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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.
Before the 19th century
- Native Americans explore and settle throughout the Puget Sound region which includes the Seattle area.[1]
19th century
- 1851
- September 14: The Collins Party led by Luther Collins finds a settlement in present-day Georgetown. Scouts from the Denny Party arrive at Alki shortly after.[1]
- November 13: The remainder of the Denny Party arrives at Alki Point to spend a rainy winter.[1]
- 1852 – The Denny Party moves to present day Downtown Seattle in April.
- 1853 – Seattle becomes seat of King County, Washington Territory.[2]
- 1854 – School opens.[3]
- 1855 – Population: 300.[2]
- 1856 – Hostile Native American tribesmen attack Seattle in a single-day battle.
- 1858 – The arrival of Manuel Lopes, the city's first Black resident.
- 1861 – Washington Territorial University established.[4]
- 1863 – Washington Gazette newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1864 – May 16: The Mercer Girls arrive.[3]
- 1867 – Weekly Intelligencer newspaper begins publication.[5][6]
- 1868 – The Seattle Library Association is founded.[7]
- 1869 – Henry A. Atkins becomes mayor.
- 1870
- 1873 – Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad organized.[3]
- 1874 – Gas street lamps installed.[3]
- 1875
- 1878 – Seattle Daily Post begins publication.[5]
- 1879 – Squire opera house built.[3]
- 1880
- 1883 – Telephone[8] and Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad[3] begin operating.
- 1885 – Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway organized.[2]
- 1886 – February: Most Chinese were expelled by White mobs.[9]
- 1888 – Rainier Club established.
- 1889
- Seattle Federation of Women's Clubs organized.[10]
- June 6: Great Seattle Fire.[2]
- Seattle Fire Department established.[11]
- Electric streetcar begins operating.[12]
- City becomes part of the new U.S. State of Washington.
- 1890
- 1891 – Seattle Public Library opens.
- 1892 – Pioneer Building constructed.
- 1893
- 1894 – The Argus newspaper begins publication.
- The Seattle Republican daily newspaper beings publication[16]
- 1895 – Seattle General Hospital established.
- 1898 – U.S. assay office opens.[17]
- 1899
- The Seattle Star newspaper begins publication.[5]
- Tlingit totem pole installed in Pioneer Place.
- 1900
- Population: 80,671.[2]
- Seattle General Hospital re-opened in a new building.
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20th century
1900s–1940s
- 1901 – Renton Hill Community Improvement Club organized.[18]
- 1903
- July 30: Semi-centennial of founding of Seattle.[19]
- City hires Olmsted Brothers to design public parks.[20]
- 1905
- South Seattle becomes part of city.[2]
- Seattle Fine Arts Society established.
- 1906
- The Mountaineers (club) formed.
- Public Library building opens.[21]
- King Street Station opens.
- 1907
- City expands, annexing Atlantic City, Ballard, Columbia, Dunlap, Rainier Beach, Ravenna, South-East Seattle, South Park, and West Seattle.[2]
- Pike Place Market opens.[17]
- St. James Cathedral built.
- 1908
- The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area.[22]
- 1909
- June 1: Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition opens.
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad begins operating.[3]
- 1910
- Georgetown becomes part of city.[3]
- Municipal League of Seattle founded.[23]
- Population: 237,194.[2]
- 1911 – Port of Seattle established.[24]
- 1913
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch established.[25]
- 20th Avenue NE Bridge opens.
- 1914 – Smith Tower built.[26]
- 1916
- Seattle Audubon Society established.[10]
- Coliseum Theater opens.[14]
- 1918 – Bessaroth Synagogue dedicated.[27]
- 1919 – February: Seattle General Strike.[28]
- 1920 – Seattle Northwest Enterprise newspaper begins publication.[25]
- 1922 – The first Miss Seattle is crowned.
- 1923
- Seattle Goodwill Industries established.[29][30]
- Mountaineers Players (theatre troupe) active.[31]
- 1924
- September 28: First aerial circumnavigation of the world lands at Sand Point.[32]
- Seattle Camera Club founded.
- 1925
- Sears, Roebuck store in business.
- Eagles Auditorium Building constructed.
- Seattle Planning Commission established.[33]
- 1926 – U.S. Naval Air Station established at Sand Point.
- 1928 – Civic Auditorium and Paramount Theatre[14] open.
- 1929 – Seattle Urban League founded.
- 1930
- Pike Place Fish Market and Japanese American Citizen's League[25] established.
- Exchange Building constructed.
- 1932 – Grace Hospital established.
- 1933 – Seattle Art Museum opens.[34]
- 1938 – Vedanta Society of Western Washington founded.[35][36]
- 1940 – Population: 368,302.[37]
- April 28: Seattle trolleybus system opens.
- 1941
- April 12: Last streetcar line closed.
- 1946 – Seattle Foundation established.
- 1947
- Airport begins operating.
- Memorial Stadium opens.
- 1949 – Free port opens.[37][24]
1950s–1990s
- 1950
- 1957 – Sister city relationship established with Kobe, Japan.[38]
- 1959 – City joins Puget Sound Governmental Conference.[39]
- 1960 – Population: 557,087.[40]
- 1961
- Space Needle erected.[41]
- American Institute of Architects Seattle chapter active.[42]
- 1962
- Alweg Monorail begins operating.
- April 21 – Seattle World's Fair opens.
- Congress of Racial Equality chapter established.[43]
- Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church built.[27]
- 1963
- Seattle Opera and Seattle Repertory Theatre[44] founded.
- Martin Cinerama opens.[14]
- 1964
- August 21: The Beatles perform at the Seattle Center Coliseum; they would do so once more just over two years later.
- 1965
- April 29: The 6.7 Mw Puget Sound earthquake affected western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing seven deaths and $12.5–28 million in financial losses in the Puget Sound region.
- ACT Theatre founded.
- 1967
- November: Radical Women founded.Seattle Radical Women, one of first women's liberation groups in the United States, forms in November 1967.
- Allied Arts of Seattle founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Bergen, Norway.[38]
- 1969
- Little Bread Co. and Brasserie Pittsbourg in business.[45]
- Seafirst Building constructed. It becomes Seattle's tallest building for 16 years.[4]
- 1970 – Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program[46] begin.
- 1971
- Mayor's Arts Festival begins (later known as Bumbershoot).
- Starbucks in business.[47]
- 1972
- Pacific Northwest Dance Association established.
- Intiman Theatre Festival begins.
- 1973 – Sister city relationship established with Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[38]
- 1974 – Seattle Seahawks franchise established, would begin play in 1976.[48]
- 1975 – World's first "commercial software for personal computers" invented in Seattle.[49]
- 1976 – Daybreak Star Cultural Center opens.[50]
- 1977
- Seattle Mariners baseball team formed.[51]
- Sister city relationship established with Beersheba, Israel.[38]
- 1978 – Central Co-op established.[52]
- 1979
- P-Patch Advisory Council established.[53]
- Music Magazine The Rocket begins publishing.[54]
- June 1: Seattle SuperSonics basketball team wins NBA Finals.[4]
- Sister city relationship established with Mazatlán, Mexico.[38]
- 1980
- Subterranean Pop fanzine begins publication.[54]
- Sister city relationship established with Nantes, France.[38]
- The last Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad train leaves Seattle before abandonment.
- 1981 – Sister city relationships established with Christchurch, New Zealand; and Mombasa, Kenya.[38]
- 1982 – Market Park landscaped.
- 1983 – Sister city relationship established with Chongqing, China.[38]
- 1984
- 911 Media Arts Center and Weird Science Salon[55] founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Limbe, Cameroon.[38]
- 1985
- Seattle Municipal Archives 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 – Sister city relationships established with Galway, Ireland; and Reykjavík, Iceland.[38]
- 1988
- Washington State Convention Center and Telephone Museum open.
- Nirvana releases its first album on Seattle's SubPop Records.
- 1989
- Jim McDermott becomes U.S. representative for Washington's 7th congressional district.[56]
- Sister city relationship established with Daejeon, South Korea.[38]
- 1990
- September 15: Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel opens.
- Norm Rice becomes mayor.
- October: Pearl Jam plays its first concert ever in Seattle's Off Ramp Café.
- Population: 516,259.[40]
- 1991
- Sustainable Seattle nonprofit established.
- Washington Hemp Expo begins.
- Seattle Art Museum rebuilt.[34]
- Sister city relationships established with Cebu, Philippines; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[38]
- 1992 – Sister city relationship established with Pécs, Hungary; and Surabaya, Indonesia.[38]
- 1993
- Seattle Knights jousting acting troupe founded.
- Fictional movie Sleepless in Seattle released.[57]
- Sister city relationships established with Gdynia, Poland; and Perugia, Italy.[38]
- 1994
- Amazon.com in business.
- Seattle Asian Art Museum opens.[34]
- City Public Access Network online.[58][59][60]
- 1996 – Sister city relationship established with Haiphong, Vietnam.[38]
- 1997
- Seattle Internet Exchange and Seattle Channel[61] established.
- Jet City Maven newspaper begins publication.
- 1998 – Paul Schell becomes mayor.
- 1999
- November 30: Anti-globalization protest during World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.
- Town Hall Seattle opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Sihanoukville, Cambodia.[38]
- 2000
- Experience Music Project opens.
- Music Magazine The Rocket ends publishing.[62]
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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 founded.
- Rat City Rollergirls (rollerderby league) founded.
- 2006
- Seattle Metropolitan begins publication.
- Kavana Cooperative founded.[36][63]
- 2007
- December 12: South Lake Union Streetcar line opened.[64]
- 2008
- Tilted Thunder Rail Birds (rollerderby league) formed.
- Seattle SuperSonics move to Oklahoma City
- 2009
- July 18: Central Link light rail begins service between Westlake and Tukwila.[65]
- December 19: Central Link is extended to SeaTac Airport.[66]
- InvestigateWest news headquartered in Seattle.[67]
- Upping Technology for Underserved Neighbors[68] and Jigsaw Renaissance[55] founded.
- CondoInternet in business.[69]
- 2010
- Northwest Chocolate Festival begins.
- Michael McGinn becomes mayor.
- Population: 608,660;[70] metro 3,439,809.[71]
- 2011
- 2012
- Ban against plastic shopping bags in effect.[74]
- Chihuly Garden and Glass and Living Computer Museum open.
- 2013
- Construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel by the tunnel-boring machine Bertha begins.
- Population: 652,405.[75]
- 2014
- January: Ed Murray becomes mayor.
- February: Seattle Seahawks win Super Bowl football contest.[76]
- May: City minimum wage hike announced.[77][78]
- 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.[79]
- September: School teacher labor strike[80]
- 2016
- January 23: First Hill Streetcar line opens.[81]
- 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.
- 2023
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