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Timeline of Santiago de Chile

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santiago, Santiago Province, Chile.

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Prior to 19th century

  • 1541
  • 12 February: Santiago de Nueva Extremadura founded by Spaniard Pedro de Valdivia.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 11 September: Settlement sacked by forces of Michimalonco.{{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO, Inc. |location = Santa Barbara, California |author = David F. Marley |title = Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the present |date = 2008 |edition=2nd }}
  • 1552 – Coat of arms granted.{{cite web |url= http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/categorias/home/la-comuna/historia/verPagina/escudo-de-armas-2 |title=Escudo de Armas |publisher= Municipalidad de Santiago |language=es |access-date=13 July 2013}}
  • 1553 – Franciscan convent founded.{{cite journal |title=The First Franciscans in Chile; Founding of the Monasteries of Santiago and Concepcion, 1553 |author= Benjamín Gento Sanz|journal=The Americas |volume= 10 |year= 1954 |display-authors=etal}}
  • 1595 – San Augustin church built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1609
  • Flooding of Mapocho River.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • :es:Real Audiencia de Chile (Royal Appeals Court) reestablished in Santiago.{{cite web|title=La Real Audiencia – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-704.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1647 – 1647 Santiago earthquake.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1747 – Universidad de San Felipe founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1753 – Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral building began.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1760 – Basilica de la Merced built.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
  • 1769 – Casa Colorada built.
  • 1779 – :es:Puente de Cal y Canto (bridge) built over Mapocho River (official inauguration 1782).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} {{cite web|title=Puente de Cal y Canto – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-95163.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}{{cite web|title=Historia del Puente de Cal y Canto|date=December 2009 |url=http://www.icarito.cl/2009/12/46-4665-9-historia-del-puente-de-cal-y-canto.shtml/| language = es |publisher=Icarito|access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1783 – Flooding of Mapocho River.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1795 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.{{citation |author=Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. |chapter= Merchant Guilds |title= Encyclopedia of World Trade |editor= Cynthia Clark Northrup |publisher= Routledge |year= 2013 |orig-year=2005 |isbn=9780765682680 }}
  • 1799 – Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral rebuilding completed. {{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

19th century

  • 1805 – La Moneda (mint) built.
  • 1808 – Palacio de la Real Audiencia de Santiago built.
  • 1813 – Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and Instituto Nacional (school) established.{{cite web|title=La Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (1813– ) – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-674.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}{{cite web|title=El Instituto Nacional – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-651.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1817 – City occupied by forces of Jose de San Martin.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1821 – Cementerio General de Santiago established in Recoleta.{{cite web|title=Cementerio General – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-92758.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}{{cite web|title=Cementerio General, su historia|url=https://www.cementeriogeneral.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44| language = es |publisher=Municipalidad de Recoleta Cementerio General|date=7 October 2009 |access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1830 – Chilean National Museum of Natural History founded.
  • 1841 – Quinta Normal Park founded.{{cite web|title=Quinta Normal de Agricultura – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-93446.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=24 March 2018}}
  • 1842 – University of Santiago, Chile founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1845 – Caupolican Artisans Society founded.{{sfn|Wood|2002}}
  • 1849 – Astronomical observatory built.{{sfn|Currier|1911}}
  • 1852 – Valparaiso-Santiago telegraph begins operating.{{cite web|title=Infraestructura – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-94641.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1852 – Valdivia chapel built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1856 – August: Premiere of {{Interlanguage link multi|Manuel Ascencio Segura|es}}'s play {{Interlanguage link multi|Ña Catita|es}}.{{cite book|editor=Martin Banham|title= Cambridge Guide to Theatre|year= 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-43437-9|url= https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh |url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/846 846]}}
  • 1857 – Municipal Theatre of Santiago inaugurated.{{cite web|title=Teatro Municipal de Santiago (1857–2000) – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-607.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=23 March 2018}}
  • 1863 – 8 December: Church of the Company Fire.
  • 1865 – Aqueduct built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1868 – Jesuit church burns down.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1870
  • Club Hípico de Santiago opens.{{cite web|title=Club Hípico – Memoria Chilena|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-93429.html| language = es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|access-date=24 March 2018}}
  • Cholera epidemic.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
  • 1872 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna becomes mayor.
  • 1873 – Parque Cousiño inaugurated.
  • 1875
  • International Exposition held.
  • Population: 148,284.{{Citation |publisher = Times Printing House |location = Philadelphia |author = Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna |title = Chile |date = 1883 |ol = 23286207M }}
  • Plaza La Serena built (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
  • 1876 – National Congress Building inaugurated.
  • 1882 – Central Post Office Building (Santiago) constructed.
  • 1885
  • Estación Central (railway station) opens.
  • Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Verein zu Santiago founded.{{Citation |publisher = Imprenta Universitaria |location = Santiago de Chile |author = Deutscher Wissenschaftlicher Verein zu Santiago de Chile |title = Deutsche Arbeit in Chile |date = 1913 |language=de |ol = 24434455M }}
  • 1888 – Pontifical Catholic University of Chile founded.
  • 1893 – Santiago Stock Exchange founded.
  • 1895 – Population: 256,413.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1897 – Estación Central (railway station) rebuilt.
  • 1900
  • El Mercurio newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 269,886.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

20th century

21st century

  • 2002
  • Jardín Botánico Chagual (garden) established.
  • Population of Santiago (commune): 200,792; population of metro area: 5,428,590.
  • 2004 – Raúl Alcaíno Lihn becomes mayor.
  • 2005
  • Santiago Metro Line 4 begins operating.
  • Plaza de la Ciudadanía inaugurated (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
  • 2006
  • Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda built.
  • Gran Torre Santiago construction begins.
  • 2007 – March: Protests.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19356356 |title=Chile Profile: Timeline |date=23 August 2012 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=13 July 2013}}
  • 2008
  • Mall Plaza Alameda in business.
  • Pablo Zalaquett Said becomes mayor.
  • 2010
  • 27 February: 2010 Chile earthquake.
  • 28 September: Time capsule buried in the Plaza de Armas.{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/categorias/home/la-comuna/historia/capsula-del-tiempo |title=Cápsula del Tiempo |publisher= Municipalidad de Santiago |language=es |access-date=13 July 2013}}
  • 8 December: Fire in prison in San Miguel.
  • Taller Bloc (art space) founded.{{cite web |url= http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:Chile |title=Chile |work=Art Spaces Directory |location=New York |publisher=New Museum |access-date=2 December 2013}}
  • 2012 – Carolina Tohá becomes mayor.{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/categorias/home/la-comuna/historia/verPagina/santiago-y-sus-alcaldes-2 |title=Santiago y sus alcaldes |trans-title=Santiago and its mayors |publisher=Municipalidad de Santiago |language=es |access-date=13 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115180703/http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/categorias/home/la-comuna/historia/verPagina/santiago-y-sus-alcaldes-2 |archive-date=15 November 2012 }}
  • 2014 – Homeless World Cup football contest held.
  • 2016 – Population: 5,561,252.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/index.cshtml |work=Demographic Yearbook 2016 |year=2017 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title= Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 2017
  • July: Snowfall.{{citation |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40620077 |title=Chile turns chilly as Santiago hit by rare heavy snowfall |date=15 July 2017 }}{{citation |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/07/17/photos-santiago-chile-sees-most-snow-in-decades/ |title=Photos: Santiago, Chile, sees most snow in decades |date=17 July 2017 }}
  • Santiago Metro Line 6 begins operating.

See also

References

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This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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=in English=

;Published in the 18th–19th centuries

  • {{Citation |publisher = Christian Bowyer |location = London |author = Amédée-François Frézier |title = A Voyage to the South-Sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714 |date = 1735 |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/voyagetosouthsea00frzi#page/98/mode/2up |author-link = Amédée-François Frézier }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = F.C. and J. Rivington |location = London |author = Richard Brookes |title = General Gazetteer |date = 1820 |edition=17th |chapter=St. Jago, Chili |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/generalgazette1820broouoft#page/n341/mode/2up }}
  • {{Cite book |editor=David Brewster |date = 1832 |location = Philadelphia |title = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |publisher=Joseph Parker |chapter=Santiago |title-link = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |hdl = 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t82j6q872 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J.Duncan |location = London |title = The Modern Traveller |author = Josiah Conder |author-link=Josiah Conder (editor and author) |date =1830 |chapter=Santiago de Chile |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/moderntraveller28condiala#page/348/mode/2up }}

;Published in the 20th century

  • {{cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics |publisher=International Union of American Republics |date=March 1909 |volume=28 |location=Washington DC |title=Municipal Organization in the Latin-American Capitals: Santiago de Chile |hdl=2027/wu.89095922225 }}
  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Santiago de Chile |volume= 24 | page = 191 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Spanish-American Publication Society |location = Washington, DC |author = Charles Warren Currier |title = Lands of the Southern Cross: a visit to South America |date = 1911 |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/landsofsouthernc00curr#page/200/mode/2up

| ref = {{harvid|Currier|1911}}

}}

  • {{Citation |author=W. H. Koebel |publisher = G. Bell & Sons |date = 1913 |location = London |title = Modern Chile |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/modernchilewithi00koebuoft#page/62/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Government Printing Office |location = Washington DC |title = Trade directory of South America for the promotion of American export trade |author = United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce |date = 1914 |oclc = 5821807 |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/tradedirectoryof00unit#page/260/mode/2up |author-link = United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = G.H. Doran |location = New York |title = The South American Tour |author = Annie Smith Peck |date = 1916 |oclc = 4541554 |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/southamericantou00peck#page/170/mode/2up |author-link = Annie Smith Peck }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Govt. Print. Office |location = Washington, DC |title = Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America |author = Ernst B. Filsinger |date = 1922 |chapter=Santiago |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/commercialtravel00filsrich#page/548/mode/2up }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Early Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in Chile: Impressions of Santiago and Valparaíso |author= S. Samuel Trifilo |journal= Journal of Inter-American Studies |volume=11 |issue= 3 |pages= 391–424 |year= 1969 |jstor=165420 |doi= 10.2307/165420 }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Santiago Chile, 1541-1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation |author= Joseph B. Fichandler and Thomas F. O'Brien, Jr. |journal= The Americas |volume= 33 |issue= 2 |pages= 205–225 |year=1976 |jstor=980784 |doi= 10.2307/980784 |s2cid= 146900345 }}
  • {{cite book|editor=Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin |title= Americas |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |year= 1995 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-25930-4 |chapter= Santiago |page=637+ |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zTL_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA637 }}
  • {{cite journal |author=Eduardo Dockemdorff|year=2000 |title=Santiago de Chile: metropolitanization, globalization and inequity |journal=Environment and Urbanization |volume=12 |display-authors=etal

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;Published in the 21st century

  • {{cite journal |title=The Burden of Citizenship: Artisans, Elections, and the Fuero Militar in Santiago de Chile, 1822–1851 |author= James A. Wood |journal= The Americas |volume=58 |year= 2002

| ref = {{harvid|Wood|2002}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |isbn = 1576070271 |location = Santa Barbara, Calif |title = Historic Cities of the Americas |author = David Marley |date = 2005 |chapter=Santiago |page=728+ }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Stanford University Press |isbn = 9780804749824 |title = Politics and Urban Growth in Santiago, Chile, 1891-1941 |author = Richard J. Walter |date = 2005 |location=California }}
  • {{citation |title= Taming The River & Building The City: Infrastructure And Public Space In Santiago de Chile 1750—1810 |author= Fernando Perez Oyarzun |via= International Planning History Society |year=2012

|url=http://planninghistory.org/conferences/sao-paulo-2012/ }}

  • {{cite book |title=Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns |editor=Ian Shirley, Carol Neill |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn= 9780415632041 |chapter=Chile: Santiago |author= Manuel Tironi|display-authors=etal

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=in Spanish=

  • {{cite book |title=Diccionario jeográfico de la República de Chile |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-EEqAAAAYAAJ |author=Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga |language=es |location= Nueva York |publisher= D. Appleton & Company |year=1867 |chapter=Santiago |hdl=2027/hvd.hwwisq }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Impr. del Mercurio |title = Historia crítica y social de la Ciudad de Santiago, desde su fundacion hasta nuestros dias (1541–1868) |author = Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna |date = 1869 |language=es |author-link = Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna }} [https://archive.org/stream/historiacrticay00mackgoog#page/n10/mode/2up v.1], [https://archive.org/stream/historiacrticay01mackgoog#page/n10/mode/2up v.2]
  • {{cite book |title= Bibliografía de la imprenta en Santiago de Chile desde sus orígenes hasta febrero de 1817 |author= José Toribio Medina |year=1891 |location=Santiago de Chile |language=es |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100350382? |via=HathiTrust |author-link= José Toribio Medina }}
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:santiagodechileo18thay/Santiago_de_Chile_origen_del_nombre_du_sus_calles |title = Santiago de Chile, origen del nombre du sus calles |trans-title=Santiago de Chile, origin of the names of its streets |date = 1904 |publisher = Guillermo E. Miranda |location=Santiago |author=Luis Thayer Ojeda |ol = 25515663M |language=es }}

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