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- Prior to 20th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- See also
- References
- Bibliography Published in the 19th century Published in the 20th century
- External links
The following is a timeline of the history of Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala. {{Dynamic list}}{{TOC right}}Prior to 20th century{{History of Guatemala}}- 1776 – Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion founded, following destruction by earthquake of former Spanish colonial capital Antigua.{{sfn|Baily|1850}}
- 1778 – Population: 10,841.{{sfn|Marley|2005}}
- 1779 – City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala.
- 1789 – Plaza Mayor fountain erected.{{sfn|Markman|1966}}
- 1793 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.[1]
- 1813 – Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated.{{sfn|Markman|1966}}
- 1823 – City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America.
- 1831 – Sociedad Economica museum established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1835 – Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador.{{sfn|Marley|2005}}
- 1858 – Theatre founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1879 – Gas street lighting installed.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1880 – Population: 58,000.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1882 – Horse streetcar begins operating.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1885 – Electric street lighting installed.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1893 – Population: 72,000.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1898 – National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology established.
20th century- 1917 – December 17: Earthquake.[2]
- 1918 – January 4: Earthquake.[2]
- 1921
- Airport built.
- Population: 121,000.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1924 – Zoo founded.
- 1934 – Museo Nacional de Historia y Bellas Artes (museum) opens.
- 1935 – Torre del Reformador (tower) and Obelisco (monument) erected.
- 1940
- Guatemala Post Office Building constructed.
- Population: 186,000.{{sfn|Caplow|1949}}
- 1943 – National Palace rebuilt.
- 1949 – Club Social y Deportivo Comunicaciones (football club) formed.
- 1950
- Estadio Mateo Flores and Estadio del Ejército (stadiums) open.
- City hosts 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games.
- Population: 284,276.[3]
- 1957 – National Library of Guatemala new building opens.
- 1971 – Francisco Marroquin University founded.
- 1973 – Population: 706,920.[4]
- 1975 – Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" established.
- 1976 – February 4: 1976 Guatemala earthquake.
- 1978 – National Theatre opens.
- 1984 – El Mezquital occupied.{{sfn|Murphy|2004}}
- 1990 – Population: 1,675,589 (estimate).[5]
- 1991
- Estadio Cementos Progreso (stadium) opens.
- Óscar Berger becomes mayor.
- 1996 – Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor.
- 1997 – Tikal Futura shopping mall built.
- 1999 – Club Premier hi-rise built.
- 2000
- Fritz García Gallont becomes mayor.
- Galileo University founded.
- Domo (arena) built.
21st century- 2001
- City hosts 2001 Central American Games.
- Population: 1,022,001.[6]
- 2002 – Museo Miraflores (archaeological museum) founded.
- 2004
- Guatemala City Railway Museum inaugurated.
- Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor again.
- 2005 – March: Protest against Central American Free Trade Agreement.[8]
- 2007
- February 19: Salvadoran congressmen killings discovered near city.[7]
- February 23: Sinkhole collapse.
- 2009 – Guatemala National Police Archives headquartered in city.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}
- 2010 – May 30: Sinkhole collapse.
- 2012 – July: Teacher unrest.[7]
- 2013 – Air pollution in Guatemala City reaches annual mean of 41 PM2.5 and 56 PM10, more than recommended.[8]
- 2018 - June: 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption occurs in vicinity of city.[9]
See also- Guatemala City history
- Guatemala City metropolitan area
- History of Guatemala
References1. ^{{citation |author=Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. |chapter= Merchant Guilds |title= Encyclopedia of World Trade |editor= Cynthia Clark Northrup |publisher= Routledge |year= 2013 |orig-year=2005 |isbn=9780765682680 }} 2. ^1 {{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |publication-place = Springfield, Mass |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5812502M/Webster's_geographical_dictionary |publication-date = 1960 |ol=5812502M |page=429 }} 3. ^{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |year= |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |title=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }} 4. ^{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 }} 5. ^{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm |title=1995 Demographic Yearbook |year=1997 |author=United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=262–321 }} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2012.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2012 |year=2013 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants }} 7. ^1 2 {{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19636725 |title= Guatemala Profile: Timeline |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=May 30, 2014 }} 8. ^{{citation |author=World Health Organization |location=Geneva |title=Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database |year=2016 |url=http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/cities/en/ }} 9. ^{{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/world/americas/guatemala-volcano-volcan-de-fuego.html |title=Guatemala Volcano’s Death Toll, Now at 65, Is Likely to Rise |work=New York Times |date=June 4, 2018 }}
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia. Bibliography{{Refbegin}}Published in the 19th century- {{cite book|author=John Baily |title=Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica|year=1850|publisher=Trelawney Saunders|location=London|chapter=Guatemala |chapterurl=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7306/view/1/71/ |quote=City of New Guatemala
| ref = {{harvid|Baily|1850}} }}- {{Citation |title = Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan |author=John L. Stephens |publication-date = 1856 |publisher = Harper & Brothers |location=New York |chapter=(Guatemala City) |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510024030325?urlappend=%3Bseq=259 }} (describes the city in 1840)
- {{Citation |publisher = Harper & Bros. |publication-place = New York |author = William Eleroy Curtis |title = The Capitals of Spanish America |publication-date = 1888 |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/capitalsofspanis00curt#page/60/mode/2up |chapter=Guatemala City }}
- {{cite book |language=Spanish |author=Manuel T. Ovalle |title= Directorio del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala |trans-title=Traveler's Guide to the Republic of Guatemala |location=Guatemala |publisher= Imprenta de la Aurora |year= 1889 }} (includes city directory)
- {{Citation |publisher = D. Appleton & Company |publication-place = New York |title = Appletons' Guide to Mexico |author = Alfred Ronald Conkling |publication-date = 1893 |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/appletonsguideto04conk#page/n409/mode/2up |chapter=Guatemala }}
Published in the 20th century | title = Encyclopædia Britannica | publication-place = New York | publication-date = 1910 | edition=11th | oclc = 14782424 | via=Internet Archive |chapterurl = https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabrit12chisrich#page/664/mode/1up |chapter =Guatemala | ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} }}- {{cite book |title= La imprenta en Guatemala (1660–1821) |author= José Toribio Medina |year=1910 |location=Santiago de Chile |language=es |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100217895 |via=HathiTrust }} (Annotated list of titles published in Guatemala City, arranged chronologically)
- {{citation |title=Anglo-South American Handbook |editor=W.H. Koebel |year=1921 |location=New York |publisher= Macmillan |volume=1 |chapter=Guatemala: Chief Towns: Guatemala |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027978728?urlappend=%3Bseq=417 }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Government Printing Office |publication-place = Washington, DC |title = Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America |author = Ernst B. Filsinger
|publication-date = 1922 |chapter=Guatemala |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/commercialtravel00filsrich#page/130/mode/2up }}- {{cite journal |title=Social Ecology of Guatemala City |author= Theodore Caplow |journal=Social Forces |volume= 28 |year=1949 |doi=10.2307/2572637
| ref = {{harvid|Caplow|1949}} }}- {{cite journal |title=Plaza Mayor of Guatemala City |author= Sidney D. Markman |journal= Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |volume= 25 |year= 1966 |jstor=988399
| ref = {{harvid|Markman|1966}} }}- {{Citation |publisher = Rough Guides |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/isbn_9781858283234#page/46/mode/2up |chapter=Guatemala City |title = Guatemala |year= 1998 |ol=9003520M |page=47+}}
- {{cite journal |title=Developing Sustainable Peripheries: The Limits of Citizenship in Guatemala City |author= Edward Murphy |journal= Latin American Perspectives |volume= 31 |year= 2004 |jstor=4141607
| ref = {{harvid|Murphy|2004}} }}- {{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |isbn = 1576070271 |publication-place = Santa Barbara, California |title = Historic Cities of the Americas |volume=2 |author = David F. Marley |publication-date = 2005 |chapter=Guatemala City |chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1a4j2HNmjUC&pg=PA339 |page=339+
| ref = {{harvid|Marley|2005}} }}{{refend}}External links{{Commons category|Guatemala City}}- Items related to Guatemala City, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
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