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Revision as of 16:38, 14 January 2018
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/31/522170988/i-85-bridge-collapse-in-atlanta-brings-headache-to-250-000-drivers-a-day
See also: Timeline of Atlanta | |||||||
Seal of the City of Atlanta | |||||||
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name = Atlanta timeline | bodyclass = collapsible navbox | bodystyle = border: 0px; margin: 0px; | abovestyle = font-size: 100%; padding-left:5em | above = Timeline | headerstyle = background: transparent; | header1 = before 1820s |
1762 | Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned | ||||||
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header2 = 1820 | |||||||
1821 | Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta | ||||||
1823 | Decatur founded | ||||||
1826 | Archibald Holland receives grant for land that is now downtown Atlanta | ||||||
header3 = 1830 | |||||||
1830 | Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End | ||||||
1833 | Archibald Holland leaves land that is now downtown Atlanta | ||||||
1836 | Western and Atlantic Railroad approved | ||||||
1839 | John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus | ||||||
header4 = 1840 | |||||||
1842 | Incorporated as Marthasville; Georgia Railroad arrives from Augusta | ||||||
1846 | Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah | ||||||
1847 | Atlanta incorporated | ||||||
header5 = 1850 pop. 2,572 | |||||||
1850 | Oakland Cemetery founded | ||||||
1851 | W&A RR connects Atlanta to The Midwest | ||||||
1854 | Atlanta and La Grange Railroad connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta becomes rail hub for entire South | ||||||
header6 = 1860 pop. 9,554 | |||||||
1861-1865 | American Civil War | ||||||
1864 | Civil War Atlanta Campaign, burning of Atlanta | ||||||
1865 | Civil War ends; slaves freed; Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college, founded | ||||||
1868 | Atlanta made state capital | ||||||
header7 = 1870 pop. 21,879 | |||||||
1871 | Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion | ||||||
header8 = 1880 pop. 37,409 | |||||||
1880 | Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city | ||||||
1881 | International Cotton Exposition | ||||||
1885 | Georgia Tech founded | ||||||
1886 | Atlanta goes "dry"; Coca-Cola first sold; Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York City | ||||||
1887 | Piedmont Exposition; Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded; Coca-Cola invents the coupon | ||||||
1889 | First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city; State Capitol building opens | ||||||
header9 = 1890 pop. 65,533 | |||||||
1895 | Cotton States Expo; Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech | ||||||
header10 = 1900 pop. 89,872 - metro 419,375 | |||||||
1906 | Atlanta race riot kills 27; Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side | ||||||
header11 = 1910 pop. 154,839 - metro 522,442 | |||||||
1910 | Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow | ||||||
1913 | Leo Frank lynching; Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State | ||||||
1914 | Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills | ||||||
1917 | Great Atlanta fire | ||||||
header12 = 1920 pop. 200,616 - metro 622,283 | |||||||
1923 | Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks | ||||||
header13 = 1930 pop. 270,366 - metro 715,391 | |||||||
1936 | William B. Hartsfield elected mayor; Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US | ||||||
1939 | Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets | ||||||
header14 = 1940s | |||||||
1946 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded | ||||||
1949 | Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus | ||||||
header15 = 1950 pop. 331,314 - metro 997,666 | |||||||
1950 | Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power | ||||||
1952 | Buckhead annexed | ||||||
1958 | Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing during the Civil Rights Movement | ||||||
1959 | Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated; Lenox Square mall opens Metro population hits 1 million | ||||||
header16 = 1960 pop. 487,455 - metro 1,312,474 | |||||||
1960 | Sit-ins at Rich's lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement | ||||||
1961 | Ivan Allen Jr. becomes mayor; Public schools begin token desegregation; Rich's desegregates restaurant; John Portman opens Merchandise Mart, kicking off transformation of downtown | ||||||
1962 | 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash | ||||||
1963 | Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses | ||||||
1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated | ||||||
1969 | Perimeter freeway opens | ||||||
header17 = 1970 pop. 496,973 - metro 1,763,626 | |||||||
1973 | Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor | ||||||
1979 | MARTA opens first rail rapid transit line; Child murders begin | ||||||
header18 = 1980 pop. 425,022 - metro 2,233,324 | |||||||
1980 | CNN launches, Turner empire takes off | ||||||
1982 | Andrew Young becomes mayor | ||||||
1988 | Democratic Convention | ||||||
header19 = 1990 pop. 394,017 - metro 2,959,950 | |||||||
1992 | Bank of America Plaza completed, tallest US building outside of NYC and Chicago | ||||||
1996 | Summer Olympics | ||||||
header21 = 2010 pop. 420,003 - metro (CSA) 5,729,304 | |||||||
2011 | Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects | ||||||
2013 | Atlanta Public Schools supervisor Beverly Hall convicted in cheating scandal | ||||||
2010 pop. 420,003 - metro (CSA) 5,729,304 | |||||||
2011 | Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects | ||||||
2013 | Atlanta Public Schools supervisor Beverly Hall convicted in cheating scandal | ||||||
2017 | Interstate 85 bridge collapse |
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