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Atlanta timeline
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| Seal of the City of Atlanta
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| before 1820s | | 1762 | Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned |
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| | 1820 | | 1821 | Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta |
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| 1822 | Decatur founded |
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| | 1830 | | 1830 | Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End |
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| 1836 | Western and Atlantic Railroad approved |
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| 1839 | John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus |
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| | 1840 | | 1842 | Name "Atlanta" approved; Georgia Railroad arrives from Augusta |
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| 1846 | Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah |
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| 1847 | Atlanta incorporated |
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| 1850 pop. 2,572 | | 1850 | Oakland Cemetery founded |
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| 1851 | W&A RR connects Atlanta to The Midwest |
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| 1854 | Atlanta & La Grange RR connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta becomes rail hub for entire South |
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| 1860 pop. 9,554 | | 1861-1865 | American Civil War |
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| 1864 | Civil War Atlanta Campaign, burning of Atlanta |
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| 1865 | Civil War ends; slaves freed; Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college, founded |
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| 1870 pop. 21,879 | | 1871 | Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion |
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| | 1880s | | 1880 | Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city |
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| 1881 | International Cotton Exposition |
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| 1885 | Georgia Tech founded |
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| 1886 | Atlanta goes "dry"; Coca-Cola first sold; Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York |
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| 1887 | Piedmont Exposition; Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded |
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| 1889 | First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city; State Capitol building opens |
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| | 1890s | | 1895 | Cotton States Expo; Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech |
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| | 1900s | | 1906 | Atlanta Race Riot kills 27; Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side |
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| | 1910s | | 1910 | Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow |
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| 1913 | Leo Frank lynching; Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State |
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| 1914 | Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills |
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| 1917 | Great Atlanta fire |
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| | 1920s | | 1923 | Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks |
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| | 1930s | | 1936 | William B. Hartsfield elected mayor; Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US |
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| 1939 | Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets |
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| | 1940s | | 1946 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded |
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| 1949 | Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus |
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| | 1950s | | 1950 | Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power |
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| 1952 | Buckhead annexed |
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| 1958 | Racist terrorists bomb "The Temple", believing Jews support black Civil Rights |
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| 1959 | Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated; Lenox Square mall opens Metro population hits 1 million |
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| | 1960s | | 1960 | Civil Rights sit-ins at Rich's, lunch counters |
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| 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 |
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| 1962 | 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash |
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| 1963 | Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses |
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| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated |
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| 1969 | Perimeter freeway opens |
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| | 1970s | | 1973 | Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor |
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| 1979 | MARTA opens first rail rapid transit line; Child murders begin |
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| | 1980s | | 1980 | CNN launches, Turner empire takes off |
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| 1982 | Andrew Young becomes mayor |
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| 1988 | Democratic Convention |
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| | 1990s | | 1992 | Bank of America Plaza completed, tallest US building outside of NYC and Chicago |
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| 1996 | Summer Olympics |
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| | 2000s | | 2005 | Airport becomes world's busiest; BeltLine plan adopted, adding 40% to city's green space |
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| 2008 | Delta becomes world's largest airline; Downtown tornadoes |
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| | 2010s | | 2011 | Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects |
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