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Timeline of Laredo, Texas

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The following is a timeline of thehistory of the city ofLaredo,Texas, USA.

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18th-19th centuries

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Timeline

Pre-Columbian Texas
Early Spanish explorations	1519–1543
French Texas	1684–1689
Spanish Texas	1690–1821
Mexican Texas	1821–1836
Republic of Texas	1836–1845
Statehood	1845–1860
Civil War Era	1861–1865
Reconstruction	1865–1899

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1755 - May 15: Villa de Laredo founded byTomás Sánchez and others in Spanish colonialNuevo Santander,Viceroyalty of New Spain.^[1]^[2]
1760 - Chapel built.^{[citation needed]}
1767 -San Agustin Church founded.^[3]
1790 - Population: 708.
1821 - Laredo becomes part of independentMexican Empire.^[4]
1840 - Laredo becomes capital of the Mexican insurgentRepublic of the Rio Grande during theMexican Federalist War.^[4]
1846 - Laredo taken by U.S.Texas Rangers during theMexican–American War.^[5]
1847 - U.S. forces occupy town.^[5]
1848
- Laredo becomes part of the U.S. perTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at end of Mexican–American War.
- Webb County, Texas created.^[6]
1849 - U.S. militaryCamp Crawford established.^[2]
1852 - Laredo "chartered as aTexas city."^[2]^[5]
1860 - Population: 1,256.
1872 -San Agustin Church rebuilt.^[3]
1880
- Corpus Christi-Laredo railway begins operating.^[2]
- Population: 3,521.
1881
- Mexico-Laredo railway begins operating.^[2]
- St. Peter's neighborhood development begins.^[3]
- City plan for Laredo andNuevo Laredo, "'Plano de los Dos Laredos' created by E.R. Laroche."^[3]^[7]
1882
- Laredo Seminary^[5] and city water works^[8] established.
- County Courthouse built.^[8]
1883 -Daily Laredo Times newspaper begins publication.^[9]
1888 - Laredo Improvement Company formed.^[3]
1889
- Street railway begins operating.^[3]
- "Foot and wagon bridge built across the Rio Grande" at Convent Avenue.^[3]^[8]
1890 - Population: 11,319.
1898 - Onion farming begins (approximate date).^[2]
1900 - Population: 13,429.^[5]

20th century

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1904 - Laredo Academy established.^[10]
1907 -Laredo United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House built.
1908 - Discovery of natural gas in vicinity of Laredo.^[5]
1909 -Webb County Courthouse built.
1910 - Population: 14,855.^[5]
1911 - Liga Femenil Mexicanista (women's group) founded in Laredo.^[11]
1915 - Laredo public library active (approximate date).^[12]
1920
- Texas Mexican Railway International Bridge opened.
- Population: 22,710.
1922
- International Bridge opens.^[3]
- Azteca Theater opens.^[3]
1937 - Foundry Workers' Union of Laredo formed.^[13]
1938 - KPABradio begins broadcasting.^[14]
1946 -Fort McIntosh, Texas de-activated.
1947 -Laredo Junior College established.
1950 - Population: 51,910.
1954 - Flood.^[3]
1956 - KGNS-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[15]
1969 -Texas A&M International University established.
1970
- River Drive Mall in business.
- Population: 69,678.
1977 -Mall del Norte in business.
1978 -Aldo Tatangelo becomes mayor.^[16]
1980
- Webb County Heritage Foundation established.
- Population: 91,449.
1990
- Saul N. Ramirez, Jr. becomes mayor.^[16]
- Population: 122,899.
1993
- Laredo Community College active.
- Cinemark Movies 12 (cinema) in business.^[17]
1998 -Betty Flores becomes mayor.^[16]
2000
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo established.^[18]
- Population: 176,576.

21st century

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2001 - City website online (approximate date).^[19]^{[chronology citation needed]}
2005 -Henry Cuellar becomesU.S. representative forTexas's 28th congressional district.^[20]^[21]
2006 -Raul G. Salinas becomes mayor.^[16]
2007 - Cinemark Mall Del Norte (cinema) in business.^[17]
2008 -Rio Grande Detention Center opens, housing up to 1900 federal prisoners for the U.S. government^[22]
2010 - Population: 236,091.^[23]
2014 -Pete Saenz becomes mayor.^[16]

References

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^Herbert Eugene Bolton (1915).Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration. University of California publications in history; v. 3. University of California Press.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^fFederal Writers' Project 1940.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j"History of Laredo". City of Laredo. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^^a ^bSimons 1996.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^gBritannica 1910.
^Scholl Center for American History and Culture."Texas: Individual County Chronologies".Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago:Newberry Library. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"United States - Texas - Webb County - Laredo".Portal to Texas History. Denton: University of North Texas Libraries.
^^a ^b ^c"Local History". Laredo: Webb County Heritage Foundation. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"US Newspaper Directory".Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide. Belo & Company. 1910.
^"Timeline".Women in Texas History. Austin: Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women's History. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"News Notes".Texas Libraries.1. Texas Library and Historical Commission. July 1915.
^University of Texas Libraries."Laredo".Texas Archival Resources Online. University of Texas at Austin. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939),"Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Texas",Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily,OCLC 2459636
^Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960),"Television Stations: Texas",Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp.,OCLC 10512206
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e"History of Laredo Mayors"(PDF). City of Laredo. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^^a ^b"Movie Theaters in Laredo, TX".CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: USA". Norway:Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"Official City of Laredo Home Page". Archived fromthe original on February 17, 2001 – via Internet Archive,Wayback Machine.
^Civic Impulse, LLC."Members of Congress".GovTrack. Washington, D.C. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.
^"Texas".Official Congressional Directory: 110th Congress. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2007.hdl:2027/uc1.l0101186906 – via HathiTrust.
^"Rio Grande Detention Center".GEO Group. Archived fromthe original on July 22, 2016. RetrievedJuly 30, 2016.
^"Laredo city, Texas".QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. RetrievedJune 27, 2016.

Bibliography

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"Laredo".Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory. Detroit: R.L. Polk & Co. 1890 – via Internet Archive.
"Laredo".A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas. Chicago:Lewis Publishing Company. 1907.
"Laredo" .Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 215.
Federal Writers' Project (1940),"Laredo",Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State,American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House,hdl:2027/mdp.39015002677667 – via HathiTrust{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
Stanley Cooper Green, Laredo, 1755–1920 (Laredo: Nuevo Santander Museum Complex, 1981)
Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa, A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755–1870 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983)
Jerry Don Thompson, Laredo: A Pictorial History (Norfolk: Donning, 1986)
Helen Simons; Cathryn A. Hoyt, eds. (1996). "Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley".A Guide to Hispanic Texas (Abridged ed.). University of Texas Press. pp. 69–120.ISBN 978-0-292-77709-5.
Betty Dooley Awbrey; Stuart Awbrey (2013). "Laredo".Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers (6th ed.).Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 267+.ISBN 978-1-58979-790-1.

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toLaredo, Texas.

"Historical Maps of Texas Cities: Laredo".Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection. University of Texas at Austin.
"Laredo".Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Austin, TX.
Carlos E. Cuéllar."Laredo, TX".Handbook of Texas Online.Texas State Historical Association.
Items related to Laredo, various dates (viaDigital Public Library of America).

City of Laredo

Nicknames:Gateway City,City Under Seven Flags,City of Saints and Generals

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Education

Tertiary	Laredo College Texas A&M International University UT Center at Laredo
K-12	Laredo ISD Dr. Leonides G. Cigarroa HS Joseph W. Nixon HS Raymond & Tirza Martin HS Dr. Dennis D. Cantu Health Science Magnet Vidal M. Treviño Sch of Communications and Fine Arts Lara FS Academy United ISD John B. Alexander HS Lyndon B. Johnson HS United HS United South HS

Mass media

Newspapers	English Laredo Morning Times LareDOS(defunct) Zapata Times Spanish El Diario de Nuevo Laredo El Mañana Primera Hora Última Hora
Television	XHLNA Azteca Uno–HD 1.1 XHLNA-TDT2 ADN 1.2 XHLAR Las Estrellas–HD 2.1 XHCTNL Imagen TV–HD 3.1 XHCTNL Excelsiór TV 3.4 XHBR Las Estrellas–HD 4.1 XHBR Canal 5 5.1 XHNAT Multimedios–HD 6.1 XHNAT-TDT2 Milenio TV 6.2 XHNAT-TDT3 Teleritmo 6.3 XHNAT-TDT4 MVS 6.4 XHLAT Azteca 7–HD 7.1 XHLAT a+ 7.2 KGNS NBC–HD 8.1 KGNS-DT2 ABC–HD 8.2 KGNS-DT3 Telemundo–HD 8.3 KGNS-DT5 TCN 8.5 KXNU-LD Telemundo–HD 10.1 KYLX CBS–HD 13.1 KYLX-LD2 CW 13.2 KLMV MeTV 15.1 KLMV-LD2 Estrella TVs 15.2 KLMV-LD3 Movies! 15.3 KLMV-LD4 JTV 15.4 XEFE Televisa local 17.1 KLDO Univision–HD 27.1 KLDO-DT2 LATV 27.2 KLDO-DT3 TBD 27.3 KLDO-DT4 Stadium 27.4 KLDO-DT5 Court TV 27.5 KXOF-CD Fox–HD 31.1 KXOF-CD2 Grit 31.2 KXOF-CD3 Laff 31.3 KETF-CD UniMás–HD 39.1 KETF-CD2 Comet 39.2 KETF-CD3 Charge! 39.3 KETF-CD4 Azteca America–HD 39.4
Radio	AM 790 XEFE 890 KVOZ 960 XEK 1000 XENLT 1090 XEWL 1300 KLAR 1340 XEBK 1370 XEGNK 1410 XEAS 1490 KLNT 1550 XENU FM 88.1 KHOY 88.9 XHLDO 89.9 KBNL 91.3 XHNOE 92.7 KJBZ 94.1 XHTLN 94.9 KQUR 95.7 XHBK 97.1 XHNLO 98.1 KRRG 99.3 XHNK 101.5 XHAS 102.3 XHMW 103.3 XHAHU 104.9 XHNLR 106.1 KNEX 106.5 La Tremenda 107.3 XHGTS

Transportation

International bridges	Gateway to the Americas International Bridge Juárez–Lincoln International Bridge Texas Mexican Railway International Bridge(Rail bridge 1) Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge(Rail bridge 2) World Trade International Bridge Laredo–Colombia Solidarity International Bridge
Highways	I-35 I-35 Bus. I-69W Proposed I-2 Proposed I-27 US 59 Bus. US 59-Z US 83 SH 84 SH 255 SH 359 Loop 20 Spur 260 Spur 400 FM 1472 FM 3338 San Isidro Parkway
Transit	El Metro Transit El Aguila
Airport	Laredo International Airport

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