Timeline of Guatemala City

The following is a timeline of the history of Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 1776 – Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion founded, following destruction by earthquake of former Spanish colonial capital Antigua. ^[1]
• 1778 – Population: 10,841. ^[2]
• 1779 – City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala.
• 1789 – Plaza Mayor fountain erected. ^[3]
• 1793 – Consulado (merchant guild) established. ^[4]
• 1813 – Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated. ^[3]
• 1823 – City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America.
• 1831 – Sociedad Economica museum established. ^[5]
• 1835 – Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador. ^[2]
• 1858 – Theatre founded. ^[5]
• 1874 - Earthquake. ^[5]
• 1879 – Gas street lighting installed. ^[6]
• 1880 – Population: 58,000. ^[6]
• 1882 – Horse streetcar begins operating. ^[6]
• 1885 – Electric street lighting installed. ^[6]
• 1893 – Population: 72,000. ^[6]
• 1898 – National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology established.

20th century

• 1905 - Population: about 97,000. ^[5]
• 1917 – December 17: Earthquake. ^[7]
• 1918 – January 4: Earthquake. ^[7]
• 1921
  • Airport built.
  • Population: 121,000. ^[6]
• 1924 – Zoo founded.
• 1934 – Museo Nacional de Historia y Bellas Artes (museum) opens.
• 1935 – Torre del Reformador (tower) and Obelisco (monument) erected.
• 1940
  • Guatemala Post Office Building constructed.
  • Population: 186,000. ^[6]
• 1943 – National Palace rebuilt.
• 1949 – Club Social y Deportivo Comunicaciones (football club) formed.
• 1950
  • Estadio Mateo Flores and Estadio del Ejército (stadiums) open.
  • City hosts 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games.
  • Population: 284,276. ^[8]
• 1957 – National Library of Guatemala new building opens.
• 1966 – Del Valle University of Guatemala founded.
• 1971 – Francisco Marroquin University founded.
• 1973 – Population: 706,920. ^[9]
• 1975 – Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" established.
• 1976 – February 4: 1976 Guatemala earthquake.
• 1978 – National Theatre opens.
• 1984 – El Mezquital occupied. ^[10]
• 1990 – Population: 1,675,589 (estimate). ^[11]
• 1991
  • Estadio Cementos Progreso (stadium) opens.
  • Óscar Berger becomes mayor.
• 1996 – Álvaro Arzú becomes President of Guatemala.
• 1997 – Tikal Futura shopping mall built.
• 1999 – Club Premier hi-rise built.
• 2000
  • Fritz García Gallont becomes mayor.
  • Galileo University founded.
  • Domo (arena) built.

21st century

• 2001
  • City hosts 2001 Central American Games.
  • Population: 1,022,001. ^[12]
• 2002 – Museo Miraflores (archaeological museum) founded.
• 2004
  • Guatemala City Railway Museum inaugurated.
  • Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor again.
• 2005 – March: Protest against Central American Free Trade Agreement. ^[13]
• 2007
  • February 19: Salvadoran congressmen killings discovered near city. ^[13]
  • February 23: Sinkhole collapse.
• 2009 – Guatemala National Police Archives headquartered in city.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2010 – May 30: Sinkhole collapse.
• 2012 – July: Teacher unrest over upscaled requirements of studying a University degree to become a teacher in the country. ^[13]
• 2013 – Air pollution in Guatemala City reaches annual mean of 41 PM2.5 and 56 PM10, more than recommended. ^[14]
• 2018 – June: 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption occurs in vicinity of city. ^[15]

See also

• Guatemala City history
• Guatemala City metropolitan area
• History of Guatemala

References

1. Baily 1850.
2. Marley 2005.
3. Markman 1966.
4. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN   9780765682680
5. Britannica 1910.
6. Caplow 1949.
7. Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 429, OL   5812502M
8. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
9. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
10. Murphy 2004.
11. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
12. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013.
13. "Guatemala Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 18 September 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
14. World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva, archived from the original on March 28, 2014
15. "Guatemala Volcano's Death Toll, Now at 65, Is Likely to Rise", New York Times, June 4, 2018

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• John Baily (1850). "Guatemala". Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. City of New Guatemala
• John L. Stephens (1856), "(Guatemala City)", Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/umn.319510024030325 (describes the city in 1840)
• William Eleroy Curtis (1888), "Guatemala City", The Capitals of Spanish America, New York: Harper & Bros.
• Manuel T. Ovalle (1889). Directorio del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala [Traveler's Guide to the Republic of Guatemala] (in Spanish). Guatemala: Imprenta de la Aurora. (includes city directory)
• Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guatemala", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company

Published in the 20th century

• "Guatemala la Nueva"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 664–665.
• José Toribio Medina (1910). La imprenta en Guatemala (1660–1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Guatemala City, arranged chronologically)
• W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Guatemala: Chief Towns: Guatemala", Anglo-South American Handbook, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, hdl:2027/mdp.39015027978728
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Guatemala", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Theodore Caplow (1949). "Social Ecology of Guatemala City". Social Forces. 28 (2): 113–133. doi:10.2307/2572637. JSTOR   2572637.
• Sidney D. Markman (1966). "Plaza Mayor of Guatemala City". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 25 (3): 181–196. doi:10.2307/988399. JSTOR   988399.
• "Guatemala City", Guatemala, Rough Guides, 1998, p. 47+, OL   9003520M
• Edward Murphy (2004). "Developing Sustainable Peripheries: The Limits of Citizenship in Guatemala City". Latin American Perspectives. 31 (6): 48–68. doi:10.1177/0094582X04269911. JSTOR   4141607. S2CID   143725333.
• David F. Marley (2005), "Guatemala City", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 339+, ISBN   1576070271

External links

• Items related to Guatemala City, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

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