Timeline of Montevideo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Prior to 19th century
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- 1726 – Settlement established by Spaniard Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
- 1778 – Free port status acquired.[1]
- 1797 – 31 August: British ship Lady Shore arrives in harbour.
19th century
- 1804 – Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.[2]
- 1807
- 3 February: City besieged by British forces; British take city.
- Southern Star newspaper in publication.[3]
- September: British occupation ends.
- 1811 – Siege of Montevideo by forces of the United Provinces of the River Plate.
- 1812
- Montevideo Cabildo built.
- Siege of Montevideo (1812-1814) begins.
- 1814 – Siege of Montevideo (1812-1814) ends; Spanish loyalists surrender.
- 1817 – 20 January: City occupied by Luso-Brazilian forces.
- 1821 - City becomes part of Brazilian province Cisplatina.
- 1823 – Siege of Montevideo (1823)
- 1825 – Hospital de Caridad founded.[2]
- 1828
- City becomes capital of independent Oriental Republic of Uruguay.[1]
- British Cemetery established.
- 1829 – City wall dismantled.[citation needed]
- 1830 – National museum founded.[1]
- 1833 – Public library founded.[1]
- 1843 – Great Siege of Montevideo begins.[1]
- 1847 – Anglican church built.[1]
- 1849 – University of the Republic founded.
- 1851 – Great Siege of Montevideo ends.
- 1856
- Solís Theatre built.[4]
- Salesas convent founded.[2]
- Epidemic.[2]
- 1857 – British hospital founded.[1]
- 1858 – Church of the Immaculate Conception built.[2]
- 1862 – Hotel Oriental built.[2]
- 1863 – Bolsa (exchange) built.[2]
- 1866 – Post office built.[2]
- 1868 – Mercado del Puerto built.
- 1871 – Teatro Cibils inaugurated.[4]
- 1874 – Estévez Palace built.
- 1876 – Punta Brava Lighthouse erected.
- 1879 – Population: 91,167.[5]
- 1880 – Nuevo Teatro San Felipe opens.[4]
- 1885 – Escuela Brasil (school) established.
- 1889 – Teatro Nuevo Politeama inaugurated.[4]
- 1895 – Teatro Stella d'Italia founded.[4]
20th century
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- 1900 – Estadio Gran Parque Central opens.
- 1905 – Teatro Urquiza inaugurated.[6]
- 1906 – Electric streetcar begins operating.[7]
- 1908
- Municipality of Montevideo created.
- Daniel Muñoz becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
- Immigrants' Hotel opens.[6]
- 1909 – Urbano hotel in business.[6]
- 1910 – Teatro 18 de Julio opens.[4]
- 1911
- National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) inaugurated.
- May: General strike.[8]
- 1913 – Villa del Cerro and La Teja become part of city.
- 1925 – Palacio Legislativo (Uruguay) built.
- 1930
- Estadio Centenario opens.
- July: 1930 FIFA World Cup held.[9]
- Juan Manuel Blanes Museum established.
- 1933 – International Conference of American States held; Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States signed.
- 1935 - Asociación de Arte Constructivo founded.[10]
- 1941 – Palacio Municipal (Montevideo) built.
- 1945 – Cine Trocadero opens (approximate date).[11]
- 1947 – Airport terminal inaugurated.[citation needed]
- 1952 – Cinemateca Uruguaya (film archive) founded.[12]
- 1953 – Museo Torres García opens.[13]
- 1956 – Cilindro Municipal (arena) opens.
- 1958 – Museum and Municipal Archives inaugurated in the Cabildo.[14]
- 1964 – Edificio Panamericano (residential building) constructed.
- 1973 – 27 June: 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état.
- 1983 – September: Labor demonstration.[15]
- 1985 – Liberty Building (Montevideo) built.
- 1988 – May: Pope John Paul II visits city.
- 1990
- Tabaré Vázquez elected mayor.[16]
- City administration partially decentralized.
- 1992 – Sarandi street pedestrianized.[citation needed]
- 1995 - 23 July: 1995 Copa América Final football tournament held.
21st century
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- 2007 – Mercosur headquartered in city.[17]
- 2008 – Executive Tower, Montevideo built.
- 2009 – Carrasco International Airport expands.
- 2010 – Ana Olivera becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
- 2011 – Population: 1,319,108.
See also
- Montevideo history
- History of Motevideo
- Barrios of Montevideo
- List of Municipal Intendants of Montevideo
- List of Governors of Montevideo, 1751-1817
- List of museums in Montevideo
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h Michael George Mulhall; Edward T. Mulhall (1885), "Montevideo", Handbook of the River Plate, comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay (5th ed.), Buenos Ayres: M.G. and E.T. Mulhall
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Montevideo (Uruguay) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Susana Salgado (2003). The Teatro Solis: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819565945.
- ^ "The Capital", The Republic of Uruguay, South America, London: E. Stanford, 1883, OCLC 9173138
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Annie Smith Peck (1916), "Montevideo", The South American Tour, New York: G.H. Doran, OCLC 4541554
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Anton Rosenthal (1995). "The Arrival of the Electric Streetcar and the Conflict over Progress in Early Twentieth-Century Montevideo". Journal of Latin American Studies. 27.
- ^ Anton Rosenthal (1995). "Streetcar Workers and the Transformation of Montevideo: The General Strike of May 1911". The Americas. 51.
- ^ Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
- ^ "South America, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "Movie Theaters in Montevideo, Uruguay", CinemaTreasures.org, Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC, retrieved 14 July 2013
- ^ "Institucional" (in Spanish). Cinemateca Uruguaya. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Historia del Museo Torres García". Montevideo: Museo Torres García. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Historia" (in Spanish). Montevideo: Museuo y Archivo Cabildo. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Robert J. Alexander (2005), A history of organized labor in Uruguay and Paraguay, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, ISBN 0275977455
- ^ Eduardo Canel (2001). "Municipal Decentralization and Participatory Democracy: Building a New Mode of Urban Politics in Montevideo City?". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (71).
- ^ "Uruguay Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Emeric Essex Vidal (1820), Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, London: R. Ackermann, OCLC 6287966
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Monte Video, Buenos Ayres", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Monte Video". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - John Hale Murray (1871), "(Monte Video)", Travels in Uruguay, London: Longmans & Co., OCLC 257407035
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Theodore Child (May 1891). "Republic of Uruguay". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 82. USA: 917+.. Includes description of Montevideo.
- Archibald Wilberforce, ed. (1893). "Montevideo". Capitals of the Globe. NY: Peter Fenelon Collier.
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- Published in the 20th century
- Orestes Araújo (1900), "Montevideo", Diccionario geografico del Uruguay (in Spanish), Montevideo: Imprente Artística, de Dornaleche y Reyes, OCLC 1446163
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Charles Warren Currier (1911), "Montevideo", Lands of the Southern Cross: a Visit to South America, Washington, D.C.: Spanish-American Publication Society
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - W.H. Koebel (1911), "Montevideo", Uruguay, London: Unwin
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (1914), "Montevideo", Trade Directory of South America for the Promotion of American Export Trade, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 5821807
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Alberto B. Martínez (1914), "Montevideo", Baedeker of the Argentine Republic; including also parts of Brazil, the Republic of Uruguay, Chili and Bolivia, Barcelona: R. Sopena, printer
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Henry Stephens (1915), "Montevideo", South American Travels, New York: Knickerbocker Press, OCLC 6588111
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Gordon Ross (1917), "Mondevideo and Buenos Aires", Argentina and Uruguay, London: Methuen
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Guide book: Montevideo, Uruguay, U.S. Navy Ports of the World, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith Company, 1921
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Montevideo", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Office
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Albes, Edward. Montevideo, the city of roses (Pan American Union, 1922) online; 29pp well-illustrated
- Published in the 21st century
- David Marley (2005), "Montevideo", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 817+, ISBN 1576070271
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