Timeline of San José, Costa Rica
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San José, Costa Rica.
Prior to 20th century
- 1738 - San José founded.[1]
- 1760 - Town hall in use (approximate date).[2]
- 1776 - Church built.[2]
- 1808 - Population: 8,316.[2]
- 1812 - "Town council elected."[2]
- 1813 - San Jose attains city status.[3]
- 1814 - Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomás (school) opens.[3]
- 1823 - San José becomes capital of Costa Rica.[1]
- 1824 - Population: 15,472.[2]
- 1835 - War of the League (Costa Rica).[2]
- 1836 - Population: 17,965.[2]
- 1841 - 2 September: Earthquake.[2](es)
- 1845
- Puntarenas-San Jose road built.[2]
- Hospital San Juan de Dios (San José) established.
- 1848 - Carmen District created.
- 1850 - Roman Catholic diocese of San José de Costa Rica established.[4]
- 1855 - Presidential Palace, Costa Rica built.
- 1864 - Population: 8,863.[2]
- 1869 - Telegraph begins operating.[5]
- 1878 - Metropolitan Cathedral of San José and Estacion del Pacifico (rail station)[2] built.
- 1880 - Public market built (approximate date).[2]
- 1883 - Population: 13,484.[2]
- 1884 - Street lighting installed.[6]
- 1886 - Telephone begins operating.[2]
- 1887 - Parque Morazán (park) established.
- 1889
- 1890 - Estacion del Atlantico (rail station) begins operating.[2]
- 1892 - Population: 19,326.[2]
- 1895 - Monumento Nacional de Costa Rica unveiled.[7]
- 1897 - National Theatre of Costa Rica opens.[2]
20th century
- 1904 - Population: 24,500.[8]
- 1907 - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de La Merced (San José) (church) built (approximate date).
- 1910 - Corte de Justicia Centroamericana relocated to San Jose (approximate date).[3]
- 1911 - Sociedad Gimnástica Española de San José (sport club) formed.
- 1916 - Botanical garden opens.
- 1918 - Population: 38,016 city; 51,658 metro.[9]
- 1920 - Parque España (San José) established.
- 1921 - Zoo opens.
- 1924
- 4 March: Earthquake.[2](es)
- National Stadium opens.
- 1927 - Population: 50,580.[2]
- 1930 - Gran Hotel (Costa Rica) built.
- 1948 - March–April: Costa Rican Civil War.[2]
- 1950 - Population: 86,909 city; 139,915 urban agglomeration.[10]
- 1958 - Cuesta de Moras (national congress building) constructed.
- 1963 - March: Irazú Volcano erupts near city.[2]
- 1973 - Population: 215,441 city; 395,401 urban agglomeration.[11]
- 1977 - La Sabana Metropolitan Park established.
- 1980 - United Nations' University for Peace established near San Jose.
- 1985 - Pre-Columbian Gold Museum opens.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.[12]
- 1990 - City twinned with Almaty, Kazakhstan; Miami, USA; and San Jose, California, USA.[12]
- 1993 - April: Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis.
- 1994
- Museum of Contemporary Art and Design established.
- Population: 315,909 city; 1,186,417 urban agglomeration (estimate).[13]
- 1998 - Johnny Araya Monge becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000 - City twinned with Mexico City, Mexico.[12]
- 2008 - City twinned with Puebla, Mexico.[12]
- 2011
- National Stadium rebuilt.
- Population: 288,054.[14]
- 2012 - 5 September: 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurs.[15]
- 2013 - Sandra García Pérez becomes mayor.
See also
References
- Britannica 1910.
- Marley 2005.
- Theodore S. Creedman (1991). Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2215-3.
- "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Costa Rica". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- Patricia Fumero Vargas (2005). El advenimiento de la modernidad en Costa Rica: 1850-1914 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-951-8.
- Patricia Fumero Vargas (2005). Cultura y sociedad en Costa Rica: 1914-1950 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-952-5.
- Zamora 1997.
- "Costa Rica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1906.
- "Costa Rica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
- "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
- "Convenios Internacionales" (in Spanish). Municipalidad de San José. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
- "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
- "Costa Rica Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
Bibliography
in English
- "San José", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- David F. Marley (2005), "Costa Rica: San Jose", Historic Cities of the Americas, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 335+, ISBN 1576070271
in Spanish
- Carlos Manuel Zamora Hernández (1997), Monumentos escultóricos de la ciudad de San José (in Spanish), Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural
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