City history timeline
The following is atimeline of thehistory of the city ofSeattle ,Washington , USA.
Before the 19th century [ edit ] 1950Seattle Chinese Golf Club is formed.[ 34] Population: 467,591.[ 45] 1957 –Sister city relationship is established withKobe , Japan.[ 47] 1959 – City joinsPuget Sound Governmental Conference .[ 48] 1960 – Population: 557,087.[ 49] 1961 1962 1963 1964 - August 21:The Beatles performs at theSeattle Center Coliseum ; they would perform again just over two years later. 1965 1967 1969 1970 –Seattle Marathon , andnegative income tax program[ 54] 1971Mayor's Arts Festival begins (later known asBumbershoot ). Starbucks opens its first store near the Pike Place Market.[ 55] Seattle voters approve the "Let's Keep the Market" initiative, preserving the Pike Place Market[ 56] 1972 1973 – Sister city relationship is established withTashkent , Uzbekistan.[ 47] 1974 –Seattle Seahawks franchise is established, beginning play in 1976.[ 57] 1976 –Daybreak Star Cultural Center opens.[ 58] 1977 1978 – Central Co-op is established.[ 60] 1979 1980 1981 – Sister city relationship is established withChristchurch , New Zealand; andMombasa , Kenya.[ 47] 1982 –Market Park is landscaped. 1983 – Sister city relationship is established withChongqing , China.[ 47] 1984 1985 1986 – Sister city relationships is established withGalway , Ireland; andReykjavík , Iceland.[ 47] 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 – Sister city relationship is established withPécs , Hungary; andSurabaya , Indonesia.[ 47] 1993 1994 1996 – Sister city relationship is established withHaiphong , Vietnam.[ 47] 1997 1998 –Paul Schell becomes mayor. 1999 2000 ^a b c Elenga 2007 , p. 21.^a b c d e f g h i j k l Britannica 1910 .^a b c d e f g h i j k l Federal Writers' Project 1941 , p. 209, "Seattle".^a b c Kueter 2001 .^a b c d "US Newspaper Directory" .Chronicling America . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ "Washington: King" ,Pacific States Newspaper Directory (6th ed.), San Francisco: Palmer & Rey, 1894,OCLC 35801625 ^ Tate, Cassandra (March 5, 2009)."Weekly Intelligencer, a precursor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, publishes its first edition on August 5, 1867" .HistoryLink . RetrievedOctober 2, 2025 . ^a b Davies Project."American Libraries before 1876" . Princeton University.Archived from the original on March 2, 2015. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 . ^ Tanaka 2001 .^ "Mobs forcibly expel most of Seattle" .historylink.org .Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. RetrievedApril 26, 2021 .^a b "Finding Aids" .Northwest Digital Archives Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ Ochsner & Andersen 2002 .^ "Seattle Transportation: From Trolleys to Monorails, A Timeline" .HistoryLink Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 .^a b Bagley 1916 .^ "Seattle Times newspaper rack, ca. 2000" .Museum of History & Industry . RetrievedOctober 2, 2025 .^ Lacy, Helen (November 7, 1998)."African American Brittain Oxendine begins publishing the Seattle Standard in 1891" .HistoryLink . RetrievedOctober 2, 2025 . ^a b c d "Movie Theaters in Seattle, WA" .CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC.Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ Egan, Timothy (2012).Short nights of the Shadow Catcher: the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis 370 .ISBN 978-0618969029 ^ "AboutThe Seattle Republican " .Chronicling America . Washington, DC: Library of Congress.Archived from the original on April 19, 2017.^ "100 years on Montlake" .^a b Raymer 1913 .^ "HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History" . Seattle: History Ink/HistoryLink.Archived from the original on February 6, 2016. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ Chamber of Commerce 1903 .^ Blackford 1980 .^ American Library Annual, 1917–1918 Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. RetrievedOctober 22, 2013 .^ "Market History" .^ "Puget Sound Ports" . Archived fromthe original on May 19, 2015. RetrievedFebruary 12, 2017 .^ "Seattle Municipal Archives" .^ "Our History" . Seattle: Municipal League Foundation.Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^a b "History: Timeline" . Port of Seattle.Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. RetrievedSeptember 16, 2016 .^a b c Taylor 1991 .^ 150 Most Influential People in Seattle/King County History 2001 .^ "Boeing Chronology" (PDF) .^a b c Mikala Woodward (2011),Timeline of Southeast Seattle History archived from the original on June 24, 2014, retrievedJune 30, 2014 ^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day;Immanuel Ness , eds. (2015) [2009]."Timeline" .Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History . Routledge.ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7 Archived from the original on March 29, 2017. RetrievedSeptember 15, 2016 . ^ "About Us" . Seattle Goodwill.Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. RetrievedOctober 31, 2013 .^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (May 9, 2013)."Seattle, Washington" .Nonprofit Explorer . New York:ProPublica .Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. RetrievedOctober 31, 2013 . ^ "American Association of Community Theatre" .Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. RetrievedNovember 6, 2013 .^ "On This Day" ,The New York Times ,archived from the original on November 5, 2020, retrievedNovember 30, 2014 ^ Park 2007 .^ "Seattle Municipal Archives" .^a b c "About SAM: History Timeline" . Seattle Art Museum. Archived fromthe original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ "Vedanta Society of Western Washington" . Seattle. Archived fromthe original on February 18, 1999. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^a b Pluralism Project."Seattle, Washington" .Directory of Religious Centers . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 . ^a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952),Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World , New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1724,OL 6112221M ^ "1940-1949: The Birth of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport" .^a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities" . City of Seattle.Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. RetrievedDecember 30, 2015 .^ "History of PSRC" . Puget Sound Regional Council. 2011.Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. RetrievedOctober 31, 2013 .^a b Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 archived from the original on September 2, 2017, retrievedDecember 10, 2017 ^ "History of the Seattle Center: A Timeline" ,Seattle Magazine , 2012,archived from the original on July 1, 2014, retrievedJune 30, 2014 ^ "AIA Seattle History: Timeline 1894–1994" . AIA Seattle. Archived fromthe original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ Joan Singler."Timeline: Seattle CORE 1961–1968" . University of Washington, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.Archived from the original on June 13, 2014. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 . ^ "About Us: Event Timeline" . Seattle Repertory Theatre.Archived from the original on April 23, 2014. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 .^ Sreenivasan 2009 .^ Nina Luttinger; Gregory Dicum (1999)."Historic Timeline" .The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop . New Press.ISBN 978-1-59558-724-4 Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. RetrievedDecember 23, 2015 . ^ "Public Market Center" .^ "Seattle Seahawks Team History | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site" .profootballhof.com .Archived from the original on December 21, 2019. RetrievedDecember 15, 2019 .^ Thrush 2009 .^ "Mariners Timeline" . Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Archived fromthe original on March 4, 2015. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 .^ "NCGA Co-ops: Washington" . Iowa:National Cooperative Grocers Association .Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. RetrievedNovember 2, 2013 .^ "About" . Seattle: P-Patch Trust. Archived fromthe original on July 18, 2012. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^a b "Seattle Music Scene Timeline" . Cleveland, Ohio:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 .^a b "Seattle" .Hackerspaces .Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. RetrievedNovember 9, 2013 .^ "Sub Pop" .^ Civic Impulse, LLC."Members of Congress" .GovTrack Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. RetrievedApril 2, 2014 . ^ Office of Film + Music."Seattle Film History Timeline" . City of Seattle.Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. RetrievedJune 30, 2014 . ^ "Seattle's PAN makes debut",The Seattle Times , December 18, 1994 ^ "City of Seattle adds the Web to its information onramps",The Seattle Times , February 5, 1995 ^ "Seattle Public Access Network" . Archived fromthe original on December 18, 1996 – via Internet Archive,Wayback Machine .^ Seattle Channel."1997–98 Annual Report" . City of Seattle.Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. RetrievedMay 4, 2014 . ^ "Seattle Municipal Archives" .^ "MOPOP" .^ Pam Sitt (October 2000)."Rocket's nose dive stuns music magazine's staffers" .The Seattle Times .Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. RetrievedSeptember 12, 2014 . ^ "Frequently Asked Questions About Kavana" . Kavana Cooperative. Archived fromthe original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 21, 2013 .^ Seattle Times Staff (December 12, 2007)."Streetcar starts service" .The Seattle Times Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. RetrievedJanuary 25, 2016 . ^ "Link light rail launches new era of mobility for central Puget Sound" (Press release). Seattle:Sound Transit . July 18, 2009.Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. RetrievedMay 19, 2015 .^ "Sound Transit opens Link light rail service to SeaTac" (Press release). Seattle: Sound Transit. December 19, 2009.Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. RetrievedMay 19, 2015 .^ Nieman Journalism Lab."Encyclo: an Encyclopedia of the Future of News" . Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.Archived from the original on March 20, 2014. RetrievedMarch 23, 2014 . ^ Matthew Halverson (April 28, 2011),"Beacon Hill Unplugged" ,SeattleMet archived from the original on July 1, 2014, retrievedJune 30, 2014 ^ "Gigabit Seattle pricing revealed – less than Comcast, more than Google" ,The Seattle Times , June 24, 2013,archived from the original on November 5, 2013, retrievedNovember 2, 2013 ^ "Seattle (city), Washington" .State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau.Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. RetrievedApril 2, 2014 .^ "Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)" . US Census Bureau. 2012.Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. RetrievedDecember 10, 2017 .^ "About" . Seattle Shorts.Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. RetrievedMay 4, 2014 .^ "About Us" . Seattle: Citizen University.Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. RetrievedMay 4, 2014 .^ "Is It Time to Bag the Plastic?" ,The New York Times , May 18, 2013,archived from the original on December 18, 2016, retrievedFebruary 28, 2017 ^ "The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF) . US Census Bureau. 2014.Archived (PDF) from the original on September 24, 2015. RetrievedDecember 10, 2017 .Vintage 2013 Population Estimates ^ "Seattle Seahawks' Super Bowl victory parade draws some 700,000 fans" . Reuters. February 5, 2014.Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. RetrievedJuly 5, 2021 .^ Eric Liu (May 2, 2014)."United Cities of America: What Seattle's Minimum-Wage Deal Means" .The Atlantic Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. RetrievedMarch 12, 2017 .^ Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update Brookings Institution , March 17, 2015,archived from the original on April 7, 2015, retrievedMay 2, 2015 ^ archived from the original on June 8, 2015, retrievedJune 21, 2018 ^ "Why the long holiday continues in Seattle" ,The Economist archived from the original on March 6, 2016, retrievedJuly 13, 2017 ^ "First Hill streetcar opens" .KING-TV . January 23, 2016.Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. RetrievedJanuary 25, 2016 .^ "Office of Planning & Community Development" .^ "Seattle Metro Area Population" .^ Best, Paul (February 21, 2023)."Seattle becomes first US city to ban discrimination based on caste" . Fox News. ^ "Seattle Parks and Recreation" .^ Federal Writers' Project 1941 , "Chronology".Published in the 19th century [ edit ] "Seattle".Puget Sound Business Directory . Olympia: Murphy & Harned. 1872.hdl :2027/njp.32101079826390 . Seattle City Directory for 1890 . Seattle: Polk's Seattle Directory Co.hdl :2027/inu.30000096136753 .John W. Dodge (1890),Wonderful City ... Seattle , Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company,OCLC 18272367 ,OL 6945576M Washington the Evergreen state, and Seattle, its metropolis Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. RetrievedOctober 20, 2016 .Frederic James Grant, ed. (1891).History of Seattle, Washington ISBN 9780598280718 Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. RetrievedOctober 20, 2016 . {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link ) Seattle pioneer pocket guide , Seattle, Wash.: Arthur von Babo, 1891,OCLC 21128971 Published in the 20th century [ edit ] Polk's Seattle City Directory Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. RetrievedOctober 20, 2016 .{{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )Chamber of Commerce (1903).Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Seattle Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. RetrievedOctober 20, 2016 . "Seattle" ,United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909,OCLC 02338437 "Seattle" Encyclopædia Britannica 563– 564.Seattle (Wash.). Municipal Plans Commission (1911),Plan of Seattle , Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co.,OCLC 1440455 ,OL 6540540M "King County: Seattle" ,Puget Sound and Western Washington , Seattle: Robert A. Reid, 1912,OCLC 3425016 Raymer's Dictionary of Greater Seattle Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 22, 2013 .Clarence B. Bagley (1916),History of Seattle v.2 "Points of Interest in Seattle, Wash." .Automobile Blue Book Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. 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"Blacks and Asians in a White City: Japanese Americans and African Americans in Seattle, 1890–1940".Western Historical Quarterly .22 (4):401– 429.doi :10.2307/970984 .JSTOR 970984 .Carl Abbott (1992)."Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century" Western Historical Quarterly .23 (3):293– 322.doi :10.2307/971508 .JSTOR 971508 .Archived from the original on September 26, 2020. RetrievedSeptember 9, 2020 . Bob Lane, Better Than Promised, An Informal History of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Seattle: King County Department of Metropolitan Services, 1995) Richie Unterberger (1998),Seattle ,Rough Guides , London,OL 24372137M {{citation }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )Published in the 21st century [ edit ] Vince Kueter (November 13, 2001)."Seattle Through the Years" .The Seattle Times .Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. RetrievedOctober 22, 2013 . "150 Most Influential People in Seattle/King County History: Nominees" ,The Seattle Times , 2001, archived fromthe original on November 16, 2014Keiko Tanaka (2001). "Early Telephone Use in Seattle, 1880s–1920s".Pacific Northwest Quarterly .92 (4):190– 202.JSTOR 40492685 . Jeffrey Karl Ochsner; Dennis Alan Andersen (2002). "Meeting the Danger of Fire: Design and Construction in Seattle after 1889".Pacific Northwest Quarterly .93 (3):115– 126.JSTOR 40492770 . "Seattle in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000" . Washington, D.C.:Brookings Institution . 2003.Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. RetrievedFebruary 10, 2014 .John Putman (2004). "Racism and Temperance: The Politics of Class and Gender in Late 19th-Century Seattle".Pacific Northwest Quarterly .95 (2):70– 81.JSTOR 40491731 . Sohyun Park (2007). "Prescriptive Plans for a Healthy Central Business District: Seattle Downtown Design, 1956–1966".Pacific Northwest Quarterly .98 (3):107– 114.JSTOR 40492027 . Elenga, Maureen R. (2007).Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide To Downtown . Seattle Architecture Foundation.ISBN 978-0-615-14129-9 Jyotsna Sreenivasan (2009)."Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiments" .Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO. p. 558+ .ISBN 978-1-59884-168-8 Coll Thrush (2009).Native Seattle: histories from the crossing-over place . University of Washington Press.ISBN 978-0-295-98992-1 Susan P. Crawford ; et al. (2014),Community Fiber in Washington, D.C., Seattle, WA, and San Francisco, CA: Developments and Lessons Learned , Berkman Center Research Publication,SSRN 2439429 – viaSocial Science Research Network Raj Chetty ; Nathaniel Hendren (2015),City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood the original on May 6, 2015,Rank #1: Seattle Seattle, circa 1870
Seattle, 1908
Atlantic Squadron parade, 1908
Map of Seattle and port, 1918
Reinstallation of Pioneer Square totem pole, 1940
Solstice Parade, 2013
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