The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Orlando, Florida, United States.
1900s-1960s
- 1905 - City Hall built.
- 1910 - Population: 3,894.
- 1913 - Grand Theater opens.
- 1914 - Commission form of government effected.
- 1918 - Orange General Hospital opens.
- 1920 - Population: 9,282.
- 1921
- 1923
- 1924
- Edgewater Heights, Lorna Doone Park, and Orwin Manor become part of Orlando.
- WDBO radio begins broadcasting.[9]
- Orlando Museum of Art founded.
- Orange Court Hotel built.
- 1925 - Glendonjo Park and Spring Lake Terrace become part of Orlando.
- 1926
- 1927 - Orange County Courthouse built.
- 1928 - Orlando Municipal Airport begins operating.
- 1930 - Population: 27,330.
- 1934 - Orlando Dixie Sun newspaper begins publication.
- 1936
- 1940 - Orlando Army Air Base established.
- 1943
- 1945 - Negro Chamber of Commerce established.
- 1946 - Ben White Raceway opens.[13]
- 1949 - Gatorland opens.
- 1950 - Population: 52,367.
- 1952 - William R. Boone High School and Edgewater High School are built.
- 1954
- 1956 - Colonial Plaza shopping centre in business.
- 1957
- Orange County Historical Commission established.[15]
- Martin Company missile manufactory begins operating near Orlando.
- Interstate 4 highway constructed.
- 1958 - WLOF-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[14]
- 1960
- Central Florida Museum opens.
- Population: 88,135.
- 1961 - Harry P. Leu Gardens deeded to city.
- 1963 - UCF founded in East Orlando
- 1967
- 1968
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- E. Bacon. 1977. Orlando: A centennial history. Chuluota, Fla.: Mickler House.
- L. Argrett Jr. 1991. A history of the black community of Orlando, Florida. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Cypress House Press.
- Kevin Archer (1997). "The Limits to the Imagineered City: Sociospatial Polarization in Orlando". Economic Geography. 73 (3): 322–336. doi:10.2307/144487. JSTOR 144487.
- Walt Disney World & Orlando, Frommer, 1998, OL 9936049M
- Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando. By Richard E. Foglesong. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
- Walt Disney World & Orlando for Dummies 2004, For Dummies, 2003, OL 8042293M
- Wendy Taylor (2003), Orlando & Central Florida, Lonely Planet, OL 19289916M
- Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson (2003). Orlando, Florida. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Tana Mosier Porter (2004). "Segregation and Desegregation in Parramore: Orlando's African American Community". Florida Historical Quarterly. 82 (3): 289–312. JSTOR 30149526.
- Tana Mosier Porter (2009). "Orlando". Historic Orange County: The Story of Orlando and Orange County. HPN Books. ISBN 978-1-893619-99-9.
- Stephanie Gaub Antequino; Tana Mosier Porter (2012). Lost Orlando. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-9173-5.
- Jeffrey C. Billman (October 29, 2013), "13 things you should know about Orlando history", Orlando Weekly
- American Cities Project (November 11, 2013). "Orlando". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts.