Timeline of Seattle
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Before the 19th century
- Native Americans explore and settle throughout the Puget Sound region which includes the Seattle area.[1]
19th century
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- 1851 -
- September 14: The Collins Party led by Luther Collins finds a settlement in present day Georgetown.[1]
- November 13: Two months after the founding of present day Georgetown, the Denny Party settles at Alki Point to spend a rainy winter.[1]
- 1852 - The Denny Party finds it difficult to settle at Alki Point then moves to present day downtown Seattle in April.
- 1853 - Seattle becomes seat of King County, Washington Territory.[2]
- 1854 - School opens.[3]
- 1855 - Population: 300.[2]
- 1861 - Washington Territorial University established.[4]
- 1863 - Washington Gazette newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1864 - May 16: Mercer Girls arrive.[3]
- 1867 - Weekly Intelligencer newspaper begins publication.[5][6]
- 1868 - Seattle Library Assoc. founded.[7]
- 1869 - Henry A. Atkins becomes mayor.
- 1870
- 1873 - Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad organized.[3]
- 1874 - Gas street lamps installed.[3]
- 1875
- San Francisco-Seattle steamship service begins.[3]
- Ms. Maynard's Reading Room opens.[7]
- 1878 - Seattle Daily Post begins publication.[5]
- 1879 - Squire opera house built.[3]
- 1880
- 1883 - Telephone[8] and Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad[3] begin operating.
- 1885 - Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway organized.
- 1886 - February: Anti-Chinese unrest.[9]
- 1888 - Rainier Club established.
- 1889
- Seattle Federation of Women's Clubs organized.[10]
- June 6: Great Seattle Fire.[2]
- Seattle Fire Department established.[11]
- Electric streetcar begins operating.[12]
- City becomes part of the new U.S. State of Washington.
- 1890
- 1891 - Seattle Public Library opens.
- 1892 - Pioneer Building constructed.
- 1893
- 1894 - The Argus newspaper begins publication.
- The Seattle Republican daily newspaper beings publication[16]
- 1898 - U.S. assay office opens.[17]
- 1899
- The Seattle Star newspaper begins publication.[5]
- Tlingit totem pole installed in Pioneer Place.
20th century
1900s-1940s
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- 1900 - Population: 80,671.[2]
- 1901 - Renton Hill Community Improvement Club organized.[18]
- 1903
- July 30: Semi-centennial of founding of Seattle.[19]
- City hires Olmsted Brothers to design public parks.[20]
- 1905
- South Seattle becomes part of city.[2]
- Seattle Fine Arts Society established.
- 1906
- The Mountaineers (club) formed.
- Public Library building opens.[21]
- 1907
- City expands, annexing Atlantic City, Ballard, Columbia, Dunlap, Rainier Beach, Ravenna, South-East Seattle, South Park, and West Seattle.[2]
- Pike Place Market opens.[17]
- St. James Cathedral built.
- 1908
- The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area. [22]
- 1909
- June 1: Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition opens.
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad begins operating.[3]
- 1910
- Georgetown becomes part of city.[3]
- Municipal League of Seattle founded.[23]
- Population: 237,194.[2]
- 1911 - Port of Seattle established.[24]
- 1913
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch established.[25]
- 20th Avenue NE Bridge opens.
- 1914 - Smith Tower built.[26]
- 1916
- Seattle Audubon Society established.[10]
- Coliseum Theater opens.[14]
- 1918 - Bessaroth Synagogue dedicated.[27]
- 1919 - February: Labor strike.[3][28]
- 1920 - Seattle Northwest Enterprise newspaper begins publication.[25]
- 1923
- Seattle Goodwill Industries established.[29][30]
- Mountaineers Players (theatre troupe) active.[31]
- 1924 - September 28: First aerial circumnavigation of the world lands at Sand Point.[32]
- 1925
- Sears, Roebuck store in business.
- Eagles Auditorium Building constructed.
- Seattle Planning Commission established.[33]
- 1926 - U.S. Naval Air Station established at Sand Point.
- 1928 - Civic Auditorium and Paramount Theatre[14] open.
- 1929 - Seattle Urban League founded.
- 1930
- Pike Place Fish Market and Japanese American Citizen's League[25] established.
- Exchange Building constructed.
- 1932 - Grace Hospital established.
- 1933 - Seattle Art Museum opens.[34]
- 1938 - Vedanta Society of Western Washington founded.[35][36]
- 1940 - Population: 368,302.[37]
- April 28: Seattle trolleybus system opens.
- 1941
- April 12: Last streetcar line closed.
- 1946 - Seattle Foundation established.
- 1947
- Airport begins operating.
- Memorial Stadium opens.
- 1949 - Free port opens.[37]
1950s-1990s
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- 1950
- 1957 - Sister city relationship established with Kobe, Japan.[38]
- 1959 - City joins Puget Sound Governmental Conference.[39]
- 1960 - Population: 557,087.[40]
- 1961
- Space Needle erected.[41]
- American Institute of Architects Seattle chapter active.[42]
- 1962
- Alweg Monorail begins operating.
- April 21 - Seattle World's Fair opens.
- Congress of Racial Equality chapter established.[43]
- Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church built.[27]
- 1963
- Seattle Opera and Seattle Repertory Theatre[44] founded.
- Martin Cinerama opens.[14]
- 1964
- August 21: The Beatles perform at the Seattle Center Coliseum.
- 1965
- April 29: 1965 Olympia earthquake.
- ACT Theatre founded.
- 1966
- August 25: More than two years later, The Beatles perform for the last time at the Seattle Center Coliseum.
- 1967
- Allied Arts of Seattle founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Bergen, Norway.[38]
- 1969
- 1970 - Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program[46] begin.
- 1971
- Mayor's Arts Festival begins (later known as Bumbershoot).
- Starbucks in business.[47]
- 1972
- Pacific Northwest Dance Association established.
- Intiman Theatre Festival begins.
- 1973 - Sister city relationship established with Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[38]
- 1975 - World's first "commercial software for personal computers" invented in Seattle.[48]
- 1976 - Daybreak Star Cultural Center opens.[49]
- 1977
- Seattle Mariners baseball team formed.[50]
- Sister city relationship established with Beersheba, Israel.[38]
- 1978 - Central Co-op established.[51]
- 1979
- P-Patch Advisory Council established.[52]
- Music Magazine The Rocket begins publishing.[53]
- June 1: Seattle SuperSonics basketball team wins NBA Finals.[4]
- Sister city relationship established with Mazatlán, Mexico.[38]
- 1980
- Subterranean Pop fanzine begins publication.[53]
- Sister city relationship established with Nantes, France.[38]
- 1981 - Sister city relationships established with Christchurch, New Zealand; and Mombasa, Kenya.[38]
- 1982 - Market Park landscaped.
- 1983 - Sister city relationship established with Chongqing, China.[38]
- 1984
- 911 Media Arts Center and Weird Science Salon[54] founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Limbe, Cameroon.[38]
- 1985
- Seattle Municipal Archives established.
- Following a 3-year construction period, the newly constructed 76 storey Columbia Center in downtown is complete. Therefore becoming the tallest building in the city which forces CAP (Citizen Alternative Plan) to call in height limits.
- 1986 - Sister city relationships established with Galway, Ireland; and Reykjavík, Iceland.[38]
- 1988 - Washington State Convention Center and Telephone Museum open.
- 1989
- Jim McDermott becomes U.S. representative for Washington's 7th congressional district.[55]
- Sister city relationship established with Daejeon, South Korea.[38]
- 1990
- September 15: Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel opens.
- Norm Rice becomes mayor.
- Population: 516,259.[40]
- 1991
- Sustainable Seattle nonprofit established.
- Washington Hemp Expo begins.
- Seattle Art Museum rebuilt.[34]
- Sister city relationships established with Cebu, Philippines; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[38]
- 1992 - Sister city relationship established with Pécs, Hungary; and Surabaya, Indonesia.[38]
- 1993
- Seattle Knights jousting acting troupe founded.
- Fictional movie Sleepless in Seattle released.[56]
- Sister city relationships established with Gdynia, Poland; and Perugia, Italy.[38]
- 1994
- Amazon.com in business.
- Seattle Asian Art Museum opens.[34]
- City Public Access Network online.[57][58][59]
- 1996 - Sister city relationship established with Haiphong, Vietnam.[38]
- 1997
- Seattle Internet Exchange and Seattle Channel[60] established.
- Jet City Maven newspaper begins publication.
- 1998 - Paul Schell becomes mayor.
- 1999
- November 30: Anti-globalization protest during World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.
- Town Hall Seattle opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Sihanoukville, Cambodia.[38]
21st century
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- 2000
- Experience Music Project opens.
- Music Magazine The Rocket ends publishing.[61]
- 2001
- February 27: Seattle Mardi Gras Riots
- February 28: Nisqually earthquake.
- 2002
- July 28: The first sporting event at Seahawks Stadium, a Seattle Sounders soccer match, is held.
- 2004
- Seattle Central Library building opens.
- Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project founded.
- Rat City Rollergirls (rollerderby league) founded.
- 2006
- Seattle Metropolitan begins publication.
- Kavana Cooperative founded.[36][62]
- 2007
- Socrata Inc. in business.
- People's Harm Reduction Alliance founded.[63]
- December 12: South Lake Union Streetcar line opened.[64]
- 2008 - Tilted Thunder Rail Birds (rollerderby league) formed.
- 2009
- July 18: Central Link light rail begins service between Westlake and Tukwila.[65]
- December 19: Central Link is extended to SeaTac Airport.[66]
- InvestigateWest news headquartered in Seattle.[67]
- Upping Technology for Underserved Neighbors[68] and Jigsaw Renaissance[54] founded.
- CondoInternet in business.[69]
- 2010
- Northwest Chocolate Festival begins.
- Michael McGinn becomes mayor.
- Population: 608,660;[70] metro 3,439,809.[71]
- 2011
- 2012
- Ban against plastic shopping bags in effect.[74]
- Chihuly Garden and Glass and Living Computer Museum open.
- 2013
- Construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel by the tunnel-boring machine Bertha begins.
- Capitol Cider in business.
- Population: 652,405.[75]
- 2014
- January: Ed Murray becomes mayor.
- February: Seattle Seahawks win Super Bowl football contest.[76]
- May: City minimum wage hike announced.[77][78]
- 2015
- May: A large kayak protest against Arctic oil drilling is held on Elliott Bay in response to a Shell oil platform arriving at the Port of Seattle.[79]
- September: School teacher labor strike.[80]
- 2016
- January 23: First Hill Streetcar line opens.[81]
- March 19: University Link Tunnel extends light rail to Capitol Hill and Husky Stadium.
See also
- History of Seattle
- Neighborhoods in Seattle
- List of mayors of Seattle
- Timeline of Spokane, Washington
- Timeline of Washington (state)[82]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown 2007, p. 21.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 209.
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- ↑ Chronicling American, Library of Congress Website
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- ↑ Chamber of Commerce 1903.
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External links
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- Materials related to Seattle, various dates (via Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
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Seattle, circa 1870
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Seattle, 1908
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Atlantic Squadron parade, 1908
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Map of Seattle and port, 1918
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Reinstallation of Pioneer Square totem pole, 1940
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