Timeline of Calgary history

This is a timeline of the history of Calgary.

18th century[edit]

1787 – Cartographer David Thompson spent the winter with a band of Peigan encamped along the Bow River. He was the first recorded European to visit the area.

1873 – John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area.^[1]
1875 – Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A. Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary by Colonel James Macleod.
1882 - First sawmill on the Bow River^[2]
1883 – The Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area and a rail station was constructed.
1884 – Calgary was officially incorporated as a town and elected its first mayor, George Murdoch.
1885 – Calgary Police Service established.
1886 – The Calgary Fire of 1886.
1888 – Anglican Diocese of Calgary established.
1891 – Calgary and Edmonton Railway opened.
1894 – It was incorporated as "The City of Calgary" in what was then the North-West Territories.^[3]
1900 – Downtown East Village, Calgary established.

1902 – Oil was first discovered in Alberta in 1902.^[4]
1910 - Parkdale was annexed to the City of Calgary in 1910.^[5]^:77
1910 - 1913 - Calgary experienced a "major and economic and building boom."^[5]^:77

1912 – The Calgary Stampede is held for the first time.
1915-18 – Mewata Armouries constructed.
1923 – A plebiscite increased the term in office for the mayor from one to two years. In 1968, the Municipal Act increased the term in office by one year, for a total of three years.
1929 – Great Depression in Canada.
1932-33 – The Glenmore Dam is constructed.
1947 – Huge reserves of oil were discovered in the province. Calgary quickly found itself at the centre of the ensuing oil boom.
1947 – Stampede Wrestling established.
1970 - First +15 enclosed pedestrian walkway constructed downtown.
1971 – 403,000 inhabitants. The relatively low-rise Downtown Calgary quickly became dense with tall buildings,^[6] a trend that continues to this day.
1973 – The city's economy grew when oil prices increased with the Arab Oil Embargo.
1988 – Calgary hosts the 1988 Winter Olympics
1989 – 675,000 inhabitants.
1992 – Stephen Avenue is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada.
1996 – Canadian Pacific Railway moved its head office from Montreal to Calgary.
1997 – Calgary Declaration.
1999 – Hub Oil explosion

2002 – J26 G8 Protests.
2005 – Imperial Oil moved its headquarters from Toronto to Calgary in order to take advantage of Alberta's favourable corporate taxes and to be closer to its oil operations.
2006 – EnCana announced the construction of the Bow, a 58-floor skyscraper in the downtown core of the city.
2007 – 1,020,000 inhabitants.
2008 – The Calgary Economic Region had an estimated population of 1,232,679.
2010 – Centennial Place (Calgary) will finish.
2013 - Widespread flooding across southern Alberta forces the evacuation of 75,000 Calgary residents
2014 - Calgary reached a population of around 1,419,800.

^ Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture. "The Glenns". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
^ Fitzgerald, J.G. (1885). Business directory of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Calgary, Alberta: Calgary Herald Printing & Publishing Co.
^ City of Calgary. "Historical Information". Retrieved 2007-09-23.
^ CBC Article. "Oil and Gas in Alberta". Archived from the original on 2007-05-23. Retrieved 2006-01-06.
^ ^a ^b "Parkdale Community Heritage Inventory" (PDF). Land Use Planning and Policy Planning, Development and Assessment. December 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
^ Calgary architecture : the boom years, 1972-1982, Pierre S Guimond; Brian R Sinclair, Detselig Enterprises, 1984, ISBN 0-920490-38-7