The following is a of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.
Before the 19th century
19th century
20th century
1900sâÂÂ1940s
- 1901 â Renton Hill Community Improvement Club is organized.
- 1903
- July 30: Semi-centennial of founding of Seattle.
- City hires Olmsted Brothers to design public parks.
- 1905
- South Seattle becomes part of the city.
- Seattle Fine Arts Society is established.
- 1906
- The Mountaineers (club) is formed.
- Public Library building opens.
- King Street Station opens.
- 1907
- City expands, annexing Atlantic City, Ballard, Columbia, Dunlap, Rainier Beach, Ravenna, South-East Seattle, South Park, and West Seattle.
- St. James Cathedral is built.
- August 17: Pike Place Market opens.
- 1908 - The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area.
- 1909
- June 1: AlaskaâÂÂYukonâÂÂPacific Exposition opens.
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad begins operating.
- 1910
- Georgetown becomes part of the city.
- Municipal League of Seattle is founded.
- Population: 237,194.
- 1911 â Port of Seattle is established.
- 1913
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch is established.
- 20th Avenue NE Bridge opens.
- 1914 â Smith Tower is built.
- 1916
- Seattle Audubon Society is established.
- Coliseum Theater opens.
- July 15: William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products Co. This becomes the Boeing Company.
- 1918 â Bessaroth Synagogue is dedicated.
- 1919 â February: Seattle General Strike.
- 1920 â Seattle Northwest Enterprise newspaper begins publication.
- 1922 â The first Miss Seattle is crowned.
- 1923
- Seattle Goodwill Industries is established.
- Mountaineers Players (theatre troupe) is active.
- 1924
- September 28: First aerial circumnavigation of the world lands at Sand Point.
- Seattle Camera Club is founded.
- 1925
- Sears, Roebuck store opens.
- Eagles Auditorium Building is constructed.
- Seattle Planning Commission is established.
- 1926
- U.S. Naval Air Station is established at Sand Point.
- Bertha Knight Landes is elected mayor, the first woman elected to head a major US city.
- 1928 â Civic Auditorium and Paramount Theatre opens.
- 1929 â Seattle Urban League is founded.
- 1930
- Pike Place Fish Market and Japanese American Citizen's League are established.
- Exchange Building is constructed.
- 1932 â Grace Hospital is established.
- 1933 â Seattle Art Museum opens.
- 1938 â Vedanta Society of Western Washington is founded.
- 1940
- Population: 368,302.
- April 28: Seattle trolleybus system opens.
- 1941 - April 12: Last streetcar line closes.
- 1946 â Seattle Foundation is established.
- 1947
- Memorial Stadium opens.
- September 1: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (popularly known as Sea-Tac) begins operation.
- 1949 â Free port opens.
1950sâÂÂ1990s
- 1950
- Seattle Chinese Golf Club is formed.
- Population: 467,591.
- 1957 â Sister city relationship is established with Kobe, Japan.
- 1959 â City joins Puget Sound Governmental Conference.
- 1960 â Population: 557,087.
- 1961
- Space Needle is built.
- American Institute of Architects Seattle chapter becomes active.
- 1962
- Alweg Monorail begins operating.
- April 21 â Seattle World's Fair opens.
- Congress of Racial Equality chapter is established.
- Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church is built.
- 1963
- Seattle Opera and Seattle Repertory Theatre is founded.
- Martin Cinerama opens.
- 1964 - August 21: The Beatles performs at the Seattle Center Coliseum; they would perform again just over two years later.
- 1965
- April 29: The 6.7 Puget Sound earthquake affects western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing seven deaths and $12.5âÂÂ28 million in financial losses in the Puget Sound region.
- ACT Theatre is founded.
- 1967
- November: Radical Women is founded.Seattle Radical Women, one of first women's liberation groups in the United States, forms in November 1967.
- Allied Arts of Seattle is founded.
- Sister city relationship is established with Bergen, Norway.
- 1969
- Seafirst Building is constructed. This is Seattle's tallest building for the next 16 years.
- 1970 â Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program begins.
- 1971
- Mayor's Arts Festival begins (later known as Bumbershoot).
- Starbucks opens its first store near the Pike Place Market.
- Seattle voters approve the "Let's Keep the Market" initiative, preserving the Pike Place Market
- 1972
- Pacific Northwest Dance Association is established.
- Intiman Theatre Festival begins.
- 1973 â Sister city relationship is established with Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- 1974 â Seattle Seahawks franchise is established, beginning play in 1976.
- 1976 â Daybreak Star Cultural Center opens.
- 1977
- Seattle Mariners baseball team is formed.
- Sister city relationship is established with Beersheba, Israel.
- 1978 â Central Co-op is established.
- 1979
- P-Patch Advisory Council is established.
- Music Magazine The Rocket begins publishing.
- June 1: Seattle SuperSonics basketball team wins NBA Finals.
- Sister city relationship is established with Mazatlán, Mexico.
- 1980
- Subterranean Pop fanzine begins publication.
- Sister city relationship is established with Nantes, France.
- The last Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad train leaves Seattle before abandonment.
- 1981 â Sister city relationship is established with Christchurch, New Zealand; and Mombasa, Kenya.
- 1982 â Market Park is landscaped.
- 1983 â Sister city relationship is established with Chongqing, China.
- 1984
- 911 Media Arts Center and Weird Science Salon is founded.
- Sister city relationship is established with Limbe, Cameroon.
- 1985
- Seattle Municipal Archives are established.
- The 76-story Columbia Seafirst Center is built and becomes the city's tallest building. In response, the Citizen Alternative Plan (CAP) advocates for height limits in Downtown.
- 1986 â Sister city relationships is established with Galway, Ireland; and ReykjavÃÂk, Iceland.
- 1988
- Washington State Convention Center and Telephone Museum both open.
- Nirvana issues its first release, a 7" with Love Buzz and Big Cheese on Seattle's SubPop Records.
- 1989
- Jim McDermott becomes U.S. representative for Washington's 7th congressional district.
- Sister city relationship is established with Daejeon, South Korea.
- 1990
- September 15: Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel opens.
- October: Pearl Jam plays its first concert ever in Seattle's Off Ramp Café.
- Norm Rice becomes mayor.
- Population: 516,259.
- 1991
- Sustainable Seattle nonprofit is established.
- Washington Hemp Expo begins.
- Seattle Art Museum is rebuilt.
- Sister city relationships is established with Cebu, Philippines; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 1992 â Sister city relationship is established with Pécs, Hungary; and Surabaya, Indonesia.
- 1993
- Seattle Knights jousting acting troupe is founded.
- Fictional movie Sleepless in Seattle is released.
- Sister city relationships is established with Gdynia, Poland; and Perugia, Italy.
- 1994
- Amazon.com is established.
- Seattle Asian Art Museum opens.
- City Public Access Network goes online.
- 1996 â Sister city relationship is established with Haiphong, Vietnam.
- 1997
- Seattle Internet Exchange and Seattle Channel are established.
- Jet City Maven newspaper begins publication.
- 1998 â Paul Schell becomes mayor.
- 1999
- November 30: Anti-globalization protests during World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.
- Town Hall Seattle opens.
- Sister city relationship is established with Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
- 2000
- Experience Music Project opens.
- Music Magazine The Rocket ceases publishing.
21st century
- 2001
- February 27: Seattle Mardi Gras Riots
- February 28: Nisqually earthquake
- September: Boeing relocates its corporate headquarters to Chicago, Illinois.
- 2002 - July 28: The first sporting event at Seahawks Stadium, a Seattle Sounders soccer match, is held
- 2004
- Seattle Central Library building opens.
- Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is founded.
- Rat City Rollergirls (rollerderby league) is founded.
- 2006
- Seattle Metropolitan begins publication.
- Kavana Cooperative is founded.
- 2007 - December 12: South Lake Union Streetcar line opens.
- 2008
- Tilted Thunder Rail Birds (rollerderby league) is formed.
- Seattle SuperSonics move to Oklahoma City
- 2009
- July 18: Central Link light rail begins service between Westlake and Tukwila.
- December 19: Central Link is extended to SeaTac Airport.
- InvestigateWest news is headquartered in Seattle.
- Upping Technology for Underserved Neighbors and Jigsaw Renaissance is founded.
- CondoInternet is established.
- 2010
- Northwest Chocolate Festival begins.
- Michael McGinn becomes mayor.
- Population: 608,660; metro 3,439,809.
- 2011
- Seattle Shorts Film Fest begins.
- Citizen University is headquartered in city.
- 2012
- Ban against plastic shopping bags goes into effect.
- Chihuly Garden and Glass and Living Computer Museum opens.
- 2013
- Construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel by the tunnel-boring machine Bertha begins.
- Population: 652,405.
- 2014
- January: Ed Murray becomes mayor.
- February: Seattle Seahawks win Super Bowl football contest.
- May: City minimum wage hike is announced.
- 2015
- May: A large kayak protest against Arctic oil drilling is held on Elliott Bay in response to a Shell oil platform arriving at the Port of Seattle.
- September: School teachers strike
- 2016
- January 23: First Hill Streetcar line opens.
- March 19: University Link Tunnel extends light rail to Capitol Hill and Husky Stadium.
- 2020
- Beginning in March: During the week, in response to the COVID pandemic across Washington, 3 counties in the Seattle metropolitan area issued directives for residents to shelter-in-place until at least the 7th of April.
- Beginning in May: George Floyd protests in Seattle begin.
- Population: 737,015; metro: 3,433,000
- 2023 - February 21: Seattle becomes the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on caste.
- 2025 - Official reopening of Waterfront Park and Pier 58 after years of renovation following the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
See also
References
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
Published in the 20th century
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- Cornelius Hanford, Seattle and Enzirons, 1852âÂÂ1924 (Seattle, 1924)
- Roger Sale, Seattle: Past to Present (Seattle, 1976)
- Richard C. Berner, Seattle in the 20th Century (Seattle: Charles Press, 1991)
- Bob Lane, Better Than Promised, An Informal History of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Seattle: King County Department of Metropolitan Services, 1995)
Published in the 21st century
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