University of Guadalajara - Between 1820 and 1924

Between 1820 and 1924

Between 1820 and 1924, the university experienced numerous changes, including temporary closings, fractures, refinancing and changes of denomination, caused on more than one occasion by political reasons. On June 14, 1820, the director Diego Aranda y Carpinteiro swore obedience in name from the university to the representative of the independentists of the Plan of Iguala, general Pedro Celestino Negrete . With this recognition, the university lost the title of "Royal and Literary Academy of New Galicia" and became the National University of Guadalajara, leaving the shield granted by the Spanish monarchy and taking the one from the independentists. In spite of such declaration of loyalty, the first temporary closing of the establishment decreed to Prisciliano Sanchez to it, the first governor of the state of Jalisco, in 1826, due to the turbulent state of the economy and the policy of the country after independence. The institution reopened its doors in 1834. Nevertheless such opening would not be free of trepidations.