Timeline of Kansas City, Missouri
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- 1838 - Settlement named "Town of Kansas".[1]
- 1846 - Population: 700.[2]
- 1840 - City Market active.[1]
- 1850 - "City of Kansas" incorporated.[1]
- 1854 - Bleeding Kansas
- 1857 - Chamber of Commerce established.[2]
- 1860 - Population: 4,418.[3]
- 1864 - October 23: Battle of Westport.
- 1869 - Missouri River railroad bridge opens.[1]
- 1870 - Population: 32,260.[4]
- 1871 - Kansas City Bar Library Assoc. formed.[5]
- 1872 - Elmwood Cemetery established.
- 1875 - Fetterman Circulating Library in business.[5]
- 1880 - Population: 55,785.[3]
- 1882
- Kansas City Club founded.
- First electric lights used in KC; implemented by KCP&L
- 1889
- "Kansas City" formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas.[1]
- Kansas City Public Library building opens.[6]
- 1890 - Population: 132,716.[3]
- 1892 - Court House built.[3]
- 1893
- City Hall built.[3]
- Kansas City Athletic Club active.
- 1895 - Kansas City School of Law founded.
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900
- July: 1900 Democratic National Convention held.
- Federal Building constructed.[3]
- Population: 163,752.[3]
- 1903 - Automobile Club of Kansas City active.
- 1904 - Children's Mercy Hospital active.[7]
- 1908 - City Hospital built.[3]
- 1909 Kansas City Zoo opens in Swope Park
- 1910
- Hall Brothers in business.
- Population: 248,381.[3]
- 1913 - Cook Paint and Varnish Company in business.
- 1914
- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Paseo YMCA[8] open.
- Union Station rebuilt.[9]
- 1915 - Kansas City Polytechnic Institute established.[10]
- 1917 - Rockhurst College opens.[1]
- 1919 - Truman and Jacobson's haberdashery in business.[11]
- 1920 - Population: 324,410.[1]
- 1922 - WPE radio begins broadcasting.
- 1923 Fairyland Amusement Park opens at 7501 Prospect
- 1926
- Ararat Shrine Temple and Bagdad Theatre[12] open.
- Liberty Memorial dedicated to World War I veterans, opens
- 1927 Downtown Airport opens, dedicated by Charles Lindbergh
- 1928
- June: 1928 Republican National Convention.
- F. W. Woolworth Building constructed.
- 1931 - Kansas City Power and Light Building constructed.
- 1933 - June 17: Kansas City massacre.
- 1936 - Holy Land Christian Mission founded.[7]
- 1945 - K.C. native Harry S Truman sworn in as President of the United States after President Franklin Roosevelt's sudden death
- 1937 - Kansas City City Hall rebuilt.
- 1946
- Linda Hall Library established.
- William E. Kemp becomes mayor.
- 1948 - Harry S Truman wins Presidential election
- 1949
- Crest Drive-In cinema active (approximate date).[12]
- Richard Walker Bolling becomes U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district.[13]
- 1945 K.C native Harry S Truman sworn in as President of the United States.
1950s-1990s
- 1951 - July: Great Flood of 1951.[14]
- 1954 - U.S. Weather Bureau Severe Local Storms Unit relocated to Kansas City.
- 1954 - Paseo Bridge opens
- 1955 - H. Roe Bartle becomes mayor.
- 1956 - First runway opens at Kansas City Industrial Airport, now KCI
- 1957
- Kansas City Ballet founded.
- Ruskin Heights Tornado (F-5)
- 1959 - 5 KC firefighters killed in gas tank explosion on Southwest Blvd.
- 1963
- University of Missouri–Kansas City established.
- Ilus W. Davis becomes mayor.
- 1967 - Sister city relationship established with Seville, Spain.[15]
- 1968 - April: 1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot.
- 1969
- Kansas City Royals baseball team formed.,[16]
- Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl
- 1970 - Population: 507,330.[1]
- 1971
- Crown Center opens.
- Charles Wheeler becomes mayor.
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- Kemper Arena opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Freetown, Sierra Leone.[15]
- 1976 - World Science Fiction Convention held.
- 1977 - Fairyland Amusement Park closes after extensive damage by windstorm
- 1978 - Sister city relationship established with Tainan, Taiwan.[15]
- 1979 - Richard L. Berkley becomes mayor.
- 1980 - Hyatt Regency hotel opens.
- 1981 - July 17: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
- 1982
- Kansas City Symphony active.
- Oceans of Fun opens
- 1985 - Kansas City Royals and Manager Dick Howser win I-70 World Series
- 1986 - Town Pavilion hi-rise built.
- 1988
- ACT UP chapter founded.[14]
- One Kansas City Place built.
- Serial killer Bob Berdella apprehended, pleaded guilty to first degree murder, given life in prison sentence
- 1989 - Sister city relationship established with Xi'an, China.[15]
- 1990 - Population: 435,146.[4]
- 1991
- Kansas City Stockyards close.
- Emanuel Cleaver becomes mayor.
- Firefighters' Memorial Fountain dedicated, at 31st & Broadway
- Sister city relationship established with Guadalajara, Mexico.[15]
- 1993
- Sister city relationships established with Hannover, Germany and Port Harcourt, Nigeria.[15]
- Great Flood of 1993
- 1994 - Bartle Hall Convention Center opens.
- 1995 - Sister city relationship established with Arusha, Tanzania.[15]
- 1997
- City website online (approximate date).[17]
- Sister city relationship established with San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.[15]
- 1998 - Sister city relationship established with Ramla, Israel.[15]
- 1999 - Kay Barnes becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 441,545.[18]
- 2001 - Regional Kansas City SmartPort economic development group established.
- 2004 - Sister city relationship established with Metz, France.[15]
- 2005
- 2007
- Sprint Center (arena) opens.
- Irish Museum and Cultural Center active.
- Mark Funkhouser becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Population: 459,787.[20]
- Paseo Bridge closed, demolished
- Christopher S. Bond Bridge opens, replacing Paseo Bridge
- 2011
- Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opens.
- Sly James becomes mayor.
- Population: 463,202; metro 2,052,676.[21]
- 2012
- Google Fiber service begins.[22][23]
- Kansas City Startup Village established.[24]
- CityCampKC and IgniteKC begin.
- 2014 - Liberty Memorial designated National World War I Monument
See also
- List of mayors of Kansas City, Missouri
- History of the Kansas City metropolitan area
- Timeline of St. Louis
- Timeline of Missouri[25]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Nergal 1980.
- 1 2 Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- 1 2 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ↑ Whitney 1908.
- 1 2 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Kansas City, Missouri". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- ↑ Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.
- ↑ "Timeline". Union Station Kansas City. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Member Institutions in Missouri". Washington DC: American Association of Community Colleges. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Truman: Chronology". Independence, Mo.: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Kansas City, MO". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Missouri". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1953.
- 1 2 Kansas City Public Library. "Local history & genealogy: Alphabetical List of Special Collections". Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Kansas City Sister Cities". kcsistercities.org. Sister City Association of Kansas City, MO. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Royals Timeline". MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- ↑ "City of Kansas City, Mo.". Archived from the original on April 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000". Kansas City city, Kansas QuickLinks. State & County QuickFacts. US Census Bureau.
- ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Kansas City (city), Missouri". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ↑ "30 Cities: An Introductory Snapshot". American Cities Project. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts. 2013.
- ↑ "Google Fiber: Why does Kansas City get to go high-speed?", Christian Science Monitor, July 27, 2012
- ↑ "Two Cities With Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App", New York Times, September 5, 2014
- ↑ "Kansas City Startup Village". 2012.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Missouri Chronology", Missouri: A Guide to the 'Show Me' State, American Guide Series, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Business directory, 1866
- Theo. S. Case, ed. (1888). History of Kansas City, Missouri. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason.
- Published in the 20th century
- William Griffith (1900), History of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., OCLC 181275439
- "Kansas City, Mo.". Kansas State Gazeteer and Business Directory, including a complete business directory of Kansas City, Mo. R.L. Polk & Co. 1908.
- Carrie Westlake Whitney (1908), Kansas City, Missouri: its History and its People 1808-1908, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.
- "Kansas City", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Kansas City", Missouri: A Guide to the 'Show Me' State, American Guide Series, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- "Kansas City, Heartland U.S.A.", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 150, 1976
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Kansas City, MO", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, p. 179+, OL 4120668M
- Rick Montgomery; Shirl Kasper (1999). Kansas City: An American Story. Kansas City Star Books. ISBN 978-0-9604884-0-7.
- Published in the 21st century
- Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Kansas City". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 417. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
- David J. Wishart, ed. (2004). "Cities and Towns: Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7.
- American Cities Project (2013). "Kansas City (MO)". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts.
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