Timeline of Buenos Aires

This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Prior to 19th century

• 1580 - Fort built by Juan de Garay.^[1]
• 1591 - Dominican monastery established.^[2]
• 1604 - San Francisco monastery established.^[2]
• 1611 - Men's Hospital founded.^[2]
• 1620 - Town becomes capital of Buenos Aires Province.^[1]
• 1671 - Cathedral inaugurated.^[3]
• 1711 - Cabildo built.^[2]
• 1716 - Granted the royal motto Most Noble and Loyal ("Muy Noble y muy Leal")
• 1720 - Recoleta church built.^[2]
• 1722 - Completion of Saint Ignatius Church
• 1727 - San Miguel church founded.^[2]
• 1743 - Women's Hospital established.^[2]
• 1744 - Las Monjas convent founded.^[2]
• 1749 - San Juan convent established.^[2]
• 1752 - Cathedral built.^[1]
• 1755 - Female Orphan School established.^[2]
• 1763 - Anglo-Portuguese invasion, part of the Seven Years' War, repelled by Viceroy Cevallos.
• 1768 - Merced church built.^[2]
• 1776 - City becomes capital of Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.^[1]
• 1778 - "Free trade regulations" in effect.^[1]
• 1779 - Foundling Asylum established.^[2]
• 1794 - Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[4][5]

19th century

1800s-1840s

• 1801 - Telégrafo Mercantil newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1806 - British briefly in power.
• 1810
  • 18–25 May: May Revolution.^[7]
  • State Library established.^[2]
• 1811 - Pirámide de Mayo monument built on the Plaza de Mayo.
• 1815 - Academy of Jurisprudence founded.^[2]
• 1821 - University of Buenos Aires founded.
• 1822
  • Academy of Music founded.
  • Street names changed.^[2]
  • Northern Cemetery established.
• 1823 - Museum of Buenos Ayres, Sociedad de Beneficencia,^[2] and Philharmonic Association founded.
• 1829 - British Library established (approximate date).^[2]
• 1832 - English Cemetery established.^[2]
• 1833 - Victoria Theatre built.^[8]
• 1838
  • 28 March: French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
  • Scotch Church built.^[2]
• 1840 - French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
• 1841 - Foreign Club established.^[2]
• 1845 - Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
• 1847 - Lutheran Church built.^[2]

1850s-1890s

Buenos Aires, ca.1860

• 1850 - Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
• 1852
  • Board of Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Club del Progreso founded.^[2]
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1853
  • City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires.
  • Germania club founded.^[2]
• 1854 - Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Society of Natural History of the Plate, and Gymnastic Club founded.^[2]
• 1855 - Custom house built.^[2]
• 1856
  • Mercado del Plata built.
  • Irish Convent of Sisters of Mercy established.^[2]
• 1857
  • Teatro Colón opens.
  • Deaf and Dumb Institute founded.^[2]
• 1858
  • Café Tortoni in business.
  • Poor Asylum, School of Catedral al Sur, and Maua Bank established.^[2]
  • School of medicine built.^[2]
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1859 - British Hospital and Convalecencia built.^[2]
• 1860
  • Plaza del Retiro laid out.^[2]
  • Catedral al Norte (school) and Club del Plata founded.^[2]
  • Santa Catalina church built.^[2]
• 1861
  • City becomes part of Argentine Confederation again.
  • Plaza del Parque public garden laid out.^[2]
  • Teutonia club founded.^[2]
  • Mercado del Comercio and Episcopal palace built.^[2]
• 1862
  • Plaza Libertad laid out.^[2]
  • Archbishop's Palace built.^[2]
  • French Hospital and Irish Hospital established.^[2]
• 1863
  • Congress-hall and Italian Hospital built.^[2]
  • London and River Plate Bank established.^[2]
• 1864
  • Franco Argentine Theatre in business.^[2]
  • Lorea market, German Singing Academy, and Concordia club established.^[2]
• 1865
  • Constitución railway station opens.
  • Coliseum concert-hall built.^[2]
  • Kranken-verein and Heimath club founded.^[2]
• 1866 - Archepiscopal see and Mercado de Independencia established.^[1]
• 1867
  • Cholera epidemic.^[1]
  • German Hospital Society, Mercado del Norte, and Thalia club founded.^[2]
• 1868
  • Congregación Israelita Argentina founded.^[9]
  • Sanitary Institute opens.^[2]
• 1869
  • La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 177,767.^[1]
• 1870 - Yellow fever epidemic.^[10]
• 1871
  • Yellow fever epidemic.^[1]
  • City fire department established.^[11]
• 1873 - A la Ciudad de Londres department store in business.^[12]
• 1875 - Parque Tres de Febrero inaugurated.
• 1876 - Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes (art society)^[13] and Buenos Aires Orchestral Society organized.
• 1877
  • National Penitentiary inaugurated.^[6]
  • Café de Hansen in business.^[14]
• 1879
  • Teatro Politeama (theatre) opens.^[15]
  • Rivadavia Library founded.^[6]
• 1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires established.
• 1882
  • Once railway station opens.
  • National Theatre built.^[8]
• 1887
  • Belgrano and Flores become part of city.^[1]
  • Constitución railway station rebuilt.
• 1888
  • Buenos Aires Zoo established.^[16]
  • Pizzurno Palace built.
• 1890 - National Historical Museum opens.^[6]
• 1891 - Rivera Indarte Theatre opens.
• 1893 - Buenos Aires City Hall built.
• 1894
  • The Water Company Palace built.
  • Musical Mutual Society organized.
• 1895
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opens.
  • Population: 663,854.^[3]
• 1897 - Puerto Madero constructed.
• 1898
  • Buenos Aires Botanical Garden inaugurated.^[17]
  • Casa Rosada built.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 - Club Atlético River Plate formed.
• 1904
  • Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi inaugurated.
  • Population: 950,891.^[1]
• 1905 - Club Atlético Boca Juniors formed.
• 1906 - Congress hall built.^[1]
• 1908 - Avenida Theatre opens.
• 1909 - San Martín Palace built.
• 1910
  • Exposición Internacional del Centenario held.
  • Customs House, Palace of Justice, and Congressional Plaza inaugurated.
• 1911 - Hotel de Inmigrantes built.
• 1912 - Cine Atlas Belgrano opens.^[18]
• 1913
  • Buenos Aires Underground begins operating.^[3]
  • Diario Crítica newspaper begins publication.^[19]
• 1914
  • Harrods Buenos Aires in business.
  • Population: 1,575,814.^[3]
• 1915 - Retiro railway station opens.
• 1916 - Buenos Aires Stock Exchange built.
• 1917 - Confitería El Molino in business.
• 1919
  • January: Tragic Week conflict.
  • Teatro Gran Splendid opens.^[20]
• 1921 - Cervantes Theatre opens.
• 1922 - Cine Catalunya opens.^[18]
• 1923 - Palacio Barolo built.
• 1925 - Puerto Nuevo opens.
• 1936
  • Kavanagh building constructed.
  • Maldonado Stream tubed (approximate date).
• 1937 - Teatro Gran Rex opens.
• 1938 - Estadio Monumental opens.
• 1945 - 17 October: Labor demonstration.
• 1946 - Buenos Aires Philharmonic founded.
• 1947 - Population: 4,798,670.^[3]
• 1948 - Aeroparque Jorge Newbery opens.
• 1949 - Ministro Pistarini International Airport built.

1950s-1990s

• 1950 - Alas Building constructed.
• 1955
  • 16 June: Bombing of Plaza de Mayo.
  • Revolución Libertadora.
• 1957 - Federico Lacroze railway station opens.
• 1958 - Justo José de Urquiza monument inaugurated.
• 1962 - 11 June: Villa Soldati level crossing train accident.
• 1967 - Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens open.
• 1968 - Galileo Galilei planetarium opens.
• 1971 - Florida Street pedestrianized.
• 1972 - Bombing of Sheraton Hotel.
• 1973 - 20 June: Peronist shooting near Ezeiza Airport.
• 1975
  • Buenos Aires International Book Fair begins.
  • Bombing of theatre.
• 1976
  • 24 March: Coup d'état.
  • 2 April: Osvaldo Cacciatore becomes mayor.
• 1977 - 30 April: Demonstrations by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin.
• 1978 - Argentine Council for International Relations founded.^[21]
• 1979
  • 11 December: 1979 Copa América football tournament held.
  • Caseros Prison built.
• 1980 - Centro Cultural Recoleta inaugurated.
• 1982 - June: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
• 1987
  • April: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
  • 12 July: 1987 Copa América Final football tournament held.
• 1988 - Patio Bullrich shopping centre opens.
• 1991 - Galerías Pacífico shopping centre opens.
• 1992
  • 17 March: Bombing of Israeli embassy.
  • National Library building inaugurated.
• 1994 - 18 July: Bombing of Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building.^[22]
• 1996
  • Autonomous City of Buenos Aires established per 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution.
  • 30 June: Mayoral election takes place.
• 1999
  • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema begins.
  • Abasto de Buenos Aires shopping mall opens.

21st century

2000s

• 2000
  • King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center inaugurated.
  • El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop in business.
  • Aníbal Ibarra becomes Chief of Government of city.
• 2001
  • Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated.
  • Buenos Aires Fashion Week and Creamfields BA music festival begin.
  • Eloísa Cartonera founded.^[23]
  • December: Economic protest.
• 2002
  • June: Economic protest.^[22]
  • Quilmes Rock music festival and Buenos Aires Jazz Festival begin.
• 2004 - 30 December: República Cromañón nightclub fire.^[22]
• 2005
  • Appetite (art gallery) opens.
  • El Faro Towers built.
• 2006 - March: Aníbal Ibarra deposed; Jorge Telerman becomes Chief of Government of city.
• 2007 - Mauricio Macri becomes Chief of Government of city.^[24][25]
• 2008
  • Fortabat Art Collection opens.
  • Repsol-YPF tower built.
• 2009 - Le Parc Figueroa Alcorta and Mulieris towers built.

2010s

• 2010
  • Municipal bicycle sharing program established.
  • Metropolitan Police department established.
  • Population: 2,891,082.
• 2011
  • 24 July: 2011 Copa América Final football tournament held.
  • Metrobus begins operating.
• 2012
  • 22 February: Train crash.
  • 4 April: F2 2012 Buenos Aires tornado
• 2013
  • April: Flooding.^[26]
  • Computer Museum of Argentina opens.

See also

• Buenos Aires history
• History of Buenos Aires
• Barrios and Communes of Buenos Aires
• List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires
• Landmarks in Buenos Aires
• Timeline of Argentine history

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Mulhall 1869.
3. Marley 2005.
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11. McCleary 2012.
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This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 18th-19th centuries

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Published in the 20th century

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Published in the 21st century

• Matthew B. Karush (2003). "National Identity in the Sports Pages: Football and the Mass Media in 1920s Buenos Aires". The Americas. 60. JSTOR 3654752.
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• Craig Epplin (2007). "New Media, Cardboard, and Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires". Hispanic Review. 75. JSTOR 27668813.
• Filipe Campante; Edward Glaeser (2009), Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago, Cambridge, Massachusetts: National Bureau of Economic Research
• Viviana L. Grieco (2009). "Socializing the King's Debt: Local and Atlantic Financial Transactions of the Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1793-1808". The Americas. 65. JSTOR 25488140.
• Susan Hallstead-Dabove (2009). "Disease and immorality: the problem of fashionable dress in Buenos Aires, 1862-1990". Latin American Literary Review. 37. JSTOR 41478056.
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