Timeline of Seattle

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Before the 19th century

• Native Americans explore and settle throughout the Puget Sound region which includes the Seattle area.[1]

19th century

Main articles: History of Seattle before white settlement and History of Seattle before 1900

• 1851 –
  • September 14: The Collins Party led by Luther Collins finds a settlement in present-day Georgetown.[1]
  • November 13: Two months after the founding of present-day Georgetown, the Denny Party settles at Alki Point to spend a rainy winter.[1]
• 1852 – The Denny Party finds it difficult to settle at Alki Point then 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]
• 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
  • Central School opens.[3]
  • Church of Our Lady of Good Help founded.
  • Population: 1,107.[2]
• 1873 – Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad organized.[3]
• 1874 – Gas street lamps installed.[3]
• 1875
  • San Francisco–Seattle steamship service begins.[3]
  • Ms. Maynard's Reading Room opens.[7]
• 1878 – Seattle Daily Post begins publication.[5]
• 1879 – Squire opera house built.[3]
• 1880
  • City chartered.[2]
  • Frye opera house built.[3]
  • Population: 3,533.[2]
• 1883 – Telephone[8] and Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad[3] begin operating.
• 1885 – Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway organized.
• 1886 – February: Anti-Chinese unrest.[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
  • Telegraph newspaper begins publication.
  • Country Club established.[13]
  • Population: 42,837.[2]
• 1891 – Seattle Public Library opens.
• 1892 – Pioneer Building constructed.
• 1893
  • Great Northern Railway begins operating.[3]
  • Seattle Athletic Club organized.[13]
  • Seattle Theatre opens.[14]
  • Curtis & Guptil photographers in business.[15]
• 1894 – The Argus newspaper begins publication.
  • The Seattle Republican daily newspaper beings publication[16]
• 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]

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]
• 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

Main article: History of Seattle since 1940

• 1950
  • Seattle Chinese Golf Club formed.[27]
  • Population: 467,591.[37]
• 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.
• 1965
  • April 29: The 6.7 M_w 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.
• 1966
  • August 25: More than two years later, The Beatles perform for the last time at the Seattle Center Coliseum.
• 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.[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]
• 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.
  • Following a 3-year construction period, the newly constructed 76 storey Columbia Center in downtown is complete. Therefore, becoming the tallest building in the city which forces CAP (Citizen Alternative Plan) to call in height limits.
• 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]

21st century

• 2001
  • February 27: Seattle Mardi Gras Riots
  • February 28: Nisqually earthquake.
• 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
  • Seattle Shorts Film Fest begins.[72]
  • Citizen University headquartered in city.[73]
• 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
  • COVID-19 pandemic
  • May 29: George Floyd protests

See also

• History of Seattle
• Neighborhoods in Seattle
• List of mayors of Seattle
• Timelines of Seattle's sister cities: Bergen, Kobe, Mombasa, Nantes, Perugia, Reykjavík, Tashkent
• Timeline of Spokane, Washington
• Timeline of Washington (state)[82]

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Bibliography

See also: History of Seattle § Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• "Seattle". Puget Sound Business Directory. Olympia: Murphy & Harned. 1872. hdl:2027/njp.32101079826390.
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• Frederic James Grant, ed. (1891). History of Seattle, Washington. New York.
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Published in the 20th century

• Polk's Seattle City Directory. Seattle. 1901.
• Chamber of Commerce (1903). Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Seattle.
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Published in the 21st century

• Vince Kueter (November 13, 2001). "Seattle Through the Years". Seattle Times.
• "150 Most Influential People in Seattle/King County History: Nominees", 150 Years: Seattle By and By, Seattle Times, 2001, archived from the original on November 2014
• Keiko Tanaka (2001). "Early Telephone Use in Seattle, 1880s–1920s". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 92 (4): 190–202. JSTOR 40492685.
• Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen (2002). "Meeting the Danger of Fire: Design and Construction in Seattle after 1889". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 93 (3): 115–126. JSTOR 40492770.
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• John Putman (2004). "Racism and Temperance: The Politics of Class and Gender in Late 19th-Century Seattle". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 95 (2): 70–81. JSTOR 40491731.
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• Jyotsna Sreenivasan (2009). "Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiments". Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 558+. ISBN 978-1-59884-168-8.
• Coll Thrush (2009). Native Seattle: histories from the crossing-over place. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98992-1.
• Susan P. Crawford; et al. (2014), Community Fiber in Washington, D.C., Seattle, WA, and San Francisco, CA: Developments and Lessons Learned, Berkman Center Research Publication, SSRN 2439429 – via Social Science Research Network
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External links

• "Broadband Failures of Seattle – Timeline". Seattle: Upping Technology for Underserved Neighbors.
• "Seattle Photographs". Digital Collections. University of Washington Libraries.
• Materials related to Seattle, various dates (via Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
• Items related to Seattle, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• Items related to Seattle, various dates (via Europeana)
• Various Seattle-related archived websites: "(Seattle)" – via Internet Archive, Archive-It.
• Seattle Municipal Archives. "Seattle Women's History Timeline". Women in City Government. Online Exhibits. City of Seattle.
• Seattle Municipal Archives. "Civil Rights Timeline". Seattle Open Housing Campaign. Online Exhibits. City of Seattle.
• "Seattle", American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection, USA – via University of Wisconsin, ca.1914–1949

Images

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  Seattle, circa 1870
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  Seattle, 1908
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  Atlantic Squadron parade, 1908
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  Map of Seattle and port, 1918
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  Reinstallation of Pioneer Square totem pole, 1940
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  Solstice Parade, 2013