v t e History of Atlanta
Origins	Standing Peachtree
Buildings	Historic districts Buildings listed on National Register: (Atlanta in Fulton Co.) (Atlanta in DeKalb Co.) Demolished buildings Demolished public housing projects
Civil War	Atlanta Campaign Atlanta in the Civil War Battle of Atlanta Battle of Ezra Church Battle of Jonesborough Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Peachtree Creek Battle of Utoy Creek Burning of Atlanta Stone Mountain
Crime	Race massacre (1906) Ripper (1911) Leo Frank lynching (1915) Temple bombing (1958) Peyton Road affair (1962–1963) Child murders (1979–1981) Prison riots (1987) Centennial Olympic Park bombing (1996) Otherside Lounge bombing (1997) Day trading firm shootings (1999) Shooting of Kathryn Johnston (2006) Public schools cheating scandal (2009–2015) Shooting of Scout Schultz (2017) Ransomware attack (2018) Killing of Rayshard Brooks (2020) Spa shootings (2021) Northside Hospital shooting (2023)
Culture	Opera in Atlanta Arts in Atlanta
Disasters	Great Atlanta Fire (1917) Winecoff Hotel fire (1946) Air France Flight 007 crash (1962) Bluffton University bus crash (2007) Tornado strikes downtown (2008) Interstate 85 bridge collapse (2017)
Events	Timeline International Cotton Exposition (1881) Piedmont Exposition (1887) Cotton States and International Exposition (1895) Gone with the Wind premiere (1939) Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) Atlanta International Pop Festival (1969, 1970) Democratic National Convention (1988) Super Bowl XXVIII (1994) World Series (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2021) Summer Olympics (1996) WrestleMania XXVII (2011) Super Bowl LIII (2019)
Labor	Washerwomen strike (1881) Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike (1914–1915) Streetcar strike (1916) Transit strike (1950) Scripto strike (1964–1965) Sanitation strike (1977) Sanitation strike (2018) School bus drivers' strike (2018)
LGBT	Library perversion case (1953) Lonesome Cowboys police raid (1969) Atlanta Pride (1971) Atlanta Eagle police raid (2009)
People	Mayors Pioneers History of Hispanics in Atlanta History of African Americans in Atlanta Demographic history Gentrification Racial segregation History of the Jews in Atlanta
Places	History by neighborhood Former neighborhoods and settlements Annexations and city wards Street names History of Georgia Tech Historic mills Zero Mile Post
Protests	Atlanta sit-ins (1960-1961) Freeway revolts Occupy Atlanta (2011–2012) George Floyd protests (2020) Stop Cop City (2021–present)
Transportation	Atlanta Transit Company (1950) Historic bridges Historic ferries Streetcars MARTA (1972) Western and Atlantic Railroad (1836) Trolleybuses Viaducts
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