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Jalisco, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by six states, Nayarit , Zacatecas , Aguascalientes , Guanajuato , Michoacán , and Colima .
This is a list of Mexican states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each state was accepted by Congress of the Union as a free and sovereign state of the United Mexican States. Background [ edit ]
1591 – Jesuit college founded. [citation needed] 1618 – Guadalajara Cathedral built. [3] 1690 – Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora del Carmen founded. [citation needed] 1692 – Templo de San Francisco de Asís (church) built. 1774 – Governor's Palace built on Plaza de Armas. [4] 1786 – Spanish intendancy established. [5] 1792
New Galicia, now Jalisco, adhered to the Plan de Iguala on June 13, 1821. In 1823, Guadalajara became the capital of the newly founded state of Jalisco. [20] In 1844, General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga initiated a revolt against the government of President Antonio López de Santa Anna. Santa Anna personally ensured that the revolt was quelled.
The coat of arms of Jalisco (Spanish: Escudo de Jalisco, lit. "state shield of Jalisco") is a symbol of the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco in Mexico. [1]This shield symbolizes the nobility and lordship of the city of Guadalajara; virtues that the Spanish crown recognized in the work and dangers that the city's inhabitants had endured in the conquest and settlement of the city. [2]
The surname Guerrero, meaning "warrior" in Spanish, is derived from guerra "war", a Germanic loanword related to the English word war. Hidalgo: Spanish: Named after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, considered the initiator of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. See also: Hidalgo (nobility) Jalisco: Nahuatl: Xālixco "Place with sand on the ...
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As a captain in the Spanish Colonial Army, de Anda helped lead the Spanish conquest of the Bajío region of Mexico during the Chichimeca War. [1] Following the suppression of the Chichimeca people, de Anda helped lead the colonization effort in the Jalisco Highlands and founded the Villa de Santa María de los Lagos, modern day Lagos de Moreno.