Timeline of Rio de Janeiro explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Prior to 19th century

• 1565 AD
  • São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro founded by Portuguese.^[1]
  • Fortaleza de São João built.
• 1603 - St James of Mercy Fort built.
• 1663 - Padre Eterno galleon launched.
• 1693 - Calaboose Prison built.
• 1736 - founded.^[2]
• 1743 - Paço Imperial built.
• 1750 - Carioca Aqueduct built.
• 1752 - founded.
• 1763 - Portuguese America administrative center moved to Rio de Janeiro from Salvador.
• 1770 - Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro consecrated.
• 1783 - Passeio Público constructed.
• 1792 - Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho founded.

19th century

• 1803 - Paço de São Cristóvão building erected.
• 1808
  • City becomes capital of Kingdom of Portugal.^[3]
  • (royal printing press) begins operating.
  • 10 September: Gazeta do Rio newspaper begins publication.
• 1811 - Candelária Church inaugurated.
• 1811 - Construction of Valongo Wharf started.
• 1815 - City becomes capital of United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
• 1818 - Royal Museum established.
• 1822
  • City becomes capital of independent Brazil.
  • Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden opens.^[4]
• 1826 - founded.^[5]
• 1827
  • Jornal do Commercio newspaper in publication.^[6]
  • founded in Rio.^[7]
• 1838 - Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro headquartered in Rio.^[8]
• 1852 - Theatro Provisório built.
• 1854 - Catete Palace built.
• 1858
  • Dom Pedro II railway begins operating.^[9]
  • Central do Brasil inaugurated.
• 1871 - Theatro D. Pedro II (theatre) inaugurated.
• 1872 - Population: 274,972.
• 1877 - Santa Teresa Tram opens.
• 1884 - Corcovado Rack Railway opens.
• 1891 - Jornal do Brasil newspaper begins publication.
• 1894 - Confeitaria Colombo (coffee house) opens.
• 1896 - Academia Brasileira de Letras founded.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1902 - Universidade Cândido Mendes founded.
• 1904
  • Vaccine Revolt.^[10]
  • Avenida Rio Branco constructed.
• 1906 - Palácio Monroe erected.
• 1908
  • City flag design adopted.
  • Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil held in Urca.
  • 7 April: headquartered in city.
• 1909 - Teatro Municipal (theatre) inaugurated.
• 1912
  • Afonsos Air Force Base built.
  • Civil Police Museum founded.
• 1914 - Fort Copacabana built.
• 1917 - Labor strike.^[11]
• 1919 - South American Championship held.
• 1920 - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro founded.
• 1922
  • July: Coup attempt.
  • National Historical Museum (Brazil) created.
  • Population: 1,130,000.
  • Hotel Glória built.
  • Morro do Castelo (Castle Hill) demolished—now Castelo neighborhood.^[12]
• 1923 - Copacabana Palace Hotel inaugurated.
• 1925 - O Globo newspaper begins publication.
• 1926 - Hipódromo da Gávea built.
• 1927 - Edificio do Jornal A Noite built.
• 1931
  • Pedro Ernesto Baptista becomes mayor.
  • Cristo Redentor statue built.
• 1936
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport inaugurated.
  • Manguinhos Airport opens.
  • Santos Dumont Airport inaugurated.
• 1937 - Universidade Santa Úrsula founded.
• 1938 - Museu Nacional de Belas Artes inaugurated.
• 1940 - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro founded.
• 1943
  • Gustavo Capanema Palace built.
  • Santa Cruz Air Force Base established.
• 1945 - Zoological Garden inaugurated.
• 1947 - South American Basketball Championship held.
• 1949 - newspaper begins publication.

1950s-1990s

• 1950
  • Rio de Janeiro State University established.
  • Maracanã (stadium) opens.
  • Population: 2,303,063.^[13]
• 1951 - Nova Iguaçu level crossing disaster.
• 1952
  • Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada established.
  • Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas founded.
  • Manchete (magazine) headquartered in city.
• 1953 - Museu do Índio created.^[14]
• 1954 - Ginásio do Maracanãzinho built.
• 1958 - Train crash.
• 1960
  • Brazilian capital moved from Rio to Brasília.
  • Rio becomes Guanabara State, smallest state of Brazil.
• 1961
  • Tijuca Forest becomes a national park.
  • Edificio Avenida Central built.
• 1964 - Museum of Modern Art built.^[15]
• 1965
  • Rede Globo television begins broadcasting.
  • Flamengo Park created.
  • Banda de Ipanema begins.
• 1968 - March of the One Hundred Thousand against the military dictatorship happened.^[16]
• 1970 - Population: 4,252,009.^[17]
• 1971
  • Jacarepaguá Airport opens.
  • Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso founded.
• 1972
  • Petrobras Headquarters built.
  • Hotel Horsa Nacional built.
• 1975
  • City becomes capital of Rio de Janeiro (state).
  • Marcos Tamoio becomes mayor.
  • Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage created.
• 1976 - Le Méridien Copacabana opens.
• 1977
  • Riocentro built.
  • Rio Othon Palace hotel opens.
• 1978 - Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet built.
• 1979
  • Rio de Janeiro Metro founded.
  • Israel Klabin becomes mayor.
  • Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro established.
  • Rio de Janeiro Cathedral built.
• 1980
  • Júlio Coutinho becomes mayor.
  • 105 Lélio Gama St. built.
• 1981 - Barra Shopping opens.
• 1982 - Rio Sul Center built.
• 1983
  • Rede Manchete television begins broadcasting.
  • Jamil Haddad becomes mayor, succeeded by Marcello Alencar.
• 1984
  • Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí built.
  • CasaShopping opens.
• 1985 - City joins the newly formed .
• 1986 - Roberto Saturnino Braga becomes mayor.
• 1988 - Jó Antônio Resende becomes mayor.
• 1989
  • 16 July: 1989 Copa América football tournament held.
  • Marcello Alencar becomes mayor.
  • Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio branch) opens.
• 1990
  • Eva Klabin Foundation museum established.
  • Escadaria Selarón construction begins.
• 1991 - Population: 5,473,909.
• 1992 - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) held.^[18]
• 1993
  • César Maia becomes mayor.
  • Candelária massacre.
  • Population: 5,547,033 (estimate).^[19]
• 1994 Metropolitan hall opens.
• 1995 - Centro Empresarial Internacional Rio built.
• 1997
  • Luiz Paulo Conde becomes mayor.
  • Miécimo da Silva Sports Complex opens.
• 1998
  • Terra Encantada opens.
  • Project Morrinho begins.
  • Palace II building collapses.
• 2000 - 2000 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics held.

21st century

• 2001 - César Maia becomes mayor.
• 2002 - Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação do Rio de Janeiro established.
• 2004 - Torre Almirante built.
• 2006 - Koni Store founded.
• 2007
  • Cantagalo Station opens.
  • Estádio Olímpico João Havelange built.
  • HSBC Arena (Rio de Janeiro) opens.
  • 2007 Pan American Games held.
  • Rio de Janeiro train collision.
• 2008 - Rio International Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship begins.
• 2009
  • Eduardo Paes becomes mayor.^[20]
  • City wins the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics bid.
• 2010
  • World Urban Forum and Homeless World Cup football contest held.
  • Manguinhos Library Park opens in Benfica.
  • Population: 6,320,446.^[21]
• 2011
  • Cidade das Artes built.
  • School shooting.
• 2012
  • 25 January: Building collapses.
  • 6 June: TransOeste bus inaugurated.
  • 20–22 June: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held.
  • 7 October: held.
• 2013 - Protest.
• 2014 - 2014 FIFA World Cup and Street Child World Cup football contest held.
• 2015
  • July: Uber protest.
  • December: Museum of Tomorrow opens.
• 2016
  • Olympic Games and Paralympic Games held.
  • 2 October: held.
  • 6 October: Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
  • 14 October: Ultra Brasil (electronic music festival)
  • 25 October: Anima Mundi (animation film festival)
• 2017 - Valongo Wharf designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 2018
  • 2 September: National Museum of Brazil fire

See also

• History of Rio de Janeiro
• List of mayors of Rio de Janeiro

Other cities in Brazil:

• Timeline of Brasília
• Timeline of Curitiba
• Timeline of Fortaleza
• Timeline of Manaus
• Timeline of Recife
• Timeline of Salvador, Bahia
• Timeline of São Paulo

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • • • • Book: Handbook of Brazil . Michael George Mulhall . E.T. Mulhall . Buenos Ayres . 1877 . Rio Janeyro . Michael George Mulhall . 2027/mdp.39015014192523 .
  • Book: Handbook of Rio de Janeiro . ((Editors of the Rio News)). Rio de Janeiro . A.J. Lamoureux . 1887 .

Published in the 20th century

• • Book: 1928 . Collier's Encyclopedia . New York . P.F. Collier & Son . Rio de Janeiro . Collier's Encyclopedia . 2027/mdp.39015073301890 .
  • Book: Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History ... in the Newberry Library . . Chicago . 1953 . Hathi Trust . Local History, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro . 2027/mdp.39015023946240 .
• Book: W.A. Robson . William A. Robson . Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning . 1954 . Routledge. 978-1-135-67247-8 . Rio de Janeiro . https://books.google.com/books?id=4U8gAkKQ3aIC&pg=PA489 . 489+ .
  • Mary C. Karasch, Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1987)
• Jeffrey D. Needell, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge University Press, 1987)

Published in the 21st century

• Web site: Rio de Janeiro . Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 . United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London . 2003 .
• Book: Beier and Ocobock . Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective . 2008. Ohio University Press. 978-0-89680-262-9 . Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro . Thomas H. Holloway . https://books.google.com/books?id=Mop4uaeevugC&pg=PA162 . 162+ .
• Book: Teresa A. Meade. Teresa Meade . Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930. 2010. Pennsylvania State University Press. 978-0-271-04211-4.

External links

• Web site: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . en, pt . Heritage of Portuguese Influence . . Lisbon .
• Map of Rio de Janeiro, 1928
• Map of Rio de Janeiro, 1982
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Rio de Janeiro, various dates.

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