Timeline of Montevideo

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

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18th century

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1724 – Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo (Historic City Centre) founded.
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.
- Printing press in operation.
- 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 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.^{[citation needed]}
ca.1830 - Plaza Independencia established
1830 – National museum founded.^[1]
1833 – Public library founded.^[1]
1840 - Plaza de Cagancha named.
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]
1900 – Estadio Gran Parque Central opens.

20th century

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]
- Edificio London París completed.
- Population: 312,946.(estimate).^[1]
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.
1924 - Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cordón, Montevideo current church built.
1925 – Palacio Legislativo (Uruguay) built.
1928 - Palacio Salvo finished.
1930
- Estadio Centenario opens.
- July: 1930 FIFA World Cup held.^[9]
- Juan Manuel Blanes Museum established.
- Obelisk of Montevideo built.
- Port of Montevideo major engineering works completed.
1933
- International Conference of American States held; Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States signed.
- Edificio Lapido built.
1935 – Asociación de Arte Constructivo founded.^[10]
1941 – City Hall of Montevideo built.
1945 – Cine Trocadero opens (approximate date).^[11]
1947 – Airport terminal inaugurated.^{[citation needed]}
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]
1963 – Population: 1,154,465.^[15]
1964 – Edificio Panamericano (residential building) constructed.
1973 – 27 June: 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état.
1975 – Population: 1,229,748.^[16]
1983 – September: Labor demonstration.^[17]
1985 – Liberty Building (Montevideo) built.
1988 – May: Pope John Paul II visits city.
1990
- Tabaré Vázquez elected mayor.^[18]
- City administration partially decentralized.
1991 – Population: 1,360,258.^[19]
1992 – Sarandi street pedestrianized.^{[citation needed]}
1995 – 23 July: 1995 Copa América Final football tournament held.

21st century

2007 – Mercosur headquartered in city.^[20]
2008 – Executive Tower, Montevideo built.
2009 – Carrasco International Airport expands.
2010 – Ana Olivera becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
2011 – Population: 1,319,108.
2015 – Daniel Martínez becomes Intendant of Montevideo.
2016 – Population: 1,380,432.^[21]
2019 – Christian Di Candia becomes Intendant of Montevideo.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Mulhall 1885.
^ "Montevideo (Uruguay) Newspapers". WorldCat. US: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Salgado 2003.
^ Stanford 1883.
^ ^a ^b ^c Peck 1916.
^ Rosenthal 1995a.
^ Rosenthal 1995b.
^ Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
^ "South America, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^ "Movie Theaters in Montevideo, Uruguay", CinemaTreasures.org, Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC, retrieved 14 July 2013
^ "Institucional" (in Spanish). Cinemateca Uruguaya. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
^ "Historia del Museo Torres García". Montevideo: Museo Torres García. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
^ "Historia" (in Spanish). Montevideo: Museo y Archivo Cabildo. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Robert J. Alexander (2005), A history of organized labor in Uruguay and Paraguay, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, ISBN 0275977455
^ Canel 2001.
^ 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. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Uruguay Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 23 October 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
^ "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

Emeric Essex Vidal (1820), Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, London: R. Ackermann, OCLC 6287966, OL 6939031M
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
"The Capital", The Republic of Uruguay, South America, London: E. Stanford, 1883, OCLC 9173138
Michael George Mulhall; Edward T. Mulhall (1885), "Montevideo", Handbook of the River Plate, comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay (5th ed.), Buenos Aires: M.G. and E.T. Mulhall
Theodore Child (May 1891). "Republic of Uruguay". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. US. 82: 917+.. Includes description of Montevideo.
Archibald Wilberforce, ed. (1893). "Montevideo". Capitals of the Globe. New York: Peter Fenelon Collier. hdl:2027/mdp.39015061863513.
Orestes Araújo (1900), "Montevideo", Diccionario geografico del Uruguay (in Spanish), Montevideo: Imprente Artística, de Dornaleche y Reyes, OCLC 1446163

Published in the 20th century

"Montevideo, San Felipe y Santiago de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 778–779.
Charles Warren Currier (1911), "Montevideo", Lands of the Southern Cross: a Visit to South America, Washington, DC: 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, DC: 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
Annie Smith Peck (1916), "Montevideo", The South American Tour, New York: G.H. Doran, OCLC 4541554
Gordon Ross (1917), "Mondevideo and Buenos Aires", Argentina and Uruguay, London: Methuen
Guide book: Montevideo, Uruguay, U.S. Navy Ports of the World, Lansing, MI: Robert Smith Company, 1921, OL 25166657M
Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Montevideo", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Govt. Print. Office
Albes, Edward (1922). Montevideo, the city of roses. Pan American Union online; 29 pp well-illustrated
Anton Rosenthal (1995a). "The Arrival of the Electric Streetcar and the Conflict over Progress in Early Twentieth-Century Montevideo". Journal of Latin American Studies. 27.
Anton Rosenthal (1995b). "Streetcar Workers and the Transformation of Montevideo: The General Strike of May 1911". The Americas. 51.

Published in the 21st century

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).
Susana Salgado (2003). The Teatro Solis: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819565945.
David Marley (2005), "Montevideo", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, p. 817+, ISBN 1576070271

External links

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v t e Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo
Main streets	Peatonal Sarandí Peatonal Pérez Castellano Rambla 25 de Agosto & Rambla Francia
Squares	Plaza Independencia Plaza Constitución Plaza Zabala
Monuments	Artigas Mausoleum Gateway of The Citadel Bruno Mauricio de Zabala
Churches	Iglesia Matriz Parroquia San Francisco de Asís Iglesia de Lourdes Templo Inglés
Architecture	Executive Tower Solís Theatre Palacio Taranco Club Uruguay Casa de Francisco Gómez (Junta Departamental) Hotel Colón Casa Central del Banco República Mercado del Puerto Dirección Nacional de Aduanas
Museums	Palacio Estévez Municipal Historic Museum and Archive (Cabildo) Museo de Artes Decorativas Museo Histórico National Museo Romántico Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena Museo Torres García Museo Figari Museo Gurvich Sala de Arte "Carlos Federico Sáez" Museo del Carnaval
Entertainment	Solís Theatre Radisson Plaza Casino
Hotels	Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel Hotel Palacio

v t e Barrios of Montevideo
	Ciudad Vieja Centro Barrio Sur Aguada Villa Muñoz Cordón Palermo Parque Rodó Tres Cruces La Comercial Larrañaga La Blanqueada Parque Batlle–Villa Dolores Pocitos Punta Carretas Unión Buceo Malvín Malvín Norte Las Canteras Punta Gorda Carrasco Carrasco Norte Bañados de Carrasco Flor de Maroñas Maroñas–Parque Guaraní Villa Española Ituzaingó Pérez Castellanos Mercado Modelo–Bolívar Brazo Oriental Jacinto Vera La Figurita Reducto Capurro–Bella Vista Prado–Nueva Savona Atahualpa Aires Puros Paso de las Duranas Belvedere La Teja Tres Ombúes–Pueblo Victoria Villa del Cerro Casabó–Pajas Blancas La Paloma–Tomkinson Paso de la Arena–Los Bulevares–Santiago Vázquez Nuevo París Conciliación Sayago Peñarol–Lavalleja Colón Centro y Noroeste Lezica–Melilla Colón Sudeste–Abayubá Manga–Toledo Chico Casavalle Cerrito de la Victoria Las Acacias Jardines del Hipódromo Piedras Blancas Manga Punta de Rieles–Bella Italia Villa García–Manga Rural

v t e Years in Uruguay (1828–present)
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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

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