Timeline of Albuquerque, New Mexico facts for kids

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

18th-19th centuries

• 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 U.S. Confederate troops.
• 1867 - Military post closes.
• 1871 - Menaul School established.
• 1873 - Jesuit College established.
• 1879 - Albuquerque Academy, now known as "Albuquerque High School," established (not to be confused with the present-day Albuquerque Academy).
• 1880
  • Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot built near town.
  • New town platted.
  • Albuquerque Daily Journal newspaper begins publication.
  • Albuquerque Indian School and Albuquerque Street Railway Company established.
• 1881 - Territorial Exposition held.
• 1882
  • First Methodist Episcopal Church built in new town.
  • Albuquerque Browns baseball team and St. Vincent Academy established.
• 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.
• 1891
  • New Albuquerque incorporated as a city.
  • El Defensor del Pueblo newspaper begins publication.
• 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.

20th century

• 1901 - Albuquerque Public Library opens.
• 1902 - Alvarado Hotel in business.
• 1903
  • Albuquerque Business College established.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 1928
  • Oxnard Field (airfield) constructed.
  • KGGM radio begins broadcasting.
• 1932 - Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico established.
• 1933 - KKOB (AM) radio headquartered in city.
• 1936 - Albuquerque Little Theater dedicated.
• 1938 - Lobo Theater and New Mexico State Fair grounds open.
• 1939 - Hilton Hotel built.
• 1942 - Kirtland Air Force Base established.
• 1943 - POW Camp Albuquerque established.
• 1946 - U.S. military Sandia Base (nuclear weapons installation) active.
• 1947 - Old Town Historical Society established.
• 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.
• 1963
  • Circle Autoscope Drive-In cinema opens.
  • First National Bank Building East constructed.
• 1965
  • Coronado Center shopping mall in business.
  • Albuquerque Press Club founded.
• 1967 - Albuquerque Museum of Art and History established.
• 1970 - Anti-war protest.
• 1972
  • Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins.
  • Glenwood Hills Association established.
• 1974 - City adopts mayor-council form of government.
• 1976 - Indian Pueblo Cultural Center opens.
• 1979 - National Solar Thermal Test Facility established.
• 1980 - Population: 331,767.
• 1986
  • Albuquerque Petroleum Building constructed.
  • New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science founded.
• 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.
  • Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in business.
• 1996
  • April: City website online.
  • Rio Grande Botanic Garden and Albuquerque Aquarium open.
• 1997 - Jim Baca elected mayor.

21st century

• 2000 - National Hispanic Cultural Center opens.
• 2002 - Alvarado Transportation Center opens.
• 2003 - Metropolitan Courthouse built.
• 2004 - Albuquerque Sikh Gurudwara established.
• 2005
  • Duke City Derby (roller derby) league formed.
  • Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum opens.
  • ¡Globalquerque! music fest begins.
• 2007 - Alamosa Skatepark built.
• 2009 - Richard J. Berry becomes mayor.
• 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.