{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see WP:SDNONE --> {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Dallas Sections|history=False}} This article contains a timeline of major events in the history of Dallas, Texas (US). It serves as an abridged supplement to the main history article for the city and its several subarticles on periods in the city's history.
== 19th century == {{Texas History}} *1841 – Dallas was founded. *1888 – The Dallas Zoo was opened, making it the second zoological garden in the country.<ref>[http://www.dallaszoo.com/general/general.asp?page=gi DallasZoo.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20010408045149/http://www.dallaszoo.com/general/general.asp?page=gi |date=April 8, 2001 }} – [http://www.dallaszoo.com/general/general.asp?page=gi General Information]. Retrieved September 28, 2006.</ref> * 1890 – Population: 38,067.<ref name=census1998>{{citation |title=Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 |year=1998 |url=https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POP-twps0027.html |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau }}</ref> * 1900 – Population: 42,638.<ref name=census1998 />
== 20th century == ===1900s–1950s=== thumb|First Day of Passenger Service, Dallas & Sherman Interurban Railroad, 1908 * 1901 – Dallas Public Library was opened.<ref>{{citation |chapter=Historical Sketches of Texas Libraries: Dallas |title= Handbook of Texas Libraries |number=1 |publisher=Texas Library Association |location=Austin |year= 1904 |hdl= 2027/uc1.b4221835?urlappend=%3Bseq=33 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4221835?urlappend=%3Bseq=33 }}</ref> *1903 – Dallas annexed town of Oak Cliff on the south side of the Trinity River, expanding its size by a third. *1908 – The Great Trinity River flood **Texas Electric launched Dallas interurban service.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |title=Texas Electric Railway Station |date=July 15, 2008 |url=https://www.stoppingpoints.com/texas/sights.cgi?marker=Texas+Electric+Railway+Station&cnty=collin |website=Stopping Points.com |access-date=January 12, 2025}}</ref> * 1910 – Population: 92,104.<ref name=census1998 /> * 1917 – October 19: U.S. military Love Field (airfield) was created. * 1920 ** WRR radio began its broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1939>{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/378/mode/2up |chapter= Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Texas }}</ref> ** Population: 158,976.<ref name=census1998 /> * 1921 – Kirbys Pig Stand eatery in business.<ref>{{cite book|author=Becky Mercuri|title=American Sandwich |year= 2009|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=978-1-4236-1192-9 |chapter=Timeline |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=k6tsfBwoTn8C&pg=PA09 }}</ref> *1922 - The Magnolia Building was opened. Its trademark neon Pegasus that would be erected in 1934 would come to be one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and representative of the city itself. *1927 ** Love Field (airport) was opened for civilian use. ** The world's first convenience store was opened in Dallas by the Southland Ice Company, which would eventually become 7-Eleven. *1930 ** C. M. Joiner stroke oil 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Dallas. Dallas became a center of commerce for the Texas oil trade. ** Bonnie and Clyde met in the West Dallas neighborhood of Dallas and began their crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. ** Population: 260,475.<ref name=census1998 /> *1934 – The criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde were buried in Dallas after being killed by police in Louisiana on May 23. * 1949 – WFAA-TV and KRLD-TV (television) began broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1960>{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: Texas |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/849/mode/2up }}</ref> *1958 – While working for Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby created the world's first integrated circuit at a Dallas laboratory in September, sparking an electronics revolution that changed the world and created a global market now worth more than $1 trillion a year.
===1960s–1990s=== *1963 – November 22 – United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in a motorcade while traveling west on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. This event is memorialized by the nearby Kennedy Memorial and by the Sixth Floor Museum in the former Texas School Book Depository at the corner of Elm and Houston, Kennedy died at Parkland Memorial Hospital, 30 minutes after the shooting. * 1965 - NorthPark Center was opened - on 97 acres leased from the Caruth Family Foundation by developer Raymond Nasher, anchored by Neiman Marcus, Titches-Goettinger, Pennys and other stores. * 1968 – Cooper Aerobics Center in business.<ref name="Robertson2011">{{cite book|author=Patrick Robertson|title= Robertson's Book of Firsts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TEEaCrPiWsC|year= 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-60819-738-5}}</ref> * 1972 - City logo design was adopted.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20150820-city-of-dallas-considers-scrapping-its-43-year-old-d-logo.ece |date=August 30, 2015 |title=City of Dallas considers scrapping its 43-year-old 'D' logo |work=Dallas Morning News }}</ref> *1974 – Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was opened. *1976 – Thanks-Giving Square was completed in downtown Dallas. *1978 – The soap opera ''Dallas'' was debuted with a CBS miniseries that was filmed entirely in Dallas. The actual series was later almost all filmed in a Los Angeles studio. The internationally popular show ran for 13 years. *1979 – US Congress passed the Wright Amendment, restricting passenger air service out of Love Field Airport. *1981 – {{USS|Dallas|SSN-700}}, a nuclear submarine named after the city, was commissioned. *1984 – Dallas hosted the 1984 Republican National Convention *1985 ** The 72-story Bank of America Plaza (then InterFirst Plaza) was opened as the tallest building in Dallas.<ref name="1980s">[http://dallashistory.org/ Dallas Historical Society] – [http://dallashistory.org/history/dallas/1980s.htm Dallas History Timeline – 1980s] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522224448/http://dallashistory.org/history/dallas/1980s.htm |date=May 22, 2006 }}. Retrieved May 3, 2006.</ref> ** Dallas Municipal Archives was established.<ref>{{citation |url=http://citysecretary.dallascityhall.com/archives.html |publisher=City of Dallas |title=Municipal Archives |access-date=August 30, 2015 }}</ref> ** Teatro Dallas (bilingual theatre) was founded.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Charles M. Tatum |title=Encyclopedia of Latino Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKiSAwAAQBAJ |year=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-0099-3 }}</ref> *1987 - Annette Strauss was inaugurated as the first female mayor of Dallas.<ref name="1980s"/> * 1990 – Population: 1,006,877.<ref name=census1998 /> * 1993 - Old 97's musical group was formed.<ref name=greatest2016>{{citation |url=http://interactive.dmagazine.com/content/greatest-dallasites/#forward |title = Greatest Dallasites of All Time |date=September 2016 |work=D Magazine }}</ref> *1994 – Dallas hosted the 1994 World Cup through the quarter-finals. *1996 – Dallas Area Rapid Transit began operating the first light rail system in Texas (and the Southwest) and first commuter rail in Texas. *1997 – Congress passed the Shelby Amendment, which simplified some of the Wright Amendment restrictions on Love Field Airport. *2000 – December 18 – Dallas Area Rapid Transit opened the first full-service subway station in Texas (and the American South), Cityplace Station.
[[File:Akard Station July 2015 10.jpg|thumb|right|DART Blue Line train at Akard station in downtown Dallas heading towards Downtown Rowlett station]]
[[File:Mark Cuban, Web 2.0 Conference.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Cuban at the Web 2.0 Conference in 2005]] January 2000, just a<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jr |first=Tom Huddleston |title=Mark Cuban says he bought the Dallas Mavericks 6 weeks after attending a game and thinking, 'I can do better than this' |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/mark-cuban-it-took-about-6-weeks-to-buy-the-dallas-mavericks.html |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=CNBC |date=April 25, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> few months into the season. The deal has proven to be a financial success for Cuban and the team. The Mavericks are currently valued at $2.7 billion —<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rader |first=Doyle |title=Mark Cuban Discusses Buying The Dallas Mavericks On Latest Episode Of 'How I Got Here With Chris Paul' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/doylerader/2022/04/19/mark-cuban-discusses-buying-the-dallas-mavericks-on-latest-episode-of-how-i-got-here-with-chris-paul/ |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> ninth-highest in the NBA – according to Forbes.
== 21st century == * 2010 – Population: city 1,197,816; megaregion 19,728,244.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.america2050.org/megaregions.html |title=Megaregions: Texas Triangle |access-date=September 12, 2016 |publisher=Regional Plan Association |location=USA |work= America 2050 }}</ref> *2014 – September 7 – Dallas became home of the first case of the Ebola Virus in the United States. *2016 – July 7 – A mass shooting targeting police officers during a protest occurred in downtown Dallas, resulting in the deaths of five officers along with the shooter, and the injuries of nine other officers and two civilians. *2019 – June 17 – A brief shooting occurred outside of the Earle Cabell Federal Building, leading to the death of the perpetrator and the injury of one other person. [[File:Victory Plaza 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Mavericks began playing at the American Airlines Center in 2001.]] thumb|right|Dallas Zoo Entrance in 2011
[[File:Mark Cuban 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Mark Cuban in 2019, owner of the Dallas Mavericks]]
alt=|thumb|Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW, FAA LID: DFW) in 2013
==See also== * Timelines of other cities in the North Texas area of Texas:<ref>{{cite web |publisher=North Central Texas Council of Governments |title=NCTCOG Members |location=Arlington |url=http://www.nctcog.org/edo/membership.asp |access-date= April 7, 2017 }}</ref> Arlington, Denton, Fort Worth, Garland, Irving, Plano, Wichita Falls
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |title= Directory of Greater Dallas |year= 1909 |publisher= Worley |location= Dallas |url= https://archive.org/details/dallastexascityd00unse }} * {{cite book |title= Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory |year= 1914 |publisher= R.L. Polk & Co. |location= Detroit |chapter= Dallas |url= https://archive.org/stream/texasstategazett01rlpo_0 }} * {{cite book|author= David G. McComb |title=The City in Texas: a History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8EvBgAAQBAJ |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-76746-1 |year= 2015 |chapter= Railroad Towns: Dallas |pages= 121+ }}
==External links== * {{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/historic_tex_cities.html |title=Historical Maps of Texas Cities: Dallas |work= Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection |publisher=University of Texas at Austin }} * {{cite web |url= https://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/bib_guid/states/tx/tx.html |publisher= Library of Congress |author= Humanities and Social Sciences Division |work= Bibliographies and Guides |title= Resources for Local History and Genealogy by State: Texas |location=Washington DC }}
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