The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Campeche, Mexico.

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• 1540 - San Francisco de Campeche founded by Spaniard Francisco de Montejo.^[1][2]
• 1633 - Sack of Campeche (1633) by Dutch privateers.
• 1659 - Town "sacked by the British."^[2]
• 1663 - Sack of Campeche (1663) by pirates.^[1]
• 1685 - Campeche raided by Dutch pirate Laurens de Graaf.^[3][2]
• 1732 - Puerta de la Tierra (gate) erected.^{[citation needed]}
• 1760 - Catedral de Campeche [es] built.
• 1762 - San José el Alto fort built.^{[citation needed]}
• 1777 - Campeche attains city status;^[4] Campeche coat of arms [es] established.
• 1796 - Hospital de San Lazaro founded.^[4]
• 1801 - Fuerte de San Miguel (Campeche) [es] (fort) built.
• 1821 - 5 November: Campeche secedes from Yucatán.^[4]
• 1840 - June: Yucatecan occupation begins.^[4]
• 1857 - 6–7 August: Coup in Campeche.^[4]
• 1858 - State of Campeche established.^[4]
• 1864 - 26 January: French in power.^[4]
• 1871 - Telegraph begins operating.^[4]
• 1879 - Population: 15,190.^[4]
• 1883 - "Naval base established at Lerma."^[4]
• 1895 - Catholic Diocese of Campeche established.^[5]

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• 1900 - Population: 17,109.^[2]
• 1903 - Bank of Campeche established.^[4]
• 1914 - Joaquín Mucel Acereto [es] becomes Governor of Campeche state.^[4]
• 1950 - Population: 31,279.^[4]
• 1958 - Estadio Venustiano Carranza (stadium) built.
• 1970 - Population: 69,506.^[4]
• 1973 - Novedades de Campeche newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1975 - Tribuna de Campeche newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1980 - Piratas de Campeche baseball team formed.
• 1981 - Corsarios de Campeche football club formed.
• 1989 - Autonomous University of Campeche established.
• 1990 - Population: 150,518.^[4]
• 1994 - El Sur de Campeche newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1999 - Fortified Town of Campeche designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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• 2001 - Estadio Nelson Barrera (stadium) opens.
• 2005 - Population: 238,850 municipality.^[7]
• 2007 - TV MAR Campeche [es] begins broadcasting.
• 2009 - Carlos Ernesto Rosado Ruelas elected mayor.^[8]
• 2010 - Population: 220,389 city of San Francisco de Campeche; 259,005 municipality.^[7]
• 2011 - Cañoneros de Campeche football club formed.

• History of San Francisco de Campeche [es]
• Campeche history (state)
• History of Campeche [es] (state)
• List of presidents of Campeche Municipality

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Campeachy". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
• Henry Moore (1894), "Commercial Directory: Campeche", Railway Guide of the Republic of Mexico, Springfield, Ohio: Huben & Moore, OCLC 22498265
• "Campeche". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York. 1908.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Reau Campbell (1909), "Campeche", Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico, Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., OCLC 1667015
• "Campeche (city)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 134.
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mexico: Campeche", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Jean Bassford von Winning (1950). "Forgotten Bastions along the Spanish Main: Campeche". The Americas. 6 (4): 415–430. doi:10.2307/978245. JSTOR 978245.
• Baedeker's Mexico, Baedekers Guides, 1994, p. 155, OL 11077410M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
• "Yucatan Peninsula: Campeche", Mexico, Let's Go, Let's Go Publications, 1999, OL 10387112M (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
• John Fisher (1999), "Yucatan: Campeche", Mexico, Rough Guides (4th ed.), London, p. 513+, OL 24935876M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ben Greensfelder (2003), "Campeche", Yucatán (2nd ed.), Lonely Planet, OL 24928189M
• David Marley (2005), "Campeche", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 218+, ISBN 1576070271

• Antonio García Cubas [in Spanish] (1896). "Campeche". Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (in Spanish). Vol. 2. México: Antigua Imprenta de las Escalerillas. hdl:2027/coo.31924056282332 – via Hathi Trust.

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• "Publicaciones editadas en Campeche". Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico (National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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