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150 BCE
The territory
The territory of the State of Hidalgo, due to its geographical location, was a forced passage for the numerous migrations from the north, who came to settle in the Valley of Mexico. The Teotihuacan culture settled in the southeast between 150 B.C. to 700 AD To the southwest, the Toltec culture between 700 and 1150 AD. -
1301
Found
The history of the state of Hidalgo dates back to the oldest archaeological record found in Hidalgo is an ax, found in Huapalcalco. Numerous indigenous groups inhabited the current territory of Hidalgo, mainly the Toltecs, who founded Tulancingo and Tula. In the 14th century, the Mexicas settled and due to the proximity of this region with respect to the great Tenochtitlán, the Spanish conquest soon reached Hidalgo soil. -
1520
Tulancingo taken from the toltec
Tulancingo, city, southeastern Hidalgo estado, north-central Mexico. Tulancingo lies in the Sierra Madre Oriental along the Río Grande de Tulancingo. It was taken from the Toltec Indians by the Spaniards in the 1520s. -
1534
Pachuca
The Spanish founded the city one of the first settlements in New Spainin 1534 and took over the mines. -
1552
The silver mines of Mineral del Monte and Pachuca were discoveredT
During New Spain, the silver mines of Mineral del Monte and Pachuca were discovered in 1552, which began the establishment of a mining community in the Mining Region. Pachuca was part of one of the most important mining centers, since it is here where, for the first time, the amalgamation method was used to obtain silver, known as patio benefit. -
Mines
The Real del Monte mine, begun in 1739 and still in operation, is one of the most extensive mining properties in the world. The patio, or Mexican, process of separating silver from the ore by amalgamation with mercury was perfected in Pachuca by Bartolomé de Medina in the 16th century, and the Pachuca tank used in the cyanide process was developed there in the 20th century. -
The Bourbon reforms
In 1786, as a result of the Bourbon reforms, the Royal Ordinance of Municipalities issued by King Carlos III was issued, with which the Viceroyalty of New Spain was divided administratively into 12 Municipalities. The current state of Hidalgo was included in the intendancy of Mexico. -
The promulgation of the Constitution of Cádiz
In 1812 with the promulgation of the Constitution of Cádiz, the Municipality of Mexico was incorporated into the Province of New Spain, which also included the municipalities of Guanajuato, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí. This was only until 1814 when absolutism was reestablished and the intendancies were restored. -
The constitutional regime was restored
In 1820 the constitutional regime was restored and again the Intendancy became part of the Province of New Spain, but only until 1821 when the Spanish Cortes constituted all the Intendencies in Provinces. -
The consummation
In 1821, during the consummation, the insurgent generals Nicolás Bravo and Guadalupe Victoria arrived in Tulancingo. After independence ended, the First Mexican Empire was formed, in 1823 Pedro Espinosa, ruler of Pachuca, adhered to the Casa Mata Plan and declared himself in favor of the First Federal Republic of Mexico. -
Hidalgo is due to different factors
The first attempt to create a new federal entity with some territories that belong to the current state of Hidalgo was through a project presented to the Constituent Congress in 1823, signed by Cristóbal Andrade, representative of Huejutla, who requested support to form the province of La Huasteca, but his project was rejected. -
The Federal Constitution
On October 4, 1824, when the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States was promulgated, the Constituent Congress of Mexico gave the province the name of Free and Sovereign State of Mexico. -
The name and its foundation
The name and its foundation was on January 16, 1869, when the Congress of the Union of Mexico issued the Decree of erection of the state of Hidalgo. It was assigned the name of Hidalgo in honor of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, considered the father of the country. -
President Benito Juárez
On January 16, 1869, the Congress of the Union issued the Decree of Erection of the State of Hidalgo, by President Benito Juárez, designating the city of Pachuca as the capital of the state,to which the name " de Soto" in recognition of Manuel Fernando Soto, originally from the city of Tulancingo and who is considered the most important promoter in the creation of the state -
The inauguration of Nicolás Flores
In 1917 with the inauguration of Nicolás Flores the three powers of government were established, historically this fact is considered as the resumption of the constitutional regime in the state of Hidalgo. -
El escudo del estado de Hidalgo
The shield of the state of Hidalgo was designed by Diego Rivera and devised by José Vasconcelos in the year 1922. -
Adopted
Adopted by official decree published in the Official Newspaper of the State of Hidalgo on January 24, 1980 -
Anthem
As for his anthem, it was created on the occasion of the Centennial of the erection of the state of Hidalgo in 1968, where the qualifying jury awarded first place to the hymn "Canto de paz, unión y esperanza", signed by Guzmán Mayer.