Template:Atlanta timeline
Revision as of 18:26, 31 January 2012 by blackwiki>Keizersnl (change in wording for 1961)
![]() Seal of the City of Atlanta | |
before 1820s | |
1762 | Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned |
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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 |
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 |
1887 | Piedmont Exposition; 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 | |
1950 | Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power |
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 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 |
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 | |
1992 | Bank of America Plaza completed, tallest US building outside of NYC and Chicago |
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 |