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History
Before 1820 1762 Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned
1820 1821 Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta 1823 Decatur founded 1826 Land lottery to distribute lots in the area which is now Atlanta
1830 1830 Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End 1836 Western & Atlantic Railroad approved 1839 John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus
1850 pop. 2,572 1850 Oakland Cemetery founded 1851 Western & Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest 1854 Atlanta and La Grange Railroad connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta becomes rail hub for entire South
1860 pop. 9,554 1861-1865 American Civil War 1864 Civil War Atlanta Campaign, burning of Atlanta 1865 Civil War ends; slaves freed; Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college, founded 1868 Atlanta made state capital
1870 pop. 21,879 1871 Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion
1880 pop. 37,409 1880 Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city 1881 International Cotton Exposition 1885 Georgia Tech founded 1886 Atlanta goes "dry"; Coca-Cola first sold; Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York City 1887 Piedmont Exposition; Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded; Coca-Cola invents the coupon 1889 First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city; State Capitol building opens
1890 pop. 65,533 1895 Cotton States Expo; Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech
1900 pop. 89,872 - metro 419,375 1906 1906 Atlanta race massacre kills 27; Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side
1910 pop. 154,839 - metro 522,442 1910 Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow 1913 Leo Frank lynching; Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State 1914 Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills 1917 Great Atlanta fire
1920 pop. 200,616 - metro 622,283 1923 Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks
1930 pop. 270,366 - metro 715,391 1936 William B. Hartsfield elected mayor; Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US 1939 Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets
1940 1946 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded 1949 Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus
1950 pop. 331,314 - metro 997,666 1950 Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power 1952 Buckhead annexed 1958 Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing during the Civil Rights Movement 1959 Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated; Lenox Square mall opens Metro population hits 1 million
1960 pop. 487,455 - metro 1,312,474 1960 Sit-ins at Rich's lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement 1961 Ivan Allen Jr. becomes mayor; Public schools begin token desegregation; Rich's desegregates restaurant; John Portman opens Merchandise Mart, kicking off transformation of downtown 1962 106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash 1963 Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses 1966 Major League Baseball's Braves play first season in Atlanta after moving from Milwaukee National Football League's Falcons play first season 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated National Basketball Association's Hawks play first season in Atlanta after moving from St. Louis 1969 Perimeter freeway opens
1970 pop. 496,973 - metro 1,763,626 1973 Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor 1979 MARTA opens first rail rapid transit line; Child murders begin
1980 pop. 425,022 - metro 2,233,324 1980 CNN launches, Turner empire takes off 1982 Andrew Young becomes mayor 1988 Democratic Convention
1990 pop. 394,017 - metro 2,959,950 1992 Bank of America Plaza completed, tallest US building outside of NYC and Chicago 1996 Summer Olympics
2000 pop. 416,474 - metro 4,112,198 2005 Airport becomes world's busiest; BeltLine plan adopted, adding 40% to city's green space 2008 Delta becomes world's largest airline; Downtown tornadoes
2010 pop. 420,003 - metro (CSA) 5,729,304 2011 Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects 2013 Atlanta Public Schools supervisor Beverly Hall convicted in cheating scandal 2017 Interstate 85 bridge collapse
See also: Timeline of Atlanta
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