1976 Trolleybuses begin operating.
1979 First Gigante supermarket opens.
1979 Pope John Paul II visits Guadalajara.
1987 Guadalajara International Book Fair begins.
1988 Guadalajara Zoo opens.
1989 Guadalajara light rail (Tren Electrico) begins operating.
1992 (April 22) Sewer line gas explosions; more than 200 killed.
1993 Cardinal Juan Jose Posadas Ocampo gunned down at airport.
1994 International Mariachi festival begins.
1997 (December 13) 1st ever snowfall in Guadalajara.
2004 Riot, arrest sour EU-Latin American-Caribbean summit.
2005 City designated American Capital of Culture.
2009 Barack Obama and Stephen Harper visit city.
2009 Guadalajara Macrobus begins operating.
2010 Census put Guadalajara metro area population at 4,434,878.
2011 Pan American Games held.