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Friday, July 2, 2021
Basic timeline of Seattle
This post is a basic timeline of Seattle. There are 37 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- First humans (8,0000 BC)
- Duwamish tribe (8,000 BC)
- George Vancouver and Europeans arrive (1792)
- Seattle is founded by Denny Party at Alki Beach (1851)
- Arthur Denny moves Seattle to Elliot Bay (1852)
- Henry Yesler establishes steam-powered sawmill (1852)
- University of Washington established (1861)
- Seattle is incorporated (1865)
- Colman Dock in Elliot Bay opens (1882)
- Great Northern Railway reaches Seattle (1884)
- Great Seattle Fire (1889)
- Klondike Gold Rush boom in Seattle (1896-1899)
- Nordstrom is founded (1901)
- Pike Place opens (1907)
- Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909)
- Smith Tower is built (1914)
- Boeing is founded (1916)
- Seattle General Strike (1919)
- Maritime Strike of 1934
- Japanese American internment (1942-1946)
- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport opens (1944)
- Alaskan Way Viaduct (1953-2019)
- Pacific Science Center established (1962)
- Seattle Center Monorail is built (1962)
- Space Needle is built (1962)
- Seattle World's Fair (1962)
- Starbucks is founded (1971)
- Bumbershoot is founded (1971)
- Seattle Seahawks established (1974)
- Seattle Mariners established (1977)
- Columbia Tower is built (1985)
- Microsoft moves to Redmond (1986)
- Amazon is founded (1994)
- WTO protests (1999)
- Experience Music Project is built (2000)
- Link Light Rail opens (2003)
- Seattle Great Wheel is built (2012)