Timeline of Montevideo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Prior to 19th century

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• 1726 – Settlement established by Spaniard Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1778 – Free port status acquired.^[1]
• 1797 – 31 August: British ship Lady Shore arrives in harbour.

19th century

Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral was conseceated in 1804

• 1804 – Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.^[2]
• 1807
  • 3 February: City besieged by British forces; British take city.
  • Southern Star newspaper in publication.^[3]
  • September: British occupation ends.
• 1811 – Siege of Montevideo by forces of the United Provinces of the River Plate.
• 1812
  • Montevideo Cabildo built.
  • Siege of Montevideo (1812-1814) begins.
• 1814 – Siege of Montevideo (1812-1814) ends; Spanish loyalists surrender.
• 1817 – 20 January: City occupied by Luso-Brazilian forces.
• 1821 - City becomes part of Brazilian province Cisplatina.
• 1823 – Siege of Montevideo (1823)
• 1825 – Hospital de Caridad founded.^[2]
• 1828
  • City becomes capital of independent Oriental Republic of Uruguay.^[1]
  • British Cemetery established.
• 1829 – City wall dismantled.
• 1830 – National museum founded.^[1]
• 1833 – Public library founded.^[1]
• 1843 – Great Siege of Montevideo begins.^[1]
• 1847 – Anglican church built.^[1]
• 1849 – University of the Republic founded.
• 1851 – Great Siege of Montevideo ends.
• 1856
  • Solís Theatre built.^[4]
  • Salesas convent founded.^[2]
  • Epidemic.^[2]
• 1857 – British hospital founded.^[1]
• 1858 – Church of the Immaculate Conception built.^[2]
• 1862 – Hotel Oriental built.^[2]
• 1863 – Bolsa (exchange) built.^[2]
• 1866 – Post office built.^[2]
• 1868 – Mercado del Puerto built.
• 1871 – Teatro Cibils inaugurated.^[4]
• 1874 – Estévez Palace built.
• 1876 – Punta Brava Lighthouse erected.
• 1879 – Population: 91,167.^[5]
• 1880 – Nuevo Teatro San Felipe opens.^[4]
• 1885 – Escuela Brasil (school) established.
• 1889 – Teatro Nuevo Politeama inaugurated.^[4]
• 1895 – Teatro Stella d'Italia founded.^[4]

20th century

• 1900 – Estadio Gran Parque Central opens.
• 1905 – Teatro Urquiza inaugurated.^[6]
• 1906 – Electric streetcar begins operating.^[7]
• 1908
  • Municipality of Montevideo created.
  • Daniel Muñoz becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
  • Immigrants' Hotel opens.^[6]
• 1909 – Urbano hotel in business.^[6]
• 1910 – Teatro 18 de Julio opens.^[4]
• 1911
  • National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) inaugurated.
  • May: General strike.^[8]
• 1913 – Villa del Cerro and La Teja become part of city.
• 1925 – Palacio Legislativo (Uruguay) built.

The Estadio Centenario opened for the 1930 FIFA World Cup

• 1930
  • Estadio Centenario opens.
  • July: 1930 FIFA World Cup held.^[9]
  • Juan Manuel Blanes Museum established.
• 1933 – International Conference of American States held; Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States signed.
• 1935 - Asociación de Arte Constructivo founded.^[10]
• 1941 – Palacio Municipal (Montevideo) built.
• 1945 – Cine Trocadero opens (approximate date).^[11]
• 1947 – Airport terminal inaugurated.
• 1952 – Cinemateca Uruguaya (film archive) founded.^[12]
• 1953 – Museo Torres García opens.^[13]
• 1956 – Cilindro Municipal (arena) opens.
• 1958 – Museum and Municipal Archives inaugurated in the Cabildo.^[14]
• 1964 – Edificio Panamericano (residential building) constructed.
• 1973 – 27 June: 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état.
• 1983 – September: Labor demonstration.^[15]
• 1985 – Liberty Building (Montevideo) built.
• 1988 – May: Pope John Paul II visits city.
• 1990
  • Tabaré Vázquez elected mayor.^[16]
  • City administration partially decentralized.
• 1992 – Sarandi street pedestrianized.
• 1995 - 23 July: 1995 Copa América Final football tournament held.

21st century

Executive Tower, Montevideo

• 2007 – Mercosur headquartered in city.^[17]
• 2008 – Executive Tower, Montevideo built.
• 2009 – Carrasco International Airport expands.
• 2010 – Ana Olivera becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
• 2011 – Population: 1,319,108.

See also

• Montevideo history
• History of Motevideo
• Barrios of Montevideo
• List of Municipal Intendants of Montevideo
• List of Governors of Montevideo, 1751-1817
• List of museums in Montevideo

References

1. "San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
2. Michael George Mulhall; Edward T. Mulhall (1885), "Montevideo", Handbook of the River Plate, comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay (5th ed.), Buenos Ayres: M.G. and E.T. Mulhall
3. "Montevideo (Uruguay) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
4. Susana Salgado (2003). The Teatro Solis: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819565945.
5. "The Capital", The Republic of Uruguay, South America, London: E. Stanford, 1883, OCLC 9173138
6. Annie Smith Peck (1916), "Montevideo", The South American Tour, New York: G.H. Doran, OCLC 4541554
7. Anton Rosenthal (1995). "The Arrival of the Electric Streetcar and the Conflict over Progress in Early Twentieth-Century Montevideo". Journal of Latin American Studies. 27.
8. Anton Rosenthal (1995). "Streetcar Workers and the Transformation of Montevideo: The General Strike of May 1911". The Americas. 51.
9. Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
10. "South America, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
11. "Movie Theaters in Montevideo, Uruguay", CinemaTreasures.org, Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC, retrieved 14 July 2013
12. "Institucional" (in Spanish). Cinemateca Uruguaya. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
13. "Historia del Museo Torres García". Montevideo: Museo Torres García. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
14. "Historia" (in Spanish). Montevideo: Museuo y Archivo Cabildo. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
15. Robert J. Alexander (2005), A history of organized labor in Uruguay and Paraguay, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, ISBN 0275977455
16. Eduardo Canel (2001). "Municipal Decentralization and Participatory Democracy: Building a New Mode of Urban Politics in Montevideo City?". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (71).
17. "Uruguay Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2013.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Emeric Essex Vidal (1820), Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, London: R. Ackermann, OCLC 6287966
• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Monte Video, Buenos Ayres", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Monte Video". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• John Hale Murray (1871), "(Monte Video)", Travels in Uruguay, London: Longmans & Co., OCLC 257407035
• Theodore Child (May 1891). "Republic of Uruguay". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. USA. 82: 917+.. Includes description of Montevideo.
• Archibald Wilberforce, ed. (1893). "Montevideo". Capitals of the Globe. NY: Peter Fenelon Collier.

Published in the 20th century

• Orestes Araújo (1900), "Montevideo", Diccionario geografico del Uruguay (in Spanish), Montevideo: Imprente Artística, de Dornaleche y Reyes, OCLC 1446163
• Charles Warren Currier (1911), "Montevideo", Lands of the Southern Cross: a Visit to South America, Washington, D.C.: Spanish-American Publication Society
• W.H. Koebel (1911), "Montevideo", Uruguay, London: Unwin
• United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (1914), "Montevideo", Trade Directory of South America for the Promotion of American Export Trade, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 5821807
• Alberto B. Martínez (1914), "Montevideo", Baedeker of the Argentine Republic; including also parts of Brazil, the Republic of Uruguay, Chili and Bolivia, Barcelona: R. Sopena, printer
• Henry Stephens (1915), "Montevideo", South American Travels, New York: Knickerbocker Press, OCLC 6588111
• Gordon Ross (1917), "Mondevideo and Buenos Aires", Argentina and Uruguay, London: Methuen
• Guide book: Montevideo, Uruguay, U.S. Navy Ports of the World, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith Company, 1921
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Montevideo", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Office
• Albes, Edward. Montevideo, the city of roses (Pan American Union, 1922) online; 29pp well-illustrated

Published in the 21st century

• David Marley (2005), "Montevideo", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 817+, ISBN 1576070271

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