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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Macon, Georgia, United States.
- 1806 – U.S. Fort Hawkins built at the present-day site of Creek Indian Ocmulgee Old Fields (future site of Macon).[1]
- 1821 – Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown".[1]
- 1822 – Bibb County created.[2]
- 1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.[1]
- 1826
- Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.[3]
- First Presbyterian Church founded.[4]
- 1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.[1]
- 1833 – Steamboat in operation.[1]
- 1834 – City of Macon incorporated.[5]
- 1835 – Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor.
- 1836 – Monroe Railroad Bank built.[6]
- 1838 – Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating.[5]
- 1839 – Georgia Female College opens.[7]
- 1840
- Rose Hill Cemetery established.
- Population: 3,927.[8]
- 1843 – The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon.[6]
- 1846 – The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date).[6]
- 1848 – Telegraph begins operating.[9]
- 1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.[5][10]
- 1860
- 1862 – "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War.[9]
- 1864
- July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces.[5]
- "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia."[9]
- 1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.[1]
- 1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.[11]
- 1871
- Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.[5]
- Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.[6]
- 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.[12]
- 1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
- 1880
- 1884
- Macon Daily News begins publication.[3]
- Academy of Music built.
- 1887
- April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered[13]
- August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.[14]
- 1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.[15]
- 1906 – Ocmulgee River levee construction begins.[6]
- 1910 – Population: 40,665.
- 1917 – Cox Capitol Theatre in business.
- 1918
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date).[16]
- Macon Art Association formed.[17]
- Outbreak of Spanish flu.[14]
- 1919
- Washington Memorial Library (public library) established.[6]
- Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman. He was burned alive.
- 1921 – Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business.[18]
- 1922
- 1925 – Macon City Auditorium built.[6]
- 1929 – Luther Williams Field (stadium) opens.
- 1929 – Walker Business College, an African American business and vocational school opens a second campus in Macon[21]
- 1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.[6]
- 1936
- Ocmulgee National Monument established.
- Farmer's Market built.[6]
- 1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.[18]
- 1948 – WIBB radio begins broadcasting.
- 1949 – Middle Georgia Regional Library headquartered in Macon.
- 1950 – Population: 70,252.
- 1952 – Georgia Journal newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1953 – WMAZ-TV begins broadcasting.[22]
- 1955 – "Singer James Brown records his first single 'Please, Please, Please' at the studio of WIBB" radio in Macon.[9]
- 1960 – "Stratford Academy founded"
- 1964 – Middle Georgia Historical Society formed.[23]
- 1965 – Macon Junior College established.[5]
- 1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.[24]
- 1967
- December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.[14]
- Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
- 1970 – Population: 122,423.
- 1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.[25]
- 1983
- Cherry Blossom Festival begins.[9]
- Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.[26]
- 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.[27]
- 1994
- July: Flood.[9]
- Georgia Sports Hall of Fame relocates to Macon.[14]
- 1999 – C. Jack Ellis becomes mayor.[9]
- 2000 – Population: 97,255.
- 2001 – City website online (approximate date).[28][chronology citation needed]
- 2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.[29]
- 2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
- 2010 – Population: 91,351.[30]
- 2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated.
- 2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.
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