Timeline of Buenos Aires

This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Prior to 19th century

 * 1536 – First foundation of the city by Pedro de Mendoza.
 * 1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción.
 * 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay.
 * 1591 – Dominican monastery established.
 * 1604 – San Francisco monastery established.
 * 1611 – Men's Hospital founded.
 * 1620 – Town becomes capital of Buenos Aires Province.
 * 1671 – Cathedral inaugurated.
 * 1711 – Cabildo built.
 * 1716 – Granted the royal motto Most Noble and Loyal ("Muy Noble y muy Leal")
 * 1720 – Recoleta church built.
 * 1722 – Completion of Saint Ignatius Church
 * 1727 – San Miguel church founded.
 * 1743 – Women's Hospital established.
 * 1744 – Las Monjas convent founded.
 * 1749 – San Juan convent established.
 * 1752 – Cathedral built.
 * 1755 – Female Orphan School established.
 * 1763 – Anglo-Portuguese invasion, part of the Seven Years' War, repelled by Viceroy Cevallos.
 * 1768 – Merced church built.
 * 1776 – City becomes capital of Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
 * 1778 – "Free trade regulations" in effect.
 * 1779 – Foundling Asylum established.
 * 1794 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.

1800s-1840s

 * 1801 - Telégrafo Mercantil newspaper begins publication.
 * 1806 - British briefly in power.
 * 1810
 * 18–25 May: May Revolution.
 * State Library established.
 * 1811 – Pirámide de Mayo monument built on the Plaza de Mayo.
 * 1815 – Academy of Jurisprudence founded.
 * 1821 – University of Buenos Aires founded.
 * 1822
 * Academy of Music founded.
 * Street names changed.
 * Northern Cemetery established.
 * 1823 – Museum of Buenos Ayres, Sociedad de Beneficencia, and Philharmonic Association founded.
 * 1829 – British Library established (approximate date).
 * 1832 – English Cemetery established.
 * 1833 – Victoria Theatre built.
 * 1838
 * 28 March: French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
 * Scotch Church built.
 * 1840 – French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
 * 1841 – Foreign Club established.
 * 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
 * 1847 – Lutheran Church built.

1850s–1890s

 * 1850 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
 * 1852
 * Board of Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Club del Progreso founded.
 * Yellow fever epidemic.
 * 1853
 * City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires.
 * Germania club founded.
 * 1854 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Society of Natural History of the Plate, and Gymnastic Club founded.
 * 1855 – Custom house built.
 * 1856
 * built.
 * Irish Convent of Sisters of Mercy established.
 * 1857
 * Teatro Colón opens.
 * Deaf and Dumb Institute founded.
 * Buenos Aires Western Railway inaugurated.
 * 1858
 * Café Tortoni in business.
 * Poor Asylum, School of Catedral al Sur, and Maua Bank established.
 * School of medicine built.
 * Yellow fever epidemic.
 * 1859 – British Hospital and Convalecencia built.
 * 1860
 * Plaza del Retiro laid out.
 * Catedral al Norte (school) and Club del Plata founded.
 * Santa Catalina church built.
 * 1861
 * City becomes part of Argentine Confederation again.
 * Plaza del Parque public garden laid out.
 * Teutonia club founded.
 * Mercado del Comercio and Episcopal palace built.
 * 1862
 * Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opened.
 * Plaza Libertad laid out.
 * Archbishop's Palace built.
 * French Hospital and Irish Hospital established.
 * 1863
 * Congress-hall and Italian Hospital built.
 * London and River Plate Bank established.
 * Tram service starts.
 * 1864
 * Franco Argentine Theatre in business.
 * Lorea market, German Singing Academy, and Concordia club established.
 * Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club opened.
 * 1865
 * Constitución railway station opens.
 * Coliseum concert-hall built.
 * Kranken-verein and Heimath club founded.
 * 1866 – Archepiscopal see and Mercado de Independencia established.
 * 1867
 * Cholera epidemic.
 * German Hospital Society, Mercado del Norte, and Thalia club founded.
 * 1868
 * Congregación Israelita Argentina founded.
 * Sanitary Institute opens.
 * 1869
 * La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
 * Population: 177,767.
 * 1870 – Yellow fever epidemic.
 * 1871
 * Yellow fever epidemic.
 * City fire department established.
 * 1873 – A la Ciudad de Londres department store in business.
 * 1875 – Parque Tres de Febrero inaugurated.
 * 1876 – Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes (art society) and Buenos Aires Orchestral Society organized.
 * 1877
 * National Penitentiary inaugurated.
 * in business.
 * 1879
 * (theatre) opens.
 * Rivadavia Library founded.
 * 1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; established.
 * 1882
 * Once railway station opens.
 * National Theatre built.
 * South American Continental Exhibition held.
 * 1887
 * Belgrano and Flores become part of city.
 * Constitución railway station rebuilt.
 * 1888
 * Buenos Aires Zoo established.
 * Pizzurno Palace built.
 * 1890 - National Historical Museum opens.
 * 1891 – Rivera Indarte Theatre opens.
 * 1893 – Buenos Aires City Hall built.
 * 1894
 * Palacio de Aguas Corrientes built.
 * Musical Mutual Society organized.
 * 1895
 * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opens.
 * Population: 663,854.
 * 1897 – Puerto Madero constructed.
 * 1898
 * Buenos Aires Botanical Garden inaugurated.
 * Casa Rosada re-built.

1900s–1940s

 * 1901 – Club Atlético River Plate formed.
 * 1904
 * Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi inaugurated.
 * Population: 950,891.
 * 1905
 * Club Atlético Boca Juniors formed.
 * Population: 1,025,653.
 * 1906 – Congress hall built.
 * 1908 – Avenida Theatre opens.
 * 1909 – San Martín Palace built.
 * 1910
 * Exposición Internacional del Centenario held.
 * Customs House, Palace of Justice, and Congressional Plaza inaugurated.
 * 1911 – Hotel de Inmigrantes built.
 * 1912 – Cine Atlas Belgrano opens.
 * 1913
 * Buenos Aires Underground begins operating.
 *  newspaper begins publication.
 * 1914
 * Harrods Buenos Aires in business.
 * Population: 1,575,814.
 * 1915 – Retiro railway station opens.
 * 1916 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange built.
 * 1917 – Confitería El Molino in business.
 * 1919
 * January: Tragic Week conflict.
 * Teatro Gran Splendid opens.
 * 1921 – Cervantes Theatre opens.
 * 1922 – Cine Catalunya opens.
 * 1923 – Palacio Barolo built.
 * 1925 – Puerto Nuevo opens.
 * 1936
 * Kavanagh Building constructed.
 * Maldonado Stream tubed (approximate date).
 * Obelisco built.
 * 1937 – Teatro Gran Rex opens.
 * 1938 – Estadio Monumental opens.
 * 1945 – 17 October: Labor demonstration.
 * 1946 – Buenos Aires Philharmonic founded.
 * 1947 – Population: 2,981,043 city; 4,603,035 urban agglomeration.
 * 1948
 * Aeroparque Jorge Newbery opens.
 * Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway & Buenos Aires Western Railway closed.
 * 1949 – Ministro Pistarini International Airport built.

1950s–1990s

 * 1950 – Alas Building constructed.
 * 1955
 * 16 June: Bombing of Plaza de Mayo.
 * Revolución Libertadora.
 * 1957 – Federico Lacroze railway station opens.
 * 1958 – inaugurated.
 * 1962 – 11 June: Villa Soldati level crossing train accident.
 * 1967 – Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens open.
 * 1968 – Galileo Galilei planetarium opens.
 * 1971 – Florida Street pedestrianized.
 * 1972 – Bombing of Sheraton Hotel.
 * 1973 – 20 June: Peronist shooting near Ezeiza Airport.
 * 1974 – Population: 2,976,000 city; 8,925,000 urban agglomeration.
 * 1975
 * Buenos Aires International Book Fair begins.
 * Bombing of theatre.
 * 1976
 * 24 March: Coup d'état.
 * 2 April: Osvaldo Cacciatore becomes mayor.
 * 1977 – 30 April: Demonstrations by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin.
 * 1978 – Argentine Council for International Relations founded.
 * 1979
 * 11 December: 1979 Copa América football tournament held.
 * Caseros Prison built.
 * 1980 – Centro Cultural Recoleta inaugurated.
 * 1982 – June: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
 * 1987
 * April: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
 * 12 July: 1987 Copa América Final football tournament held.
 * 1988 – Patio Bullrich shopping centre opens.
 * 1991
 * Galerías Pacífico shopping centre opens.
 * Population: 2,960,976 city; 10,686,163 urban agglomeration.
 * 1992
 * 17 March: Bombing of Israeli embassy.
 * National Library building inaugurated.
 * 1994 – 18 July: Bombing of Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building.
 * 1996
 * established per 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution.
 * 30 June: Mayoral election takes place.
 * 1999
 * Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema begins.
 * Abasto de Buenos Aires shopping mall opens.
 * 2000
 * King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center inaugurated.
 * El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop in business.
 * Aníbal Ibarra becomes Chief of Government of city.

2000s

 * 2001
 * Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated.
 * Buenos Aires Fashion Week and Creamfields BA music festival begin.
 * Eloísa Cartonera founded.
 * December: Economic protest.
 * 2002
 * June: Economic protest.
 * Quilmes Rock music festival and Buenos Aires Jazz Festival begin.
 * 2004 – 30 December: República Cromañón nightclub fire.
 * 2005
 * Appetite (art gallery) opens.
 * El Faro Towers built.
 * 2006 – March: Aníbal Ibarra deposed; Jorge Telerman becomes Chief of Government of city.
 * 2007 – Mauricio Macri becomes Chief of Government of city.
 * 2008
 * Fortabat Art Collection opens.
 * Repsol-YPF Tower built.
 * 2009 – Le Parc Figueroa Alcorta and Mulieris Towers built.

2010s

 * 2010
 * Municipal bicycle sharing program established.
 * Metropolitan Police department established.
 * Population: 2,891,082.
 * 2011
 * 24 July: 2011 Copa América Final football tournament held.
 * Metrobus begins operating.
 * City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
 * 2012
 * 22 February: Train crash.
 * 4 April: F2
 * 2013
 * Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is elected as Pope Francis, succeeding the retired Pope Benedict XVI
 * April: Flooding.
 * opens.
 * 2015
 * 3 June: The feminist movement Ni una menos organizes its first massive demonstrations against gender-based violence, popularising the campaign throughout Argentina and several Latin American countries.
 * 2016
 * Population: 13,879,707 (urban agglomeration).
 * 2017
 * Alvear Tower completed as the tallest building in Argentina.

2020s

 * 2023
 * A specialized exhibition recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions will be held.

Published in the 20th century

 * J. R. Scobie. (1972) "Buenos Aires as a commercial-bureaucratic city, 1880-1919: characteristics of a city's orientation." Amer. Historical Rev. 77, 4: 1035–1073.
 * Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
 * J. R. Scobie. (1972) "Buenos Aires as a commercial-bureaucratic city, 1880-1919: characteristics of a city's orientation." Amer. Historical Rev. 77, 4: 1035–1073.
 * Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
 * J. R. Scobie. (1972) "Buenos Aires as a commercial-bureaucratic city, 1880-1919: characteristics of a city's orientation." Amer. Historical Rev. 77, 4: 1035–1073.
 * Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
 * J. R. Scobie. (1972) "Buenos Aires as a commercial-bureaucratic city, 1880-1919: characteristics of a city's orientation." Amer. Historical Rev. 77, 4: 1035–1073.
 * Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
 * J. R. Scobie. (1972) "Buenos Aires as a commercial-bureaucratic city, 1880-1919: characteristics of a city's orientation." Amer. Historical Rev. 77, 4: 1035–1073.
 * Alonso, Paula. 1993. "Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890–1898: The Performance of the Radical Party." Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (3): 465–487.
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
 * Jose Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998