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  • 1597

    1597
    On February 5, 1597, in the state of Nuevo León (Mexico), the village of San Nicolás de los Garza was founded.

  • 1602

    1602
    On December 16, 1602 in Mexico, Sebastián Vizcaíno is the first European to arrive at the Bay of Monterrey, where he founded the port of the same name.

  • 1617

    1617
    On November 17, 1617 in Veracruz (Mexico), Viceroy Diego Fernández de Córdoba orders the founding of the village of Córdoba.

  • 1642

    1642
    On November 23, 1642, the government of Viceroy Count of Salvatierra begins in Mexico.

  • 1646

    1646
    On August 22, 1646 in the former State of the West (Mexico), Ignacio Molarja and Jerónimo de la Canal founded the Jesuit mission of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe, today Arizpe in the current state of Sonora.

  • 1659

    1659
    On December 8, 1659, in the Mexican village of Paso del Norte (today Ciudad Juárez), the Franciscan friar García de San Francisco founded the Mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mansos del Paso del Río del Norte.

  • 1680

    1680
    On July 7, 1680 in Juanacatlán (Mexico) the construction of the Lateran Basilica was completed

  • 1699

    1699
    On May 14, 1699, the town of San Pedro Caro was founded in Mexico.

  • 1709

    1709
    On October 12, 1709 in Mexico, after a democratic vote, the Villa de San Francisco de Cuéllar (later San Felipe del Real Chihuahua, currently Chihuahua) was founded.

  • 1717

    1717
    On July 16, 1717 in Campeche (in New Spain, now Mexico) the Villa de Valeros, now Ciudad del Carmen, was founded.

  • 1787

    1787
    On March 28, 1787, in the border area between Guerrero and Oaxaca (Mexico), an earthquake of magnitude 8.6 occurred, being the strongest recorded so far in the country.

  • 1790

    1790
    On December 17, 1790, under the Zócalo of Mexico City, the Aztec Sun Stone was discovered.

  • 1792

    1792
    On November 3, 1792 in Nueva Galicia (today the State of Jalisco, Mexico) the University of Guadalajara opens its doors.

  • 1817

    1817
    On June 28, 1817 in Mexico, the Battle of Los Arrastraderos took place, where the insurgents commanded by General Francisco Xavier Mina defeated the royalist forces commanded by Colonel Cristóbal Ordóñez.

  • 1817

    1817
    On November 11, 1817, the military Javier Mina was shot in Mexico.

  • 1909

    1909
    On August 31, 1909, more than a thousand people died in Mexico due to catastrophic floods.

  • 1917

    1917
    On February 24, 1917, the British intelligence service intercepted a telegram from Arthur Zimmermann, German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which he asked Mexico to enter the war against the United States.

  • 1929

    1929
    El 3 de enero de 1920 en México varios terremotos y volcanes en erupción destruyen pueblos y ocasionan más de 7000 víctimas.

  • 2001

    2001
    On March 3, 2001, at the Azteca Stadium (Mexico), the United for Peace recital was held, presented by the group Maná and Jaguares.

  • 2006

    2006
    On July 6, 2006, the Federal Electoral Institute proclaims that the candidate Felipe Calderón Hinojosa obtained the majority of votes in the presidential election of July 2 in Mexico with a little more than 240,000 votes difference with respect to the candidate

  • 2015

    2015
    On October 23, 2015, a devastating category 5 tropical cyclone—Hurricane Patricia—one of the strongest hurricanes in human history, forms on the Mexican Pacific coast.

  • 2019

    2019
    On December 31, 2019 In Zacatecas, Mexico, a fight is recorded in the Cereso de Cieneguillas that leaves a balance of 16 dead and 5 injured.

  • 2020

    2020
    On November 12, 2020 In Mexico, Banxico issues the new 100 peso bill