Timeline of Tampa, Florida

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tampa in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.

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19th century

History of Florida
The seal of Florida reflects the state's Native American ancestry
Historical Periods
Pre-history	until 1497
Spanish Rule	1513–1763
British Rule	1763–1783
Spanish Rule	1783–1821
U.S. Territorial Period	1822–1845
Statehood	1845–present
Major Events
American Revolutionary War	1775–1783
War of 1812	1811–1814
First Seminole War	1817–1818
Capitol moved to Tallahassee	1824
Second Seminole War	1835–1842
Constitutional convention	1838
Third Seminole War	1855–1858
Ordinance of Secession	1861
Civil War	1861–1865
3rd Constitution	1865
Reconstruction	1865–1868
4th Constitution	1868
5th Constitution	1885
Great Migration	1910–1930
Land Boom	1925–1929
6th Constitution	1968
Gore v. Harris 2000 Presidential Election	2000
Timeline

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.
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
- Yellow fever outbreak.^[2]
- Tampa Guardian newspaper in publication.^[4]
1877 – Gainesville-Tampa stagecoach begins operating.^[2]
1882 – Hillsborough High School opens.
1884 – South Florida Railroad begins operating.^[2]
1885 – Board of Trade established.^[5]
1886
- Sanchez & Haya cigar factory begins operating.^[6]
- Ybor Factory Building constructed.
1887
- Ybor City becomes part of Tampa.^[5]
- Tampa Electric Company established.^[7]
1888 – Plant Park laid out.^[2]
1889 – Florida Railway begins operating.^[2]
1890
- Tampa Business College established.^[8]
- Telephones begin operating.^[7]
1891
- Tampa Bay Hotel built.^[2]
- Cuban José Martí gives speech "Los Pinos Nuevos".^[9]
1893 – Tampa Daily Times newspaper begins publication.^[4]
1895 – Tampa Fire Department established.
1899
- Burgert photo studio in business.^[10]
- Circulo Cubano founded.^[7]

20th century

1900 – Tampa Woman's Club formed.^[11]
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.^[12]
1908 – YMCA built.^[13]
1912
- Union Station opens.
- El Centro Español de Tampa building constructed.^[2]
- El Comercio Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.^[14]
- Union Hotel in business.
1913 – Centro Asturiano de Tampa building constructed.^[2]
1914 – St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line begins operating.^[1]^[15]
1915 – Tampa City Hall built.
1916 – Heraldo Dominical Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.^[14]
1917
- Tampa Public Library opens.^[16]
- Circulo Cubano de Tampa rebuilt.
1918 – Unione Italiana building constructed.^[2]
1920 – Population: 51,608.
1922
- WDAE radio begins broadcasting.^[17]
- La Gaceta trilingual newspaper begins publication.^[6]
1924 – Gandy Bridge to St. Petersburg built.^[2]
1925
- West Tampa becomes part of Tampa.
- Municipal Auditorium built.^[2]
1926
- Junior League of Tampa founded.^[18]
- Tampa Theatre opens.
1927
- Sulphur Springs Water Tower erected.
- Floridan Hotel in business.
1930 – Population: 101,161.^[19]
1931
- Labor strike of cigar workers.^[20]
- 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.^[19]
1950 – Population: 124,681.^[19]
1956 – Britton Plaza Shopping Center in business.
1957 – Lowry Park Zoo opens.
1959 – Busch Gardens theme park in business.^[21]
1960 – Population: 274,970.^[19]
1962 – Museum of Science and Industry founded.^[22]
1966 – Franklin Exchange Building constructed.
1970 – Population: 277,767.^[19]
1972
- Sant'Yago Knight Parade begins.
- Floriland Cinema in business.^[23]
1978 – Cracker Country (museum) established.
1979 – Tampa Museum of Art founded.
1980
- Hillsborough Area Regional Transit established.
- Population: 271,523.^[19]
1981 – Feeding America Tampa Bay active (approximate date).^[24]
1982 – Foreign trade zone^[25]^[26] and Ybor City Museum Society^[22] established.
1984 – Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System established.^[16]
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.^[22]
1990
- Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival begins.
- Population: 280,015.^[19]
1992 – AmSouth Building and SunTrust Financial Centre constructed.
1995 – Florida Aquarium opens.^[21]
1996
- City website online.^[27]^[28]
- Ice Palace (arena) opens.
1997
- Jim Davis becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 11th congressional district.^[29]
- Tampa Police Museum founded.^[22]

21st century

2000 - Channelside 9 Cinemas in business.^[23]
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 System 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.^[30]
2009 – Tampa Bay History Center opens.
2010 – Population: city 335,709;^[31] metro 2,783,243.^[32]
2011
- Florida Voices begins publication.^[33]
- Bob Buckhorn becomes mayor.
- Population: 346,037; metro 2,824,724.^[34]
2012 – August: 2012 Republican National Convention held.
2014 – Tampa Baseball Museum opens.

References

1 2 3 "Tampa History". City of Tampa. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
1 2 Rajtar 2007.
1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
1 2 Long 1966.
1 2 "Cigar City Timeline". Tampa Bay History Center. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
1 2 3 Long 1971.
↑ Patterson's American Educational Directory. 29. Chicago. 1932.
↑ Medina 2004.
↑ "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.
1 2 American Newspaper Annual, N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921
↑ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
1 2 "Library History". Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ "Timeline". Florida Memory. Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ "About Us". Junior League of Tampa. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
1 2 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.
1 2 3 4 American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Florida: Tampa". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). p. 159+. ISBN 0759100020.
1 2 "Movie Theaters in Tampa, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "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. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
↑ "City of Tampa Official World Wide Web Site". Archived from the original on May 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
↑ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1999–2000.
↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ "Tampa (city), Florida". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ "Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)". US Census Bureau. 2012.
↑ "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

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 – via Internet Archive
Rinaldi's Guide Book to the City of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, 1915
"Tampa". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919.
Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Tampa", Florida; a Guide to the Southernmost State, American Guide Series – via Google Books (also via Open Library)
Durward Long (1966). "Historical Beginnings of Ybor City and Modern Tampa". Florida Historical Quarterly. 45. JSTOR 30145699.
Durward Long (1971). "Making of Modern Tampa: A City of the New South, 1885-1911". Florida Historical Quarterly. 49. JSTOR 30140624.
Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Tampa", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E. P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
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, Frommer's, 1998, OL 9936122M
Patricia Dillon (1999). "Clubwomen and Civic Activism: Willie Lowry and Tampa's Club Movement". Florida Historical Quarterly. 77. JSTOR 30150827.
"South of Orlando: Tampa", Orlando & Central Florida, Lonely Planet, 2003 – via Open Library
Pablo Medina (2004). "Tampa Cubans and the Culture of Exile". Antioch Review. 62. 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.

External links

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.

City of Tampa

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Tampa Bay Area

Topics	Tampa Bay Climate History Media Sports Tampa International Airport Hillsborough County Public Schools Pinellas County Schools University of South Florida

Central cities	Tampa St. Petersburg Clearwater

Smaller communities	Pinellas Park Temple Terrace Brandon Zephyrhills Plant City Largo Dunedin Tarpon Springs Lutz Sun City Center

Counties in MSA	Hernando Hillsborough Pasco Pinellas

See also: Florida

Years in Florida (1845–present)

19th century	1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029

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