Timeline of San Sebastián

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Sebastián, Spain.

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

• 1682 – Consulate of the Sea established.^[1]
• 1813

  

  Storming of Saint Sebastian, Denis Dighton, 1813

  • Siege of San Sebastián.^[2]
  • 31 August: Fire destroys large part of city.^[2]
• 1817 – Konstituzio plaza [eu] constructed.
• 1832 – Udaletxe Zaharra (Donostia) [eu] (town hall) built.
• 1842 – Population: 10,036.^[3]
• 1843 – Teatro Principal (San Sebastián) [es] (theatre) opens.
• 1863 – City walls dismantled.^[2]
• 1872 – Diario de San Sebastián [eu] newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1874 – San Sebastián public library [eu] established.^[5]
• 1879 – Academia Municipal de Música [es] founded.
• 1880
  • Escuela de Artes y Oficios de San Sebastián (school) opens.^[6]
  • Euskal-Erria [eu] magazine begins publication.^[7]
  • Parque Alderdi Eder [es] (garden) established.
• 1886
  • Compañía del Tranvía de San Sebastián [es] established.
  • Spanish royal court begins summering at San Sebastian.^[2]
• 1887 – Gran Casino de San Sebastián [es] built.
• 1893 – Miramar Palace built.^[8]
• 1897
  • Cathedral of the Good Shepherd consecrated.^[2]
  • Orfeón Donostiarra (musical group) formed.
  • La Constancia [eu] newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola (San Sebastián) [es] (church) built in the Gros (San Sebastián) [es] barrio.
• 1900 – Population: 37,812.^[9][2]

20th century

• 1902 – San Telmo Museoa (museum) established.
• 1903 – El Pueblo Vasco [eu] newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1905 – María Cristina Bridge built.
• 1909 – Real Sociedad football club formed.
• 1912
  • Teatro Victoria Eugenia [es] (theatre) opens.^[10]
  • Hotel María Cristina [es] built.
  • Igueldo funicular begins operating.
  • La Perla [es] beach resort established.
• 1913 – Atotxa Stadium opens.
• 1916 – Hipódromo Municipal de San Sebastián [es] (racecourse) built.
• 1920
  • Los Justicieros anarchist group active.^[11]
  • Population: 61,774.^[3]
• 1926 – Cristina Enea Park [es] established.^[12]
• 1929 – San Sebastián Yacht Club building [eu] constructed.
• 1930 – 17 August: Pact of San Sebastián signed.^[13]
• 1934 – El Diario Vasco newspaper begins publication.^[14]
• 1936 – July: Siege of Cuartel de Loyola at start of the Spanish Civil War.^[11]
• 1938 – Gros fronton (sport venue) opens.

  

  San Sebastián in 1941

• 1940 – Population: 103,979.^[3]
• 1949 – Roman Catholic Diocese of San Sebastián established.^[15]
• 1953 – San Sebastián International Film Festival begins.
• 1960 – Population: 135,149.^[3]
• 1965 – Velódromo de Anoeta opens.
• 1970 – Population: 165,829.^[3]
• 1990 – Donostia Kultura [eu] established.
• 1993 – Anoeta Stadium opens.
• 1999 – Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium opens.

21st century

• 2001 – Musikene music school founded.
• 2003 – City divided into 17 barrios.^{(es)[citation needed]}
• 2008 – Population: 183,308 city; 405,099 metro.
• 2011
  • Iglesia de Iesu [es] (church) built in Riberas de Loyola [es] barrio.
  • Basque Culinary Center campus opens.
  • Population: 185,512.^[3]
• 2015 – Eneko Goia elected mayor.^(es)
• 2018 – 10 June: Pro-independence, 202 kilometer human chain formed between cities of San Sebastián, Bilbao, and Vitoria-Gasteiz.^[16]

See also

• San Sebastián history
• History of San Sebastián [eu]

Other cities in the autonomous community of the Basque Country:^(es)

• Timeline of Bilbao