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Timeline of Rio de Janeiro

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Prior to 19th century

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  • 1565 AD
  • São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro founded by Portuguese.[http://www.imaginerio.org ImagineRio.org] - Searchable atlas that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro.
  • Fortaleza de São João built.
  • 1603 - St James of Mercy Fort built.
  • 1663 - Padre Eterno galleon launched.
  • 1693 - Calaboose Prison built.
  • 1736 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Academia dos Felizes|pt}} founded.{{cite book|author1=Richard Young|author2=Odile Cisneros|title=Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7498-5|chapter=Academias|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0ZyleoLY5UC&pg=PA22|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000youn}}
  • 1743 - Paço Imperial built.
  • 1750 - Carioca Aqueduct built.
  • 1752 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Academia dos Seletos|pt}} founded.
  • 1763 - Portuguese America administrative center moved to Rio de Janeiro from Salvador.
  • 1770 - Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro consecrated.
  • 1783 - Passeio Público constructed.
  • 1792 - Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho founded.

19th century

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  • 1803 - Paço de São Cristóvão building erected.
  • 1808
  • City becomes capital of Kingdom of Portugal.{{cite book|author=E. Bradford Burns|title=A History of Brazil|year=1993|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-07954-9|chapter=Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8flAq1v1dgIC&pg=PA495|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbrazil00burn}}
  • {{illm|Impressão Régia|pt}} (royal printing press) begins operating.
  • 10 September: Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro newspaper begins publication.
  • 1811 - Candelária Church inaugurated.
  • 1811 - Construction of Valongo Wharf started.
  • 1815 - City becomes capital of United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
  • 1818 - Royal Museum established.
  • 1822
  • City becomes capital of independent Brazil.
  • Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden opens.{{cite web |url= http://www.bgci.org/garden_search.php?action=Find&ftrCountry=BR |title=Garden Search: Brazil |publisher= Botanic Gardens Conservation International |location=London |access-date=30 May 2015 }}
  • 1826 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Brasil)|pt|lt=Academia Imperial de Belas Artes}} founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=10®ion=sa#/Key-Events |title= South America, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date=30 July 2014 }}
  • 1827
  • Jornal do Commercio newspaper in publication.{{cite web |url=http://www.lanelibraries.org/unionbra.htm |title=Brazil |work=Union list of current newspapers and selected serials |publisher=Latin America North East Libraries Consortium |location=US |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040723075358/http://www.lanelibraries.org/unionbra.htm |archive-date=23 July 2004 |df=dmy-all }}
  • {{illm|Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional|pt}} founded in Rio.{{cite book|title=Estatutos da Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPRjAAAAMAAJ|year=1828|language=pt |location=Rio de Janeiro |last1 = Brasil|first1 = Centro Industrial do}}
  • 1838 - Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro headquartered in Rio.{{Cite journal |author=Manoel Luis Lima Salgado Guimarães |author-link=:pt:Manoel Luiz Salgado Guimarães |title =Nação e Civilização nos Trópicos: o Instituto Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro e o projeto de uma história nacional|journal=Revista Estudos Históricos |issn=2178-1494 |location= Brasil |volume= 1 |year=1988|url=http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/reh/article/view/1935/1074 |publisher= Fundação Getúlio Vargas, {{illm|Escola Superior de Ciências Sociais|pt}} |language=pt }} {{free access}}
  • 1852 - Theatro Provisório built.
  • 1854 - Catete Palace built.
  • 1858
  • Dom Pedro II railway begins operating.{{cite book |title=United States of Brazil |author=Bureau of the American Republics |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1901 |publisher=Govt. print. off. |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000203036 }}
  • Central do Brasil inaugurated.
  • 1871 - Theatro D. Pedro II (theatre) inaugurated.
  • 1872 - Population: 274,972.{{citation |title=Tabela 1.6 - População nos Censos Demográficos, segundo os municípios das capitais - 1872/2010 |work=Sinopse do Censo Demografico 2010 |language=pt |publisher= Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística |access-date= 5 September 2018 |url=https://censo2010.ibge.gov.br/sinopse/index.php?dados=6&uf=00 }}
  • 1877 - Santa Teresa Tram opens.
  • 1884 - Corcovado Rack Railway opens.
  • 1891 - Jornal do Brasil newspaper begins publication.
  • 1894 - Confeitaria Colombo (coffee house) opens.
  • 1896 - Academia Brasileira de Letras founded.

20th century

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21st century

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  • 2019
  • February 6: Heavy rain hits the state of Rio de Janeiro, leaving 6 people dead and 2 missing.{{cite web |title=Temporal no Rio mata 3 pessoas, derruba árvores, alaga ruas e hotel |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2019/02/06/chuva-volta-ao-rio-na-noite-desta-quarta-e-deve-ficar-ate-domingo.ghtml |access-date=February 7, 2019 |website=G1 |language=pt}}{{cite web |title=Sobe para seis o número de mortos em decorrência das chuvas no Rio |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2019/02/07/sobe-para-seis-o-numero-de-mortos-em-decorrencia-das-chuvas-no-rio.htm |access-date=February 7, 2019 |website=UOL |language=pt}}{{cite journal |title=Saiba quem são os mortos na chuva desta quarta no Rio |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2019/02/07/saiba-quem-sao-os-mortos-na-chuva-desta-quarta-no-rio.ghtml |journal=RJTV |language=pt |access-date=February 8, 2019}}
  • February 8: Flamengo training ground fire leaves 10 people dead.{{cite web |title=Atletas da base do Flamengo morrem em incêndio no CT Ninho do Urubu |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2019/02/08/incendio-deixa-mortos-e-feridos-no-centro-de-treinamento-do-flamengo.ghtml |access-date=February 8, 2019 |website=G1 |language=pt}}{{cite journal |date=February 8, 2019 |title=Flamengo de luto: incêndio deixa 10 mortos no Ninho do Urubu |url=https://globoesporte.globo.com/futebol/times/flamengo/noticia/bombeiros-dizem-que-10-pessoas-morreram-em-incendio-no-ninho-do-urubu.ghtml |journal=Globo Esporte}}
  • April 8: Unusual rain causes landslides, flooding and at least 10 deaths.{{cite web |date=8 April 2019 |title=Chuva forte causa deslizamentos, morte e deixa o Rio em estágio de crise |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2019/04/08/tempo-muda-no-rio-com-previsao-de-chuva-raios-e-ventos.ghtml |access-date=1 January 2020 |work=G1}}

See also

Other cities in Brazil:

References

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Bibliography

;Published in the 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |author = John Mawe |title = Travels in the Interior of Brazil |location=London |date = 1812 |chapter=Description of Rio de Janeiro |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/travelsininteri00mawegoog#page/n116/mode/2up |author-link = John Mawe }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = S. Leigh |location = London |author = John Luccock |title = Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil |date = 1820 |ol = 6917919M }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J.Duncan |location = London |title = The Modern Traveller |author = Josiah Conder |author-link=Josiah Conder (editor and author) |date =1830 |chapter=City of Rio de Janeiro |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/moderntraveller29condiala#page/99/mode/2up }}
  • {{citation |title=Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do imperio do Brazil |author=J.C.R. Milliet de Saint-Adolphe |language= pt |location=Paris |publisher= J. P. Aillaud |year= 1863 |via=Hathi Trust |chapter= Rio-de-Janeiro |hdl=2027/wu.89006303077 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Handbook of Brazil |author1= Michael George Mulhall |author2= E.T. Mulhall |location= Buenos Ayres |year= 1877 |chapter= Rio Janeyro |author1-link= Michael George Mulhall |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015014192523 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Low |location = London |author = James W. Wells |chapter-url =https://archive.org/stream/exploringtravel01well#page/n25/mode/2up |title = Exploring and travelling three thousand miles through Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to Maranhão |date = 1886 |chapter= Rio de Janeiro }}
  • {{cite book |title=Handbook of Rio de Janeiro |author=((Editors of the Rio News ))|location=Rio de Janeiro |publisher=A.J. Lamoureux |year=1887 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHcvAQAAMAAJ }}

;Published in the 20th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = W. & R. Chambers |date = 1901 |location = London |title = Chambers's Encyclopaedia |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency08lond#page/728/mode/2up |chapter=Rio de Janeiro |title-link = Chambers's Encyclopaedia }}
  • {{cite book |year=1928 |title=Collier's Encyclopedia |location=New York |publisher= P.F. Collier & Son |chapter=Rio de Janeiro |title-link=Collier's Encyclopedia |hdl=2027/mdp.39015073301890 }}
  • {{citation |title=Rio Panorama |year=1939 |volume=76 |work=National Geographic Magazine |location=Washington DC }}
  • {{cite book |title=Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History ... in the Newberry Library |publisher= Newberry Library |location= Chicago |year= 1953 |via=Hathi Trust |chapter=Local History, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015023946240 }}
  • {{cite book|editor=W.A. Robson |editor-link=William A. Robson |title=Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning |year= 1954 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-67247-8 |chapter=Rio de Janeiro |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4U8gAkKQ3aIC&pg=PA489 |page=489+ }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Time-Life Books |series=Great Cities |title =Rio de Janeiro |year=1977 |ol=4292341M |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:riodejaneiro00bott/Rio_de_Janeiro |via=Open Library }}
  • Mary C. Karasch, Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1987)
  • Jeffrey D. Needell, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
  • {{Citation |edition = 4th |year = 1998 |publisher = Lonely Planet |title =Brazil |chapter=Rio de Janeiro City |page=146+ |isbn = 9780864425614 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/lonelyplanetbraz00nick#page/146/mode/2up |via=Open Library }}

;Published in the 21st century

  • {{cite web |title=Rio de Janeiro |work=Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 |url= http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/a-z.htm |publisher=United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London |year=2003 }}
  • {{cite book|editor=Beier and Ocobock |title=Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective |year=2008|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-89680-262-9 |chapter=Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro |author= Thomas H. Holloway |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mop4uaeevugC&pg=PA162 |page=162+ }}
  • {{cite book|author=Teresa A. Meade|author-link=Teresa Meade |title=Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2nCPZaFCBUC|year= 2010|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|isbn=978-0-271-04211-4}}

External links

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  • {{cite web |url= http://www.hpip.org/def/en/Contents/Navigation/GeographicToponymicNavigation/Place?a=129 |language=en, pt |title= Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |work= Heritage of Portuguese Influence |publisher= Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |location= Lisbon }}
  • [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/brazil.html Map of Rio de Janeiro], 1928
  • [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/brazil.html Map of Rio de Janeiro], 1982
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=rio+de+janeiro&utf8=✓ Items related to Rio de Janeiro], various dates.
  • {{citation |title=(Conference papers related to Rio) |via= International Planning History Society |year=2012 |url=http://planninghistory.org/conferences/sao-paulo-2012/ }}

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