May 20: Union Station opens to serve the Union Pacific railroad. Gill sought to preside over a city tolerant of gambling and prostitution. Seattle women won the right to vote in 1883, but that was ruled unconstitutional by the Territorial Court in 1887.įeb. In 1854, a proposal by Arthur Denny to enfranchise women had failed by one vote in the territorial legislature. 8: Washington state grants women the right to vote. June 1: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens on the site now occupied by the UW. 28: James Casey, 19, and Claude Ryan start American Messenger, which becomes United Parcel Service. John McLean builds world's first gasoline service station at Holgate Street and Western Avenue.īallard, West Seattle, Columbia City and Rainier Beach annexed.Īug. The King Street Station opens to serve the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads. 11: William Pigott incorporates Seattle Car Manufacturing, which in 1972 becomes PACCAR, now one of the world's largest manufacturers of custom-made heavy-duty trucks. 29: The Seattle Symphony performs for the first time.įeb. Opening of Wallin & Nordstrom shoe store, the forerunner of the retail giant Nordstrom. 9: Fort Lawton is established on Magnolia Bluff. 28: City buys Guy Phinney's Woodland Park estate and its menagerie (now the zoo).įeb. 21: Seattle College opens, predecessor to Seattle University.ĭec. Business generated by supplying prospectors brings great gains in wealth and population to the city. July 17: The steamship Portland docks in Seattle loaded with gold, igniting the Klondike Gold Rush. Alden Blethen buys The Seattle Daily Times. 4: First classes begin at the present site of the UW.Īug. 7: The first transcontinental train arrives in Seattle. It becomes the city's premier department store for 101 years, until closing in 1992. It is the precursor to Washington Mutual. 21: Business and political leaders form the Washington National Building, Loan and Investment Association to help rebuild the city. June 6: The Great Seattle Fire leaves more than 25 blocks of downtown Seattle in smoldering ruins. March 31: The first electric-trolley line begins. 24: The City of Seattle is the first regularly scheduled ferry on Puget Sound. 6: Mob forces 350 Chinese to the docks for "deportation.'' Soldiers and sheriff's deputies intervene and five men are wounded.ĭec. 23: The first horse-powered streetcar line is established.įeb. 24: Squire's Opera House on First Avenue South between Main and Washington streets is the city's first theater.ĭecember: The first trans-Pacific steamship departs from Seattle, the first step in the city's ambition to become the gateway to the Pacific Rim. 2: Mother Joseph opens Providence Hospital, the first in Seattle, at Fifth Avenue and Madison Street. Seattle Malting and Brewing, later Rainier Brewery, is established.Īug. March 3: Steamship service to San Francisco begins. July 14: Northern Pacific chooses Tacoma over Seattle as terminus of transcontinental railroad. 24: Seattle's first brick building erected. March 25: The coal route from Seattle to Newcastle is completed, the first railroad in Western Washington. July 11: Henry Atkins is elected Seattle's first mayor. He had intended to bring back hundreds of women but returned with far fewer. Asa Shinn Mercer, the UW's first teacher, traveled to New England to find wives for the men of Washington. May 16: The Mercer girls arrive in Seattle. 10: The Gazette, Seattle's first newspaper, is published. 4: Washington Territorial University later the University of Washington is established in downtown Seattle.ĭec. 18: Chief Leschi of the Nisquallies is hanged after being found guilty of leading an ambush in which two federal volunteers were killed in 1855.ġ860, Military Road from Fort Vancouver to Seattle is completed, the first road connecting Seattle to other Western Washington cities. The sloop Decatur fires its cannon, routing the Indians. Seattle residents fire muskets at attacking Indians, upset over attempts to relocate them. 22: Point Elliott Treaty, which cedes much of the Native American land in Western Washington to the U.S. This results in a permanent mismatch at Yesler Way, where two halves of town meet. May 23: Maynard files plats with streets based on compass points, not parallel to the shoreline as Denny and Carson Boren had done. March 26: Henry Yesler opens his sawmill, the first on the Puget Sound. He is credited with naming Seattle after his friend Chief Sealth, leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.Īpril 3: Denny party moves across Elliott Bay. 28: Charles Terry opens area's first store.
13: Settlers, led by Arthur Denny, arrive at Alki Point. Right: 1910 Women get the vote in Washington.
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