Events
Category · 64 pages in the KS.City civic encyclopedia
The moments — floods, openings, movements — that left a mark.
Dates are when it happened. Grouped by decade.
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1830s 1
1840s 1
- The Great Flood of 1844 — 1844
1850s 2
- 1856: Bleeding Kansas Climax — 1856
- The Founding of Kansas City — 1850
1860s 8
- Battle of Byram's Ford (Big Blue Battlefield) — 1864
- Battle of Lone Jack — 1862
- Battle of Westport — 1864
- Burning of Platte City — 1861
- Collapse of the Union Women's Prison (Kansas City, 1863) — 1863
- General Order No. 11 (1863) — 1863
- The Hannibal Bridge — 1869
- Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence — 1863
1880s 2
1890s 1
- American Royal — 1899
1900s 3
- The 1900 Convention Hall Fire — 1900
- The 1903 Flood — 1903
- The Swope Poisoning Case — 1909
1910s 1
1920s 4
1930s 4
- The 1936 Kansas City Vote-Fraud Cases — 1936
- Plaza Art Fair — 1932
- Red Crown Tourist Court shootout — 1933
- The Union Station Massacre — 1933
1950s 2
- The 1951 Flood — 1951
- The 1957 Ruskin Heights Tornado — 1957
1960s 1
- 1968 Kansas City Riots — 1968
1970s 7
- 1976 Republican National Convention — 1976
- 1977 Plaza Flood — 1977
- The 1979 Kemper Arena Roof Collapse — 1979
- The Assassination of Leon Jordan — 1970
- Kansas City PrideFest — 1975
- The River Quay Mob War — 1976
- The Strawman Case — 1978
1980s 3
1990s 2
2000s 2
- Kansas City Fringe Festival — 2005
- Kansas City Irish Fest — 2003
2010s 5
- 2017 Plaza Flood — 2017
- Bartenders Brawl — 2011
- Big Slick Celebrity Weekend — 2010
- Boulevardia — 2014
- Kansas City Fashion Week — 2010
2020s 14
- 2020 Chiefs — Super Bowl LIV — 2020
- 2023 Chiefs — Super Bowl LVII — 2023
- 2024 Chiefs — Super Bowl LVIII — 2024
- 2024 Chiefs Parade Shooting — 2024
- 2026 FIFA World Cup in Kansas City — 2026
- Best of KC 2021 — 2021
- Best of KC 2022 — 2022
- Best of KC 2023 — 2023
- Best of KC 2024 — 2024
- Best of KC 2025 — 2025
- City of Entrepreneurs Marketplace — 2026
- The Embassy Suites Implosion (2026) — 2026
- Kansas City, Kansas Black Restaurant Week (2026) — 2026
- Wyandotte County Storm and Power Outage (August 2026) — 2026
Undated 1
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