Timeline of Guatemala City
The following is a timeline of the history of Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala.
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Prior to 20th century
- 1776 - Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion founded, following destruction by earthquake of former Spanish colonial capital Antigua.[1]
- 1778 - Population: 10,841.[2]
- 1779 - City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala.
- 1789 - Plaza Mayor fountain erected.[3]
- 1813 - Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated.[3]
- 1823 - City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America.
- 1831 - Sociedad Economica museum established.[4]
- 1835 - Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador.[2]
- 1858 - Theatre founded.[4]
- 1879 - Gas street lighting installed.[5]
- 1880 - Population: 58,000.[5]
- 1882 - Horse streetcar begins operating.[5]
- 1885 - Electric street lighting installed.[5]
- 1893 - Population: 72,000.[5]
- 1898 - National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology established.
20th century
- 1917 - December 17: Earthquake.[6]
- 1918 - January 4: Earthquake.[6]
- 1921
- 1924 - Zoo founded.
- 1934 - Museo Nacional de Historia y Bellas Artes (museum) opens.
- 1935 - Torre del Reformador (tower) and Obelisco (monument) erected.
- 1940
- Guatemala Post Office Building constructed.
- Population: 186,000.[5]
- 1943 - National Palace rebuilt.
- 1949 - Club Social y Deportivo Comunicaciones (football club) formed.
- 1950
- Estadio Mateo Flores and Estadio del Ejército (stadiums) open.
- City hosts 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games.
- 1957 - National Library of Guatemala new building opens.
- 1971 - Francisco Marroquin University founded.
- 1975 - Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" established.
- 1976 - February 4: 1976 Guatemala earthquake.
- 1978 - National Theatre opens.
- 1984 - El Mezquital occupied.[7]
- 1991
- Estadio Cementos Progreso (stadium) opens.
- Óscar Berger becomes mayor.
- 1996 - Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor.
- 1997 - Tikal Futura shopping mall built.
- 1999 - Club Premier hi-rise built.
21st century
- 2000
- Fritz García Gallont becomes mayor.
- Galileo University founded.
- Domo (arena) built.
- 2001
- City hosts 2001 Central American Games.
- Population: 1,022,001.[8]
- 2002 - Museo Miraflores (archaeological museum) founded.
- 2004
- Guatemala City Railway Museum inaugurated.
- Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor again.
- 2005 - March: Protest against Central American Free Trade Agreement.[9]
- 2007
- February 19: Salvadoran congressmen killings discovered near city.[9]
- February 23: Sinkhole collapse.
- 2009 - Guatemala National Police Archives headquartered in city.
- 2010 - May 30: Sinkhole collapse.
- 2012 - July: Teacher unrest.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ Baily 1850.
- 1 2 Marley 2005.
- 1 2 Markman 1966.
- 1 2 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Caplow 1949.
- 1 2 Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 429, OL 5812502M
- ↑ Murphy 2004.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Guatemala Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved May 2014.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
- John Baily (1850). "Guatemala". Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders.
City of New Guatemala
- John L. Stephens (1856), "(Guatemala City)", Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, New York: Harper & Brothers (describes the city in 1840)
- William Eleroy Curtis (1888), "Guatemala City", The Capitals of Spanish America, New York: Harper & Bros.
- Manuel T. Ovalle (1889). Directorio del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala [Traveler's Guide to the Republic of Guatemala] (in Spanish). Guatemala: Imprenta de la Aurora. (includes city directory)
- Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guatemala", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company
Published in the 20th century
- "Guatemala", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Guatemala: Chief Towns: Guatemala", Anglo-South American Handbook 1, New York: Macmillan
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Guatemala", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
- Theodore Caplow (1949). "Social Ecology of Guatemala City". Social Forces 28. doi:10.2307/2572637.
- Sidney D. Markman (1966). "Plaza Mayor of Guatemala City". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 25. JSTOR 988399.
- "Guatemala City", Guatemala, Rough Guides, 1998, p. 47+, OL 9003520M
- Edward Murphy (2004). "Developing Sustainable Peripheries: The Limits of Citizenship in Guatemala City". Latin American Perspectives 31. JSTOR 4141607.
- David F. Marley (2005), "Guatemala City", Historic Cities of the Americas 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 339+, ISBN 1576070271
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Coordinates: 14°36′48″N 90°32′07″W / 14.613333°N 90.535278°W
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