Timeline of San Antonio

The Alamo in 1854

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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18th century

• 1718 – San Antonio founded.^[1]
• 1720 – Mission San Jose founded.^[2]
• 1722 – Presidio San Antonio de Bexar built.
• 1731 – Juan Leal Goraz becomes first mayor.
• 1750 – Church of San Fernando built.
• 1782 – Mission San Jose building constructed.

19th century

• 1813 – August: Battle of Medina occurs near town.
• 1821 – San Antonio becomes part of the Mexican Empire.^[2]
• 1836 – February 23 – March 6: Battle of the Alamo.^[2]
• 1837 – John William Smith becomes mayor.^[3]
• 1840 – March 19: Council House Fight.^[2]
• 1842 – September 17: Battle of Salado Creek occurs near town.^[2]
• 1845 – San Antonio becomes part of the new U.S. state of Texas.^[4]
• 1849 – Cholera epidemic.^[2]
• 1852 – St. Mary's Institute founded.^[5]
• 1853 – Public schools established.^[2]
• 1860 – Population: 8,235.^[6]
• 1865
  • U.S. Army Fort Sam Houston established.^[7]
  • San Antonio Express newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1868 – Frost Bank established.
• 1871 – Mount Zion Baptist Church founded.^[9]
• 1872 – Alamo Literary Society formed.^[10]
• 1874 – Catholic Diocese of San Antonio^[11] and Temple Beth-El congregation^[12] founded.
• 1875 – Sociedad Benevolencia Mexicana founded.^[9]
• 1877 – Railroad begins operating.^[7]
• 1881 – Evening Light newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1883 – San Antonio Brewing Company in business.
• 1884
  • March 11: Vaudeville Theater Ambush.^[2]
  • Societa Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso founded.^[9]
• 1885
  • Scholz's Palm Garden in business.^[9]
  • Alamo City Commercial College established.^[13]
• 1891 – Battle of Flowers festival begins.^[2][14]
• 1894 – Peacock Military College established.^[13]
• 1896

The Bexar County Courthouse around the turn of the 20th Century

• • Buckhorn Saloon in business.
  • Bexar County Courthouse built.
• 1898 – Woman's Club of San Antonio founded.
• 1899 – Brackenridge Park created.

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1900 – Population: 53,321.^[15]
• 1903 – San Antonio Public Library established.^[16]
• 1910 – Population: 96,614.^[15]
• 1912 – Alamo Methodist Church built.
• 1914 – San Antonio Zoo founded.
• 1917 – U.S. Army Kelly Air Force Base established.
• 1918
  • U.S. Army Brooks Air Force Base established.
  • San Antonio Evening News begins publication.
• 1921 – September 1921 San Antonio floods.^[2]
• 1924 – San Antonio Conservation Society formed.^[17]
• 1925 – San Antonio Junior College founded.
• 1926
  • Aztec Theater opens.^[18]
  • Witte Museum and Texas Cavaliers established.

The Randolph Air Force Base Administration Building

• 1930 – Population: 231,542.
• 1931 – U.S. Army Randolph Air Force Base begins operating.
• 1932 – Frito Company in business.
• 1933 – Earl Abel's restaurant in business.
• 1937
  • San Antonio Housing Authority established.^[19]
  • Station Hospital rebuilt.
• 1938
  • Pecan-sheller labor strike.^[20]
  • Ciculo Social Femenino Mexicano founded.^[20]
• 1940
  • Alamo Stadium built.
  • Hertzberg Circus Museum established.^[17]
  • Population: 253,854.^[7]
• 1941 – U.S. military Lackland Air Force Base, Broadway National Bank,^[21] and San Jose Mission National Historic Site established.^[7]
• 1946
  • Brooke Army Medical Center active.
  • Casa Rio restaurant in business.
• 1947
  • Jim's eatery and Josephine Theatre^[18] in business.
  • Southwest Research Institute headquartered in city.^[5]
• 1948 – Sultanas de Bejar (women's group) formed.^[14]

1950s–1990s

• 1950
  • Free port^[7] and Stock Show and Rodeo^[19] established.
  • Population: 408,442.
• 1958 – Fiesta Noche del Rio begins.
• 1961 – Henry B. Gonzalez becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 20th congressional district.^[22]

The Tower of the Americas, the theme structure for Hemisfair '68

• 1968
  • Tower of the Americas erected.
  • HemisFair Arena opens.
  • HemisFair '68 held.^[4]
  • Institute of Texan Cultures established.^[17]
  • Hilton Palacio del Rio hotel in business.
• 1969 – Paseo Del Rio Association formed.^[23]
• 1970 – Population: 708,582.^[4]
• 1972 – Texas Folklife Festival begins.
• 1973 – San Antonio Spurs basketball team active.
• 1978 – City passes ordinance creating VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority, the public transport system for San Antonio.
• 1980
  • San Antonio Botanical Garden opens.
  • Area of city: 263.5 square miles.^[4]
  • San Antonio Food Bank active (approximate date).^[5][24]
• 1981
  • San Antonio Museum of Art established.^[17]
  • Hyatt Regency San Antonio hotel in business.
  • Henry Cisneros becomes mayor.
• 1987 – Lamar S. Smith becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 21st congressional district.^[25]
• 1991 – Nelson W. Wolff becomes mayor.
• 1995 – Artpace founded.^[26]
• 1997 – 55th World Science Fiction Convention held.

21st century

• 2000
  • Bahá’í Center of San Antonio founded.^[27]
  • Population: 1,144,646.^[28]
• 2001– Gurudwara Sikh Center of San Antonio founded.^[27]

• 2008 – Spurs Community Garden created.^[29]
• 2009– Julian Castro (2014 head of HUD) becomes mayor.
  • NOWCastSA community news begins publication.^[30]
• 2010 – Area of city: 460.93 square miles.^[31]
• 2011 – Population: 1,359,758; metro 2,194,927.^[32]
• 2013
  • BiblioTech public library opens.
  • Joaquín Castro becomes U.S. representative for Texas's 20th congressional district.^[33]

See also

• History of San Antonio
• List of mayors of San Antonio
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas
• Timeline of Austin, Texas
• Timeline of Dallas
• Timeline of El Paso, Texas
• Timeline of Houston

References

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Street, avenue and alley guide to San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, 1892 

Published in the 20th century

• George Pierce Garrison (1903), "Beginnings of San Antonio", Texas: a contest of civilizations, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 
• Henry Ryder-Taylor (1908), Visitor's guide and history of San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, Tex: N. Tengg, OCLC 10471850 
• Chamber of Commerce (1910), San Antonio, the convention city, San Antonio: Guessaz & Perlet 
• Edward Hungerford (1913), "City of the Little Squares", The Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company 
• Marin B. Fenwick, ed. (1917). Who's who among the women of San Antonio and Southwest Texas?. San Antonio, Tex. 
• Craighead (1919), Street Guide of San Antonio, Texas 
• Charles W. Ramsdell, San Antonio: A Historical and Pictorial Guide (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959).
• Leah Carter Johnston (1975), San Antonio (Revised ed.), Naylor Co., ISBN 9780811105859, OCLC 2137230 
• T. R. Fehrenbach, The San Antonio Story (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Continental Heritage Press, 1978)
• Richard A. Garcia (1991), Rise of the Mexican American middle class: San Antonio, 1929–1941, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0890963681 
• Jesús F. de la Teja (1995). San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier. University of New Mexico Press. 
• Peter Skerry (1995), "San Antonio", Mexican Americans, Harvard University Press, OL 7693062M 

Published in the 21st century

• Rodolfo Rosales (2000). Illusion of Inclusion: The Political Story of San Antonio, Texas. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77103-1. 
• American Cities Project (November 11, 2013). "San Antonio". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Antonio, Texas.

• T.R. Fehrenbach. "San Antonio, TX". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. 
• U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division. Materials related to San Antonio, Texas, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to San Antonio, various dates

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