Timeline of Albuquerque, New Mexico explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.

History as a town

• 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.
• 1793 – San Felipe de Neri Church built.
• 1837 – Unrest.
• 1846 – U.S. army fort built.
• 1850 – Town becomes part of U.S. New Mexico Territory.
• 1862 – Town occupied by Confederate troops before being retaken by the Union Army.
• 1867 – Military post closes.
• 1873 – Jesuit College established.
• 1879 – Albuquerque High School established.
• 1880
  • Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot built near town.
  • New town platted.
  • Albuquerque Daily Journal newspaper begins publication.^[1]
  • Albuquerque Indian School and Albuquerque Street Railway Company established.^[2]
• 1881
  • Territorial Exposition held.
  • Menaul School established.
• 1882
  • First Methodist Episcopal Church built in new town.
  • Albuquerque Browns baseball team and St. Vincent Academy established.
  • Park Van Tassel makes the first balloon flight in New Mexico Territory on July 4 at New Town.^[3]
• 1883
  • Germania club founded.
  • Ladies' Library Association active.
• 1885
  • New town of Albuquerque chartered.
  • Henry Jaffa elected mayor of new town.
• 1889 – University of New Mexico founded.
• 1890 – Population: 3,785.

History as a city

• 1891
  • New Albuquerque incorporated as a city.
  • El Defensor del Pueblo newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1894 – Harwood Industrial School established.
• 1895 – La Bandera Americana newspaper begins publication.
• 1897 – El Nuevo Mundo newspaper begins publication.
• 1899 – Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company building constructed.
• 1901 – Albuquerque Public Library opens.^{[5] [6]}
• 1902 – Alvarado Hotel in business.
• 1903
  • Albuquerque Business College established.^[7]
  • American Lumber Company mill opens.
• 1904 – Electric streetcar begins operating.
• 1906 – Southwest Presbyterian Sanatorium founded.
• 1910 – Population: 11,020.
• 1912
  • City becomes part of the new State of New Mexico.
  • New Mexico State Fair begins.
  • Albuquerque Independent Society formed.^[8]
  • "First meeting of the New Mexico League of Municipalities was held in Albuquerque"
• 1914
  • Albuquerque High School building constructed.
  • Home Circle Club chartered.
• 1917 – City Charter adopted.
• 1919 – New Mexico Workers Chronicle begins publication.
• 1920 – People's Sanatorium opens.
• 1922 – First National Bank Building (Albuquerque) constructed.
• 1924 – Sunshine Theatre opens.
• 1925 – Santa Fe Railway Shops (Albuquerque) built.
• 1926 – Courthouse relocated to New Town from Old Town.
• 1927
  • Rio Grande Zoo opens.
  • KiMo Theater built.^[9]
• 1928
  • Oxnard Field, Albuquerque's first airport, is constructed.
  • KGGM radio begins broadcasting.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1938 – Lobo Theater and New Mexico State Fair grounds open.
• 1939
  • Albuquerque Municipal Airport constructed.
  • Hilton Hotel built.
• 1942 – Kirtland Air Force Base established.
• 1942-1944 – Royal Air Force cadets, flying from the British base at Terrell, Texas, fly to Albuquerque frequently on training flights, using it as a stand-in for Warsaw, Poland.^[10]
• 1943 – POW Camp Albuquerque established.
• 1946 – U.S. military Sandia Base (nuclear weapons installation) active.
• 1947 – Old Town Historical Society established.^[11]
• 1948 – Ernie Pyle House/Library branch established.
• 1949 – Old Town annexed to city.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1963
  • Circle Autoscope Drive-In cinema opens.^[12]
  • 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.^[13]
• 1972
  • Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins.
  • Glenwood Hills Association established.^[14]
• 1974
  • City adopts mayor-council form of government.
  • TWA begins the first jumbo jet aircraft service with the Lockheed 1011.
• 1976 – Indian Pueblo Cultural Center opens.
• 1979
  • National Solar Thermal Test Facility established.
  • TWA begins the first nonstop flights to New York.
  • American Airlines begins service.
• 1980
  • Southwest Airlines begins service.
  • Population: 331,767.
• 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.
• 1991 – National Museum of Nuclear Science & History chartered.
• 1993 – ¡Explora! Science Center and Children's Museum opens.
• 1994
  • Albuquerque Poetry Slam begins.
• 1996
  • April: City website online.^[15]
  • Rio Grande Botanic Garden and Albuquerque Aquarium open.
  • Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in business.
• 1997 – Jim Baca elected mayor.^[16]
• 2000 – National Hispanic Cultural Center opens.
• 2002 – Alvarado Transportation Center opens.
• 2003 – Metropolitan Courthouse built.
• 2004 – Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara established.^{[17] [18]}
• 2005
  • Duke City Derby (roller derby) league formed.
  • Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum opens.
  • ¡Globalquerque! music fest begins.
• 2007 – Alamosa Skatepark built.^[19]
• 2009 – Richard J. Berry becomes mayor.^[20]
• 2010 – Population: 545,852.
• 2011 – I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange planned.
• 2012 – Population: 555,417.
• 2013 – I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange construction started.
• 2015 – Panhandler jobs program begins.
• 2017 – Tim Keller is elected Mayor ^[21]

See also

• History of Albuquerque, New Mexico
• List of mayors of Albuquerque
• List of historic landmarks in Albuquerque
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • Book: Complete Business Directory of New Mexico, and Gazetteer of the Territory for 1882 . Santa Fe . New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company . Albuquerque . 1882 . https://books.google.com/books?id=P0VOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23 .
  • Book: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory . 1884 . Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser . Chicago . Albuquerque . https://books.google.com/books?id=2CIzAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA295 .

Published in the 20th century

• Hudspeth Directory Company. Hudspeth's Albuquerque City Directory. El Paso: 1901, 1904, 1907–1956.
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• Albuquerque . 1 . 516 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Hudspeth's Albuquerque City Directory . Google Books . 1919 .
  • Book: New York . Hastings House . American Guide Series . New Mexico: a Guide to the Colorful State . . 1940 . Albuquerque . 173+ . 2027/mdp.39015012922400 .
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• (fulltext via Open Library)
  • • Book: The Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico . . University of New Mexico Press . 2000 . 0826321992 . Benny J. Andres Jr. . La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): the Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s . 239+ . .

Published in the 21st century

• Web site: Albuquerque's 20th-Century Suburban Growth . David Kammer . New Mexico Office of the State Historian . New Mexico State Record Center and Archives . August 11, 2013 . . circa 2004
• Web site: Albuquerque History Timeline . Albuquerque Tricentennial . Albuquerque Historical Society . 2008 . .
  • Web site: Fiscal Year 2014 Approved Budget . 2013 . City of Albuquerque . .
• Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20181118145641/http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/place/albuquerque . Albuquerque, NM . November 18, 2018 . U.S. City Open Data Census . . 2018 .

External links

• Web site: Local History . Subject Guides . . Albuquerque .
• Web site: 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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Notes and References

1. Web site: US Newspaper Directory . Washington DC . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . August 11, 2013 .
2. Book: New Mexico Blue Book . 1915 . Chronological Table . Santa Fe . 2027/uiug.30112001979381 .
3. Book: Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West . 2021 . Albuquerque, NM . University of New Mexico Press .
4. Book: . 1558850740 . Houston, Texas . Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art . 1993 . Spanish-Language and Latino Press of the United States: Newspapers and Periodicals . Rafael Chabran . Richard Chabran . 360+ . https://archive.org/stream/handbookofhispan00lome#page/360/mode/2up .
5. Web site: Albuquerque Libraries: It's a Grand Old History . abcreads . Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library . 6 July 2011 . October 14, 2013.
6. Book: American Library Annual, 1917-1918 . 1918 . 7 v . New York . R.R. Bowker Co. . HathiTrust .
7. Book: Patterson's American Educational Directory . 13 . 1916 . Chicago . 2027/nyp.33433075985949 . Patterson . Homer L. .
8. Book: Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia . Alton Hornsby Jr. . ABC-CLIO . 2011 . 978-1573569767 . New Mexico . Jamane Yeager . 545+ .
9. Web site: Historic Theatre Inventory . Maryland, USA . League of Historic American Theatres . August 11, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130721130121/http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx . July 21, 2013 .
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11. Web site: Albuquerque Historical Society records, 1940-2002 . ArchiveGrid . University of New Mexico – Zimmerman Library . Online Computer Library Center, Inc. . Ohio . October 14, 2013.
12. Web site: CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . Movie Theaters in Albuquerque, NM . August 11, 2013.
13. Web site: Viêt Nam War Narrative and Analysis – A New Mexican Perspective . Lou Hoffman . New Mexico Military History . City of Albuquerque . August 11, 2013.
14. Web site: Neighborhood Associations . City of Albuquerque, Planning Department . August 11, 2013.
15. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970629211339/http://www.cabq.gov/ . City of Albuquerque . 1997-06-29 . dead . .
16. Web site: Mayor. City of Albuquerque. https://web.archive.org/web/19980501135136/http://www.cabq.gov/mayor/. dead. May 1, 1998.
17. Web site: History . Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara . October 14, 2013.
18. Web site: Albuquerque, New Mexico . Directory of Religious Centers . Pluralism Project . Harvard University . October 9, 2013.
19. Web site: Albuquerque, New Mexico . Skatepark.org . 2010 . Portland, OR . Skaters for Public Skateparks . August 11, 2013.
20. Web site: Meet the Mayors . . Washington, DC . August 11, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080627104834/http://www.usmayors.org/meetmayors/mayorsatglance.asp . June 27, 2008 .
21. Web site: Voters give Keller 'a clear mandate'. Writer. Martin Salazar Journal Staff. www.abqjournal.com. en-US. 2018-04-13.