Timeline of Montevideo

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

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Montevideo history
• History of Montevideo [es]
• Barrios of Montevideo
• List of municipal intendants of Montevideo
• List of governors of Montevideo, 1751-1817
• List of museums in Montevideo

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

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. 82. US: 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

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