Template:Atlanta timeline
Revision as of 13:15, 26 January 2012 by blackwiki>Keizers
![]() 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 become the rail hub for the 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 |
| 1890s | |
| 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 |
| 1914 | Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills |
| 1917 | Great Atlanta fire |
| 1920s | |
| 1930s | |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets |
| 1940s | |
| 1946 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded |
| 1950s | |
| 1952 | Annexation of Buckhead |
