This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Prior to 19th century

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• 1536 – First foundation of the city by Pedro de Mendoza.^[1]
• 1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción.
• 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay.^[1]
• 1591 – Dominican monastery established.^[2]
• 1604 – San Francisco monastery established.^[2]
• 1611 – Men's Hospital founded.^[2]
• 1620 – Town becomes capital of Buenos Aires Province.^[1]
• 1671 – Cathedral inaugurated.^[3]
• 1711 – Cabildo built.^[2]
• 1716 – Granted the royal motto Most Noble and Loyal ("Muy Noble y muy Leal")
• 1720 – Recoleta church built.^[2]
• 1722 – Completion of Saint Ignatius Church
• 1727 – San Miguel church founded.^[2]
• 1743 – Women's Hospital established.^[2]
• 1744 – Las Monjas convent founded.^[2]
• 1749 – San Juan convent established.^[2]
• 1752 – Cathedral built.^[1]
• 1755 – Female Orphan School established.^[2]
• 1763 – Anglo-Portuguese invasion, part of the Seven Years' War, repelled by Viceroy Cevallos.
• 1768 – Merced church built.^[2]
• 1776 – City becomes capital of Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.^[1]
• 1778 – "Free trade regulations" in effect.^[1]
• 1779 – Foundling Asylum established.^[2]
• 1794 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[4][5]

19th century

1800s-1840s

• 1801 - Telégrafo Mercantil newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1806 - British briefly in power.
• 1810
  • 18–25 May: May Revolution.^[7]
  • State Library established.^[2]
• 1811 – Pirámide de Mayo monument built on the Plaza de Mayo.
• 1815 – Academy of Jurisprudence founded.^[2]
• 1821 – University of Buenos Aires founded.
• 1822
  • Academy of Music founded.^{[citation needed]}
  • Street names changed.^[2]
  • Northern Cemetery established.
• 1823 – Museum of Buenos Ayres, Sociedad de Beneficencia,^[2] and Philharmonic Association founded.^{[citation needed]}
• 1829 – British Library established (approximate date).^[2]
• 1832 – English Cemetery established.^[2]
• 1833 – Victoria Theatre built.^[8]
• 1838
  • 28 March: French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
  • Scotch Church built.^[2]
• 1840 – French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
• 1841 – Foreign Club established.^[2]
• 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata begins.
• 1847 – Lutheran Church built.^[2]

1850s–1890s

• 1850 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.^{[citation needed]}
• 1852
  • Board of Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Club del Progreso founded.^[2]
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1853
  • City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires.
  • Germania club founded.^[2]
• 1854 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Society of Natural History of the Plate, and Gymnastic Club founded.^[2]
• 1855 – Custom house built.^[2]
• 1856
  • Mercado del Plata [es] built.^{[citation needed]}
  • Irish Convent of Sisters of Mercy established.^[2]
• 1857
  • Teatro Colón opens.
  • Deaf and Dumb Institute founded.^[2]
  • Buenos Aires Western Railway inaugurated.
• 1858
  • Café Tortoni in business.
  • Poor Asylum, School of Catedral al Sur, and Maua Bank established.^[2]
  • School of medicine built.^[2]
  • Yellow fever epidemic.
• 1859 – British Hospital and Convalecencia built.^[2]
• 1860
  • Plaza del Retiro laid out.^[2]
  • Catedral al Norte (school) and Club del Plata founded.^[2]
  • Santa Catalina church built.^[2]
• 1861
  • City becomes part of Argentine Confederation again.
  • Plaza del Parque public garden laid out.^[2]
  • Teutonia club founded.^[2]
  • Mercado del Comercio and Episcopal palace built.^[2]
• 1862
  • Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opened.
  • Plaza Libertad laid out.^[2]
  • Archbishop's Palace built.^[2]
  • French Hospital and Irish Hospital established.^[2]
• 1863
  • Congress-hall and Italian Hospital built.^[2]
  • London and River Plate Bank established.^[2]
  • Tram service starts.^[1]
• 1864
  • Franco Argentine Theatre in business.^[2]
  • Lorea market, German Singing Academy, and Concordia club established.^[2]
  • Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club opened.
• 1865
  • Constitución railway station opens.
  • Coliseum concert-hall built.^[2]
  • Kranken-verein and Heimath club founded.^[2]
• 1866 – Archepiscopal see and Mercado de Independencia established.^[1]
• 1867
  • Cholera epidemic.^[1]
  • German Hospital Society, Mercado del Norte, and Thalia club founded.^[2]
• 1868
  • Congregación Israelita Argentina founded.^[9]
  • Sanitary Institute opens.^[2]
• 1869
  • La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 177,767.^[1]
• 1870 – Yellow fever epidemic.^[10]
• 1871
  • Yellow fever epidemic.^[1]
  • City fire department established.^[11]
• 1873 – A la Ciudad de Londres department store in business.^[12]
• 1875 – Parque Tres de Febrero inaugurated.
• 1876 – Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes (art society)^[13] and Buenos Aires Orchestral Society organized.^{[citation needed]}
• 1877
  • National Penitentiary inaugurated.^[6]
  • Café de Hansen [es] in business.^[14]
• 1879
  • Teatro Politeama (Buenos Aires) [es] (theatre) opens.^[15]
  • Rivadavia Library founded.^[6]
• 1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires [es] established.
• 1882
  • Once railway station opens.
  • National Theatre built.^[8]
  • South American Continental Exhibition held.^[16]
• 1887
  • Belgrano and Flores become part of city.^[1]
  • Constitución railway station rebuilt.^{[citation needed]}
• 1888
  • Buenos Aires Zoo established.^[17]
  • Pizzurno Palace built.
• 1890 - National Historical Museum opens.^[6]
• 1891 – Rivera Indarte Theatre opens.
• 1893 – Buenos Aires City Hall built.
• 1894
  • Palacio de Aguas Corrientes built.
  • Musical Mutual Society organized.^{[citation needed]}
• 1895
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opens.
  • Population: 663,854.^[3][1]
• 1897 – Puerto Madero constructed.^[1]
• 1898
  • Buenos Aires Botanical Garden inaugurated.^[18]
  • Casa Rosada re-built.^[1]

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1901 – Club Atlético River Plate formed.
• 1904
  • Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi inaugurated.
  • Population: 950,891.^[1]
• 1905
  • Club Atlético Boca Juniors formed.
  • Population: 1,025,653.^[1]
• 1906 – Congress hall built.^[1]
• 1908 – Avenida Theatre opens.
• 1909 – San Martín Palace built.
• 1910
  • Exposición Internacional del Centenario held.
  • Customs House, Palace of Justice, and Congressional Plaza inaugurated.
• 1911 – Hotel de Inmigrantes built.
• 1912 – Cine Atlas Belgrano opens.^[19]
• 1913
  • Buenos Aires Underground begins operating.^[3]
  • Diario Crítica [es] newspaper begins publication.^[20]
• 1914
  • Harrods Buenos Aires in business.
  • Population: 1,575,814.^[3]
• 1915 – Retiro railway station opens.
• 1916 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange built.
• 1917 – Confitería El Molino in business.
• 1919
  • January: Tragic Week conflict.
  • Teatro Gran Splendid opens.^[21]
• 1921 – Cervantes Theatre opens.
• 1922 – Cine Catalunya opens.^[19]
• 1923 – Palacio Barolo built.
• 1925 – Puerto Nuevo opens.
• 1936
  • Kavanagh Building constructed.
  • Maldonado Stream tubed (approximate date).
  • Obelisco built.
• 1937 – Teatro Gran Rex opens.
• 1938 – Estadio Monumental opens.
• 1945 – 17 October: Labor demonstration.
• 1946 – Buenos Aires Philharmonic founded.
• 1947 – Population: 2,981,043 city; 4,603,035 urban agglomeration.^[22]
• 1948
  • Aeroparque Jorge Newbery opens.^{[citation needed]}
  • Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway & Buenos Aires Western Railway closed.
• 1949 – Ministro Pistarini International Airport built.^{[citation needed]}

1950s–1990s

• 1950 – Alas Building constructed.
• 1955
  • 16 June: Bombing of Plaza de Mayo.
  • Revolución Libertadora.
• 1957 – Federico Lacroze railway station opens.
• 1958 – Justo José de Urquiza monument [es] inaugurated.
• 1962 – 11 June: Villa Soldati level crossing train accident.
• 1967 – Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens open.
• 1968 – Galileo Galilei planetarium opens.
• 1971 – Florida Street pedestrianized.
• 1972 – Bombing of Sheraton Hotel.
• 1973 – 20 June: Peronist shooting near Ezeiza Airport.
• 1974 – Population: 2,976,000 city; 8,925,000 urban agglomeration.^[23]
• 1975
  • Buenos Aires International Book Fair begins.
  • Bombing of theatre.
• 1976
  • 24 March: Coup d'état.
  • 2 April: Osvaldo Cacciatore becomes mayor.
• 1977 – 30 April: Demonstrations by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin.
• 1978 – Argentine Council for International Relations founded.^[24]
• 1979
  • 11 December: 1979 Copa América football tournament held.
  • Caseros Prison built.
• 1980 – Centro Cultural Recoleta inaugurated.
• 1982 – June: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
• 1987
  • April: Catholic Pope John Paul II visits city.
  • 12 July: 1987 Copa América Final football tournament held.
• 1988 – Patio Bullrich shopping centre opens.
• 1991
  • Galerías Pacífico shopping centre opens.
  • Population: 2,960,976 city; 10,686,163 urban agglomeration.^[25]
• 1992
  • 17 March: Bombing of Israeli embassy.
  • National Library building inaugurated.
• 1994 – 18 July: Bombing of Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building.^[26]
• 1996
  • Autonomous City of Buenos Aires [es] established per 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution.
  • 30 June: Mayoral election takes place.
• 1999
  • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema begins.
  • Abasto de Buenos Aires shopping mall opens.
• 2000
  • King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center inaugurated.
  • El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop in business.
  • Aníbal Ibarra becomes Chief of Government of city.

21st century

2000s

• 2001
  • Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated.
  • Buenos Aires Fashion Week and Creamfields BA music festival begin.
  • Eloísa Cartonera founded.^[27]
  • December: Economic protest.
• 2002
  • June: Economic protest.^[26]
  • Quilmes Rock music festival and Buenos Aires Jazz Festival begin.
• 2004 – 30 December: República Cromañón nightclub fire.^[26]
• 2005
  • Appetite (art gallery) opens.
  • El Faro Towers built.
• 2006 – March: Aníbal Ibarra deposed; Jorge Telerman becomes Chief of Government of city.
• 2007 – Mauricio Macri becomes Chief of Government of city.^[28][29]
• 2008
  • Fortabat Art Collection opens.
  • Repsol-YPF Tower built.
• 2009 – Le Parc Figueroa Alcorta and Mulieris Towers built.

2010s

• 2010
  • Municipal bicycle sharing program established.
  • Metropolitan Police department established.^{[citation needed]}
  • Population: 2,891,082.
• 2011
  • 24 July: 2011 Copa América Final football tournament held.
  • Metrobus begins operating.
  • City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
• 2012
  • 22 February: Train crash.
  • 4 April: F2 2012 Buenos Aires tornado [es]
• 2013
  • Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is elected as Pope Francis, succeeding the retired Pope Benedict XVI
  • April: Flooding.^[30]
  • Computer Museum of Argentina [es] opens.
• 2015
  • 3 June: The feminist movement Ni una menos organizes its first massive demonstrations against gender-based violence, popularising the campaign throughout Argentina and several Latin American countries.
• 2016
  • Population: 13,879,707 (urban agglomeration).^[31]
• 2017
  • Alvear Tower completed as the tallest building in Argentina.^[32]

2020s

• 2023
  • A specialized exhibition recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions will be held.^[33]