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词条 Timeline of Birmingham, Alabama
释义

  1. 19th century

  2. 20th century

     1900s-1950s  1960s-1990s 

  3. 21st century

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Bibliography

     Published in 19th century  Published in 20th century  Published in 21st century 

  7. External links

  8. Images

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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19th century

{{History of Alabama}}
  • 1871
    • Birmingham founded and incorporated.[1]
    • Robert Henley becomes mayor.{{sfn|Owen|1921}}
  • 1873
    • Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County.{{sfn|Owen|1921}}
    • First Colored Baptist Church founded.
    • Cholera epidemic.{{sfn|Owen|1921}}
  • 1874 - Birmingham Iron Age newspaper in publication.[2]
  • 1880 - Population: 3,086.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941|ps=: "Birmingham"}}
  • 1881 - Alabama Christian Advocate newspaper begins publication.[2]
  • 1882
    • Sloss Furnace begins operating.
    • O'Brien's Opera House opens.{{sfn|Teeple|1887}}
  • 1887 - Howard College active in East Lake.
  • 1888 - Evening News and Birmingham Age-Herald newspapers in publication.
  • 1890
    • Population: 26,178.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941|ps=: "Birmingham"}}
    • Labor Advocate newspaper begins publication.[2]
  • 1891 - Birmingham Commercial Club incorporated.
  • 1893
    • Cathedral of Saint Paul built.
    • St. Mark's School opens.[3][4]
  • 1895
    • Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company headquarters relocated to Birmingham.[5]
    • Birmingham Conservatory of Music established.[6]
  • 1896 - Spencer Business College established.[6]
  • 1900 - Population: 38,415.[10]

20th century

1900s-1950s

  • 1901 - March 25: Storm.[2]
  • 1907
    • Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company acquired by United States Steel Corporation.[7]
    • Miles Memorial College active in nearby Fairfield.[8]
  • 1909
    • City expands to include Ensley, North Birmingham, Pratt City, Woodlawn.{{sfn|Owen|1921}}
    • Birmingham Terminal Station[2] and Empire Building{{citation needed|date= July 2014 }} constructed.
  • 1910 - Population: 132,685.[10]
  • 1912 - John Hand Building constructed.
  • 1913 - City Federal Building constructed.
  • 1916
    • October 18: 1916 Irondale earthquake.
    • Robert E. Lee Klan No.1 formed.{{sfn|Brownell|1972}}
  • 1917 - Civitan Club founded.{{sfn|Brownell|1972}}
  • 1918 - Birmingham–Southern College established.
  • 1919 - Alabama Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs formed in Birmingham.[9]
  • 1920
    • Progressive Farmer magazine headquartered in Birmingham.[2]
    • Population: 178,806.{{sfn|Brownell|1972}}
  • 1922 - WAPI radio begins broadcasting.[10]
  • 1923 - Traffic lights installed.{{sfn|Brownell|1972}}
  • 1924 - Avondale Sun newspaper begins publication.[2]
  • 1925 - WBRC radio begins broadcasting.[10]
  • 1927 - Alabama Theatre opens.[2]
  • 1928 - Exchange-Security Bank established.[11]
  • 1929 - Thomas Jefferson Hotel built.
  • 1930
    • Southern Worker newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Ingalls|1981}}
    • Population: 259,678.{{sfn|Brownell|1972}}
  • 1933 - Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union active.{{sfn|Draper|1996}}
  • 1936
    • Local Steel Workers Organizing Committee formed.{{sfn|Norrell|1986}}
    • Vulcan statue erected atop Red Mountain.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941|ps=: "Birmingham"}}
  • 1940 - Population: 267,583.[10]
  • 1942 - Birmingham Historical Society founded.{{sfn|American Association for State and Local History|2002}}
  • 1949 - WAPI-TV and WBRC-TV (television) begin broadcasting.[12]
  • 1950
    • Birmingham Post-Herald newspaper in publication.[2]
    • Population: 326,037.[10]
  • 1955 - Birmingham Zoo established.[13]
  • 1956
    • Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights headquartered in Birmingham.
    • Alabama Symphony Orchestra active.
  • 1958 - EBSCO Industries in business.[5]
  • 1959 - West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church built.

1960s-1990s

  • 1960
    • Briarwood Presbyterian Church (later megachurch) established.[29]
    • Eastwood Mall in business.[14]
    • Population: 340,887.[10]
  • 1961 - First Baptist Church, Kingston built.
  • 1962 - Two North Twentieth built.{{citation needed|date= July 2014 }}
  • 1963
    • April 3: Birmingham campaign for civil rights begins.[15]
    • April 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. writes Letter from Birmingham Jail.[7]
    • May: Birmingham riot of 1963.
    • September 15: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.[7][16]
    • Birmingham Botanical Gardens open.
  • 1965
    • Airport Drive-In cinema opens.[17]
    • Southern Museum of Flight established.{{sfn|American Association for State and Local History|2002}}
  • 1966 - Southern Living magazine headquartered in Birmingham.
  • 1970
    • Daniel Building constructed.
    • Population: 300,910.[10]
  • 1971 - First Alabama Bancshares headquartered in city.{{citation needed|date= July 2014 }}
  • 1972 - South Central Bell Building and First National-Southern Natural Building built.
  • 1975 - Birmingham Vulcans football team formed.
  • 1979 - Richard Arrington, Jr. becomes mayor.
  • 1980 - Population: 284,413.[10]
  • 1982
    • Community Food Bank of Central Alabama[18][19] and Bama 6 cinema[17] open.
    • Sister city agreement established with Hitachi, Japan.[20]
  • 1986
    • South Trust Tower built.
    • Alabama Humanities Foundation headquartered in Birmingham.
  • 1988 - AmSouth-Harbert Plaza (hi-rise) built.
  • 1990
    • Birmingham Islamic Society formed.[21][22]
    • Population: 265,968.[23]
  • 1992 - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute established.{{sfn|American Association for State and Local History|2002}}
  • 1993
    • Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame opens.
    • Spencer Bachus becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district.[24]
  • 1995 - Sister city agreement established with Székesfehérvár, Hungary.[20]
  • 1996
    • City website online (approximate date).[25]{{Time fact|date=January 2016}}
    • Sister city agreement established with Anshan, China.[20]
  • 1997 - Sister city agreement established with Gweru, Zimbabwe.[20]
  • 1998
    • April 6–9, 1998 tornado outbreak.
    • Establishment of sister city agreement with Pomigliano d'Arco, Naples, Italy, and friendship city agreements with Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, and Maebashi, Japan.[20]
  • 1999 - Friendship city agreement established with Krasnodon, Ukraine.[20]
  • 2000 - Population: 242,840.

21st century

  • 2001 - Church of the Highlands (megachurch) founded.[26]
  • 2003 - Sister city agreement established with Vinnytsia, Ukraine.[20]
  • 2005
    • Birmingham Post-Herald newspaper ceases publication.[2]
    • Locust Fork News-Journal begins publication.[27]
    • Sister city agreements established with Al-Karak, Jordan; Guédiawaye, Senegal; Plzeň, Czech Republic; and Rosh HaAyin, Israel.[20]
  • 2009 - Sister city agreement established with Winneba, Ghana.[20]
  • 2010
    • Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra formed.[28]
    • William A. Bell becomes mayor.
    • Population: 212,237.[29]
  • 2011 - Terri Sewell becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district.[30]
  • 2015
    • Minimum wage approved in city.[31]
    • Sister city agreement established with Liverpool, England.[20]

See also

  • History of Birmingham, Alabama
  • List of mayors of Birmingham, Alabama
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama
  • List of neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama
  • Timelines of other cities in Alabama: Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa
  • {{req|Timeline of Alabama}}[32]

References

1. ^{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |publication-place = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6112221M/The_Columbia_Lippincott_gazetteer_of_the_world |ol=6112221M |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |publication-date = 1952 |page=221 }}
2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Alabama&county=&city=Birmingham&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington DC |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
3. ^{{citation |title="The Best School for Blacks in the State" St. Mark's Academic and Industrial School, Birmingham, Alabama 1892-1940 |author=Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg |journal= Anglican and Episcopal History |volume= 71 |year=2002 |jstor=42615917 }}
4. ^{{citation |title=St. Mark's School, Birmingham, Alabama |work=Colored American Magazine |location=New York |publisher=Moore Publishing |volume= 13 |year= 1907 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3793667?urlappend=%3Bseq=885 }}
5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org |title=Encyclopedia of Alabama |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation |accessdate=March 26, 2017 }}
6. ^1 {{cite book |title=Patterson's American Educational Directory |volume=19 |year=1922 |location=Chicago |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062798783?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 }}
7. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Lynda Brown |title=Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography |year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-28223-2 |chapter=Chronology |chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=FkBQbq2Rv4AC&pg=PR15 |displayauthors=etal }}
8. ^{{cite book|title=Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGYAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51 |year=1917|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/collections.aspx |title=Archives & Manuscripts - Guide to the Collections |publisher=Birmingham Public Library |accessdate= March 2, 2017 }}
10. ^1 {{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/183/mode/1up |chapter= Alabama }}
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www2.fdic.gov/idasp/main.asp |title=Institution Directory |publisher=Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |accessdate=July 22, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000510085416/http://www2.fdic.gov/idasp/main.asp |archivedate=May 10, 2000 |df= }}
12. ^{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: Alabama |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/782/mode/2up }}
13. ^{{cite book|editor=Vernon N. Kisling, Jr. |title=Zoo and Aquarium History|year= 2001|publisher=CRC Press |location=USA |isbn=978-1-4200-3924-5 |chapter=Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list) |chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=ulbMBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA375 }}
14. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |url= http://www.bplonline.org/resources/Digital_Project/Collections.asp |title=Browse Collections |work=Digital Collections |publisher=Birmingham Public Library |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
15. ^{{citation |work=Civil Rights Digital Library |title=Events |url= |accessdate= March 29, 2017 |publisher=Digital Library of Georgia |location=Athens, GA }} (Timeline)
16. ^{{citation |work=New York Times |url= http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/ |title= On This Day |accessdate=November 1, 2014 }}
17. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/alabama/birmingham?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Birmingham, AL |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
18. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.feedingal.org/main/about-the-community-food-bank-of-central-alabama/ |title=About |location=Birmingham |publisher=Community Food Bank of Central Alabama |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
19. ^{{cite web |url= http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx?state=AL |work=Food Bank Locator |title= Alabama Food Banks |publisher=Feeding America |location=Chicago |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
20. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web |url=http://www.birminghamsistercities.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302081941/http://www.birminghamsistercities.com/ |deadurl=yes |title=Birmingham Sister City Anniversary Dates |publisher=Birmingham Sister Cities |archivedate=March 2, 2017 |df= }}
21. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bisweb.org/history/ |title=History |location=Hoover, Alabama |publisher= Birmingham Islamic Society |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
22. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.pluralism.org/directory/index/country:US/state:AL/city:birmingham/tag:-1 |title= Birmingham, Alabama |work=Directory of Religious Centers |author=Pluralism Project |publisher=Harvard University |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
23. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{citation |title=Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 |year=1998 |url=https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POP-twps0027.html |publisher=US Census Bureau }}
24. ^{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |year=1993 |chapter=Alabama |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.l0072691827?urlappend=%3Bseq=40 |via=Hathi Trust }}
25. ^{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/19961030040307/http://www.bham.net/bhamcity.html |url= http://www.bham.net/bhamcity.html |archivedate= October 1996 |title= City of Birmingham, Alabama |via= Internet Archive, Wayback Machine }}
26. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html |title=Database of Megachurches in the U.S. |editor=Scott Thumma |publisher=Hartford Seminary |location=Connecticut |accessdate= April 21, 2017 }}
27. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/online-news-websites/location/alabama-news.php |title=Alabama |work=CJR's Guide to Online News Startups |publisher=Columbia Journalism Review |location=New York |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
28. ^{{cite web |title=Organization Directory |url= http://www.birmingham365.org/org/listing |work=Birmingham365.org |publisher=Create Birmingham |accessdate= April 3, 2017 }}
29. ^{{cite web |url= http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01/0107000.html |title= Birmingham (city), Alabama |work=State & County QuickFacts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |accessdate=July 22, 2014 }}
30. ^{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |year=2011 |chapter=Alabama |chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=fVSkbYQp6qgC&pg=PA6 }}
31. ^{{citation |work=New York Times |date=February 21, 2016 |title=When a State Balks at a City’s Minimum Wage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/alabama-moves-to-halt-pay-law-in-birmingham.html?_r=0 }}
32. ^{{Citation |publication-place = New York |publisher=Hastings House |title = Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South |series=American Guide Series |author = Federal Writers' Project |publication-date = 1941 |chapter=Chronology |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4469723?urlappend=%3Bseq=513 |via=Hathi Trust }}

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Published in 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Mobile Register print. |publication-date = 1878 |publication-place = Mobile |title = Handbook of Alabama |author = Saffold Berney |chapterurl = https://archive.org/stream/handbookofalabam01bern#page/84/mode/2up |chapter = Birmingham }}
  • {{cite book |title=City Directory of Birmingham |location= Atlanta, Ga. |publisher= Interstate Directory Co. |year=1884 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009778867 }}
  • John W. DuBose, ed., The Mineral Wealth of Alabama and Birmingham (Birmingham, 1886)
  • {{cite book|url = http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/p4017coll8&CISOPTR=1671&REC=11|title = 1887 Pocket Business Directory and Guide to Birmingham, Ala. |year = 1887 |via= Birmingham Public Library }}
  • {{cite book |title=Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama: Historical and Biographical |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2QTAAAAYAAJ|year=1887|publisher=Teeple & Smith |isbn=978-0-89308-041-9

| ref = {{harvid|Teeple|1887}}
}}
  • Henry M. Caldwell, History of the Elyton Land Company and Birmingham, Ala. 1892.

Published in 20th century

  • Code of City of Birmingham, Alabama. 1917.
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  • Cruikshank, A History of Birmingham and Its Environs (2 vols., Chicago, 1920)
  • {{Citation |publisher = S.J. Clarke |publication-place = Chicago |title = History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography |author = Thomas McAdory Owen |publication-date = 1921 |oclc = 1872130 |chapter= Birmingham |chapterurl = https://archive.org/stream/historyofalabama01owen#page/140/mode/2up

| ref = {{harvid|Owen|1921}}
}}
  • Harrison A. Trexler, "Birmingham's Struggle with Commission Government," National Municipal Review, XIV (November 1925)
  • George R. Leighton, "Birmingham, Alabama: The City of Perpetual Promise," Harper's Magazine, CLXXV (August 1937)
  • {{Citation |publication-place = New York |publisher=Hastings House |title = Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South |series=American Guide Series |author = Federal Writers' Project |publication-date = 1941 |chapter=Birmingham |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4469723?urlappend=%3Bseq=232

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  • Florence H. W. Moss, Building Birmingham and Jefferson County (Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Printing Company, 1947)
  • John C. Henley, Jr., This Is Birmingham: The Story of the Founding and Growth of an American City. 1960.
  • Paul B. Worthman, "Black Workers and Labor Unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904," Labor History, 10 (Summer 1969)
  • Paul B. Worthman, "Working Class Mobility in Birmingham, Alabama, 1880-1914," in Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History, ed. Tamara K. Hareven (Englewood Cliffs, 1971)
  • {{citation |title=Birmingham, Alabama: New South City in the 1920s |author= Blaine A. Brownell |journal= Journal of Southern History |volume= 38 |year= 1972 |jstor=2206652

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}}
  • McMillan, Malcolm C. Yesterday's Birmingham. Miami: E.A. Seeman Publishing, 1975.
  • {{Citation |publisher = E.P. Dutton |publication-place = New York |title = Encyclopedia of American Cities |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4120668M/The_encyclopedia_of_American_cities |publication-date = 1980 |ol=4120668M |editor=Ory Mazar Nergal |chapter=Birmingham, AL }}
  • {{citation |title=Antiradical Violence in Birmingham During the 1930s |author= Robert P. Ingalls |journal= Journal of Southern History |volume= 47 |year= 1981 |jstor=2207401

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}}
  • Valley and the Hills: An Illustrated History of Birmingham and Jefferson County. 1981
  • {{citation |title=Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama |author= Robert J. Norrell |journal=Journal of American History |volume= 73 |year= 1986 |jstor=1902982

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}}
  • {{citation |title= Old Birmingham |oclc=38508791 }} 1991-
  • {{Citation |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/ia:worldencyclopedi00kuri/World_encyclopedia_of_cities |title = World Encyclopedia of Cities |publication-date = 1994 |location = Santa Barbara, Calif. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |author=George Thomas Kurian |volume=1: North America |chapter= Birmingham, Alabama |via =Open Library

}}
  • {{cite book|author=Henry M. McKiven|title=Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920 |year=1995 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-4524-0

}}
  • {{citation |title=New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938 |author= Alan Draper |journal= Journal of Southern History |volume= 62 |year= 1996 |jstor=2211207

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}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = St. Martin's Press |publication-place = New York |series = Let's Go |title=USA |publication-date = 1999 |ol=24937240M |chapter=The South: Alabama: Birmingham }}
  • Lynne B. Feldman, A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle Class Community, 1890-1930 (Tuscaloosa, 1999)

Published in 21st century

  • {{Citation |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/ia:louisianadeepsou00down/Louisiana_the_Deep_South |title = Louisiana & the Deep South |publication-date = 2001 |publisher = Lonely Planet |chapter=Alabama: Birmingham |via =Open Library

}}
  • {{cite book |title=Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada |year=2002 |edition=15th |isbn=0759100020 |author= American Association for State and Local History

|chapter=Alabama: Birmingham
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LY0Q5Rv4O3YC
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}}
  • {{cite book |editor= Richard Pillsbury |title= Geography |volume=2 |work=New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |publisher= University of North Carolina Press |oclc=910189354|year= 2006

|chapter= Birmingham
|page= 156
}}{{refend}}

External links

{{Commons category|Birmingham, Alabama}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1421 |title=Birmingham |work=Encyclopedia of Alabama |author= Jim Lewis |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation }}
  • Items related to Birmingham, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.archives.alabama.gov/hrb/search.cfm |title=(City: Birmingham) |work= Alabama Repositories Directory |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives & History |quote=A listing of public entities and private organizations holding historical records, artifacts, and other cultural heritage materials }}

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