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The following is a timeline of the history of Savannah, Georgia, United States. {{Dynamic list}}{{TOC right}}1998 Floyd Adams become the First African American to become the Mayor of the City of Savannah. He was a Democrat. 18th century{{Georgia State History}}- 1733
- Savannah founded in British Colony of Georgia by James Oglethorpe.
- Ellis, Johnson, Percival, and St. James Squares laid out per Oglethorpe Plan.
- 1734 – Solomon's Lodge (Masonic lodge) founded.
- 1735 – Congregation Mickve Israel formed.[1]
- 1739 – Creek leader Tomochichi buried in Percival Square.[2]
- 1740 – Bethesda Orphanage founded near town.
- 1750
- Christ Church built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Savannah Female Asylum founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1754
- Savannah becomes capital of British Province of Georgia.[2]
- Pirates' House Inn in business.
- 1755
- January 1: Georgia legislature convenes.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Independent Presbyterian Church founded.
- 1775
- January: Provincial Congress held.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- June: Committee of Safety organized at the liberty pole.[3]
- 1778
- December 29: Battle of Savannah; British in power.
- Georgia state capital relocated from Savannah to Augusta.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1779 – Town Hall built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1782
- British occupation ends.[2]
- Georgia state capital relocated to Savannah from Augusta.[2]
- 1786
- Georgia state capital relocated again from Savannah to Augusta.[2]
- Chatham Artillery established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1788
- Town becomes part of the U.S. state of Georgia.
- African Baptist Church,[4] and Chatham Academy established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1789 – Savannah chartered as a city.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1790 – John Houstoun becomes mayor.
- 1796 – November 26: Fire.{{sfn|Morse|1797}}
- 1800 – Population: 5,146.[5]
19th century- 1802 – Savannah Volunteer Guards established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1809 – Savannah Society Library founded.[6]
- 1810 – Population: 5,315.[11]
- 1812 – Hibernian Society organized.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1817 – Savannah Steamboat Company in business.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1818 – Savannah theatre established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}[7]
- 1819
- May: Steamboat Savannah travels to Liverpool, England.[8]
- May: U.S. president Monroe visits town.[2]
- William Scarbrough House (residence) built.
- 1820 – January: Fire.[9]
- 1824 – Savannah Fire Company formed.[2]
- 1825 – March: Lafayette visits town.[2]
- 1830 – Population: 7,303.[10]
- 1831 – Savannah–Ogeechee Canal constructed.
- 1833 – First Baptist Church built.
- 1834 – Oglethorpe Barracks built (approximate date).
- 1837 – Central Railroad begins operating.[11]
- 1839 – Georgia Historical Society organized.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1840 – Population: 11,214.[5]
- 1842 – Convent of St. Vincent de Paul founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1844 – Savannah Institution for Savings instituted.[12]
- 1846 – Bonaventure Cemetery established near town.
- 1847 – Fort Pulaski built near town.
- 1848 – Population: 13,573.[13]
- 1850
- Daily Morning News begins publication.
- Custom House built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1853
- Forsyth Place (park) laid out.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}{{sfn|MacDonell|1907}}
- Catholic Diocese of Savannah{{sfn|Sholes|1882}} and Laurel Grove Cemetery established.
- St. John's Church consecrated.
- 1854
- Yellow fever outbreak.{{sfn|Jones|1890}}
- Augusta and Savannah Railroad in operation (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1855 – Young Men's Literary Association organized.[6][14]
- 1858 – Old Harbor Light erected.
- 1859
- First African Baptist Church rebuilt.
- The Great Slave Auction at Ten Broeck Race Course, March 2 & 3.[15]
- 1860 – Central of Georgia Depot built.
- 1861
- Port blockaded by U.S. government.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Green House (residence) built.
- 1864 – December 22: Savannah taken by Union forces.[16]
- 1867 – Beach Institute established.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1868 – Mercer House (residence) built (approximate date).
- 1870 – McCarthy's Business College established.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1871 – Abend Zeitung newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1873 – First Bryan Baptist Church rebuilt.
- 1874 – Youth's Historical Society founded.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1875
- Colored Tribune newspaper begins publication.[17]
- Savannah Rifle Association established.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1876 – Cathedral of St. John the Baptist dedicated.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1878 – Congregation Mickve Israel synagogue built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1879 – City boundaries expanded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1880
- Confederate memorial built in Forsyth Park.{{sfn|City of Savannah|1993}}
- Population: 30,709.[5]
- 1882 – Ford Dramatic Association incorporated.{{sfn|Sholes|1882}}
- 1883 – City boundaries expanded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1886 – Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences opens.
- 1887 – Tybee-Savannah railway built.{{sfn|Jones|1890}}
- 1890 – Population: 43,189.[5]
- 1891 – Georgia Industrial College established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1893 – August: Sea Islands hurricane.
- 1900
- Population: 54,244.[5]
- Great Dane Trailers founded as the Savannah Blowpipe Company
20th century- 1901 – City boundaries expanded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1902 – Benedictine College founded.
- 1906 – City Hall rebuilt.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}{{sfn|Centennial|2006}}
- 1908 – Savannah, Augusta and Northern Railway in operation (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
- 1910 – Population: 65,064.[5]
- 1912 – Girl Guides of America founded.[18]
- 1919 – April: Savannah Centennial Pageant performed.[19]
- 1920 – Population: 83,252.[5]
- 1925 – Savannah Economic Development Authority established.[20]
- 1926 – Municipal Stadium built.
- 1929
- WTOC radio begins broadcasting.[36]
- Savannah Municipal Airport begins operating.
- Savannah Technical College established.
- 1935
- Armstrong Junior College founded.
- Union Bag and Paper opens mill.[21]
- 1939 – WSAV radio begins broadcasting.[22]
- 1942 – U.S. Army Chatham Field (airfield) active.
- 1950 – Little Theatre of Savannah founded.
- 1951 – Palm Drive-In movie theatre opens.[39]
- 1953 – Talmadge Memorial Bridge built to Hutchinson Island (Georgia).
- 1954
- Council–manager form of government adopted.
- WTOC-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[23]
- 1955 – Historic Savannah Foundation organized.[24]
- 1956
- WSAV-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[23]
- Juliette Gordon Low house museum opens.
- 1960
- Travis Field airport terminal built.
- Population: 147,537.[5]
- 1967 – Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. opens Savannah office.[21]
- 1968 – Abercorn Plaza shopping centre opens for business.
- 1969 – Oglethorpe Mall opens up for business.
- 1970
- John Rousakis becomes mayor.
- Population: 118,349.
- 1974 – Savannah Civic Center opens.
- 1976 – Abercorn Cinema opens.[39]
- 1977 – City Records Committee established.[25]
- 1978 – Savannah College of Art and Design founded.
- 1979 – September: Hurricane David makes landfall.[26]
- 1981 – Coastal State Prison built.
- 1986 – Chatham Area Transit established.
- 1988 – Savannah Music Festival founded.
- 1990
- Savannah Mall (the city's second shopping mall) in business.
- Talmadge Memorial Bridge rebuilt.
- 1991
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial built in Emmet Park.{{sfn|City of Savannah|1993}}
- Lady & Sons restaurant in business.[27]
- 1994
- Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport terminal built.
- Bestseller book about Savannah Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil published.
- 1998 – Savannah Dance Theatre established.
- 1999
- Georgia Tech Savannah established.
- City website online (approximate date).[28]{{Chronology citation needed|date=January 2016}}
- 2000 – Lucas Theatre renovated.[29]
21st century- 2002 – Islamic Center of Savannah established.[30][31]
- 2004 – Otis Johnson becomes mayor.
- 2005
- Abercorn Walk shopping center in business.
- Savannah-Chatham Metro Police established.
- 2009 – The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra is established.[32]
- 2010 – Population: 136,286.
- 2012
- Edna Jackson becomes mayor.[33]
- Savannah Law School established.
- 2016
- Eddie Deloach becomes mayor, first Republican since 1996.[34]
- All of Savannah and Chatham county east of I95 was evacuated ahead of Hurricane Matthew.[35]
- 2017 – All of Savannah and Chatham County east of I95 evacuated due to the impact of Hurricane Irma.[36]
- 2018 –
- Savannah Law School closed.[37]
- City and county police merger ends, separating the two agencies.[38]
- Roy Minter sworn in as new police chief of Savannah Police Department.[39]
See also- History of Savannah, Georgia
- List of mayors of Savannah, Georgia
- Timelines of other cities in Georgia: Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon
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}}- {{citation |title=Code of the City of Savannah of 1907 |author=A.H. MacDonell |year=1907 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7L14vQp-R-kC
| ref = {{harvid|MacDonell|1907}} }}- {{Citation | publisher = K. Baedeker | publication-place = Leipzig | edition = 4th | title = United States | publication-date = 1909 | oclc = 02338437 |chapter=Savannah |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/unitedstateswith00karl#page/608/mode/2up
}} | title = Encyclopædia Britannica | publication-place = New York | publication-date = 1910 | edition=11th | oclc = 14782424 | via=Internet Archive |chapterurl =https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri24chisrich#page/240/mode/2up |chapter = Savannah | ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} }}- {{Citation |publication-place = Savannah |title = Illustrated guide to Savannah |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23412048M/Illustrated_guide_to_Savannah_... |author1 = Maude Heyward |author2=Elizabeth V. McLaws |publication-date = 1910
}}- {{Citation |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/ia:historyofsavanna01hard/History_of_Savannah_and_South_Georgia |title = History of Savannah and South Georgia |publication-date = 1913 |publisher = Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |author=William Harden }}
- {{Citation |publication-place = Savannah |title = Savannah |author = Federal Writers' Project |series=American Guide Series |publication-date = 1937 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001264018 }}
- 1950s–1990s
- Alexander A. Lawrence, A Present for Mr. Lincoln: The Story of Savannah from Secession to Sherman (Macon, Ga.: Ardivan Press, 1961).
- {{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=Savannah }}
- Preston Russell and Barbara Hines, Savannah: A History of Her People since 1733 (Savannah, Ga.: Frederic C. Beil, 1992).
- {{citation |title=Monuments and Fountains of Savannah |year=1993 |url=http://www.savannahga.gov/index.aspx?NID=750 |publisher=City of Savannah, Research Library & Municipal Archives |work=Historical Documents & Research
| ref = {{harvid|City of Savannah|1993}} }}- {{cite book|editor=Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin |title= Americas |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |year= 1995
|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-25930-4 |chapter= Savannah |page=650+ |chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=zTL_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA650 }}- Whittington B. Johnson, Black Savannah, 1788-1864 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996).
- Derek Smith, Civil War Savannah (Savannah, Ga.: Frederic C. Beil, 1997).
- Patrick Allen, ed., Literary Savannah (Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, 1998).
- {{Citation |publisher = St. Martin's Press |publication-place = New York |series = Let's Go |title=USA |publication-date = 1999 |ol=24937240M |chapter=The South: Georgia: Savannah }}
Published in 21st century - Mills B. Lane, Savannah Revisited: History and Architecture, 5th ed. (Savannah, Ga.: Beehive Press, 2001).
- {{cite book |title=Savannah, Georgia |author= Charles J. Elmore |publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, South Carolina |series=Black America |isbn= |year= 2002
}}- Walter J. Fraser Jr., Savannah in the Old South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
- {{citation |title=Century of History: Savannah City Hall Centennial, 1906-2006 (timeline) |url=http://www.savannahga.gov/index.aspx?NID=750 |publisher=City of Savannah |work=Historical Documents & Research |author=Research Library & Municipal Archives |year=2006
| ref = {{harvid|Centennial|2006}} }}- Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, 2008).
- {{cite journal |title= Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale |author= Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson |journal = Southern Spaces |doi= 10.18737/M76K6J |year= 2010 }}
{{refend}}External links{{Commons category|Savannah, Georgia}}- {{citation |work=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Georgia Humanities Council |title=Savannah |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/savannah }}
- University of Texas, Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection. Maps of Savannah, various dates
- Items related to Savannah, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
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