City history timeline
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Seattle ,
Washington , USA.
1950
Seattle Chinese Golf Club formed.
[ 27]
Population: 467,591.
[ 37]
1957 –
Sister city relationship established with
Kobe , Japan.
[ 38]
1959 – City joins
Puget Sound Governmental Conference .
[ 39]
1960 – Population: 557,087.
[ 40]
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1967
1969
Little Bread Co. and Brasserie Pittsbourg in business.
[ 45]
Seafirst Building constructed. It becomes Seattle's tallest building for 16 years.
1970 –
Seattle Marathon , and
negative income tax program begin.
1971
1972
1973 – Sister city relationship established with
Tashkent , Uzbekistan.
[ 38]
1974 –
Seattle Seahawks franchise established, would begin play in 1976.
[ 48]
1975 – World's first "
commercial software for personal computers" invented in Seattle.
[ 49]
1976 –
Daybreak Star Cultural Center opens.
1977
1978 – Central Co-op established.
[ 52]
1979
1980
1981 – Sister city relationships established with
Christchurch , New Zealand; and
Mombasa , Kenya.
[ 38]
1982 –
Market Park landscaped.
1983 – Sister city relationship established with
Chongqing , China.
[ 38]
1984
1985
1986 – Sister city relationships established with
Galway , Ireland; and
Reykjavík , Iceland.
[ 38]
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992 – Sister city relationship established with
Pécs , Hungary; and
Surabaya , Indonesia.
[ 38]
1993
1994
1996 – Sister city relationship established with
Haiphong , Vietnam.
[ 38]
1997
1998 –
Paul Schell becomes mayor.
1999
2000
2001
2002
2004
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Seattle Shorts Film Fest begins.
[ 72]
Citizen University headquartered in city.
[ 73]
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2020
2023
February 21: Seattle became the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on
caste .
[ 82]
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Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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35801625
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b Davies Project.
"American Libraries before 1876" . Princeton University.
Archived from the original on March 2, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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"Mobs forcibly expel most of Seattle" . www.historylink.org .
Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26 .
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"Finding Aids" .
Northwest Digital Archives .
Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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Ochsner & Andersen 2002 .
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"Seattle Transportation: From Trolleys to Monorails, A Timeline" .
HistoryLink . Seattle.
Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
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"Movie Theaters in Seattle, WA" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC.
Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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^ Chronicling American, Library of Congress Website
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"HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History" . Seattle: History Ink/HistoryLink.
Archived from the original on February 6, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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American Library Annual, 1917–1918 . New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v.
Archived from the original on 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2013-10-22 .
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"Puget Sound Ports" . Archived from
the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2017-02-12 .
^
"Our History" . Seattle: Municipal League Foundation.
Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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"History: Timeline" . Port of Seattle.
Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
^
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c Mikala Woodward (2011),
Timeline of Southeast Seattle History ,
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^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day;
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Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2016-09-15 .
^
"About Us" . Seattle Goodwill.
Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013 .
^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013).
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ProPublica .
Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2013 .
^
"American Association of Community Theatre" .
Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2013 .
^
"On This Day" , New York Times ,
archived from the original on November 5, 2020, retrieved November 30, 2014
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"About SAM: History Timeline" . Seattle Art Museum. Archived from
the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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"Vedanta Society of Western Washington" . Seattle. Archived from
the original on February 18, 1999. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^
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b Pluralism Project.
"Seattle, Washington" . Directory of Religious Centers . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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"Seattle's 21 Sister Cities" . City of Seattle.
Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved December 30, 2015 .
^
"History of PSRC" . Puget Sound Regional Council. 2011.
Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013 .
^
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b
Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , US Census Bureau, 1998,
archived from the original on 2017-09-02, retrieved 2017-12-10
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"History of the Seattle Center: A Timeline" , Seattle Magazine , 2012,
archived from the original on July 1, 2014, retrieved June 30, 2014
^
"AIA Seattle History: Timeline 1894–1994" . AIA Seattle. Archived from
the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 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. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
^
"About Us: Event Timeline" . Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Archived from the original on April 23, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
^ James Trager (1995), The Food Chronology , New York:
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^ Nina Luttinger; Gregory Dicum (1999).
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Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2015-12-23 .
^
"Seattle Seahawks Team History | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site" . www.profootballhof.com .
Archived from the original on 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2019-12-15 .
^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000).
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^
"Mariners Timeline" . Major League Baseball Advanced Media.
Archived from the original on March 4, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
^
"NCGA Co-ops: Washington" . Iowa:
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Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-02 .
^
"About" . Seattle: P-Patch Trust. Archived from
the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
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"Seattle Music Scene Timeline" . Cleveland, Ohio:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
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"Seattle" . Hackerspaces .
Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2013 .
^ Civic Impulse, LLC.
"Members of Congress" .
GovTrack . Washington, D.C.
Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
^ Office of Film + Music.
"Seattle Film History Timeline" . City of Seattle.
Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014 .
^ "Seattle's PAN makes debut", Seattle Times , December 18, 1994
^ "City of Seattle adds the Web to its information onramps", Seattle Times , February 5, 1995
^
"Seattle Public Access Network" . Archived from
the original on 1996-12-18 – via Internet Archive,
Wayback Machine .
^ Seattle Channel.
"1997–98 Annual Report" . City of Seattle.
Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .
^ Pam Sitt (October 2000).
"Rocket's nose dive stuns music magazine's staffers" . Seattle Times.
Archived from the original on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2014-09-12 .
^
"Frequently Asked Questions About Kavana" . Kavana Cooperative. Archived from
the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ Seattle Times Staff (December 12, 2007).
"Streetcar starts service" .
The Seattle Times .
Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 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. Retrieved May 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. Retrieved May 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. Retrieved March 23, 2014 .
^ Matthew Halverson (April 28, 2011),
"Beacon Hill Unplugged" ,
SeattleMet ,
archived from the original on July 1, 2014, retrieved June 30, 2014
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"Gigabit Seattle pricing revealed — less than Comcast, more than Google" , Seattle Times , June 24, 2013,
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"Seattle (city), Washington" . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau.
Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
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"Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)" . US Census Bureau. 2012.
Archived from the original on 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2017-12-10 .
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"About" . Seattle Shorts.
Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .
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"About Us" . Seattle: Citizen University.
Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .
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"Is It Time to Bag the Plastic?" , New York Times , May 18, 2013,
archived from the original on December 18, 2016, retrieved February 28, 2017
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"Seattle Seahawks' Super Bowl victory parade draws some 700,000 fans" , Reuters , February 5, 2014,
archived from the original on August 21, 2016, retrieved July 5, 2021
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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. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .
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Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update , Washington, D.C.:
Brookings Institution , March 17, 2015,
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" 'Paddle in Seattle' Arctic oil drilling protest" , BBC News , May 17, 2015,
archived from the original on June 8, 2015, retrieved June 21, 2018
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"Why the long holiday continues in Seattle" ,
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archived from the original on March 6, 2016, retrieved July 13, 2017
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"First Hill streetcar opens" .
KING-TV . January 23, 2016.
Archived from the original on 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2016-01-25 .
^ Best, Paul (21 February 2023).
"Seattle becomes first US city to ban discrimination based on caste" . Fox News .
Published in the 19th century
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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 . Crawford & Conover. 1890.
Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2016-10-20 .
Frederic James Grant, ed. (1891).
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21128971
Published in the 20th century
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Chamber of Commerce (1903).
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OCLC
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"150 Most Influential People in Seattle/King County History: Nominees" , 150 Years: Seattle By and By , Seattle Times, 2001, archived from
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Keiko Tanaka (2001). "Early Telephone Use in Seattle, 1880s–1920s". Pacific Northwest Quarterly . 92 (4): 190–202.
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John Putman (2004). "Racism and Temperance: The Politics of Class and Gender in Late 19th-Century Seattle". Pacific Northwest Quarterly . 95 (2): 70–81.
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Sohyun Park (2007). "Prescriptive Plans for a Healthy Central Business District: Seattle Downtown Design, 1956–1966". Pacific Northwest Quarterly . 98 (3): 107–114.
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Elenga, Maureen R. (2007). Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide To Downtown . Seattle Architecture Foundation.
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Jyotsna Sreenivasan (2009).
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Coll Thrush (2009). Native Seattle: histories from the crossing-over place . University of Washington Press.
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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,
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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
47°36′35″N 122°19′59″W / 47.609722°N 122.333056°W / 47.609722; -122.333056