Timeline of Buenos Aires explained

This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Prior to 19th century

• 1536 – First foundation of the city by Pedro de Mendoza.
• 1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción.
• 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay.
• 1591 – Dominican monastery established.
• 1604 – San Francisco monastery established.
• 1611 – Men's Hospital founded.
• 1620 – Town becomes capital of Buenos Aires Province.
• 1671 – Cathedral inaugurated.
• 1711 – Cabildo built.
• 1716 – Granted the royal motto Most Noble and Loyal ("Muy Noble y muy Leal")
• 1720 – Recoleta church built.
• 1722 – Completion of Saint Ignatius Church
• 1727 – San Miguel church founded.
• 1743 – Women's Hospital established.
• 1744 – Las Monjas convent founded.
• 1749 – San Juan convent established.
• 1752 – Cathedral built.
• 1755 – Female Orphan School established.
• 1763 – Anglo-Portuguese invasion, part of the Seven Years' War, repelled by Viceroy Cevallos.
• 1768 – Merced church built.
• 1776 – City becomes capital of Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
• 1778 – "Free trade regulations" in effect.
• 1779 – Foundling Asylum established.
• 1794 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.

19th century

1800s-1840s

• 1801 - Telégrafo Mercantil newspaper begins publication.
• 1806 - British briefly in power.
• 1810
  • 18–25 May: May Revolution.
  • State Library established.
• 1811 – Pirámide de Mayo monument built on the Plaza de Mayo.
• 1815 – Academy of Jurisprudence founded.
• 1821 – University of Buenos Aires founded.
• 1822
  • Academy of Music founded.
  • Street names changed.
  • Northern Cemetery established.
• 1823 – Museum of Buenos Ayres, Sociedad de Beneficencia, and Philharmonic Association founded.
• 1829 – British Library established (approximate date).
• 1832 – English Cemetery established.
• 1833 – Victoria Theatre built.
• 1838
  • 28 March: French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
  • Scotch Church built.
• 1840 – French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
• 1841 – Foreign Club established.
• 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
• 1847 – Lutheran Church built.

1850s–1890s

• 1850 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
• 1852
  • Board of Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Club del Progreso founded.
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1853
  • City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires.
  • Germania club founded.
• 1854 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Society of Natural History of the Plate, and Gymnastic Club founded.
• 1855 – Custom house built.
• 1856
  • built.
  • Irish Convent of Sisters of Mercy established.
• 1857
  • Teatro Colón opens.
  • Deaf and Dumb Institute founded.
  • Buenos Aires Western Railway inaugurated.
• 1858
  • Café Tortoni in business.
  • Poor Asylum, School of Catedral al Sur, and Maua Bank established.
  • School of medicine built.
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1859 – British Hospital and Convalecencia built.
• 1860
  • Plaza del Retiro laid out.
  • Catedral al Norte (school) and Club del Plata founded.
  • Santa Catalina church built.
• 1861
  • City becomes part of Argentine Confederation again.
  • Plaza del Parque public garden laid out.
  • Teutonia club founded.
  • Mercado del Comercio and Episcopal palace built.
• 1862
  • Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opened.
  • Plaza Libertad laid out.
  • Archbishop's Palace built.
  • French Hospital and Irish Hospital established.
• 1863
  • Congress-hall and Italian Hospital built.
  • London and River Plate Bank established.
  • Tram service starts.
• 1864
  • Franco Argentine Theatre in business.
  • Lorea market, German Singing Academy, and Concordia club established.
  • Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club opened.
• 1865
  • Constitución railway station opens.
  • Coliseum concert-hall built.
  • Kranken-verein and Heimath club founded.
• 1866 – Archepiscopal see and Mercado de Independencia established.
• 1867
  • Cholera epidemic.
  • German Hospital Society, Mercado del Norte, and Thalia club founded.
• 1868
  • Congregación Israelita Argentina founded.
  • Sanitary Institute opens.
• 1869
  • La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 177,767.
• 1870 – Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1871
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
  • City fire department established.
• 1873 – A la Ciudad de Londres department store in business.
• 1875 – Parque Tres de Febrero inaugurated.
• 1876 – Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes (art society)^[1] and Buenos Aires Orchestral Society organized.
• 1877
  • National Penitentiary inaugurated.
  • in business.^[2]
• 1879
  • (theatre) opens.
  • Rivadavia Library founded.
• 1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; established.
• 1882
  • Once railway station opens.
  • National Theatre built.
  • South American Continental Exhibition held.^[3]
• 1887
  • Belgrano and Flores become part of city.
  • Constitución railway station rebuilt.
• 1888
  • Buenos Aires Zoo established.^[4]
  • Pizzurno Palace built.
• 1890 - National Historical Museum opens.
• 1891 – Rivera Indarte Theatre opens.
• 1893 – Buenos Aires City Hall built.
• 1894
  • Palacio de Aguas Corrientes built.
  • Musical Mutual Society organized.
• 1895
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opens.
  • Population: 663,854.
• 1897 – Puerto Madero constructed.
• 1898
  • Buenos Aires Botanical Garden inaugurated.^[5]
  • Casa Rosada re-built.

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1901 – Club Atlético River Plate formed.
• 1904
  • Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi inaugurated.
  • Population: 950,891.
• 1905
  • Club Atlético Boca Juniors formed.
  • Population: 1,025,653.
• 1906 – Congress hall built.
• 1908 – Avenida Theatre opens.
• 1909 – San Martín Palace built.
• 1910
  • Exposición Internacional del Centenario held.
  • Customs House, Palace of Justice, and Congressional Plaza inaugurated.
• 1911 – Hotel de Inmigrantes built.
• 1912 – Cine Atlas Belgrano opens.
• 1913
  • Buenos Aires Underground begins operating.
  • newspaper begins publication.
• 1914
  • Harrods Buenos Aires in business.
  • Population: 1,575,814.
• 1915 – Retiro railway station opens.
• 1916 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange built.
• 1917 – Confitería El Molino in business.
• 1919
  • January: Tragic Week conflict.
  • Teatro Gran Splendid opens.
• 1921 – Cervantes Theatre opens.
• 1922 – Cine Catalunya opens.
• 1923 – Palacio Barolo built.
• 1925 – Puerto Nuevo opens.
• 1936
  • Kavanagh Building constructed.
  • Maldonado Stream tubed (approximate date).
  • Obelisco built.
• 1937 – Teatro Gran Rex opens.
• 1938 – Estadio Monumental opens.
• 1945 – 17 October: Labor demonstration.
• 1946 – Buenos Aires Philharmonic founded.
• 1947 – Population: 2,981,043 city; 4,603,035 urban agglomeration.^[6]
• 1948
  • Aeroparque Jorge Newbery opens.
  • Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway & Buenos Aires Western Railway closed.
• 1949 – Ministro Pistarini International Airport built.

1950s–1990s

• 1950 – Alas Building constructed.
• 1955
  • 16 June: Bombing of Plaza de Mayo.
  • Revolución Libertadora.
• 1957 – Federico Lacroze railway station opens.
• 1958 – inaugurated.
• 1962 – 11 June: Villa Soldati level crossing train accident.
• 1967 – Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens open.
• 1968 – Galileo Galilei planetarium opens.
• 1971 – Florida Street pedestrianized.
• 1972 – Bombing of Sheraton Hotel.
• 1973 – 20 June: Peronist shooting near Ezeiza Airport.
• 1974 – Population: 2,976,000 city; 8,925,000 urban agglomeration.^[7]
• 1975
  • Buenos Aires International Book Fair begins.
  • Bombing of theatre.
• 1976
  • 24 March: Coup d'état.
  • 2 April: Osvaldo Cacciatore becomes mayor.
• 1977 – 30 April: Demonstrations by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin.
• 1978 – Argentine Council for International Relations founded.^[8]
• 1979
  • 11 December: 1979 Copa América football tournament held.
  • Caseros Prison built.
• 1980 – Centro Cultural Recoleta inaugurated.
• 1982 – June: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
• 1987
  • April: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
  • 12 July: 1987 Copa América Final football tournament held.
• 1988 – Patio Bullrich shopping centre opens.
• 1991
  • Galerías Pacífico shopping centre opens.
  • Population: 2,960,976 city; 10,686,163 urban agglomeration.^[9]
• 1992
  • 17 March: Bombing of Israeli embassy.
  • National Library building inaugurated.
• 1994 – 18 July: Bombing of Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building.^[10]
• 1996
  • established per 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution.
  • 30 June: Mayoral election takes place.
• 1999
  • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema begins.
  • Abasto de Buenos Aires shopping mall opens.
• 2000
  • King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center inaugurated.
  • El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop in business.
  • Aníbal Ibarra becomes Chief of Government of city.

21st century

2000s

• 2001
  • Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated.
  • Buenos Aires Fashion Week and Creamfields BA music festival begin.
  • Eloísa Cartonera founded.
  • December: Economic protest.
• 2002
  • June: Economic protest.
  • Quilmes Rock music festival and Buenos Aires Jazz Festival begin.
• 2004 – 30 December: República Cromañón nightclub fire.
• 2005
  • Appetite (art gallery) opens.
  • El Faro Towers built.
• 2006 – March: Aníbal Ibarra deposed; Jorge Telerman becomes Chief of Government of city.
• 2007 – Mauricio Macri becomes Chief of Government of city.^{[11] [12]}
• 2008
  • Fortabat Art Collection opens.
  • Repsol-YPF Tower built.
• 2009 – Le Parc Figueroa Alcorta and Mulieris Towers built.

2010s

• 2010
  • Municipal bicycle sharing program established.
  • Metropolitan Police department established.
  • Population: 2,891,082.
• 2011
  • 24 July: 2011 Copa América Final football tournament held.
  • Metrobus begins operating.
  • City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
• 2012
  • 22 February: Train crash.
  • 4 April: F2
• 2013
  • Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is elected as Pope Francis, succeeding the retired Pope Benedict XVI
  • April: Flooding.^[13]
  • opens.
• 2015
  • 3 June: The feminist movement Ni una menos organizes its first massive demonstrations against gender-based violence, popularising the campaign throughout Argentina and several Latin American countries.
• 2016
  • Population: 13,879,707 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 2017
  • Alvear Tower completed as the tallest building in Argentina.^[15]

2020s

• 2023
  • A specialized exhibition recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions will be held.^[16]

See also

• Buenos Aires history
  • Barrios and Communes of Buenos Aires
• List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires
• Landmarks in Buenos Aires
• Timeline of Argentine history

References

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 18th–19th centuries

• • • • Book: . 1830 . Edinburgh . Edinburgh Encyclopædia . William Blackwood . Buenos Ayres . https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo05edinuoft#page/48/mode/2up . Edinburgh Encyclopædia .
  • Book: The Stranger's Guide for Buenos Aires . Ernst Nolte . German Library . Buenos Aires . 1882 . .
• Book: Archibald Wilberforce . NY . Peter Fenelon Collier . 1893 . Capitals of the Globe . Buenos Ayres . 2027/mdp.39015061863513?urlappend=%3Bseq=591 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015061863513?urlappend=%3Bseq=591.

Published in the 20th century

• • Book: Statistical Annuary of the City of Buenos Aires . 1907 . Compania Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco . Buenos Aires .
• City of Good Airs . Arthur Ruhl . NY . . 1908 . 105 v . 2027/mdp.39076001655666?urlappend=%3Bseq=593 .
  • Buenos Aires (city) . 4 . Lamoureux. Andrew Jackson . 752–754 . 1910 . . 1.
    • • • • • • Book: W. A. Robson . William A. Robson . Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning . 1954 . Routledge. 978-1-135-67247-8 . Buenos Aires . https://books.google.com/books?id=4U8gAkKQ3aIC&pg=PA167 .
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• Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
• Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

Published in the 21st century

• National Identity in the Sports Pages: Football and the Mass Media in 1920s Buenos Aires . Matthew B. Karush . The Americas . 60 . 1 . 11–32 . 2003 . 3654752. . 10.1353/tam.2003.0073 . 144462904 .
• Women's Organizations and Jewish Orphanages in Buenos Aires, 1918-1955 . Donna J. Guy . Jewish History . 18 . 1 . 75–93 . 2004 . 20100924. . 10.1023/B:JEHI.0000005737.07142.ab . 159828141 .
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• New Media, Cardboard, and Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires . Craig Epplin . Hispanic Review . 75 . 4 . 385–398 . 2007 . 27668813. . 10.1353/hir.2007.0033 . 162202775 .
  • Socializing the King's Debt: Local and Atlantic Financial Transactions of the Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1793–1808 . Viviana L. Grieco . The Americas . 65 . 3 . 321–350 . 2009 . 25488140. . 10.1353/tam.0.0100 . 153346955 .
• Disease and immorality: the problem of fashionable dress in Buenos Aires, 1862-1990 . Latin American Literary Review . 37 . 73 . 90–117 . 2009 . Susan Hallstead-Dabove . 41478056. .
  • Book: Kristen McCleary . Greg Bankoff. Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World . 2012. University of Wisconsin Press . USA . 978-0-299-28383-4 . Inflaming the Fears of Theatergoers: How Fires Shaped the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880-1910 . https://books.google.com/books?id=EtPy7G7NnZEC&pg=PA254 . 254–272 . etal. .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art . . International Center for the Arts of the Americas . May 30, 2015 .
2. Book: Famous First Facts . 2000 . H.W. Wilson Co. . Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell . 0824209583 . registration .
3. Web site: LA EXPOSICIÓN CONTINENTAL SUDAMERICANA (15-3-1882) El arcón de la historia Argentina. November 17, 2017. es. 2015-12-15.
4. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 .
5. Web site: Garden Search: Argentina . . London . May 30, 2015 .
6. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
7. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 .
8. Web site: Think Tank Directory . Philadelphia, USA . . 29 July 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131110100006/http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ . 10 November 2013 .
9. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . 1997 . United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 262–321 .
10. News: Argentina Profile: Timeline . 13 July 2012 . BBC News . 29 July 2013.
11. Web site: Jefe de Gobierno . Buenos Aires Ciudad . es . 4 April 2013.
12. Web site: Argentine mayors . London . City Mayors.com . . 27 April 2013.
13. Web site: Argentina Floods . 3 April 2013 . BBC News .
14. Web site: Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2016 . 2017 . .
15. Web site: Marcuzzi. Josefina. Puerto Madero: crece la torre más alta de la ciudad. La Nacion. es. August 17, 2015. January 13, 2023. April 20, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210420194125/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/buenos-aires/puerto-madero-crece-la-torre-mas-alta-de-la-ciudad-nid1819798/. live.
16. Web site: Argentina elected host country of Specialised Expo 2023. 15 November 2017.