Timeline of Guatemala City

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

Prior to 20th century

History of Guatemala

Pre-Columbian era Spanish conquest of Guatemala Captaincy General of Guatemala Independence of Central America Liberal regime of the State of Guatemala (1829-1840) Conservative regime of the 30 years Liberal Revolution (1871) Central American Expo (1897) Manuel Estrada Cabrera presidency (1898-1920) Jorge Ubico presidency (1931-1944) Revolution of 1944 1954 Coup d'état Guatemalan Civil War Guatemalan genocide 1993 Serrano Elías coup Return to democracy

• 1776 - Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion founded, following destruction by earthquake of former Spanish colonial capital Antigua.^[1]
• 1778 - Population: 10,841.^[2]
• 1779 - City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala.
• 1789 - Plaza Mayor fountain erected.^[3]
• 1793 - Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[4]
• 1813 - Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated.^[3]
• 1823 - City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America.
• 1831 - Sociedad Economica museum established.^[5]
• 1835 - Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador.^[2]
• 1858 - Theatre founded.^[5]
• 1879 - Gas street lighting installed.^[6]
• 1880 - Population: 58,000.^[6]
• 1882 - Horse streetcar begins operating.^[6]
• 1885 - Electric street lighting installed.^[6]
• 1893 - Population: 72,000.^[6]
• 1898 - National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology established.

20th century

• 1917 - December 17: Earthquake.^[7]
• 1918 - January 4: Earthquake.^[7]
• 1921
  • Airport built.
  • Population: 121,000.^[6]
• 1924 - Zoo founded.
• 1934 - Museo Nacional de Historia y Bellas Artes (museum) opens.
• 1935 - Torre del Reformador (tower) and Obelisco (monument) erected.
• 1940
  • Guatemala Post Office Building constructed.
  • Population: 186,000.^[6]
• 1943 - National Palace rebuilt.
• 1949 - Club Social y Deportivo Comunicaciones (football club) formed.
• 1950
  • Estadio Mateo Flores and Estadio del Ejército (stadiums) open.
  • City hosts 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games.
• 1957 - National Library of Guatemala new building opens.
• 1971 - Francisco Marroquin University founded.
• 1975 - Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" established.
• 1976 - February 4: 1976 Guatemala earthquake.
• 1978 - National Theatre opens.
• 1984 - El Mezquital occupied.^[8]
• 1991
  • Estadio Cementos Progreso (stadium) opens.
  • Óscar Berger becomes mayor.
• 1996 - Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor.
• 1997 - Tikal Futura shopping mall built.
• 1999 - Club Premier hi-rise built.

21st century

• 2000
  • Fritz García Gallont becomes mayor.
  • Galileo University founded.
  • Domo (arena) built.
• 2001
  • City hosts 2001 Central American Games.
  • Population: 1,022,001.^[9]
• 2002 - Museo Miraflores (archaeological museum) founded.
• 2004
  • Guatemala City Railway Museum inaugurated.
  • Álvaro Arzú becomes mayor again.
• 2005 - March: Protest against Central American Free Trade Agreement.^[10]
• 2007
  • February 19: Salvadoran congressmen killings discovered near city.^[10]
  • February 23: Sinkhole collapse.
• 2009 - Guatemala National Police Archives headquartered in city.
• 2010 - May 30: Sinkhole collapse.
• 2012 - July: Teacher unrest.^[10]
• 2013 - Air pollution in Guatemala City reaches annual mean of 41 PM2.5 and 56 PM10, more than recommended.^[11]

See also

• Guatemala City history
• Guatemala City metropolitan area
• History of Guatemala

References

1. Baily 1850.
2. Marley 2005.
3. Markman 1966.
4. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup, Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
5. Britannica 1910.
6. Caplow 1949.
7. Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 429, OL 5812502M
8. Murphy 2004.
9. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013.
10. "Guatemala Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
11. World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• John Baily (1850). "Guatemala". Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. City of New Guatemala
• John L. Stephens (1856), "(Guatemala City)", Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, New York: Harper & Brothers (describes the city in 1840)
• William Eleroy Curtis (1888), "Guatemala City", The Capitals of Spanish America, New York: Harper & Bros.
• Manuel T. Ovalle (1889). Directorio del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala [Traveler's Guide to the Republic of Guatemala] (in Spanish). Guatemala: Imprenta de la Aurora. (includes city directory)
• Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guatemala", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company

Published in the 20th century

• "Guatemala", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• José Toribio Medina (1910). La imprenta en Guatemala (1660-1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Guatemala City, arranged chronologically)
• W.H. Koebel, ed. (1921), "Guatemala: Chief Towns: Guatemala", Anglo-South American Handbook, 1, New York: Macmillan
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Guatemala", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• Theodore Caplow (1949). "Social Ecology of Guatemala City". Social Forces. 28. doi:10.2307/2572637.
• Sidney D. Markman (1966). "Plaza Mayor of Guatemala City". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 25. JSTOR 988399.
• "Guatemala City", Guatemala, Rough Guides, 1998, p. 47+, OL 9003520M
• Edward Murphy (2004). "Developing Sustainable Peripheries: The Limits of Citizenship in Guatemala City". Latin American Perspectives. 31. JSTOR 4141607.
• David F. Marley (2005), "Guatemala City", Historic Cities of the Americas, 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 339+, ISBN 1576070271

External links

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

Coordinates: 14°36′48″N 90°32′07″W / 14.613333°N 90.535278°W