title: Timeline of San Sebastián
text: # Timeline of San Sebastián
  
  The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Sebastián, Spain.
  
  ## Prior to 20th century
  
  * 1682 – Consulate of the Sea established.
  * 1813Storming of Saint Sebastian, Denis Dighton, 1813
     * Siege of San Sebastián.
     * 31 August: Fire destroys large part of city.
  * 1817 – Konstituzio plaza [eu] constructed.
  * 1832 – Udaletxe Zaharra (Donostia) [eu] (town hall) built.
  * 1842 – Population: 10,036.
  * 1843 – Teatro Principal (San Sebastián) [es] (theatre) opens.
  * 1863 – City walls dismantled.
  * 1872 – Diario de San Sebastián [eu] newspaper begins publication.
  * 1874 – San Sebastián public library [eu] established.
  * 1879 – Academia Municipal de Música [es] founded.
  * 1880
     * Escuela de Artes y Oficios de San Sebastián (school) opens.
     * Euskal-Erria [eu] magazine begins publication.
     * Parque Alderdi Eder [es] (garden) established.
  * 1886
     * Compañía del Tranvía de San Sebastián [es] established.
     * Spanish royal court begins summering at San Sebastian.
  * 1887 – Gran Casino de San Sebastián [es] built.
  * 1893 – Miramar Palace built.
  * 1897
     * Cathedral of the Good Shepherd consecrated.
     * Orfeón Donostiarra (musical group) formed.
     * La Constancia [eu] newspaper begins publication.
     * Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola (San Sebastián) [es] (church) built in the Gros (San Sebastián) [es] barrio.
  * 1900 – Population: 37,812.
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * 1902 – San Telmo Museoa (museum) established.
  * 1903 – El Pueblo Vasco [eu] newspaper begins publication.
  * 1905 – María Cristina Bridge built.
  * 1909 – Real Sociedad football club formed.
  * 1912
     * Teatro Victoria Eugenia [es] (theatre) opens.
     * Hotel María Cristina [es] built.
     * Igueldo funicular begins operating.
     * La Perla [es] beach resort established.
  * 1913 – Atotxa Stadium opens.
  * 1916 – Hipódromo Municipal de San Sebastián [es] (racecourse) built.
  * 1920
     * Los Justicieros anarchist group active.
     * Population: 61,774.
  * 1926 – Cristina Enea Park [es] established.
  * 1929 – San Sebastián Yacht Club building [eu] constructed.
  * 1930 – 17 August: Pact of San Sebastián signed.
  * 1934 – El Diario Vasco newspaper begins publication.
  * 1936 – July: Siege of Cuartel de Loyola at start of the Spanish Civil War.
  * 1938 – Gros fronton (sport venue) opens.San Sebastián in 1941
  * 1940 – Population: 103,979.
  * 1949 – Roman Catholic Diocese of San Sebastián established.
  * 1953 – San Sebastián International Film Festival begins.
  * 1960 – Population: 135,149.
  * 1965 – Velódromo de Anoeta opens.
  * 1970 – Population: 165,829.
  * 1990 – Donostia Kultura [eu] established.
  * 1993 – Anoeta Stadium opens.
  * 1999 – Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium opens.
  
  ## 21st century
  
  * 2001 – Musikene music school founded.
  * 2003 – City divided into 17 barrios.
  * 2008 – Population: 183,308 city; 405,099 metro.
  * 2011
     * Iglesia de Iesu [es] (church) built in Riberas de Loyola [es] barrio.
     * Basque Culinary Center campus opens.
     * Population: 185,512.
  * 2015 – Eneko Goia elected mayor.
  * 2018 – 10 June: Pro-independence, 202 kilometer human chain formed between cities of San Sebastián, Bilbao, and Vitoria-Gasteiz.
  