Timeline of Panama City

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1519 - Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion de Panama founded by Spaniards.[1]
• 1539 - Royal Audiencia of Panama established.
• 1671 - Panamá Viejo sacked by privateers Henry Morgan and Robert Searle.[2]
• 1673
  • New settlement established 5 miles southwest of Panamá Viejo.[1]
  • City wall,[2] Palacio de las Garzas, and Saint Dominic Convent[3] built.
• 1737 - Fire.[4]
• 1752 - Royal Audiencia disestablished.[4]
• 1760 - Cathedral built.[2]
• 1821 - City becomes part of Gran Colombia.[1]
• 1826 - June: City hosts Panama Congress.[2]
• 1830 - City becomes part of Republic of New Granada.[5]
• 1849 - Panama Star English-language newspaper begins publication.[6]
• 1853 - La Estrella de Panamá newspaper in publication.
• 1855 - Panama Railway begins operating.[7]
• 1856 - April 15: Watermelon War.
• 1878 - Fire.
• 1880 - Bishop's palace built.[7]
• 1881 - Panama Canal construction begins.[8]
• 1882 - L'Hospital Notre Dame de Canal established.
• 1887 - City fire department established.[1]

20th century

• 1903 - City becomes part of independent Republic of Panama.[5]
• 1904 - Ancon Hospital active.
• 1905 - Population: 22,000.[1]
• 1908 - National Theatre of Panama opens.
• 1911
  • Way On Cemetery established.
  • Population: 46,500.[1]
• 1914 - Panama Canal begins operating.
• 1916 - National Exposition of Panama held.[9]
• 1924
  • National Archive building dedicated.[10]
  • Hospital Santo Tomas rebuilt.
• 1925 - "Protest strike" against urban conditions.[1]
• 1930 - Population: 74,400.[1]
• 1935 - University of Panama established.
• 1940 - Population: 111,800.[1]
• 1947 - December: Anti-U.S. unrest.[1]
• 1950 - Population: 127,874.[11]
• 1953 - Auto-Cine (drive-in cinema) opens.[12]
• 1955 - Club Deportivo Plaza Amador (football club) formed.
• 1962 - Bridge of the Americas opens.
• 1964 - January: Anti-U.S. unrest.[1]
• 1970 - Gimnasio Nuevo Panama (arena) opens.
• 1975 - Population: 404,190 (approximate).[13]
• 1981 - La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
• 1985 - Parque Municipal Summit established.
• 1986 - Mossack Fonseca law firm in business.
• 1988 - Metropolitan Natural Park opens.
• 1989
  • December 20: United States invasion of Panama begins.[1][14]
  • Guillermo Endara becomes president
  • Mayin Correa becomes mayor of Panamá District.
• 1990 - Dictator Manuel Noriega surrenders to United States military forces on January 3.
• 1993 - Mi Pueblito created.[15]
• 1994 - Ernesto Perez Balladares wins May 1994 elections and becomes president.
• 1995
  • Club Deportivo Policía Nacional (football club) formed.
  • Population: 452,041 (estimate).[16]
• 1996
  • Marine Exhibition Center of Punta Culebra established.
  • Miramar Towers built.
• 1997
  • Cines Alhambra (cinema) in business.[12]
  • Panama Canal Museum established.
• 1999
  • Mireya Moscoso wins May 1999 elections and becomes the first female president of Panama.
  • Juan Carlos Navarro becomes mayor of Panama District.
  • Hospital Punta Pacifica founded.

21st century

• 2003 - Panama Jazz Festival begins.
• 2004 - Martin Torrijos wins May 2004 elections and becomes president.
• 2007 - Aqualina Tower built.
• 2008
  • February: Labour unrest.[5]
  • Mormon temple and Ocean One hi-rise built.
• 2009
  • Estadio Javier Cruz (stadium) opens.
  • Cinta Costera land reclamation completed.
  • Ricardo Martinelli wins May 2009 elections and becomes president.
• 2010
  • Ocean Two hi-rise built.
  • Population: 880,691.
• 2011 - Tower Financial Center, F&F Tower, Yacht Club Tower, Megapolis Tower, The Point, and Trump Ocean Club built.
• 2012
  • Vitri Tower and Pearl Tower built.
  • Mayor Bosco Vallarino resigns;[17] Roxana Méndez becomes mayor.
  • International Film Festival of Panama begins.[18]
• 2014
  • Panama Metro begins operating.
  • Juan Carlos Varela wins May 2014 elections and becomes president
  • Biomuseo built.[19]
• 2016 - Population: 472,856.[20]

References

1. Marley 2005.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Cooke 1983.
4. Rees 1819.
5. "Panama Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
6. "Panama (Panama) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
7. Chambers 1901.
8. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Panama", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
9. Pan American Union (1916). Panama. Washington DC: Union of American Republics.
10. Holger M. Meding (1999). "Historical Archives of the Republic of Panama". Latin American Research Review. 34 (3): 129–142. JSTOR 2503965.
11. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
12. "Movie Theaters in Panama City". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
13. 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.
14. "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved May 30, 2015
15. Carla Guerron Montero (2009). "'Three Roots' of Panama's Cultural Heritage: the Construction of Racial and National Identities in Theme Parks". In Jan M. Baud and Johanna Louisa Ypeij (ed.). Cultural Tourism in Latin America: The Politics of Space and Imagery. Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-17640-9.
16. 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.
17. "Panama City Mayor Resigns". Global Voices. January 16, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
18. "About". International Film Festival of Panama. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
19. "Frank Gehry's Biomuseo Primps for its Debut". Architectural Record. February 12, 2014. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
20. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2016. United Nations Statistics Division. 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Abraham Rees (1819), "Panama", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
• Gaspard Théodore Mollien (1824), "(Town of Panama)", Travels in the Republic of Colombia, London: C. Knight, OCLC 4373721
• Josiah Conder (1830), "Panama", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• Robert Tomes (1855), "Walk About Panama", Panama in 1855, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Wolfred Nelson (1889), Five years at Panama, New York: Belford Company, OCLC 1702456, OL 6909326M
• "Colombia: Panama". Commercial Directory of Latin America. Washington DC: Bureau of the American Republics. 1892.

Published in the 20th century

• "Panama". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
• William C. Haskins (1908). "Classified Business Directory of the City of Panama". Canal Zone pilot, guide to the Republic of Panama. Star & Herald Co.
• "Panama", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• John Owen Collins (1912). "City of Panama". The Panama Guide. Vibert & Dixon.
• Algernon E. Aspinall (1914), "Panama", Pocket Guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama Canal, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company
• Richard G. Cooke and Beatriz Elena Rovira (1983). "Historical Archaeology in Panama City". Archaeology. 36 (2): 51–57. JSTOR 41728660.

Published in the 21st century

• Scott Doggett (2001), "Panama City", Panama, Lonely Planet, p. 109, OL 8647756M
• David F. Marley (2005), "Panama City", Historic Cities of the Americas, 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 347+, ISBN 1576070271

External links

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