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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 .
1. ^ The order of the states admitted the same day was determined by the day of the installation of its congress. 2. ^ The intendancies were created in 1776 under the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
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]
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After the conquest of the Chichimecas, de Anda helped lead the colonization of the Jalisco Highlands in the Western Bajío region. In 1563, he and Captain Hernando Martel founded the Villa de Santa María de los Lagos (modern day Lagos de Moreno), [3] along with 73 noble Spanish families and their servants and slaves. [4] [5]
By Decree Number 22228, of 30 May 2008, the Jalisco State Congress shortened the term of governor, for the only time, from six years, to five years nine months and five days, in such a way that according to Transitory Article Six, subsection (c), the governor "will take office on 1 March 2013 and will conclude his mandate on 5 December 2018."