Timeline of Atlanta
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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19th century
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- 1821 – Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta per treaty.[1]
- 1839 – Settlement of "Terminus" established (at what would be end of Western and Atlantic Railroad).[2]
- 1843 – Town of Marthasville incorporated.[1]
- 1845
- 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah.[1]
- 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated.[3]
- 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor.
- 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor.
- 1850
- Population: 2,572
- Atlanta Cemetery founded.[1]
- 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest.[4][citation needed]
- 1852 - Atlanta & West Point Railroad built.[1]
- 1853 - Atlanta becomes seat of Fulton County.[1]
- 1855
- Atlanta Medical College established.[5]
- Gas lighting installed in city.[6]
- 1860
- Population: 9,554.[5]
- William Ezzard becomes mayor (1860 - 1861).
- 1861
- Jared Whitaker becomes mayor (1861 - 1861 - joined CSA government).
- Thomas Lowe becomes mayor (1861 - 1862).
- 1864
- James Calhoun becomes mayor (1862 - 1866).
- May–September: Union forces wage Atlanta Campaign.
- September 2: Union forces take city.[7]
- November 15: Burning of Atlanta by Union forces.[2]
- Nov. 26: Col. Luther J. Glenn is appointed commander of the Atlanta Post.[8]:182
- Dec. 5: Cap. Thomas L. Dodd is appointed the Provost-Marshal.[8]:182
- Dec 7: Gen. W. P. Howard sends his report to Governor Brown on the destruction of Atlanta.[8]:182-185[9]:407–412
- 1865
- Civil War ends; slaves freed.
- Atlanta University, first Atlanta black college, founded.
- 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded.[10]
- 1868
- Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital.[1]
- Constitution newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1869 - Clark College founded.
- 1870 - Population: 21,879
- 1871
- Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.[1][12]
- Public school system organized.[5]
- 1877 - Washington Seminary established.
- 1878 - Southern Medical College established.[5]
- 1879
- Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary.[13]
- Atlanta Building and Loan Association established.[14]
- 1880
- 1881
- 1882 - Atlanta Fire Rescue Department established.
- 1883
- Atlanta Journal newspaper begins publication.[11]
- Capital City Club established.
- 1885 - Georgia Institute of Technology founded.
- 1886
- Ebenezer Baptist Church founded.[16]
- Atlanta goes "dry".[citation needed]
- Coca-Cola beverage introduced.[17]
- 1887
- Piedmont Exposition held.[5]
- Piedmont Driving Club[18] and Inman Park (first garden suburb)[citation needed] founded.
- Coca-Cola invents the coupon.[citation needed]
- 1888 - Atlanta Camera Club organized.[19]
- 1889
- First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city.
- Georgia State Capitol building opens.[5]
- Grant Park established.
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is incorporated.
- 1890 - Population: 65,533[5]
- 1891 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway in business.
- 1892
- Atlanta Zoo established.[20]
- Grady Memorial Hospital opens.[5]
- 1895
- Cotton States and International Exposition held.[5]
- September: Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.[21]
- Atlanta Woman's Club founded.
- 1896 - Atlanta Conference of the Study of Negro Problems begins.[22]
- 1899 - Federal penitentiary established.[2]
20th century
1900s-1940s
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- 1900 - Population: 89,872;[5] metro 419,375.
- 1901 - Atlanta Theological Seminary established.[5]
- 1902 - Carnegie Library opens.[23]
- 1904 - Atlanta Art Association formed.[24]
- 1905
- Atlanta School of Medicine[5] and Associated Charities of Atlanta[5] founded.
- Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association in business.[25][26]
- 1906 - September 22: Atlanta Race Riot kills 27.[27]
- 1907 - Atlanta Conservatory of Music founded.[12]
- 1908 - Atlanta Neighborhood Union organized.[22]
- 1909 - Architectural Arts League of Atlanta organized.[24]
- 1910
- Population: 154,839;[5] metro 522,442.
- Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow.[citation needed]
- 1911 - Atlanta Debutante Club founded.[18]
- 1913
- Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State.
- Augusta Institute established founded in 1867 is renamed Morehouse College.
- 1914 - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta established.[28]
- 1915
- Emory College relocated to Atlanta.
- November: Birth of a Nation film premieres.
- Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta.[26]
- 1916
- 1917 - Great Atlanta fire.
- 1918 - 1918 influenza epidemic.[30]
- 1919 - Commission on Interracial Cooperation active.[26]
- 1920
- 1921 - Atlanta Junior Chamber (JCI Atlanta) established.
- 1923 - Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks.[citation needed]
- 1926 - Atlanta Historical Society founded.
- 1927 - Atlanta Historical Bulletin begins publication.
- 1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication.
- 1929
- Atlanta University Center Consortium established.
- City Hall built.[2]
- January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
- 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro 715,391.
- 1933 - Georgia Municipal Association headquartered in city.[citation needed]
- 1935 - Cascade Theatre opens.[32]
- 1936
- Atlanta Dogwood Festival begins.[33]
- William B. Hartsfield elected mayor.
- Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US.[citation needed]
- 1939
- Plaza Theatre opens.
- Gone with the Wind world premiere draws 300,000 to streets.[citation needed]
- 1940 - Euclid Theatre opens.
- 1941 - Central Atlanta Progress established.
- 1944
- Atlanta Campaign National Historic Site established.[2]
- Southern Regional Council and Associated Klans of Georgia[citation needed] headquartered in city.
- 1945 - Mary Mac's Tea Room in business.
- 1946
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention founded.
- December 7: Winecoff Hotel fire.[34]
- 1949
- WAGA-TV and WERD-AM radio[35] begin broadcasting.
- Atlanta Negro Voters League founded.[35]
- Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus.[citation needed]
1950s-1990s
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- 1950
- Population: 331,314; metro 997,666.
- Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power.
- 1952 - Buckhead annexed.[citation needed]
- 1953 - Links chapter established.[25]
- 1956 - Alexander Memorial Coliseum opens.
- 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference headquartered in city.[36]
- 1958
- October 12: Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing.
- Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam established.[37]
- 1959 - Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated.[citation needed]
- Lenox Square mall opens.
- Metro population hits 1 million.[citation needed]
- 1960
- Population: 487,455; metro 1,312,474.
- March 15: An Appeal for Human Rights is released.
- Civil Rights sit-ins at Rich's, lunch counters.[38][36]
- Atlanta Inquirer newspaper begins publication.[39]
- 1961
- Ivan Allen, Jr. becomes mayor.
- Public schools begin token desegregation.[39]
- Rich's desegregates restaurant.
- John Portman opens Merchandise Mart, kicking off transformation of downtown.
- One Park Tower built.
- 1962
- Peyton Road barricades built in Cascade Heights.[26]
- 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash.
- 1963
- Atlanta Marathon begins.
- Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses.[citation needed]
- 1964 - Atlanta Track Club established.
- 1966 - State of Georgia Building constructed.
- 1967
- Atlanta Chiefs soccer team begins play.
- Sister city relationship established with Salzburg, Austria.[40]
- 1968
- King Center for Nonviolent Social Change founded.
- Peach Bowl annual football game begins.
- Atlanta Hawks basketball team relocates to Atlanta.
- Equitable Building constructed.
- 1969
- Coronet Theater[32] and Perimeter freeway[citation needed] open.
- Afro-American Police League chapter established.[22]
- 1970
- Peachtree Road Race begins.
- Population: 496,973; metro 1,763,626
- 1971
- Atlanta Gay Pride Festival established.
- International flights begin at Hartsfield Airport.[41]
- 1972 - Sister city relationships established with Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[40]
- 1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor of Atlanta.
- 1974
- 1975 - Centennial Tower built.
- 1976
- Atlanta Botanical Garden established.
- Atlanta Film Festival begins.
- Georgia World Congress Center opens.
- National Conference of Black Mayors headquartered in city.[22][43]
- 1977
- Atlanta Soto Zen Center founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.[40]
- 1979
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority begins operating.
- Atlanta murders of 1979–1981 begin.
- 1980
- Population: 425,022; metro 2,233,324.
- All-news television network CNN begins broadcasting; Turner empire takes off.[44]
- Al-Farooq Masjid (mosque)[37] and Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site established.
- 1981
- Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Daegu, South Korea.[40]
- 1982
- Andrew Young becomes mayor.
- Carter Center headquartered in Atlanta.
- 1983
- Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System established.
- Sister city relationship established with Brussels, Belgium.[40]
- 1984 - Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival begins.
- 1986
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum dedicated.
- Midtown Assistance Center established.[37]
- 1987
- John Lewis becomes Georgia's 5th congressional district representative.[45]
- Sister city relationship established with Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[40]
- 1988
- Democratic Convention.
- Sister city relationship established with Tbilisi, Georgia.[40]
- 1990 - Population: 394,017;[46] metro 2,959,950.
- 1991
- Atlanta Bicycle Coalition organized.
- Land bank established.[47]
- Drepung Loseling Institute opens.[37]
- 1992
- Georgia Dome opens.
- SunTrust Plaza and Bank of America Plaza built.
- 1994 - Sister city relationships established with Bucharest, Romania;[40] and Ancient Olympia, Greece.[clarification needed]
- 1995
- October 28: Atlanta Braves baseball team wins 1995 World Series.
- Atlanta Downtown Improvement District established.
- Sister city relationship established with Cotonou, Benin.[40]
- 1996
- July–August: Summer Olympics.
- July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
- Sister city relationship established with Salcedo, Dominican Republic.[40]
- 1998
- City website online (approximate date).[48][chronology citation needed]
- Sister city relationship established with Nuremberg, Germany.[40]
- 1999
- Philips Arena opens.
- Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey team begins play.
21st century
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- 2000
- Freedom Park dedicated.
- Sister city relationship established with Ra'anana, Israel.[40]
- Population: 416,474; metro 4,112,198.
- 2001 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in publication.
- 2002 - Shirley Franklin becomes mayor.
- 2003 - Fermi Project established.
- 2004 - Atlanta Rollergirls established.
- 2005
- 2008
- Delta becomes world's largest airline.[citation needed]
- March 14–15: 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak.
- 2010 - Population: 420,003; metro 5,268,860.[49]
- 2011
- July: Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal investigative report issued.
- Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects.[citation needed]
- 2014 - National Center for Civil and Human Rights opens.
See also
- History of Atlanta
- List of mayors of Atlanta
- Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta
- Timeline of Savannah, Georgia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Federal Writers' Project 1942, p. 241+.
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Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
- 1860s-1870s
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Published in the 21st century
- Robert D. Bullard et al., eds (2000). Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press.
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