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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.


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19th century

  • 1821 - Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta per treaty.
  • 1839 - Settlement of "Terminus" established (at what would be end of Western and Atlantic Railroad).
  • 1843 - Town of Marthasville incorporated.
  • 1845
    • Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating.
    • Marthasville renamed "Atlanta."
  • 1846 - Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah.
  • 1847 - Town of Atlanta incorporated.
  • 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor.
  • 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor.
  • 1850
    • Population: 2,572
    • Atlanta Cemetery founded.
  • 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest.
  • 1852 - Atlanta & West Point Railroad built.
  • 1853 - Atlanta becomes seat of Fulton County.
  • 1855
    • Atlanta Medical College established.
    • Gas lighting installed in city.
  • 1860
    • Population: 9,554.
    • William Ezzard becomes mayor (1860 - 1861).
  • 1861
    • Jared Whitaker becomes mayor (1861 - 1861 - joined CSA government).
    • Thomas Lowe becomes mayor (1861 - 1862).
  • 1864
    • James Calhoun becomes mayor (1862 - 1866).
    • May-September: Union forces wage Atlanta Campaign.
    • September 2: Union forces take city.
    • November 15: Burning of Atlanta by Union forces.
    • Nov. 26: Col. Luther J. Glenn is appointed commander of the Atlanta Post.
    • Dec. 5: Cap. Thomas L. Dodd is appointed the Provost-Marshal.
    • Dec 7: Gen. W. P. Howard sends his report to Governor Brown on the destruction of Atlanta.
  • 1865
    • Civil War ends; slaves freed.
    • Atlanta University, first Atlanta black college, founded.
  • 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded.
  • 1868
    • Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital.
    • Constitution newspaper begins publication.
  • 1869 - Clark College founded.
  • 1870 - Population: 21,789.
  • 1871
    • Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.
    • Public school system organized.
  • 1877 - Washington Seminary established.
  • 1878 - Southern Medical College established.
  • 1879
    • Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary.
    • Atlanta Building and Loan Association established.
  • 1880
    • Abyssinian Library established.
    • Population: 37,409; Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city.
  • 1881
    • Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and Morris Brown Colored College founded.
    • International Cotton Exposition held.
  • 1882 - Atlanta Fire Rescue Department established.
  • 1883
    • Atlanta Journal newspaper begins publication.
    • Capital City Club established.
  • 1885 - Georgia Institute of Technology founded.
  • 1886
    • Ebenezer Baptist Church founded.
    • Atlanta goes "dry".
    • Coca-Cola beverage introduced.
  • 1887
    • Piedmont Exposition held.
    • Piedmont Driving Club and Inman Park (first garden suburb) founded.
    • Coca-Cola invents the coupon.
  • 1888 - Atlanta Camera Club organized.
  • 1889
    • First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city.
    • Georgia State Capitol building opens.
    • Grant Park and Atlanta Zoo established.
    • Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is incorporated.
  • 1890 - Population: 65,533.
  • 1891 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway in business.
  • 1892 - Grady Memorial Hospital opens.
  • 1895
    • Cotton States and International Exposition held.
    • September: Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.
    • Atlanta Woman's Club founded.
  • 1896 - Atlanta Conference of the Study of Negro Problems begins.
  • 1899 - Federal penitentiary established.
  • 1900 - Population: 89,872; metro 419,375.

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20th century

1900s-1940s

  • 1901 - Atlanta Theological Seminary established.
  • 1902 - Carnegie Library opens.
  • 1904 - Atlanta Art Association formed.
  • 1905
    • Atlanta School of Medicine and Associated Charities of Atlanta founded.
    • Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association in business.
  • 1906 - September 22: Atlanta Race Riot kills 27.
  • 1907 - Atlanta Conservatory of Music founded.
  • 1908 - Atlanta Neighborhood Union organized.
  • 1909 - Architectural Arts League of Atlanta organized.
  • 1910
    • Population: 154,839; metro 522,442.
    • Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow.
  • 1911 - Atlanta Debutante Club founded.
  • 1913
    • Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State.
    • Augusta Institute established founded in 1867 is renamed Morehouse College.
  • 1914
    • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta established.
    • Labor strike at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
  • 1915
    • Emory College relocated to Atlanta.
    • November: Birth of a Nation film premieres.
    • Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta.
  • 1916
    • Streetcar strike.
    • Utopian Literary Club and Atlanta Junior League founded.
  • 1917 - Great Atlanta fire.
  • 1918 - 1918 influenza epidemic.
  • 1919 - Commission on Interracial Cooperation active.
  • 1920
    • Butler Street YMCA opens.
    • Population: 200,616; metro 622,283.
  • 1921 - Atlanta Junior Chamber (JCI Atlanta) established.
  • 1922 - WSB radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1923 - Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks.
  • 1926 - Atlanta Historical Society founded.
  • 1927 - Atlanta Historical Bulletin begins publication.
  • 1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication.
  • 1929
    • Atlanta University Center Consortium established.
    • City Hall built.
    • January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
    • WGST radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro 715,391.
  • 1931 - WATL radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1933 - Georgia Municipal Association headquartered in city.
  • 1935 - Cascade Theatre opens.
  • 1936
    • Atlanta Dogwood Festival begins.
    • William B. Hartsfield elected mayor.
    • Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US.
  • 1937 - WAGA radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1939
    • Plaza Theatre opens.
    • Gone with the Wind world premiere draws 300,000 to streets.
  • 1940
    • Euclid Theatre opens.
    • Population: 302,288.
  • 1941 - Central Atlanta Progress established.
  • 1944
    • Atlanta Campaign National Historic Site established.
    • Southern Regional Council and Associated Klans of Georgia headquartered in city.
  • 1945 - Mary Mac's Tea Room in business.
  • 1946
    • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention founded.
    • December 7: Winecoff Hotel fire.
  • 1947 - Regional Metropolitan Planning Commission established.
  • 1948 - WSB-TV (television) begins broadcasting.
  • 1949
    • WAGA-TV and WERD-AM radio begin broadcasting.
    • Atlanta Negro Voters League founded.
    • Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus.

1950s-1990s

  • 1950
    • Population: 331,314; metro 997,666.
    • Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power.
  • 1952 - Buckhead annexed.
  • 1953 - Links chapter established.
  • 1956 - Alexander Memorial Coliseum opens.
  • 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference headquartered in city.
  • 1958
    • October 12: Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing.
    • Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam established.
  • 1959 - Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated.
    • Lenox Square mall opens.
    • Metro population hits 1 million.
  • 1960
    • Population: 487,455; metro 1,312,474.
    • March 15: An Appeal for Human Rights is released.
    • Sit-ins at Rich's lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement.
    • Atlanta Inquirer newspaper begins publication.
  • 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.
    • One Park Tower built.
  • 1962
    • Peyton Road barricades built in Cascade Heights.
    • 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash.
  • 1963
    • Atlanta Marathon begins.
    • Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses.
  • 1964
    • U.S. Supreme Court decides Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States.
    • Atlanta Press Club and Atlanta Track Club established.
  • 1965 - Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium constructed.
  • 1966
    • State of Georgia Building constructed.
    • Both the relocated Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball and the expansion Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League begin play at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
  • 1967
    • Atlanta Chiefs soccer team begins play.
    • Sister city relationship established with Salzburg, Austria.
  • 1968
    • King Center for Nonviolent Social Change founded.
    • Peach Bowl annual football game begins.
    • Atlanta Hawks basketball team relocates to Atlanta.
    • Equitable Building constructed.
  • 1969
    • Coronet Theater and Perimeter freeway open.
    • Afro-American Police League chapter established.
  • 1970
    • Peachtree Road Race begins.
    • Population: 496,973; metro 1,763,626
  • 1971
    • Atlanta Gay Pride Festival established.
    • International flights begin at Hartsfield Airport.
  • 1972
    • Sister city relationships established with Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    • The Atlanta Flames are established as an expansion team of the National Hockey League.
    • The Omni Coliseum opens as the new home of the NBA's Hawks and NHL's Flames.
  • 1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor of Atlanta.
  • 1974
    • Sevananda Natural Foods Market in business.
    • Sister city relationships established with Lagos, Nigeria; Taipei, Taiwan; and Toulouse, France.
  • 1975 - Centennial Tower built.
  • 1976
    • Atlanta Botanical Garden established.
    • Atlanta Film Festival begins.
    • Georgia World Congress Center opens.
    • National Conference of Black Mayors headquartered in city.
  • 1977
    • Atlanta Soto Zen Center founded.
    • Sister city relationship established with Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
  • 1979
    • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority begins operating.
    • Atlanta murders of 1979-1981 begin.
  • 1980
    • Population: 425,022; metro 2,233,324.
    • All-news television network CNN begins broadcasting; Turner empire takes off.
    • Al-Farooq Masjid (mosque) and Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site established.
    • Flames hockey team sold and relocated to Calgary, Alberta.
  • 1981
    • Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus founded.
    • Sister city relationship established with Daegu, South Korea.
  • 1982
    • Andrew Young becomes mayor.
    • Carter Center headquartered in Atlanta.
  • 1983
    • Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System established.
    • Sister city relationship established with Brussels, Belgium.
  • 1984 - Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival begins.
  • 1986
    • Jimmy Carter Library and Museum dedicated.
    • Midtown Assistance Center established.
  • 1987
    • John Lewis becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district.
    • Sister city relationship established with Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
  • 1988
    • Democratic Convention.
    • Sister city relationship established with Tbilisi, Georgia.
  • 1990 - Population: 394,017; metro 2,959,950.
  • 1991
    • Atlanta Bicycle Coalition organized.
    • Land bank established.
    • Drepung Loseling Institute opens.
  • 1992
    • Georgia Dome opens.
    • SunTrust Plaza and Bank of America Plaza built.
  • 1994 - Sister city relationships established with Bucharest, Romania; and Ancient Olympia, Greece.
  • 1995
    • October 28: Atlanta Braves baseball team wins 1995 World Series.
    • Atlanta Downtown Improvement District established.
    • Sister city relationship established with Cotonou, Benin.
  • 1996
    • July-August: Summer Olympics.
    • July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
    • Sister city relationship established with Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
  • 1997
    • Centennial Olympic Stadium reconstructed as Turner Field.
    • Both the Omni Coliseum and Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium are imploded within one week of one another, with the former's footprint used to construct a new arena, while the latter became parking for Turner Field.
  • 1998
    • City website online (approximate date).
    • Sister city relationship established with Nuremberg, Germany.
  • 1999
    • Philips Arena opens.
    • Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey team begins play.
  • 2000
    • Freedom Park dedicated.
    • Sister city relationship established with Ra'anana, Israel.
    • Population: 416,474; metro 4,112,198.

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21st century

2000s

  • 2001 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in publication.
  • 2002 - Shirley Franklin becomes mayor.
  • 2003 - Fermi Project established.
  • 2004 - Atlanta Rollergirls established.
  • 2005
    • Airport becomes world's busiest.
    • Sister city relationship established with Fukuoka, Japan.
  • 2008
    • Delta becomes world's largest airline.
    • March 14-15: 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak.

2010s

  • 2010 - Population: 420,003; metro 5,268,860.
  • 2011
    • Thrashers hockey team are sold and relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, becoming the new Winnipeg Jets.
    • Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal investigative report issued.
    • Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects.
  • 2012 - Part of BeltLine path opens.
  • 2014 - National Center for Civil and Human Rights opens.
  • 2015 - Population: 463,875 (estimate).
  • 2016
    • Murder Kroger closes.
    • Turner Field hosts its last baseball game, with the Braves moving to a new ballpark, SunTrust Park, in Cobb County.
  • 2017
    • Georgia Dome closes.
    • Atlanta United FC begins play in Major League Soccer.
    • Interstate 85 bridge collapse occurs.
    • Turner Field reconstructed as Georgia State Stadium.
    • Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens.

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See also

  • History of Atlanta
  • List of mayors of Atlanta
  • Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta
  • Timelines of other cities in Georgia: Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah
  • Sister city timelines: Brussels, Bucharest, Cotonou, Fukuoka, Lagos, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Salzburg, Tbilisi, Toulouse

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External links

  • "Atlanta", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council 
  • Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Atlanta, various dates.
  • Europeana. Items related to Atlanta, Georgia, various dates.

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