Timeline of Miami Beach, Florida
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
20th century
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- 1912 - Miami Beach Improvement Company founded.[1]
- 1913 - Bridge built.[2]
- 1915
- Miami Beach incorporated.[3]
- John Newton Lummus becomes mayor.[1]
- 1920 - Population: 644.
- 1928 - Al Capone buys property in Miami Beach.[2]
- 1930 - Population: 6,494.
- 1937 - WKAT radio begins broadcasting.[4]
- 1940 - Population: 28,012.
- 1954 - Fontainebleau Hotel in business.
- 1958 - Miami Beach Convention Center opens.
- 1959 - Miami International Airport dedicated near Miami Beach.[5]
- 1960 - Population: 63,145.
- 1971 - Annual South Florida Auto Show begins.
- 1972 - July: 1972 Democratic National Convention held in Miami Beach.
- 1977 - September: 35th World Science Fiction Convention held in Miami Beach.
- 1983 - John F Kennedy Causeway opens (approximate date).[citation needed]
- 1997 - July 15: Fashion designer Gianni Versace killed at Casa Casuarina.[2]
- 2000 - Blue and Green Diamond hi-rises built.
21st century
- 2001 - Murano at Portofino hi-rise built.
- 2002
- Annual international Art Basel Miami Beach (art fair) begins.[6]
- Continuum hi-rise built
- 2004 - Setai Hotel and ICON hi-rise built.
- 2007 - Matti Herrera Bower becomes mayor.
- 2010 - Population: 87,779.[7][8]
- 2011 - November 1: Miami Beach mayoral election, 2011 held; Bower stays in office.
- 2013 - Philip Levine becomes mayor.
- 2015 - November 3: Miami Beach mayoral election, 2015 held; Levine stays in office.
See also
- Miami Beach history
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Timelines of other cities in the South Florida area of Florida: Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Hialeah, Hollywood, Miami, West Palm Beach
References
- ^ a b Carson 1955.
- ^ a b c Hellmann 2006.
- ^ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee
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- ^ Robin F. Bachin (ed.). "Miami Timeline: WWII-1950s". Travel, Tourism, & Urban Growth in Greater Miami. University of Miami. (published circa 2006?)
- ^ "Art Basel Miami Beach's Unfulfilled Promise", New York Times, November 28, 2014
- ^ "Miami Beach city, Florida". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Miami Beach", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
Bibliography
- Miami City Directory, including Miami Beach and Coconut Grove. R.L. Polk & Co. 1919.
- Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Miami Beach". Florida: a Guide to the Southernmost State. American Guide Series. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Ruby Leach Carson (1955). "Forty Years of Miami Beach" (PDF). Tequesta. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN 0363-3705 – via Florida International University.
- Abraham D. Lavender (2002). Miami Beach in 1920: The Making of a Winter Resort. Arcadia. ISBN 978-0-7385-2351-4.
- Seth Bramson (2005). Miami Beach. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Florida: Miami Beach". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
- Carolyn Klepser (2014). Lost Miami Beach. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press. ISBN 978-1-62584-959-5.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miami Beach, Florida.
- "(Miami Beach)". Florida Memory. Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services.
- Items related to Miami Beach, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)