Timeline of San José, Costa Rica
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San José, Costa Rica.
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Prior to 20th century
- 1738 - San José founded.[1]
- 1760 - Town hall in use (approximate date).[2]
- 1776 - Church built.[2]
- 1808 - Population: 8,316.[2]
- 1812 - "Town council elected."[2]
- 1813 - San Jose attains city status.[3]
- 1814 - Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomás (school) opens.[3]
- 1823 - San José becomes capital of Costa Rica.[1]
- 1824 - Population: 15,472.[2]
- 1835 - War of the League (Costa Rica).[2]
- 1836 - Population: 17,965.[2]
- 1841 - 2 September: Earthquake.[2](es)
- 1845
- Puntarenas-San Jose road built.[2]
- Hospital San Juan de Dios (San José) established.
- 1848 - Carmen District created.
- 1850 - Roman Catholic diocese of San José de Costa Rica established.[4]
- 1855 - Presidential Palace, Costa Rica built.
- 1864 - Population: 8,863.[2]
- 1869 - Telegraph begins operating.[5]
- 1878 - Metropolitan Cathedral of San José and Estacion del Pacifico (rail station)[2] built.
- 1880 - Public market built (approximate date).[2]
- 1883 - Population: 13,484.[2]
- 1884 - Street lighting installed.[6]
- 1886 - Telephone begins operating.[2]
- 1887 - Parque Morazán (park) established.
- 1889
- 1890 - Estacion del Atlantico (rail station) begins operating.[2]
- 1892 - Population: 19,326.[2]
- 1895 - Monumento Nacional de Costa Rica unveiled.[7]
- 1897 - National Theatre of Costa Rica opens.[2]
20th century
- 1904 - Population: 24,500.[8]
- 1907 - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de La Merced (San José) (church) built (approximate date).
- 1910 - Corte de Justicia Centroamericana relocated to San Jose (approximate date).[3]
- 1911 - Sociedad Gimnástica Española de San José (sport club) formed.
- 1916 - Botanical garden opens.
- 1918 - Population: 38,016 city; 51,658 metro.[9]
- 1920 - Parque España (San José) established.
- 1921 - Zoo opens.
- 1924
- 4 March: Earthquake.[2](es)
- National Stadium opens.
- 1927 - Population: 50,580.[2]
- 1930 - Gran Hotel (Costa Rica) built.
- 1948 - March-April: Costa Rican Civil War.[2]
- 1950 - Population: 86,718.[2]
- 1958 - Cuesta de Moras (national congress building) constructed.
- 1963 - March: Irazú Volcano erupts near city.[2]
- 1977 - La Sabana Metropolitan Park established.
- 1980 - United Nations' University for Peace established near San Jose.
- 1985 - Pre-Columbian Gold Museum opens.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.[10]
- 1990 - City twinned with Almaty, Kazakhstan; Miami, USA; and San Jose, California, USA.[10]
- 1993 - April: Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis.
- 1994 - Museum of Contemporary Art and Design established.
- 1998 - Johnny Araya Monge becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000 - City twinned with Mexico City, Mexico.[10]
- 2008 - City twinned with Puebla, Mexico.[10]
- 2011
- National Stadium rebuilt.
- Population: 288,054.[11]
- 2012 - 5 September: 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurs.[12]
- 2013 - Sandra García Pérez becomes mayor.
See also
References
- 1 2 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Marley 2005.
- 1 2 3 Theodore S. Creedman (1991). Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2215-3.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Costa Rica". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved January 2016.
- ↑ Patricia Fumero Vargas (2005). El advenimiento de la modernidad en Costa Rica: 1850-1914 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-951-8.
- ↑ Patricia Fumero Vargas (2005). Cultura y sociedad en Costa Rica: 1914-1950 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-952-5.
- ↑ Zamora 1997.
- ↑ "Costa Rica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1906.
- ↑ "Costa Rica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 3 4 "Convenios Internacionales" (in Spanish). Municipalidad de San José. Retrieved January 2016.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ↑ "Costa Rica Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved January 2016.
Bibliography
in English
- "San José", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- David F. Marley (2005), "Costa Rica: San Jose", Historic Cities of the Americas, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 335+, ISBN 1576070271
in Spanish
- Carlos Manuel Zamora Hernández (1997), Monumentos escultóricos de la ciudad de San José (in Spanish), Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural
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