• "Guadalajara (Mexico)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 644.
• Eric Van Young (1979). "Urban Market and Hinterland: Guadalajara and Its Region in the Eighteenth Century". Hispanic American Historical Review. 59 (4): 593–635. doi:10.1215/00182168-59.4.593. JSTOR 2514067.
• Nikki Craske (1994). "Women and Regime Politics in Guadalajara's Low-Income Neighbourhoods". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 13 (1): 61–78. doi:10.2307/3338701. JSTOR 3338701.
• José Luis Lezama (1994). "Mexico: Guadalajara". In Gerald Michael Greenfield (ed.). Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313259372.
• John Fisher (1999), "Guadalajara", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 166+, OL 24935876M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Published in the 21st century

• "Guadalajara Census History: 1600–1850". Guadalajara Census Project. Florida State University, Department of History. 2003. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
• David Marley (2005), "Guadalajara", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, p. 226+, ISBN 1576070271
• John Harner (2007). "Globalization of Food Retailing in Guadalajara, Mexico: Changes in Access Equity and Social Engagement". Journal of Latin American Geography. 6 (2): 33–53. doi:10.1353/lag.2007.0041. JSTOR 25765177. S2CID 143811175.
• Carlos Barba Solano; et al. (2013). "Mexico: Guadalajara". In Ian Shirley, Carol Neill (ed.). Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns. Routledge. ISBN 9780415632041.

• Joaquín Romo (1888), Guadalajara: Apuntes históricos, biográficos, estadísticos y descriptivos de la capital del estado de Jalisco (in Spanish), México: I. Paz, OCLC 11440546, OL 6720017M
• Eduardo A. Gibbon (1893), Guadalajara: (La Florencia Mexicana) Vagancias Y Recuerdos (in Spanish), Guadalajara: Imp. del "Diario de Jalisco", OCLC 1703445
• José Toribio Medina (1904). La imprenta en Guadalajara de México (1793–1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Guadalajara, arranged chronologically)

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