Timeline of Guatemala City

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The following is a timeline of the history of Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala.

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Prior to 20th century[]

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  • 1776 – Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion founded, following destruction by earthquake of former Spanish colonial capital Antigua.[1]
  • 1778 – Population: 10,841.[2]
  • 1779 – City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala.
  • 1789 – Plaza Mayor fountain erected.[3]
  • 1793 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.[4]
  • 1813 – Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated.[3]
  • 1823 – City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America.
  • 1831 – Sociedad Economica museum established.[5]
  • 1835 – Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador.[2]
  • 1858 – Theatre founded.[5]
  • 1879 – Gas street lighting installed.[6]
  • 1880 – Population: 58,000.[6]
  • 1882 – Horse streetcar begins operating.[6]
  • 1885 – Electric street lighting installed.[6]
  • 1893 – Population: 72,000.[6]
  • 1898 – National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology established.

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Baily 1850.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Marley 2005.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Markman 1966.
  4. ^ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Britannica 1910.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Caplow 1949.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 429, OL 5812502M
  8. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Murphy 2004.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Guatemala Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  14. ^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva
  15. ^ "Guatemala Volcano's Death Toll, Now at 65, Is Likely to Rise", New York Times, June 4, 2018
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

Published in the 19th century[]

  • John Baily (1850). "Guatemala". Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. City of New Guatemala
  • John L. Stephens (1856), "(Guatemala City)", Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, New York: Harper & Brothers (describes the city in 1840)
  • William Eleroy Curtis (1888), "Guatemala City", The Capitals of Spanish America, New York: Harper & Bros.
  • Manuel T. Ovalle (1889). Directorio del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala [Traveler's Guide to the Republic of Guatemala] (in Spanish). Guatemala: Imprenta de la Aurora. (includes city directory)
  • Alfred Ronald Conkling (1893), "Guatemala", Appletons' Guide to Mexico, New York: D. Appleton & Company

Published in the 20th century[]

External links[]

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