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- 19th century
- 20th century 1900s-1940s 1950s-1990s
- 21st century 2000s 2010s
- See also
- References
- Bibliography Published in 19th century Published in 20th century Published in 21st century
- External links
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. {{Dynamic list}}{{TOC right}}19th century{{Georgia State History}}- 1821 – Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta per treaty.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1839 – Settlement of "Terminus" established (at what would be end of Western and Atlantic Railroad).[1]
- 1843 – Town of Marthasville incorporated.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1845
- Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- Marthasville renamed "Atlanta."{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated.[1]
- 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor.
- 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor.
- 1850
- Population: 2,572
- Atlanta Cemetery founded.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest.[2]{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1852 - Atlanta & West Point Railroad built.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1853 - Atlanta becomes seat of Fulton County.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- 1855
- Atlanta Medical College established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Gas lighting installed in city.[3]
- 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.[4]
- November 15: Burning of Atlanta by Union forces.[1]
- Nov. 26: Col. Luther J. Glenn is appointed commander of the Atlanta Post.[5]{{rp|182}}
- Dec. 5: Cap. Thomas L. Dodd is appointed the Provost-Marshal.[5]{{rp|182}}
- Dec 7: Gen. W. P. Howard sends his report to Governor Brown on the destruction of Atlanta.[5]{{rp|182–185}}[6]{{rp|407–412}}
- 1865
- Civil War ends; slaves freed.
- Atlanta University, first Atlanta black college, founded.
- 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded.[7]
- 1868
- Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
- Constitution newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1869 - Clark College founded.
- 1870 - Population: 21,789.[5]
- 1871
- Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}{{sfn|Hornady|1922}}
- Public school system organized.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1877 - Washington Seminary established.
- 1878 - Southern Medical College established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1879
- Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary.[9]
- Atlanta Building and Loan Association established.{{sfn|Brownell|1975}}
- 1880
- Abyssinian Library established.[10]
- Population: 37,409; Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city.[5]
- 1881
- Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and Morris Brown Colored College founded.
- International Cotton Exposition held.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1882 - Atlanta Fire Rescue Department established.
- 1883
- Atlanta Journal newspaper begins publication.[8]
- Capital City Club established.
- 1885 - Georgia Institute of Technology founded.
- 1886
- Ebenezer Baptist Church founded.[11]
- Atlanta goes "dry".{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- Coca-Cola beverage introduced.[12]
- 1887
- Piedmont Exposition held.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Piedmont Driving Club[21] and Inman Park (first garden suburb){{citation needed|date=October 2013}} founded.
- Coca-Cola invents the coupon.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1888 - Atlanta Camera Club organized.[13]
- 1889
- First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city.
- Georgia State Capitol building opens.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Grant Park and Atlanta Zoo[14] established.
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is incorporated.
- 1890 - Population: 65,533.[5]
- 1891 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway in business.
- 1892 - Grady Memorial Hospital opens.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1895
- Cotton States and International Exposition held.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- September: Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.[15]
- Atlanta Woman's Club founded.
- 1896 - Atlanta Conference of the Study of Negro Problems begins.[26]
- 1899 - Federal penitentiary established.[16]
- 1900 - Population: 89,872;[5] metro 419,375.
20th century1900s-1940s- 1901 - Atlanta Theological Seminary established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1902 - Carnegie Library opens.[17]
- 1904 - Atlanta Art Association formed.[30]
- 1905
- Atlanta School of Medicine{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} and Associated Charities of Atlanta{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} founded.
- Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association in business.[31]{{sfn|Appiah|1999}}
- 1906 - September 22: Atlanta Race Riot kills 27.[18]
- 1907 - Atlanta Conservatory of Music founded.{{sfn|Hornady|1922}}
- 1908 - Atlanta Neighborhood Union organized.[26]
- 1909 - Architectural Arts League of Atlanta organized.[19]
- 1910
- Population: 154,839;[5] metro 522,442.
- Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1911 - Atlanta Debutante Club founded.[21]
- 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.[20]
- Labor strike at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.[21]
- 1915
- Emory College relocated to Atlanta.
- November: Birth of a Nation film premieres.
- Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta.{{sfn|Appiah|1999}}[22]
- 1916
- Streetcar strike.{{sfn|Scott|2000}}
- Utopian Literary Club[23] and Atlanta Junior League[24] founded.
- 1917 - Great Atlanta fire.
- 1918 - 1918 influenza epidemic.[25]
- 1919 - Commission on Interracial Cooperation active.{{sfn|Appiah|1999}}
- 1920
- Butler Street YMCA opens.[26]
- Population: 200,616; metro 622,283.[5]
- 1921 - Atlanta Junior Chamber (JCI Atlanta) established.
- 1922 - WSB radio begins broadcasting.[45]
- 1923 - Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 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.[16]
- January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
- WGST radio begins broadcasting.[45]
- 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro 715,391.[5]
- 1931 - WATL radio begins broadcasting.[45]
- 1933 - Georgia Municipal Association headquartered in city.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
- 1935 - Cascade Theatre opens.[50]
- 1936
- Atlanta Dogwood Festival begins.[27]
- William B. Hartsfield elected mayor.
- Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1937 - WAGA radio begins broadcasting.[28]
- 1939
- Plaza Theatre opens.
- Gone with the Wind world premiere draws 300,000 to streets.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1940
- Euclid Theatre opens.
- Population: 302,288.[5]
- 1941 - Central Atlanta Progress established.
- 1944
- Atlanta Campaign National Historic Site established.[16]
- Southern Regional Council and Associated Klans of Georgia{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} 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.[29]
- 1947 - Regional Metropolitan Planning Commission established.[30]
- 1948 - WSB-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[57]
- 1949
- WAGA-TV[31] and WERD-AM radio[59] begin broadcasting.
- Atlanta Negro Voters League founded.[32]
- Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
1950s-1990s- 1950
- Population: 331,314;[5] metro 997,666.
- Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power.
- 1952 - Buckhead annexed.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1953 - Links chapter established.[23]
- 1956 - Alexander Memorial Coliseum opens.
- 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference headquartered in city.[33]
- 1958
- October 12: Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing.[34]
- Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam established.[65]
- 1959 - Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- Lenox Square mall opens.
- Metro population hits 1 million.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1960
- Population: 487,455;[5] metro 1,312,474.
- March 15: An Appeal for Human Rights is released.
- Sit-ins at Rich's lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement.[35][33]
- Atlanta Inquirer newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Hein|1972}}
- 1961
- Ivan Allen, Jr. becomes mayor.
- Public schools begin token desegregation.{{sfn|Hein|1972}}
- 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.{{sfn|Appiah|1999}}
- 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash.
- 1963
- Atlanta Marathon begins.
- Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1964
- U.S. Supreme Court decides Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States.[34]
- Atlanta Press Club[36] and Atlanta Track Club established.
- 1965 – Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium constructed.
- 1966
- State of Georgia Building constructed.
- Both the relocated Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball and the expansion Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League begin play at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium.
- 1967
- Atlanta Chiefs soccer team begins play.
- Sister city relationship established with Salzburg, Austria.[37]
- 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[38] and Perimeter freeway{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} open.
- Afro-American Police League chapter established.[39]
- 1970
- Peachtree Road Race begins.
- Population: 496,973;[5] metro 1,763,626
- 1971
- Atlanta Gay Pride Festival established.
- International flights begin at Hartsfield Airport.{{sfn|Dameron|1997}}
- 1972
- Sister city relationships established with Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[37]
- The Atlanta Flames are established as an expansion team of the National Hockey League.
- The Omni Coliseum opens as the new home of the NBA's Hawks and NHL's Flames.
- 1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor of Atlanta.
- 1974
- Sevananda Natural Foods Market in business.[40]
- Sister city relationships established with Lagos, Nigeria; Taipei, Taiwan; and Toulouse, France.[37]
- 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.[39][41]
- 1977
- Atlanta Soto Zen Center founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.[37]
- 1979
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority begins operating.
- Atlanta murders of 1979–1981 begin.
- 1980
- Population: 425,022;[5] metro 2,233,324.
- All-news television network CNN begins broadcasting; Turner empire takes off.[42]
- Al-Farooq Masjid (mosque)[43] and Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site established.
- Flames hockey team sold and relocated to Calgary, Alberta.
- 1981
- Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Daegu, South Korea.[37]
- 1982
- Andrew Young becomes mayor.
- Carter Center headquartered in Atlanta.
- 1983
- Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System established.
- Sister city relationship established with Brussels, Belgium.[37]
- 1984 - Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival begins.
- 1986
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum dedicated.
- Midtown Assistance Center established.[43]
- 1987
- John Lewis becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district.[44]
- Sister city relationship established with Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[37]
- 1988
- Democratic Convention.
- Sister city relationship established with Tbilisi, Georgia.[37]
- 1990 - Population: 394,017;[45] metro 2,959,950.
- 1991
- Atlanta Bicycle Coalition organized.
- Land bank established.[46]
- Drepung Loseling Institute opens.[43]
- 1992
- Georgia Dome opens.
- SunTrust Plaza and Bank of America Plaza built.
- 1994 - Sister city relationships established with Bucharest, Romania;[37] and Ancient Olympia, Greece.{{clarify|date=December 2015}}
- 1995
- October 28: Atlanta Braves baseball team wins 1995 World Series.
- Atlanta Downtown Improvement District established.
- Sister city relationship established with Cotonou, Benin.[37]
- 1996
- July–August: Summer Olympics.
- July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
- Sister city relationship established with Salcedo, Dominican Republic.[37]
- 1997
- Centennial Olympic Stadium reconstructed as Turner Field.
- Both the Omni Coliseum and Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium are imploded within one week of one another, with the former's footprint used to construct a new arena, while the latter became parking for Turner Field.
- 1998
- City website online (approximate date).[47]{{Chronology citation needed|date=January 2016}}
- Sister city relationship established with Nuremberg, Germany.[37]
- 1999
- Philips Arena opens.
- Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey team begins play.
- 2000
- Freedom Park dedicated.
- Sister city relationship established with Ra'anana, Israel.[37]
- Population: 416,474; metro 4,112,198.
21st century2000s- 2001 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in publication.
- 2002 - Shirley Franklin becomes mayor.
- 2003 - Fermi Project established.
- 2004 - Atlanta Rollergirls established.
- 2005
- Airport becomes world's busiest.
- Sister city relationship established with Fukuoka, Japan.[37]
- 2008
- Delta becomes world's largest airline.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- March 14–15: 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak.
2010s- 2010 - Population: 420,003; metro 5,268,860.[48]
- 2011
- Thrashers hockey team are sold and relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, becoming the new Winnipeg Jets.
- Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal investigative report issued.
- Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 2012 - Part of BeltLine path opens.[49]
- 2014 - National Center for Civil and Human Rights opens.
- 2015 - Population: 463,875 (estimate).[50]
- 2016
- Murder Kroger closes.
- Turner Field hosts its last baseball game, with the Braves moving to a new ballpark, SunTrust Park, in Cobb County.
- 2017
- Georgia Dome closes.
- Atlanta United FC begins play in Major League Soccer.
- Interstate 85 bridge collapse occurs.
- Turner Field reconstructed as Georgia State Stadium.
- Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens.
- 2018
- Hackers successfully breach the city's servers, encrypting files with ransomware and disrupting services.
See also- History of Atlanta
- List of mayors of Atlanta
- Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta
- Timelines of other cities in Georgia: Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah
- Sister city timelines: Brussels, Bucharest, Cotonou, Fukuoka, Lagos, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Salzburg, Tbilisi, Toulouse
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