Timeline of Rio de Janeiro

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Prior to 19th century

• 1565 CE
  • São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro founded by Portuguese.
  • Fortaleza de São João built.
• 1603 - St James of Mercy Fort built.
• 1663 - Padre Eterno galleon launched.
• 1693 - Calaboose Prison built.
• 1736 - Academia dos Felizes founded.^[1]
• 1743 - Paço Imperial built.
• 1750 - Carioca Aqueduct built.
• 1752 - Academia dos Seletos founded.^[1]
• 1763 - Portuguese America administrative center moved to Rio de Janeiro from Salvador.
• 1770 - Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro consecrated.
• 1783 - Passeio Público constructed.
• 1792 - Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho founded.

19th century

Map of Rio de Janeiro, 1895

• 1803 - Paço de São Cristóvão building erected.
• 1808
  • City becomes capital of Kingdom of Portugal.^[2]
  • Printing press in operation.
• 1811 - Candelária Church inaugurated.
• 1815 - City becomes capital of United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
• 1818 - Royal Museum established.
• 1822
  • City becomes capital of independent Brazil.
  • Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden opens.^[3]
• 1826 - Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Brasil) founded.^[4]
• 1827 - Jornal do Commercio newspaper in publication.^[5]
• 1852 - Theatro Provisório built.
• 1854 - Catete Palace built.
• 1858
  • Dom Pedro II railway begins operating.^[6]
  • Central do Brasil inaugurated.
• 1871 - Theatro D. Pedro II inaugurated.
• 1877 - Santa Teresa Tram opens.
• 1884 - Corcovado Rack Railway opens.
• 1891 - Jornal do Brasil newspaper begins publication.
• 1896 - Academia Brasileira de Letras founded.^[1]

20th century

Rio de Janeiro, ca.1910s

Rio de Janeiro, 1967

1900s-1940s

• 1902 - Universidade Cândido Mendes founded.
• 1904
  • Vaccine Revolt.^[7]
  • Avenida Rio Branco constructed.
• 1906 - Palácio Monroe erected.
• 1908 - City flag design adopted.
• 1909 - Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro) inaugurated.
• 1912
  • Afonsos Air Force Base built.
  • Civil Police Museum founded.
• 1914 - Fort Copacabana built.
• 1917 - Labor strike.^[8]
• 1919 - South American Championship held.
• 1920 - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro founded.
• 1922
  • July: Coup attempt.^[8]
  • National Historical Museum (Brazil) created.
  • Population: 1,130,000.^[9]
  • Hotel Glória built.
  • Morro do Castelo (Castle Hill) demolished—now Castelo neighborhood.^[10]
• 1923 - Copacabana Palace Hotel inaugurated.
• 1925 - O Globo newspaper begins publication.
• 1926 - Hipódromo da Gávea built.
• 1927 - Edificio do Jornal A Noite built.
• 1931
  • Pedro Ernesto Baptista becomes mayor.
  • Cristo Redentor statue built.
• 1936
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport inaugurated.
  • Manguinhos Airport opens.
  • Santos Dumont Airport inaugurated.
• 1937 - Universidade Santa Úrsula founded.
• 1938 - Museu Nacional de Belas Artes inaugurated.
• 1940 - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro founded.
• 1943
  • Gustavo Capanema Palace built.
  • Santa Cruz Air Force Base established.
• 1945 - Zoological Garden inaugurated.
• 1947 - South American Basketball Championship held.
• 1949 - Tribuna da Imprensa newspaper begins publication.

1950s-1990s

• 1950
  • Rio de Janeiro State University established.
  • Maracanã (stadium) opens.
• 1951 - Nova Iguaçu level crossing disaster.
• 1952
  • Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada established.
  • Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas founded.
  • Manchete (magazine) headquartered in city.^[5]
• 1953 - Museu do Índio created.^[11]
• 1954 - Ginásio do Maracanãzinho built.
• 1958 - Train crash.
• 1960
  • Brazilian capital moved from Rio to Brasília.^[12]
  • Rio becomes Guanabara State, smallest state of Brazil.
• 1961
  • Tijuca Forest becomes a national park.
  • Edificio Avenida Central built.
• 1964 - Museum of Modern Art built.^[13]
• 1965
  • Flamengo Park created.
  • Banda de Ipanema begins.
• 1971
  • Jacarepaguá Airport opens.
  • Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso founded.
• 1972
  • Petrobras Headquarters built.
  • Hotel Horsa Nacional built.
• 1975
  • City becomes part of Rio de Janeiro (state).
  • Marcos Tamoio becomes mayor.
  • Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage created.
• 1976 - Le Méridien Copacabana opens.
• 1977
  • Riocentro built.
  • Rio Othon Palace hotel opens.
• 1978 - Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet built.
• 1979
  • Rio de Janeiro Metro founded.
  • Israel Klabin becomes mayor.
  • Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro established.
  • Rio de Janeiro Cathedral built.
• 1980
  • Júlio Coutinho becomes mayor.
  • 105 Lélio Gama St. built.
• 1981 - Barra Shopping opens.
• 1982 - Rio Sul Center built.
• 1983
  • Rede Manchete television begins broadcasting.
  • Jamil Haddad becomes mayor, succeeded by Marcello Alencar.
• 1984
  • Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí built.
  • CasaShopping opens.
• 1986 - Roberto Saturnino Braga becomes mayor.
• 1988 - Jó Antônio Resende becomes mayor.
• 1989
  • 16 July: 1989 Copa América football tournament held.
  • Marcello Alencar becomes mayor.
  • Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio branch) opens.
• 1990
  • Eva Klabin Foundation museum established.
  • Escadaria Selarón construction begins.
• 1992 - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) held.^[14]
• 1993
  • César Maia becomes mayor.
  • Candelária massacre.
• 1994 Metropolitan hall opens.
• 1995 - Centro Empresarial Internacional Rio built.
• 1997
  • Luiz Paulo Conde becomes mayor.
  • Miécimo da Silva Sports Complex opens.
• 1998
  • Terra Encantada opens.
  • Project Morrinho begins.
  • Palace II building collapses.

21st century

Rio de Janeiro, 2008

• 2000 - 2000 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics held.
• 2001 - César Maia becomes mayor.
• 2002 - Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação do Rio de Janeiro established.
• 2004 - Torre Almirante built.
• 2006 - Koni Store founded.
• 2007
  • Cantagalo Station opens.
  • Estádio Olímpico João Havelange built.
  • HSBC Arena (Rio de Janeiro) opens.
  • 2007 Pan American Games held.
  • Rio de Janeiro train collision.
• 2008 - Rio International Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship begins.
• 2009
  • Eduardo Paes becomes mayor.^[15]
  • City wins the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics bid.
• 2010
  • World Urban Forum and Homeless World Cup football contest held.
  • Manguinhos Library Park opens in Benfica.
  • Population: 6,320,446.^[16]
• 2011
  • Cidade da Música built.
  • School shooting.
• 2012
  • United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held.
  • Building collapses.
  • TransOeste inaugurated.
• 2013 - Protest.
• 2014 - 2014 FIFA World Cup and Street Child World Cup football contest held.
• 2015 - July: Uber protest.^[17]

See also

• History of Rio de Janeiro
• List of mayors of Rio de Janeiro

Other cities in Brasil

• Timeline of Brasília
• Timeline of Curitiba
• Timeline of Fortaleza
• Timeline of Manaus
• Timeline of Recife
• Timeline of Salvador, Bahia
• Timeline of São Paulo

References

1. Richard Young; Odile Cisneros (2010). "Academias". Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7498-5.
2. E. Bradford Burns (1993). "Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History". A History of Brazil. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07954-9.
3. "Garden Search: Brazil". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved May 2015.
4. "South America, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 2014.
5. "Brazil". Union list of current newspapers and selected serials. USA: Latin America North East Libraries Consortium. Retrieved December 2014.
6. Bureau of the American Republics (1901). United States of Brazil. Washington, D.C.
7. Robert M. Levine (2003). "Timeline of Historical Events". History of Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6255-3.
8. Europa Publications (2003). "Brazil". Political Chronology of the Americas. Routledge. p. 32+. ISBN 978-1-135-35653-8.
9. Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), Commercial travelers' guide to Latin America, Washington, DC, USA: Govt. Print. Office
10. http://www.revistaferroviaria.com.br/memoriaferroviaria/materia6P_ing.htm
11. Sergio Moraes (March 26, 2013). "End of a dream". Reuters. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
12. "Timelines: History of Brazil from 1500 to 2008", World Book (USA), (subscription required (help))
13. "South America, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 2014.
14. Candace Slater (2002). "Chronology". Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. University of California Press. p. 205+. ISBN 978-0-520-92601-1.
15. "Brazilian mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
16. "2010 census". Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
17. Over a thousand Rio taxi drivers block main city route to protest Uber, Reuters, 24 July 2015

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• John Mawe (1812), "Description of Rio de Janeiro", Travels in the Interior of Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
• John Luccock (1820), Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil, London: S. Leigh
• Josiah Conder (1830), "City of Rio de Janeiro", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• J.C.R. Milliet de Saint-Adolphe (1863), "Rio-de-Janeiro", Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do imperio do Brazil (in Portuguese), Paris: J. P. Aillaud – via Hathi Trust
• Michael George Mulhall; E.T. Mulhall (1877). "Rio Janeyro". Handbook of Brazil. Buenos Ayres.
• James W. Wells (1886), "Rio de Janeiro", Exploring and travelling three thousand miles through Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to Maranhão, London: Low
• Editors of the Rio News (1887). Handbook of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: A.J. Lamoureux.

Published in the 20th century

• "Rio de Janeiro", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
• "Rio de Janeiro". Collier's Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son. 1928.
• "Rio Panorama", National Geographic Magazine (Washington DC) 76, 1939
• "Local History, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro". Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History ... in the Newberry Library. Chicago: Newberry Library. 1953 – via Hathi Trust.
• W.A. Robson, ed. (1954). "Rio de Janeiro". Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning. Routledge. p. 489+. ISBN 978-1-135-67247-8.
• Rio de Janeiro, Great Cities, Time-Life Books, 1977 – via Open Library
• Mary C. Karasch, Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1987)
• Jeffrey D. Needell, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
• "Rio de Janeiro City", Brazil (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, 1998, p. 146+ – via Open Library

Published in the 21st century

• "Rio de Janeiro". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
• Thomas H. Holloway (2008). "Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro". In Beier and Ocobock. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective. Ohio University Press. p. 162+. ISBN 978-0-89680-262-9.
• Teresa A. Meade (2010). Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04211-4.

External links

• Map of Rio de Janeiro, 1928
• Map of Rio de Janeiro, 1982
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Rio de Janeiro, various dates.
• (Conference papers related to Rio), 2012 – via International Planning History Society

Coordinates: 22°54′30″S 43°11′47″W / 22.908333°S 43.196389°W