* 1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico, This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.

The city was a place that facilitated trade between San Antonio ( now in Texas ), Tampico and from Saltillo to the center of the country.

It was designed to show the U. S. was keenly interested in the civil war and would not tolerate attacks on Americans, especially the April 9, 1914, " Tampico Affair ", which involved the arrest of American sailors by soldiers of the regime of Mexican President Victoriano Huerta.

His luck ended in November 2000 when he was captured in Tampico, Tamaulipas and imprisoned in La Palma.

In 1890, a railroad was completed that passed through Ciudad Victoria on its route between Monterrey and Tampico.

In September a force under General Santa Anna forced the Spanish troops to surrender and Mexican control of Tampico was re-established.

According to the INEGI 2010 census, the population of the city of Tampico was 297, 284, and that of the municipality of Tampico was 297, 554, both ranking fifth in the state.

In February, 1895, snow was reported to have fallen in Tampico.

The local professional soccer team was founded in 1945 and is named Tampico Madero, also known as Jaiba Brava.

In April 1914, U. S. troops occupied the Mexican port of Veracruz following the Tampico Incident ; the reason for the intervention was Woodrow Wilson's desire to overthrow the Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta.

In 1922, the city of Papantla became the seat of the Diocese of Papantla when it was created from territories that had belonged to the Dioceses of Veracruz and Tampico.

The invasion plan was eventually scrapped when authorities loyal to Victoriano Huerta detained a small American naval landing party in Tampico, Mexico, which became known as the Tampico Affair.

Another Mexican system that would have been considered of an interurban type was the Playa Miramar high-speed line in Tampico.

In the 2010 Apertura the club defeated Tampico madero in the final and was crowned the champion in Tamaulipas.

Although the original uniform was white with a diagonal blue upper shoulder, the stripes were inspired in 1965, when the Tampico Madero ( nicknamed " Jaibas Bravas ", or Brave crabs ) football team wore them, and the Monterrey team adopted them.

Around noon that day, the hurricane watch was upgraded to a hurricane warning between Tampico and Port O ' Connor.

Pete Rugolo became the chief arranger ( extending Kenton's ideas ), Bob Cooper and Vido Musso offered very different tenor styles, and June Christy was Kenton's new singer ; her hits ( including " Tampico " and " Across the Alley From the Alamo ") made it possible for Kenton to finance his more ambitious projects.

American William Robinson managed to occupy Altamira and Tampico, hoping to give new impetus to the revolution, but Robinson was taken prisoner in Tampico and sent to Cádiz.

In addition to the industrial activity, there is a retail sector that is dependent on purchases made by wealthy and middle-class Mexican consumers from Monterrey ( connected to Reynosa by toll road ) and Tampico.

* Strings on " Tampico Trauma " and " Banana Republics " arranged by Norbert Putnam and Michael Utley

Also central to Cárdenas's project were nationalistic economic policies involving Mexico's vast oil production, which had soared following strikes in 1910 in the area known as the " Golden Lane ," near Tampico, and which made Mexico the world's second-largest oil producer by 1921, supplying approximately 20 percent of domestic demand in the United States.

Reynosa is the largest and most populous city in the state of Tamaulipas, followed by Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Tampico, and Ciudad Victoria.

Tampico is located in a hurricane area, but it has not been affected directly by one in more than 50 years.

The metropolitan area of Tampico, Ciudad Madero, and Altamira is served by General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport ( IATA airport code: TAM ), which is located in the northern part of the city of Tampico.

* " Tampico " is the title of a 1945 song composed by US artist Gene Roland and produced by jazz musician and conductor Stan Kenton, with lead vocals by June Christy.

* The novel " Tampico's Gold " by Elizabeth Braun describes Tampico in poetic detail.

When Huerta refused, and with the situation further exacerbated by the Tampico Affair, President Wilson landed U. S. troops to occupy Mexico's most important seaport, Veracruz.

In the 1960s the club wore a different kit inspired by the one used by Jaibos Tampico Madero with vertical baby blue lines with white shorts and socks.

* October 10 – Helicopters from the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier play a key role in rescuing people stranded by flooding in Tampico, Mexico.

According to Rosa Elena Luján, the widow of Hal Croves, who is identified with B. Traven by many scholars ( see below ), her husband signed on a " death ship " after his release from prison and sailed to Norway, from there on board another " death ship " to Africa and, finally, on board a Dutch ship, reached Tampico on the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 1924.

The threat to Texas increased, but Inez was forced southwest late on October 9 by rising heights to its north, and the storm weakened before making landfall near Tampico, Mexico, on October 10.

After the Tampico Affair, where nine American sailors were arrested by the Mexican government for entering off-limit areas in Tampico, Tamaulipas, President Woodrow Wilson

That afternoon, the First Advanced Base Regiment, originally bound for Tampico, Tamaulipas, came ashore under the command of Colonel John A. Lejeune and by 17: 00, U. S. troops had secured the town square and were in complete control of Veracruz.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U. S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

Land invasion followed, but the Mexican forces were frustrated in their attempts to take either Campeche or Mérida, and thus withdrew to Tampico.

The Tampico Affair started off as a minor incident involving U. S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to General Victoriano Huerta during the guerra de las facciones phase of the Mexican Revolution.

By March 26, 1914, Carranza's forces were from the prosperous oil town of Tampico, Tamaulipas.

Inset: Appearing in the photograph ( left to right ): Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander of U. S. forces during the Tampico Affair ; Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher | Frank F. Fletcher, who commanded the landing to seize Veracruz ; Vice Admiral Charles Johnston Badger | Charles J. Badger, Commander of U. S. Atlantic Fleet in 1914.

In the 19th century, after the Mexican Independence War, Monterrey rose as a key economic center for the newly formed nation, especially due to its balanced ties between Europe ( with its connections to Tampico ), the United States ( with its connections to San Antonio ), and the capital ( through Saltillo ).

Once Gilbert entered the Gulf of Mexico on September 15, hurricane watches were posted for the portion of the shore between Port Arthur and Tampico.

Rough seas were reported mainly between Coatzacoalcos and Tampico ; the ports of those two cities were closed during the passage of Diana, according to the National Weather Service.

It empties into the Gulf at Tampico and Ciudad Madero, on the border between the states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz.

It continued westward across the Gulf of Mexico, hitting between Matamoros and Tampico, Mexico.