Timeline of Tampa, Florida
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tampa in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
19th century[edit]
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- 1824 – Fort Brooke established by U.S. Army in the Territory of Florida.[1]
- 1831 – Tampa Bay post office established.[2]
- 1845 – Tampa Bay becomes part of the new U.S. state of Florida.[1]
- 1848 – 1848 Tampa Bay hurricane.
- 1849 – Village of Tampa incorporated.
- 1850 – Oaklawn Cemetery established.[3]
- 1855 – Town of Tampa incorporated.[4]
- 1856 – Joseph B. Lancaster becomes mayor.
- 1859 – First Baptist Church established.[3]
- 1861 – Town becomes part of Confederate States of America.
- 1862 – June 30-July 1: Battle of Tampa.
- 1863 – October 16–18: Battle of Fort Brooke.
- 1873
- 1877 – Gainesville-Tampa stagecoach begins operating.[2]
- 1882 – Hillsborough High School opens.
- 1884 – South Florida Railroad begins operating.[2]
- 1885 – Board of Trade established.[6]
- 1886
- Sanchez & Haya cigar factory begins operating.[7]
- Ybor Factory Building constructed.
- 1887
- 1888 – Plant Park laid out.[2]
- 1889 – Florida Railway begins operating.[2]
- 1890
- 1891
- Tampa Bay Hotel built.[2]
- Cuban José Martí gives speech "Los Pinos Nuevos".[10]
- 1893 – Tampa Daily Times newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1895 – Tampa Fire Department established.
- 1899
- 1900 – Tampa Woman's Club formed.[12]
20th century[edit]
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1900s-1950s[edit]
- 1901 – Jackson Rooming House in business.
- 1904 – South Florida Fair and Gasparilla Parade begin.
- 1905
- Columbia Restaurant in business.
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church[2] and United States Courthouse Building constructed.
- 1907
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church built.
- Havatampa Cigar Company in business.[13]
- 1908 – YMCA built.[14]
- 1912
- Union Station opens.
- El Centro Español de Tampa building constructed.[2]
- El Comercio Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.[15]
- Union Hotel in business.
- 1913 – Centro Asturiano de Tampa building constructed.[2]
- 1914 – St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line begins operating.[1][16]
- 1915 – Tampa City Hall built.
- 1916 – Heraldo Dominical Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.[15]
- 1917
- Tampa Public Library opens.[17]
- Circulo Cubano de Tampa rebuilt.
- 1918 – Unione Italiana building constructed.[2]
- 1920 – Population: 51,608.
- 1922
- 1924 – Gandy Bridge to St. Petersburg built.[2]
- 1925
- West Tampa becomes part of Tampa.
- Municipal Auditorium built.[2]
- WFLA radio begins broadcasting.[18]
- 1926
- Junior League of Tampa founded.[20]
- Tampa Theatre opens.
- 1927
- Sulphur Springs Water Tower erected.
- Floridan Hotel in business.
- 1930 – Population: 101,161.[21]
- 1931
- Labor strike of cigar workers.[22]
- Tampa Junior College established.
- 1934 – Davis Causeway opens.[2]
- 1938 – Janus Administration Building constructed.[2]
- 1939 – U.S. Army Southeast Air Base established.
- 1940 – Population: 108,391.[21]
- 1950 – Population: 124,681.[21]
- 1955 - WFLA-TV and WTVT (television) begin broadcasting.[23]
- 1956 – Britton Plaza Shopping Center in business.
- 1957 – Lowry Park Zoo opens.
- 1959 – Busch Gardens theme park in business.[24]
1960s-1990s[edit]
- 1960 – Population: 274,970.[21]
- 1961 - The Pinellas Manufacturers Association (now known as the Bay Area Manufacturers Association) was formed.
- 1962 – Museum of Science and Industry founded.[25]
- 1966 – Franklin Exchange Building constructed.
- 1968 - Hope Children's Home established.
- 1970 – Population: 277,767.[21]
- 1972
- Sant'Yago Knight Parade begins.
- Floriland Cinema in business.[26]
- 1978 – Cracker Country (museum) established.
- 1979
- May 8: Storm.[27]
- Tampa Museum of Art founded.
- 1980
- Hillsborough Area Regional Transit established.
- Population: 271,523.[21]
- 1981 – Feeding America Tampa Bay active (approximate date).[28]
- 1982 – Foreign trade zone[29][30] and Ybor City Museum Society[25] established.
- 1984 – Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System established.[17]
- 1986 – Barnett Plaza (hi-rise) built.
- 1987
- Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center opens.
- Children's Museum founded.
- 1988 – Rivergate Tower built.
- 1989 – Tampa Bay History Center founded.[25]
- 1990
- Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival begins.
- Population: 280,015.[21]
- 1992 – AmSouth Building and SunTrust Financial Centre constructed.
- 1995 – Florida Aquarium opens.[24]
- 1996
- City website online.[31][32]
- Ice Palace (arena) opens.
- 1997
- Jim Davis becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 11th congressional district.[33]
- Tampa Police Museum founded.[25]
- 2000 - Channelside 9 Cinemas in business.[26]
21st century[edit]
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- 2001
- The Stovall built.
- Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts opens.
- Ruby (programming language) conference held in city.
- 2002
- January 5: 2002 Tampa plane crash.
- TECO Line Streetcar begins operating; Centennial Park Station and Tampa Bay Federal Credit Union Station open.
- 2003 – Whiting Station opens.
- 2004
- Ford Amphitheatre opens.
- Tampa Riverwalk construction begins.
- 2007
- SkyPoint built.
- Kathy Castor becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 11th congressional district.[34]
- 2009 – Tampa Bay History Center opens.
- 2010 – Population: city 335,709; metro 2,783,243.[35][36]
- 2011
- Florida Voices begins publication.[37]
- Bob Buckhorn becomes mayor.
- Population: 346,037; metro 2,824,724.[38]
- 2012 – August: 2012 Republican National Convention held.
- 2014 – Tampa Baseball Museum opens.
- 2018-21 – Water Street Tampa construction takes place
- 2019
- Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute opens.
- Jane Castor becomes mayor.
See also[edit]
- History of Tampa, Florida
- History of Ybor City
- List of mayors of Tampa, Florida
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, Florida
- Timelines of other cities in the Central Florida area of Florida: Clearwater, Lakeland, Largo, Orlando, St. Petersburg
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Tampa History". City of Tampa. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Federal Writers' Project 1939.
- ^ a b Rajtar 2007.
- ^ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-28
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- ^ a b Long 1966.
- ^ a b "Cigar City Timeline". Tampa Bay History Center. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ a b c Long 1971.
- ^ Patterson, Homer L. (1932). Patterson's American Educational Directory. Vol. 29. Chicago. hdl:2027/uc1.b3970358.
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- ^ "Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection". Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ Dillon 1999.
- ^ "Hav-A-Tampa Timeline". Cigar City Magazine. Tampa. 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "History of the Tampa Y". Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ a b American Newspaper Annual, American newspaper annual and directory, N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921, hdl:2027/coo.31924087717553
- ^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- ^ a b "Library History". Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ a b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Florida", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- ^ "Timeline". Florida Memory. Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "About Us". Junior League of Tampa. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
- ^ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Florida", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- ^ a b Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ a b c d American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Florida: Tampa". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. p. 159+. ISBN 0759100020.
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Tampa, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ Stowers 1980.
- ^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Tampa, Florida". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ Susan Tiefenbrun (2012), Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States, Edward Elgar, p. 351, ISBN 978-1-84980-243-7
- ^ "TampaGov Milestones and Major Activities (timeline)". City of Tampa. August 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ^ "City of Tampa Official World Wide Web Site". Archived from the original on 1997-05-30 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1999–2000. hdl:2027/mdp.39015046791664.
- ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)". U.S. Census Bureau. 2012.
- ^ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Tampa", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
- ^ "Florida". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "30 Cities: An Introductory Snapshot". American Cities Project. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
Bibliography[edit]
- John R. Richards, ed. (1886). "Tampa". Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory. New York: South Publishing Company. OCLC 12186532.
- Wen Galvez (1897). Tampa: impresiones de emigrado (in Spanish). Establecimiento Tipográfico Cuba.
- "Tampa", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899
- "Tampa". Florida Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907-1908. R. L. Polk & Co. 1907.
- Rinaldi's Guide Book to the City of Tampa, Tampa, 1915, OL 24343079M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Tampa". Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R. L. Polk & Co. 1918. + part 2
- "Tampa". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Tampa", Florida; a Guide to the Southernmost State, American Guide Series, ISBN 9781623760090 – via Google Books
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) (also via Open Library) - Durward Long (1966). "Historical Beginnings of Ybor City and Modern Tampa". Florida Historical Quarterly. 45 (1): 31–44. JSTOR 30145699.
- Durward Long (1971). "Making of Modern Tampa: A City of the New South, 1885-1911". Florida Historical Quarterly. 49 (4): 333–345. JSTOR 30140624.
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Tampa", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E. P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- D.M. Stowers, Jr.; Michael Levasseur (1980), "Tampa Bay Storm of May, 1979", Florida Geographer, 14, ISSN 0739-0041 – via Florida Atlantic University
- Gary R. Mormino, "Tampa: From Hell Hole to the Good Life", in Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice, eds., Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II (Austin, 1983)
- Frommer's Portable Tampa Bay & St. Petersburg, 1998, OL 9936122M
- Patricia Dillon (1999). "Clubwomen and Civic Activism: Willie Lowry and Tampa's Club Movement". Florida Historical Quarterly. 77 (4): 429–444. JSTOR 30150827.
- "South of Orlando: Tampa", Orlando & Central Florida, Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 19289916M – via Open Library
- Pablo Medina (2004). "Tampa Cubans and the Culture of Exile". Antioch Review. 62 (4): 635–643. doi:10.2307/4614730. JSTOR 4614730.
- Kevin M. McCarthy (2007). "Tampa". African American Sites in Florida. Pineapple Press Inc. p. 99+. ISBN 978-1-56164-385-1.
- Steve Rajtar (2007). Guide to Historic Tampa. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-253-6.
- Cameron B. LeBlanc (2009). "Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida". Southern Spaces. doi:10.18737/M7K890.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tampa, Florida.
- U.S. cavalry supplies unloading at Tampa, Florida, Edison Manufacturing Company, 1898 – via U.S. Library of Congress (short film)
- "(Tampa)". Florida Memory. Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services.
- Items related to Tampa, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- "Florida Studies Center Collections". University of South Florida, Libraries.
- "Genealogy & History". Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative.
- "Tampa". Viva Florida: History Happened Here. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities.
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