page_title: Timeline of Buenos Aires
section_title: 1850s-1890s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Buenos Aires / 19th century / 1850s-1890s
caption_attribution_description: Image Title: Buenos Aires a vista de pajaro. Creator: Dulin, D. -- Lithographer Additional Name(s): Pelvilain -- Printer Of plates Dulin, D. -- Artist Depicted Date: [ca. 1860] Medium: Lithographs Specific Material Type: Prints Item Physical Description: 1 print&#160;: tinted lithograph&#160;; 46.4 x 7.7 cm.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
context_section_description: 1850 - Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata ends.
  1852
  Board of Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Club del Progreso founded.
  Yellow fever epidemic.
  1853
  City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires.
  Germania club founded.
  1854 - Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Society of Natural History of the Plate, and Gymnastic Club founded.
  1855 - Custom house built.
  1856
  Mercado del Plata built.
  Irish Convent of Sisters of Mercy established.
  1857
  Teatro Colón opens.
  Deaf and Dumb Institute founded.
  1858
  Café Tortoni in business.
  Poor Asylum, School of Catedral al Sur, and Maua Bank established.
  School of medicine built.
  Yellow fever epidemic.
  1859 - British Hospital and Convalecencia built.
  1860
  Plaza del Retiro laid out.
  Catedral al Norte (school) and Club del Plata founded.
  Santa Catalina church built.
  1861
  City becomes part of Argentine Confederation again.
  Plaza del Parque public garden laid out.
  Teutonia club founded.
  Mercado del Comercio and Episcopal palace built.
  1862
  Plaza Libertad laid out.
  Archbishop's Palace built.
  French Hospital and Irish Hospital established.
  1863
  Congress-hall and Italian Hospital built.
  London and River Plate Bank established.
  1864
  Franco Argentine Theatre in business.
  Lorea market, German Singing Academy, and Concordia club established.
  1865
  Constitución railway station opens.
  Coliseum concert-hall built.
  Kranken-verein and Heimath club founded.
  1866 - Archepiscopal see and Mercado de Independencia established.
  1867
  Cholera epidemic.
  German Hospital Society, Mercado del Norte, and Thalia club founded.
  1868
  Congregación Israelita Argentina founded.
  Sanitary Institute opens.
  1869
  La Prensa newspaper begins publication.
  Population: 177,767.
  1870 - Yellow fever epidemic.
  1871
  Yellow fever epidemic.
  City fire department established.
  1873 - A la Ciudad de Londres department store in business.
  1875 - Parque Tres de Febrero inaugurated.
  1876 - Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes (art society) and Buenos Aires Orchestral Society organized.
  1877
  National Penitentiary inaugurated.
  Café de Hansen in business.
  1879
  Teatro Politeama (Buenos Aires) (theatre) opens.
  Rivadavia Library founded.
  1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires established.
  1882
  Once railway station opens.
  National Theatre built.
  South American Continental Exhibition held.
  1887
  Belgrano and Flores become part of city.
  Constitución railway station rebuilt.
  1888
  Buenos Aires Zoo established.
  Pizzurno Palace built.
  1890 - National Historical Museum opens.
  1891 - Rivera Indarte Theatre opens.
  1893 - Buenos Aires City Hall built.
  1894
  The Water Company Palace built.
  Musical Mutual Society organized.
  1895
  Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opens.
  Population: 663,854.
  1897 - Puerto Madero constructed.
  1898
  Buenos Aires Botanical Garden inaugurated.
  Casa Rosada built.
caption: Buenos Aires, ca.1860
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