Timeline of San Antonio

The Alamo in 1854

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Antonio, Texas, United States.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

18th century

• 1718 – San Antonio founded.^[1]
• 1720 – Mission San Jose founded.^[2]
• 1722 – Presidio San Antonio de Bexar built.
• 1731 – Juan Leal Goraz becomes first mayor.
• 1750 – Church of San Fernando built.
• 1782 – Mission San Jose building constructed.

19th century

• 1811 – January 22nd: Juan Baptista de Las Casas, a retired captain from Nuevo Santander, along with several revolutionaries bouyed by the successes of Hidalgo's army in Guanajuato, march into town and arrest the Governors Herrera and Salcedo. Spain stops sending money for troops.
• 1813 – August: Battle of Medina occurs near town.
• 1821 – San Antonio becomes part of the Mexican Empire.^[2]
• 1836 – February 23 – March 6: Battle of the Alamo.^[2]
• 1837 – John William Smith becomes mayor.^[3]
• 1840 – March 19: Council House Fight.^[2]
• 1842 – September 17: Battle of Salado Creek occurs near town.^[2]
• 1845 – San Antonio becomes part of the new U.S. state of Texas.^[4]
• 1849 – Cholera epidemic.^[2]
• 1852 – St. Mary's Institute founded.^[5]
• 1853 – Public schools established.^[2]
• 1860 – Population: 8,235.^[6]
• 1865
  • U.S. Army Fort Sam Houston established.^[7]
  • San Antonio Express newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1868 – Frost Bank established.
• 1871 – Mount Zion Baptist Church founded.^[9]
• 1872 – Alamo Literary Society formed.^[10]
• 1874 – Catholic Diocese of San Antonio^[11] and Temple Beth-El congregation^[12] founded.
• 1875 – Sociedad Benevolencia Mexicana founded.^[9]
• 1877 – Railroad begins operating.^[7]
• 1881 – Evening Light newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1883 – San Antonio Brewing Company in business.
• 1884
  • March 11: Vaudeville Theater Ambush.^[2]
  • Societa Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso founded.^[9]
• 1885
  • Scholz's Palm Garden in business.^[9]
  • Alamo City Commercial College established.^[13]
• 1891 – Battle of Flowers festival begins.^[2][14]
• 1894 – Peacock Military College established.^[13]
• 1896

The Bexar County Courthouse around the turn of the 20th Century

• • Buckhorn Saloon and Gebhardt’s Chili Powder Company^[15] in business.
  • Bexar County Courthouse built.
• 1898 – Woman's Club of San Antonio founded.
• 1899 – Brackenridge Park created.

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1900 – Population: 53,321.^[16]
• 1903 – San Antonio Public Library established.^[17]
• 1910 – Population: 96,614.^[16]
• 1912 – Alamo Methodist Church built.
• 1914 – San Antonio Zoo founded.
• 1917 – U.S. Army Kelly Air Force Base established.
• 1918
  • U.S. Army Brooks Air Force Base established.
  • San Antonio Evening News begins publication.
• 1921 – September 1921 San Antonio floods.^[2]
• 1924 – San Antonio Conservation Society formed.^[18]
• 1925 – San Antonio Junior College founded.
• 1926
  • Aztec Theater opens.^[19]
  • Witte Museum and Texas Cavaliers established.

The Randolph Air Force Base Administration Building

• 1930 – Population: 231,542.
• 1931 – U.S. Army Randolph Air Force Base begins operating.
• 1932 – Frito Company in business.
• 1933 – Earl Abel's restaurant in business.
• 1937
  • San Antonio Housing Authority established.^[20]
  • Station Hospital rebuilt.
• 1938
  • Pecan-sheller labor strike.^[21]
  • Ciculo Social Femenino Mexicano founded.^[21]
• 1940
  • Alamo Stadium built.
  • Hertzberg Circus Museum established.^[18]
  • Population: 253,854.^[7]
• 1941
  • U.S. military Lackland Air Force Base, Broadway National Bank,^[22] and San Jose Mission National Historic Site established.^[7]
  • Mi Tierra restaurant in business.^[23]
• 1946
  • Brooke Army Medical Center active.
  • Casa Rio restaurant in business.
• 1947
  • Jim's eatery and Josephine Theatre^[19] in business.
  • Southwest Research Institute headquartered in city.^[5]
• 1948 – Sultanas de Bejar (women's group) formed.^[14]

1950s–1990s

• 1950
  • Free port^[7] and Stock Show and Rodeo^[20] established.
  • Population: 408,442.
• 1958 – Fiesta Noche del Rio begins.
• 1960 - Population: 587,718.^[24]
• 1961 – Henry B. Gonzalez becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 20th congressional district.^[25]

The Tower of the Americas, the theme structure for Hemisfair '68

• 1968
  • Tower of the Americas erected.
  • HemisFair Arena opens.
  • HemisFair '68 held.^[4]
  • Institute of Texan Cultures established.^[18]
  • Hilton Palacio del Rio hotel in business.
• 1969 – Paseo Del Rio Association formed.^[26]
• 1970 – Population: 708,582.^[4]
• 1972 – Texas Folklife Festival begins.
• 1973 – San Antonio Spurs basketball team active.
• 1978 – City passes ordinance creating VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority, the public transport system for San Antonio.
• 1980
  • San Antonio Botanical Garden opens.
  • Area of city: 263.5 square miles.^[4]
  • San Antonio Food Bank active (approximate date).^[5][27]
• 1981
  • San Antonio Museum of Art established.^[18]
  • Hyatt Regency San Antonio hotel in business.
  • Henry Cisneros becomes mayor.^[28]
• 1987 – Lamar S. Smith becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 21st congressional district.^[29]
• 1990 - Population: 935,933.^[24]
• 1991 – Nelson W. Wolff becomes mayor.^[28]
• 1995
  • City website online (approximate date).^[30]
  • Artpace founded.^[31]
• 1997 – 55th World Science Fiction Convention held.

21st century

• 2000
  • Bahá’í Center of San Antonio founded.^[32]
  • Population: 1,144,646.^[33]
• 2001– Gurudwara Sikh Center of San Antonio founded.^[32]
• 2005 - Municipal Archives established.^[34]
• 2008 – Spurs Community Garden created.^[35]
• 2009– Julian Castro (2014 head of HUD) becomes mayor.^[28]
  • NOWCastSA community news begins publication.^[36]
• 2010
  • Population: 1,327,407; metro 2,142,508.^[37]
  • Area of city: 460.93 square miles.^[38]
• 2011 – Population: 1,359,758; metro 2,194,927.^[39]
• 2013
  • BiblioTech public library opens.
  • Population: 1,409,019.^[40]
  • Joaquín Castro becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 20th congressional district.^[41]

See also

• History of San Antonio
• List of mayors of San Antonio
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas
• Timeline of Texas^[42]

Other cities in Texas

• Timeline of Arlington, Texas
• Timeline of Austin, Texas
• Timeline of Corpus Christi
• Timeline of Dallas
• Timeline of El Paso, Texas
• Timeline of Fort Worth, Texas
• Timeline of Houston

References

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11. William Campbell (1913). "Diocese of San Antonio". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
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Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (1874), "San Antonio", Centennial Gazetteer of the United States, Philadelphia: J.C. McCurdy & Company
• Street, avenue and alley guide to San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, 1892

Published in the 20th century

• George Pierce Garrison (1903), "Beginnings of San Antonio", Texas: a contest of civilizations, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
• Henry Ryder-Taylor (1908), Visitor's guide and history of San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, Tex: N. Tengg, OCLC 10471850
• Chamber of Commerce (1910), San Antonio, the convention city, San Antonio: Guessaz & Perlet
• "San Antonio", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Edward Hungerford (1913), "City of the Little Squares", The Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company
• Marin B. Fenwick, ed. (1917). Who's who among the women of San Antonio and Southwest Texas?. San Antonio, Tex.
• Craighead (1919), Street Guide of San Antonio, Texas
• Federal Writers' Project (1938), "Condensed Chronology", San Antonio, American Guide Series, San Antonio, TX: Clegg Company
• Charles W. Ramsdell, San Antonio: A Historical and Pictorial Guide (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959).
• Leah Carter Johnston (1975), San Antonio (Revised ed.), Naylor Co., ISBN 9780811105859, OCLC 2137230
• T. R. Fehrenbach, The San Antonio Story (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Continental Heritage Press, 1978)
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "San Antonio, TX", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, p. 302+, OL 4120668M
• Richard A. Garcia (1991), Rise of the Mexican American middle class: San Antonio, 1929–1941, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0890963681
• Jesús F. de la Teja (1995). San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier. University of New Mexico Press.
• Peter Skerry (1995), "San Antonio", Mexican Americans, Harvard University Press, OL 7693062M

Published in the 21st century

• Rodolfo Rosales (2000). Illusion of Inclusion: The Political Story of San Antonio, Texas. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77103-1.
• Char Miller, ed. (2001). On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7060-6.
• Judith Berg-Sobré (2003). San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-222-5.
• Charles R. Porter (2009). Spanish Water, Anglo Water: Early Development in San Antonio. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-468-2.
• American Cities Project (November 11, 2013). "San Antonio". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts.

External links

• San Antonio Public Library. "Local History". Resource Guides. City of San Antonio.
• "San Antonio Government: Historical". Research Guides. University of Texas at San Antonio, Libraries.
• T.R. Fehrenbach. "San Antonio, TX". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
• U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division. Materials related to San Antonio, Texas, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to San Antonio, various dates

Coordinates: 29°25′00″N 98°30′00″W / 29.416667°N 98.5°W