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| − | |data34=[[Atlanta Race Riot]] kills 27<br>Black businesses move to [[Sweet Auburn]] and west side | + | |data34=[[Atlanta Race Riot]] kills 27;<br>Black businesses move to [[Sweet Auburn]] and west side |
|header35 = 1910s | |header35 = 1910s | ||
|label36 = 1910 | |label36 = 1910 | ||
|data36= Restaurants segregated; other [[Jim Crow laws]] follow | |data36= Restaurants segregated; other [[Jim Crow laws]] follow | ||
|label37 = 1913 | |label37 = 1913 | ||
| − | |data37 = [[Leo Frank]] lynching<br>[[Georgia Tech]] starts "evening college", now [[Georgia State University|Georgia State]] | + | |data37 = [[Leo Frank]] lynching;<br>[[Georgia Tech]] starts "evening college", now [[Georgia State University|Georgia State]] |
|label38 = 1914 | |label38 = 1914 | ||
|data38 = [[Coca-Cola]] president [[Asa Griggs Candler]] donates land for [[Emory University]] campus in [[Druid Hills, Georgia|Druid Hills]] | |data38 = [[Coca-Cola]] president [[Asa Griggs Candler]] donates land for [[Emory University]] campus in [[Druid Hills, Georgia|Druid Hills]] | ||
Revision as of 20:12, 26 January 2012
![]() Seal of the City of Atlanta | |
| before 1820s | |
|---|---|
| 1762 | Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned |
| 1820s | |
| 1821 | Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta |
| 1822 | Decatur founded |
| 1830s | |
| 1830 | Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End |
| 1836 | Western and Atlantic Railroad approved |
| 1839 | John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus |
| 1840s | |
| 1842 | Name "Atlanta" approved; Georgia Railroad arrives from Augusta |
| 1846 | Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah |
| 1847 | Atlanta incorporated |
| 1850s | |
| 1850 | Oakland Cemetery founded |
| 1851 | W&A RR connects Atlanta to The Midwest |
| 1854 | Atlanta & La Grange RR connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta becomes rail hub for entire South |
| 1860s | |
| 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 |
| 1870s | |
| 1871 | Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion |
| 1880s | |
| 1880 | Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city |
| 1885 | Georgia Tech founded |
| 1886 | Atlanta goes "dry"; Coca-Cola first sold; Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York |
| 1887 | Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded |
| 1889 | First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city; State Capitol building opens |
| 1890s | |
| 1895 | Cotton States Expo; Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech |
| 1900s | |
| 1906 | Atlanta Race Riot kills 27; Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side |
| 1910s | |
| 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 |
| 1920s | |
| 1923 | Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks |
| 1930s | |
| 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 |
| 1940s | |
| 1946 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded |
| 1949 | Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus |
| 1950s | |
| 1952 | Buckhead annexed |
| 1958 | Racist terrorists bomb "The Temple", believing Jews support black Civil Rights |
| 1959 | Trolleybuses and buses desegregated; Lenox Square mall opens |
| 1960s | |
| 1960 | Civil Rights sit-ins at Rich's, lunch counters |
| 1961 | Ivan Allen, Jr. becomes mayor; Public schools begin to desegregate; 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 |
| 1969 | Perimeter freeway opens |
| 1970s | |
| 1973 | Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor |
| 1979 | MARTA opens first rail rapid transit line; Child murders begin |
| 1980s | |
| 1980 | CNN launches, Turner empire takes off |
| 1982 | Andrew Young becomes mayor |
| 1988 | Democratic Convention |
| 1990s | |
| 1996 | Summer Olympics |
| 2000s | |
| 2005 | Airport becomes world's busiest; BeltLine plan adopted, adding 40% to city's green space |
| 2008 | Delta becomes world's largest airline; Downtown tornadoes |
| 2010s | |
| 2011 | Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects |
