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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ==19th century== * 1821 - Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta per treaty.〔 * 1839 - Settlement of "Terminus" established (at what would be end of Western and Atlantic Railroad).〔 * 1843 - Town of Marthasville incorporated. * 1845 * * Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating.〔 * * Marthasville renamed "Atlanta."〔 * 1846 - Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah.〔 * 1847 - Town of Atlanta incorporated. * 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor. * 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor. * 1850 * * Population: 2,572. * * Atlanta Cemetery founded.〔 * 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest. * 1852 - Atlanta & West Point Railroad built.〔 * 1853 - Atlanta becomes seat of Fulton County.〔 * 1855 * * Atlanta Medical College established.〔 * * Gas lighting installed in city. * 1860 * * Population: 9,554. * * William Ezzard becomes mayor (1860 - 1861). * 1861 * * Jared Whitaker becomes mayor (1861 - 1861 - joined CSA government). * * Thomas Lowe becomes mayor (1861 - 1862). * 1864 * * James Calhoun becomes mayor (1862 - 1866). * * May–September: Union forces wage Atlanta Campaign. * * September 2: Union forces take city. * * November 15: Burning of Atlanta by Union forces.〔 * * Nov. 26: Col. Luther J. Glenn is appointed commander of the Atlanta Post.〔Cooper, ''Official History of Fulton County''〕 * * Dec. 5: Cap. Thomas L. Dodd is appointed the Provost-Marshal. * * Dec 7: Gen. W. P. Howard sends his report to Governor Brown on the destruction of Atlanta.〔Davis, ''What the Yankee's Did to Us''〕 * 1865 * * Civil War ends; slaves freed. * * Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college, founded. * 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded. * 1868 * * Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital.〔 * * ''Constitution'' newspaper begins publication. * 1869 - Clark College founded. * 1870 - Population: 21,879 * 1871 * * Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.〔 * * Public school system organized.〔 * 1877 - Washington Seminary established. * 1878 - Southern Medical College established.〔 * 1879 * * Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary. * * Atlanta Building and Loan Association established. * 1880 * * Abyssinian Library established. * * Population: 37,409;〔 Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city. * 1881 * * Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and Morris Brown Colored College founded. * * International Cotton Exposition held.〔 * 1882 - Atlanta Fire Rescue Department established. * 1883 * * ''Atlanta Journal'' newspaper begins publication.〔 * * Capital City Club established. * 1885 - Georgia Institute of Technology founded. * 1886 * * Ebenezer Baptist Church founded. * * Atlanta goes "dry". * * Coca-Cola first sold. * 1887 * * Piedmont Exposition held.〔 * * Piedmont Driving Club〔 and Inman Park (first garden suburb) founded. * * Coca-Cola invents the coupon. * 1888 - Atlanta Camera Club organized. * 1889 * * First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city. * * Georgia State Capitol building opens.〔 * * Grant Park established. * * Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is incorporated. * 1890 - Population: 65,533.〔 * 1891 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway in business. * 1892 * * Atlanta Zoo established. * * Grady Memorial Hospital opens.〔 * 1895 * * Cotton States and International Exposition held.〔 * * September: Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech. * * Atlanta Woman's Club founded. * 1896 - Atlanta Conference of the Study of Negro Problems begins.〔 * 1899 - Federal penitentiary established. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of Atlanta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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