Timeline of Albuquerque, New Mexico

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

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## History as a town

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* 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.[1]
* 1793 – San Felipe de Neri Church built.
* 1837 – Unrest.[2]
* 1846 – U.S. army fort built.[3]
* 1850 – Town becomes part of U.S. New Mexico Territory.
* 1862 – Town occupied by Confederate troops before being retaken by the Union Army.[4]
* 1867 – Military post closes.[3]
* 1873 – Jesuit College established.[5]
* 1879 – Albuquerque High School established.
* 1880
* Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot built near town.[3]
* New town platted.[6]
* Albuquerque Daily Journal newspaper begins publication.[7]
* Albuquerque Indian School[8] and Albuquerque Street Railway Company established.[9]
* 1881
* Territorial Exposition held.[10]
* Menaul School established.[8]
* 1882
* First Methodist Episcopal Church built in new town.
* Albuquerque Browns baseball team[11] and St. Vincent Academy[8] established.
* Park Van Tassel makes the first balloon flight in New Mexico Territory on July 4 at New Town.[12]
* 1883
* Germania club founded.[13]
* Ladies' Library Association active.
* 1885
* New town of Albuquerque chartered.[14]
* Henry Jaffa elected mayor of new town.[1]
* 1889 – University of New Mexico founded.
* 1890 – Population: 3,785.[4]

## History as a city

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* 1891
* New Albuquerque incorporated as a city.[14]
* El Defensor del Pueblo newspaper begins publication.[15]
* 1894 – Harwood Industrial School established.[8]
* 1895 – La Bandera Americana newspaper begins publication.[16]
* 1897 – El Nuevo Mundo newspaper begins publication.[16]
* 1899 – Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company building constructed.
* 1901 – Albuquerque Public Library opens.[17][18]
* 1902 – Alvarado Hotel in business.[19]
* 1903
* Albuquerque Business College established.[8]
* American Lumber Company mill opens.[20]
* 1904 – Electric streetcar begins operating.[20]
* 1906 – Southwest Presbyterian Sanatorium founded.[21]
* 1910 – Population: 11,020.[4]
* 1912
* City becomes part of the new State of New Mexico.
* New Mexico State Fair begins.[22]
* Albuquerque Independent Society formed.[23]
* "First meeting of the New Mexico League of Municipalities was held in Albuquerque"[24]
* 1914
* Albuquerque High School building constructed.
* Home Circle Club chartered.[23]
* 1917 – City Charter adopted.[14]
* 1919 – New Mexico Workers Chronicle begins publication.[25]
* 1920 – People's Sanatorium opens.[23]
* 1922 – First National Bank Building (Albuquerque) constructed.
* 1924 – Sunshine Theatre opens.[26]
* 1925 – Santa Fe Railway Shops (Albuquerque) built.
* 1926 – Courthouse relocated to New Town from Old Town.[3]
* 1927
* Rio Grande Zoo opens.
* KiMo Theater built.[27]
* 1928
* Oxnard Field, Albuquerque's first airport, is constructed.
* KGGM radio begins broadcasting.[28]
* 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.[relevant?]
* 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.[29]
* 1938 – Lobo Theater[26] and New Mexico State Fair grounds open.[28]
* 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.[30]
* 1943 – POW Camp Albuquerque established.
* 1946 – U.S. military Sandia Base (nuclear weapons installation) active.[28]
* 1947 – Old Town Historical Society established.[31]
* 1948 – Ernie Pyle House/Library branch established.
* 1949 – Old Town annexed to city.[28]
* 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.[citation needed]
* 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.[relevant?]
* 1963
* Circle Autoscope Drive-In cinema opens.[26]
* 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.[32]
* 1972
* Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins.[28]
* Glenwood Hills Association established.[33]
* 1974
* City adopts mayor-council form of government.[14]
* TWA begins the first jumbo jet aircraft service with the Lockheed 1011.[relevant?]
* 1976 – Indian Pueblo Cultural Center opens.
* 1979
* National Solar Thermal Test Facility established.
* TWA begins the first nonstop flights to New York.[relevant?]
* American Airlines begins service.
* 1980
* Southwest Airlines begins service.
* Population: 331,767.[34]
* 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.[35]
* 1991 – National Museum of Nuclear Science & History chartered.
* 1993 – ¡Explora! Science Center and Children's Museum opens.
* 1994
* Albuquerque Poetry Slam begins.[36]
* 1996
* April: City website online.[37][38]
* Rio Grande Botanic Garden and Albuquerque Aquarium open.
* Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in business.
* 1997 – Jim Baca elected mayor.[39]
* 2000 – National Hispanic Cultural Center opens.
* 2002 – Alvarado Transportation Center opens.
* 2003 – Metropolitan Courthouse built.
* 2004 – Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara established.[40][41]
* 2005
* Duke City Derby (roller derby) league formed.
* Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum opens.
* ¡Globalquerque! music fest begins.
* 2007 – Alamosa Skatepark built.[42]
* 2009 – Richard J. Berry becomes mayor.[43]
* 2010 – Population: 545,852.[14]
* 2011 – I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange planned.[14]
* 2012 – Population: 555,417.[14]
* 2013 – I-25/Paseo Del Norte interchange construction started.[14]
* 2015 – Panhandler jobs program begins.[44]
* 2017 – Tim Keller is elected Mayor [45]

## See also

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 173: "Albuquerque"
2. ^ Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 423: "Chronology"
3. ^ a b c d Andres 2000.
4. ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
5. ^ Helen Haines (1891), History of New Mexico, New York: New Mexico Historical Pub. Co., OCLC 1687045, OL 271010M
6. ^ Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 24, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
7. ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
8. ^ a b c d e Patterson, Homer L. (1916). Patterson's American Educational Directory. Vol. 13\. Chicago. hdl:2027/nyp.33433075985949.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
9. ^ "Chronological Table". New Mexico Blue Book. Santa Fe. 1915. hdl:2027/uiug.30112001979381.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
10. ^ W. G. Ritch (1883), Illustrated New Mexico, Santa Fé, N.M: New Mexican printing and publishing co., OCLC 2201395, OL 6930006M
11. ^ L.M Sutter (2010), New Mexico Baseball: miners, outlaws, Indians, and isotopes, 1880 to the present, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., ISBN 9780786441228
12. ^ Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 2021.
13. ^ Tomas Jaehn (2004), Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 0826334989
14. ^ a b c d e f g h Budget 2014.
15. ^ Rafael Chabran; Richard Chabran (1993). "Spanish-Language and Latino Press of the United States: Newspapers and Periodicals". Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press. p. 360+. ISBN 1558850740.
16. ^ a b A. Gabriel Meléndez (2005), Spanish-Language Newspapers in New Mexico, 1834-1958, Tucson, Ariz: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0816524726
17. ^ Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library (July 6, 2011). "Albuquerque Libraries: It's a Grand Old History". abcreads. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
18. ^ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v – via HathiTrust.
19. ^ Jakle 1996.
20. ^ a b Kammer 2004.
21. ^ Ferenc Morton Szasz (2004), The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and the Mountain West, 1865-1915, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803293119
22. ^ Richard Melzer (2011), New Mexico, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith[page needed]
23. ^ a b c Jamane Yeager (2011). "New Mexico". In Alton Hornsby Jr. (ed.). Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 545+. ISBN 978-1573569767.
24. ^ History, New Mexico Municipal League, retrieved July 20, 2024
25. ^ "New Mexico: Albuquerque", Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, Ayer directory, Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921, hdl:2027/uc1.$b436690
26. ^ a b c "Movie Theaters in Albuquerque, NM". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
27. ^ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
28. ^ a b c d e Tricentennial 2008.
29. ^ Kathryn A. Flynn (2012), Public art and architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, ISBN 9780865348813
30. ^ AT6 Monument
31. ^ University of New Mexico – Zimmerman Library. "Albuquerque Historical Society records, 1940-2002". ArchiveGrid. Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
32. ^ Lou Hoffman (ed.). "Viêt Nam War Narrative and Analysis – A New Mexican Perspective". New Mexico Military History. City of Albuquerque. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
33. ^ "Neighborhood Associations". City of Albuquerque, Planning Department. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
34. ^ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
35. ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
36. ^ McAllister 2008.
37. ^ "City Seeks Net Role to Raise Quality of Residents' Lives", Albuquerque Journal, May 13, 1996
38. ^ "City of Albuquerque". Archived from the original on June 29, 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
39. ^ "Mayor". City of Albuquerque. Archived from the original on May 1, 1998.
40. ^ "History". Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
41. ^ Pluralism Project. "Albuquerque, New Mexico". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
42. ^ "Albuquerque, New Mexico". Skatepark.org. Portland, OR: Skaters for Public Skateparks. 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
43. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
44. ^ "This Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working", Washington Post, August 11, 2016
45. ^ Writer, Martin Salazar | Journal Staff. "Voters give Keller 'a clear mandate'". www.abqjournal.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.

## Bibliography

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Published in the 19th century

* "New Mexico: Albuquerque", Where to Go to Become Rich: Farmers', Miners' and Tourists' Guide to Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1880
* "Albuquerque". Complete Business Directory of New Mexico, and Gazetteer of the Territory for 1882. Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company. 1882.
* William M. Berger (1883), "Albuquerque", Berger's tourists' guide to New Mexico, Kansas City, Mo: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, OCLC 16658991
* "Albuquerque". Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory. Chicago: Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser. 1884.
* C.A. Higgins (1894), "New Mexico: Albuquerque", New guide to the Pacific coast, Chicago: Rand, McNally, OCLC 2163219

Published in the 20th century

* Hudspeth Directory Company. Hudspeth's Albuquerque City Directory. El Paso: 1901, 1904, 1907–1956.
* Max. Frost and Paul A.F. Walter, eds. (1906), "Albuquerque", Land of sunshine: a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico, Santa Fé, NM: New Mexico Bureau of Immigration, OCLC 1806416
* H.B. Hening and E. Dana Johnson (1908), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chief City of a New Empire in the Great Southwest, Albuquerque`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
* "Albuquerque" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 516.
* Hudspeth's Albuquerque City Directory. 1919 – via Google Books.
* George Wharton James (1920), "Albuquerque, the Commercial Metropolis of New Mexico", New Mexico, Boston: Page Company
* Federal Writers' Project (1940). "Albuquerque". New Mexico: a Guide to the Colorful State. American Guide Series. New York: Hastings House. p. 173+. hdl:2027/mdp.39015012922400.
* George Fitzpatrick; Harvey Caplin (1976), Albuquerque: 100 years in pictures, 1875-1975 (2nd ed.), Albuquerque, N.M: Modern Press, ISBN 091075036X
* Marc Simmons (1982), Albuquerque: A Narrative History, Albuquerque: UNM Press.
* George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Albuquerque", World Encyclopedia of Cities, Vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
* Michael F. Logan (1995), "Albuquerque", Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: resistance to urban growth in the Southwest, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, p. 95+, ISBN 0816515123
* John A. Jakle; et al. (1996), "The Motel in Albuquerque", The Motel in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801869181
* Benny J. Andres Jr. (2000). "La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): the Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s". In David Maciel, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry (ed.). The Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. p. 239+. ISBN 0826321992.

Published in the 21st century

* David Kammer. "Albuquerque's 20th-Century Suburban Growth". New Mexico Office of the State Historian. New Mexico State Record Center and Archives. Retrieved August 11, 2013. circa 2004
* "Albuquerque History Timeline". Albuquerque Tricentennial. Albuquerque Historical Society. 2008.
* Susan McAllister, ed. (2008), A bigger boat: the unlikely success of the Albuquerque poetry slam scene, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 9780826344830
* "Fiscal Year 2014 Approved Budget". City of Albuquerque. 2013.
* "Albuquerque, NM". U.S. City Open Data Census. Sunlight Foundation and Open Knowledge International. 2018. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.

## External links

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* "Local History". Subject Guides. Albuquerque: ABC Library. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015.
* "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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