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• 1760 - Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Our Lady of Candlemas) settlement established by Spanish colonist Faustino Martínez de Matos.^[1]
• 1763 - Settlement of Mayaguez formally separated from the larger San Germán area.^[2]
• 1770 - Population: 1,800.^[3]
• 1823 - José María Ramírez de Arellano becomes mayor.^[3]
• 1836
  • Mayaguez becomes a villa (chartered town).^[3]
  • Public warehouse and dock constructed.^[2]
• 1841
  • Fire.^[4]
  • "Entry port privilege" relocated to Mayaguez from Cabo Rojo (approximate date).^[1]
• 1845 - Mayagüez City Hall built.^[2]
• 1848 - El Imparcial and El Propagador newspapers begins publication.^[5][6]
• 1849 - Jail built.^[2]
• 1850 - El Semanario Mayaguezano begins publication.^[5]
• 1852 - Fire.^[2]
• 1860
  • Market building constructed.^[2]
  • San Antonio Hospital active (approximate date).^[2]
• 1863 - Avisador del Comercio newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1870 - Cemetery established.^[2]
• 1873 - Mayagüez attains city status.^[1][4]
• 1874 - Biblioteca Popular de Mayagüez (public library)^[7] and Circulo de Amigos^[8] founded.
• 1883 - Population: 26,705 in ayuntamiento (city); 123,583 in departamento (province).^[9]
• 1893 - Sociedad Anónima Tranvía de Mayagüez (transit entity) active (approximate date).^[3]
• 1894
  • Escuela Libre de Música (music school) founded.^{[citation needed]}
  • City coat of arms granted.^[3]
• 1896 - Statue of Christopher Columbus erected in the Plaza Colón.
• 1898 - Theodore Schwan, a brigadier general of the U.S. enters Mayagüez with the American Cavalry after winning the Battle of Silva Heights.
• 1899
  • Hormigueros becomes part of Mayagüez.
  • Population: 15,187.^[4]

• 1901
  • U.S. Tropical Agriculture Research Station founded.^[10][1]
  • Voz de la Patria newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1909 - Teatro Yagüez built.
• 1910 - Population: 16,591.^[4]
• 1911
  • College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opens.^[3] The US Department of Agriculture sends a field agent to the area of Mayagüez and Hormigueros to document everything he sees.^[11]
  • Diario del Oeste newspaper begins publication.^[12]
• 1912 - Masonic Logia Adelphia built.
• 1913
  • Mayagüez Tramway Company formed.^[3]
  • Centro Español built.^[8]
• 1918 - October 11: 1918 San Fermín earthquake.^[1]
• 1919 - June 19: Teatro Yagüez burns down.
• 1920 - Population: 19,069.^[13]
• 1926 - Tram service ends.^[3]
• 1930 - Population: 37,060.^[14]
• 1937
  • WPRA radio begins broadcasting.^[15]
  • Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico in business.
• 1938 - Indios de Mayagüez baseball team formed.
• 1940 - Population: 50,376.^[14]
• 1946 - WKJB radio begins broadcasting.^[15]
• 1955 - WORA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[16]
• 1966 - University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez active.
• 1969 - Benjamin Cole becomes mayor.^[17]
• 1970 - Population: 68,872.^[18]
• 1976 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mayagüez established.^[19]
• 1983 - First newspaper originating in Mayagüez begins publication.^[17]
• 1993 - José Guillermo Rodríguez becomes mayor.
• 2000 - Population: 78,647.^[20]

• 2010
  • Isidoro García Stadium and Mayagüez Athletics Stadium open.
  • Parque del Litoral (park) built.
  • 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games sport event held in Mayagüez.
  • Population: 89,080.^[21]

• History of Mayagüez
• List of mayors of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mayagüez
• Timeline of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Ponce, San Juan

^ ^{a b} "United States AM Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive

^ "United States TV Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive

• M. de Magalhães (1898). "Mayaguez". Colonial Business Directory of the Island of Puerto Rico. New York. OCLC 39940968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Also description of town)
• Robert Thomas Hill (1899), "Cities of Porto Rico: (Mayaguez)", Cuba and Porto Rico (2nd ed.), New York: Century Company
• Frederick A. Ober (1899), "Cities and Towns of the Coast: Mayaguez", Puerto Rico and its Resources, New York: D. Appleton and Co.
• "Porto Rico: Mayaguez". Official Commercial Directory of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Entire West Indies, with Bermuda. New York: Spanish-American Directories Company. 1901. pp. 423+.
• Charles Hartzell, ed. (1903), "Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages: Mayaguez", Register of Porto Rico, San Juan: Louis E. Tuzo and Co., pp. 191–192
• "Mayaguez". Commercial Guide and Business Directory of Porto Rico. New York: F.E. Platt. 1910. pp. 103–118.
• "Mayaguez" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 931.
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Mayaguez", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Mayaguez", Puerto Rico: a Guide to the Island of Boriquén, American Guide Series, New York: University Society, pp. 252+, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030579083, OCLC 245805 – via HathiTrust
• Jorge Heine (1993). The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7691-2. (About Bejamín Cole era)

• Manuel Ubeda y Delgado (1878). "Mayaguez". Isla de Puerto Rico: estudio histórico, geográfico y estadístico de la misma (in Spanish). Puerto Rico.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (reprint 1998)
• "Mayaguez". Diccionario enciclopédico hispano-americano de literatura, ciencias y artes (in Spanish). Vol. 12. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon. 1893. hdl:2027/mdp.35112203969706.
• Subcomité de la Historia de Mayagüez (1960). Historia de Mayagüez, 1760-1960 (in Spanish). OCLC 38531160.
• Pedro Luis Perea Roselló (1962), Los periódicos y los periodistas de Mayagüez (in Spanish), Ponce: Ediciones Aldecoa, OCLC 912547459
• Silvia Aguiló Ramos (1986). Mayagüez: notas para su historia (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). San Juan: Comité Historia de los Pueblos. OCLC 16636824.

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• Nancy Abreu Báez; et al. (eds.). "Indice de Temas: (Mayagüez (P.R.))" [Topic Index]. Conuco: Indice de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). OCLC 772645549. (Includes bibliographic information on Mayagüez history)
• Items related to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, various dates (via University of Puerto Rico's Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña)
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• Digitized materials related to Mayagüez in the Archivo Histórico Nacional of Spain, records of the Ministerio de Ultramar; via Portal de Archivos Españoles