Timeline of Hialeah, Florida

20th century

• 1921 - Hialeah founded.
• 1924
• * Miami-Hialeah Florida East Coast Railway line and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge built.
• * Hialeah Women's Club opens town library.
• 1925
• * Hialeah incorporated.
• * Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.
• * Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.
• 1926
• * Hurricane.
• * Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
• 1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift Bridge opens.
• 1944 - Home News begins publication.
• 1948 - Town of Hialeah Gardens incorporated near Hialeah.
• 1958 - City of Hialeah Public Library building opens.
• 1961 - M.A. Milam Elementary School established.
• 1969 - El Sol de Hialeah newspaper begins publication.
• 1970 - El Día newspaper begins publication.
• 1971 - Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
• 1973
• * KC and the Sunshine Band formed.
• * TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema in business.
• 1974 - Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye established.
• 1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.
• 1980
• * Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
• * Apollo North cinema in business.
• 1981 - Raúl L. Martínez becomes mayor.
• 1982 - El Hispano newspaper begins publication.
• 1985
• * Hialeah station and Okeechobee station open.
• * El Condado News begins publication.
• 1987 - Mi Casa newspaper begins publication.
• * Christian Gomez is born.
• 1989
• * Tri-Rail commuter rail Miami Airport station opens.
• * Carmike cinema in business.
• 1990
• * April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.
• * Population: 188,004.
• 1993
• * U.S. Supreme Court decides animal sacrifice-related Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah in favor of freedom of religion.
• * Carrie P. Meek becomes U.S. representative for 27th congressional district.
• 1999
• * Telemundo television headquarters relocated to Hialeah.
• * City website online.
• 2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.

  21st century

• 2005 - Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
• 2008 - Westland Hialeah High School and City of Hialeah Educational Academy open.
• 2010 - Population: 224,669.
• 2011
• * May: Carlos Hernández becomes acting mayor.
• * November: Hialeah mayoral election, 2011 held.
• 2013
• * January: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes U.S. representative for Florida's newly created 27th congressional district.
• * July 26–27: Shooting at Todel Apartments.
• 2014 - Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.
• 2015
• * Miami Watersports Complex opens.
• * Population: 237,082.