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Timeline Of Campeche City
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Campeche, Mexico. Prior to 20th century * 1540 - San Francisco de Campeche founded by Spaniard Francisco de Montejo. * 1633 - Sack of Campeche (1633) by Dutch privateers. * 1659 - Town "sacked by the British." * 1663 - Sack of Campeche (1663) by pirates. * 1685 - Campeche raided by Dutch pirate Laurens de Graaf. * 1732 - Puerta de la Tierra (gate) erected. * 1760 - built. * 1762 - San José el Alto fort built. * 1777 - Campeche attains city status; established. * 1796 - Hospital de San Lazaro founded. * 1801 - (fort) built. * 1821 - 5 November: Campeche secedes from Yucatán. * 1840 - June: Yucatecan occupation begins. * 1857 - 6–7 August: Coup in Campeche. * 1858 - State of Campeche established. * 1864 - 26 January: French in power. * 1871 - Telegraph begins operating. * 1879 - Population: 15,190. * 1883 - "Naval base established at Lerma." * 1895 - Catholic Diocese of Campeche established. 20th century * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Mexico
This is a list of the Top 100 cities in Mexico by fixed population, according to the 2020 Mexican National Census. According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a locality is "any place settled with one or more dwellings, which may or may not be inhabited, and which is known by a name given by law or tradition". Urban localities are those with more than 2,500 residents, which can be designated as cities, villages or towns according to the laws of each state. The National Urban System, compiled by the National Population Council (CONAPO) in 2018, identifies 401 urban localities in Mexico with more than 15,000 residents as "cities". This list does not consider the entire population of metropolitan areas and is limited by political boundaries within each municipality or state. To see the full cities of Mexico go to Metropolitan areas of Mexico. Top 100 cities by population Only one state (Tlaxcala) has no cities in the Top 100. Mexico City conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heritage Site
A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance. The sites are judged to contain " cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity". To be selected, a World Heritage Site must be a somehow unique landmark which is geographically and historically identifiable and has special cultural or physical significance. For example, World Heritage Sites might be ancient ruins or historical structures, buildings, cities, deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains, or wilderness areas. A World Heritage Site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humanity, and serve as evidence of our intellectual history on the planet, or it might be a place of great natural beauty. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Campeche
Campeche (; yua, Kaampech ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Located in southeast Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the southwest, Yucatán to the northeast, and Quintana Roo to the east; to the southeast by the Orange Walk district of Belize, and by the Petén department of Guatemala to the south. It has a coastline to the west with the Gulf of Mexico. The state capital, also called Campeche, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1997. The formation of the state began with the city, which was founded in 1540 as the Spanish began the conquest of the Yucatán Peninsula. The city was a rich and important port during the colonial period, but it declined after Mexico's independence. Campeche was part of the province of Yucatán but split off in the mid-19th century, mostly due to political friction with the city of Mérida. Much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Public Library Of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of development. Overview The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. It was started by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2010, with financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and has subsequently received funding from several foundations and government agencies, including the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It "aims to unify such disparate sources as the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, various academic collections, and presumably any other collection that would be meaningful to include. ... They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher. Founded in Australia in 1973, the company has printed over 150 million books. History Early years Lonely Planet was founded by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler. In 1972, they embarked on an overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia, following the route of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. The company name originates from the misheard "lovely planet" in a song written by Matthew Moore. Lonely Planet's first book, ''Across Asia on the Cheap'', had 94 pages; it was written by the couple in their home. The original 1973 print run consisted of stapled booklets with pale blue cardboard covers. Tony returned to Asia to write ''Across Asia on the Cheap: A Complete Guide to Making the Overland Trip'', published in 1975. Expansion The Lonely Planet guide book series initially expanded to cover other countries in Asia, with the India guide book in 1981, and expanded to rest of the world later on. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough Guides
Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guide book and reference publisher, which has been owned by APA Publications since November 2017. In addition to publishing guidebooks, the company also provides a tailor-made trips service based on customers’ individual criteria. The Rough Guides travel titles cover more than 200 destinations beginning with the 1982 ''Rough Guide to Greece'', a book conceived by Mark Ellingham, who was dissatisfied with the polarisation of existing guidebooks between cost-obsessed student guides and "heavyweight cultural tomes". Initially aimed at low-budget backpackers, the guidebooks have incorporated more expensive recommendations since the early 1990s, and are now marketed to travellers on all budgets. Since the late 1990s the books have contained colour printing. Much of the books' travel content is also available online. Penguin became responsible for sales and distribution in 1992, acquiring a majority stake in 1996 and buying Rough Guides outrig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Go Travel Guides
''Let's Go'' is a travel guide series researched, written, edited, and run entirely by students at Harvard University. ''Let's Go'' was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History The first Let's Go guide was a 25-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by 18-year-old Harvard freshman Oliver Koppell and handed out on student charter flights to Europe. In 1996, Let's Go launched its websiteLetsgo.com while publishing 22 titles and a new line of mini map guides. Let's Go announced a new print publisher, Avalon Travel, upon the expiration of its contract with St. Martin's Press in 2009. The switch led to a new format for the insides of the books, new retro covers for the outsides, and a rebranding to emphasize Let's Go's student origins. The theme has been changed in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2009. In 2014, Let's Go began self-publishing for the first time since 1970. Editorial style Let's Go has used many words to describe the style of its content. "Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Cyclopaedia
The ''English Cyclopaedia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge'' (London, 1854–1862, 4to, 23 vols., 12,117 pages; supplements, 1869–1873, 4 vols., 2858 pages), was published by Charles Knight, based on the ''Penny Cyclopaedia'', of which he had the copyright. He was assisted by Alexander Ramsay and James Thorne. It was sometimes popularly referred to as ''Knights Encyclopedia''. It is in four divisions, each alphabetical, and very unequal: # Geography (4 volumes and supplement) # Natural history (4 volumes and supplement) # Biography (with 703 lives of living persons; 6 volumes and supplement) # Arts and sciences (8 volumes and supplement) A supplement in four volumes, one for each section, was published between 1869 and 1873, together with a synoptical index. No further editions of the ''English Cyclopaedia'', however, it served as the basis of the ''Everyman's Encyclopaedia ''Everyman's Encyclopaedia'' is an encyclopedia published by Joseph Dent from 1913 as par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia ( es, Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006 and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013. It is the -largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-most edits. It also ranks 12th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. History In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail to a mailing list stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements on Wikipedia. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, criticized the proposal. Jimmy Wales and Sanger responded by saying that they did not immediately plan to implement advertisements, but Enyedy began establishing a fork. Enciclopedia Libre was established by February 26, 2002. Enyedy persuaded most of the Spanish Wikipedians into going to the fork. By the end of 2002, over 10,000 articles were posted on the new site, and the Spanish Wikipedia was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Presidents Of Campeche Municipality
The following is a list of presidents of Campeche Municipality, Mexico. The municipality includes Campeche City. List of officials * Joaquín Esquivel Cantón, 1916-1917 * Cristóbal Donantes Virgilio, 1918 * Marcelo Gómez, 1919 * Francisco G. Torres, 1920 * Ramón Félix Flores, 1921 * Eduardo Mena Córdoba, 1922 * Angel Castillo Lanz, 1923 * Javier Illescas A., 1924-1925 * Ulises Sansores, 1926-1927 * Domingo Pérez Méndez, 1928-1929 * Víctor Velázquez Marina, 1930-1931 * Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga, 1932-1933 * Miguel Lanz Gutiérrez, 1934-1935 * Manuel S. Silva M., 1936-1937 * Domingo Granados M., 1938-1939 * Eduardo Lavalle Urbina, 1940-1941 * Asunción Martínez Camargo, 1942-1943 * Francisco Alvarez Barret, 1944-1946 * Rafael Alcalá Dónde, 1947-1949 * Fernando Rosado Reyes, 1950-1952 * Alberto Ferrer Ferrer, 1953-1955 * Leovigilio Gómez Hernández, 1956-1958 * Eugenio Echeverría Castellón, 1959-1961 * Ricardo Castelot Oliver, 1962-1964 * Rafae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañoneros De Campeche
Cañoneros de Campeche is a Mexican football club based in Campeche, Mexico, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... The club was founded in 2011 and plays in the Liga Premier of the Segunda División de México Current squad References External links Cañoneros de Campeche Football clubs in Campeche Association football clubs established in 1999 Ascenso MX teams 1999 establishments in Mexico {{mexico-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretaría De Desarrollo Social
The Secretariat of Welfare ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Bienestar'') is the government department in charge of social development efforts in Mexico. The Secretary of Welfare is a member of the Executive Cabinet, and is appointed at the discretion of the President of the Republic. The Secretariat of Welfare aims to eliminate poverty through comprehensive, collectively responsible human development, achieve adequate levels of well-being with adjustment to government policies, and improvement through social, economic and political factors in rural and urban areas to enhance local organization, city development and housing. Between 1992 and 2018, the agency was known as the Secretariat of Social Development (''Secretaría de Desarrollo Social''), or SEDESOL. History The agency was established as the Secretariat of Public Works (''Secretaría de Obras Públicas'') in 1959. In 1976, it changed its name to the Secretariat of Human Settlements and Public Works (''Secretaría de Asentami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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