Timeline of Hartford, Connecticut

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Prior to 19th century

 * 1623 – Fort Hoop built by Dutch West India Company.
 * 1635 – English settlers arrive.
 * 1636 – First Church congregation relocates to "Newtown", Connecticut, from New Town, Massachusetts.
 * 1637
 * Settlement renamed Hartford.
 * Town square laid out.
 * 1638 – Latin school founded.
 * 1640 – Burying Ground established (approximate date).
 * 1647 – Alse Young hanged for witchcraft.
 * 1662 – Hartford serving as capital of Connecticut Colony.
 * 1670 – Indian treaty signed.
 * 1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of Connecticut Colony.
 * 1720 - “Hartford Hills” separate to form the town of Bolton.
 * 1758 - Noah Webster born here, publisher of Grammatical Institute of the English Language
 * 1764 – Connecticut Courant newspaper begins publication.
 * 1774 – Library Company formed.
 * 1775 – 4th Connecticut Regiment organized.
 * 1783 – Town of East Hartford separates from Hartford.
 * 1784
 * City chartered.
 * American Mercury newspaper begins publication.
 * 1788 – Woollen mill in operation.
 * 1790 – Population: 2,683.
 * 1792 – Hartford Bank incorporated.
 * 1796
 * American Cookery published.
 * State House built.
 * 1797 – Joseph Steward's museum opens.

19th century

 * 1810 – Hartford Fire Insurance Company incorporated.
 * 1812 – Chauncey Goodrich elected mayor.
 * 1814
 * Hartford Convention.
 * Phoenix Bank incorporated.
 * 1818
 * Bridge over Connecticut River built.
 * American Asylum for Deaf-mutes incorporated.
 * 1819 – Aetna Insurance Company and Society for Savings incorporated.
 * 1820 – Population: 4,726.
 * 1823
 * Washington College founded.
 * Hartford Female Seminary established.
 * Connecticut River Steamboat Co. incorporated.
 * 1824
 * Nathaniel Terry becomes mayor.
 * Connecticut Retreat for the Insane opens.
 * 1825
 * Connecticut Historical Society established.
 * Times & Hartford Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
 * Connecticut River Banking Co. and Protection Insurance Co. incorporated.
 * 1826
 * The Hartford Times newspaper begins publication.
 * African Religious Society church built on Talcott Street.
 * 1827 – Christ Church Cathedral built.
 * 1830 – Population: 7,074.
 * 1833
 * Miss Draper's Seminary for Young Ladies in operation (approximate date).
 * Hartford Literary and Religious Institution and Colored Methodist Episcopal congregation formed.
 * Farmers & Mechanics Bank incorporated.
 * 1834 – Exchange Bank incorporated.
 * 1835 – Patriot and Democrat newspaper begins publication.
 * 1836
 * Firemen's Benevolent Society organized.
 * Northern Courier newspaper begins publication.
 * 1837 – Daily Courant newspaper begins publication.
 * 1838 – Hartford Young Men's Institute formed.
 * 1840
 * Hartford Times newspaper begins publication.
 * Population: 9,468.
 * 1841 – Washington Temperance Society, Martha Washington Temperance Society, and Young Men's Temperance Society organized.
 * 1843 – Hartford Journal newspaper begins publication.
 * 1844
 * Hartford and New Haven Railroad and Hartford and Springfield Railroad begin operating.
 * Wadsworth Atheneum opens.
 * 1847 – I. & G. Fox Co. established.
 * 1848 – Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company founded.
 * 1849 – The Republican newspaper begins publication.
 * 1850 – Population: 13,555.
 * 1853 – Aetna Life Insurance Company incorporated.
 * 1854
 * Henry C. Deming becomes mayor.
 * West Hartford municipality splits from Hartford.
 * Connecticut State Library and Hartford Hospital established.
 * 1856
 * City rechartered.
 * Charter Oak felled in storm.
 * Hartford Evening Press newspaper begins publication.
 * Armsmear built for Samuel Colt.
 * 1858
 * The Putnam Phalanx, a ceremonial honor guard, established.
 * Hartford Daily Post newspaper begins publication.
 * 1860
 * Boys' Club founded.
 * Population: 26,917.
 * Police department established.
 * 1864 – Travelers Insurance Company founded.
 * 1865 – Theological Institute of Connecticut relocates to Harford.
 * 1866 – Charles R. Chapman becomes mayor.
 * 1868
 * Bushnell Park laid out.
 * Cedar Hill Cemetery consecrated.
 * 1869 – Travelers Journal newspaper begins publication.
 * 1872
 * New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and Ados Israel Synagogue founded.
 * Windsor Avenue Congregational Church built (approximate date).
 * 1873 – Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church built.
 * 1874 – Mark Twain's house built on Farmington Avenue.
 * 1876 – Cheney Building constructed.
 * 1877 – Hartford Society for Decorative Art formed.
 * 1878
 * George G. Sumner elected mayor.
 * State Capitol building constructed.
 * Pope Manufacturing Company in business, making Columbia Bicycles.
 * 1880 – Morgan Bulkeley becomes mayor.
 * 1881 – Watkinson School founded.
 * 1882 – Post Office and Custom House built.
 * 1883
 * Hartford Telegram newspaper begins publication.
 * Hartford Electric Light Co. organized.
 * 1884 – The Wooden Nutmeg begins publication.
 * 1885 – Hartford Camera Club organized.
 * 1886 – Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch dedicated.
 * 1888 – Hartford Morning Record newspaper begins publication.
 * 1889 – Union Station built.
 * 1890 – Population: 53,230.
 * 1892 – Hartford Public Library opens.
 * 1896 – City consolidated.
 * 1897 – Elizabeth Park laid out (approximate date).
 * 1898
 * Pope Park laid out.
 * La Salette Missionary college in operation.
 * Sage-Allen building constructed.
 * 1899 – Corning Fountain in Bushnell Park dedicated.
 * 1900 - Population: 79,850.

20th century

 * 1901 – Underwood Typewriter Company factory in operation.
 * 1908
 * Bridge over Connecticut River rebuilt.
 * Royal Typewriter Company manufactory in operation.
 * Morgan art gallery built.
 * 1909 – Flood.
 * 1910
 * Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building constructed.
 * Population: 98,915.
 * 1919 – Travelers Tower built.
 * 1920 – The Hartt School founded.
 * 1921 – University of Connecticut School of Law established.
 * 1925 – WTIC (AM) radio begins broadcasting.
 * 1930 – Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall opens.
 * 1931 – Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford organized.
 * 1934
 * February 7: Premiere of Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
 * Symphony Society of Greater Hartford formed.
 * 1935 – Thomas J. Spellacy elected mayor.
 * 1938 – Hurricane.
 * 1941 – Windsor Locks airfield active.
 * 1942 – Connecticut Opera formed.
 * 1944
 * Interstate 84 constructed.
 * Circus fire.
 * 1945
 * Hartford Collection of local history established at the public library.
 * State governor's residence locates to Prospect Avenue in Hartford.
 * 1947
 * Edward N. Allen becomes mayor.
 * Bradley International Airport established.
 * Hillyer College established.
 * 1950 – Population: 177,397.
 * 1955 – Hartford Graduate School established by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 * 1957 – University of Hartford chartered.
 * 1962 – Cathedral of St. Joseph rebuilt.
 * 1963
 * Hartford Stage founded.
 * Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building constructed.
 * 1964 – Constitution Plaza built.
 * 1967 – Greater Hartford Community College established.
 * 1968 – Harriet Beecher Stowe House museum opens.
 * 1970
 * Racial unrest.
 * Cinestudio founded.
 * 1974
 * Mark Twain House museum opens.
 * Hartford Advocate begins publication.
 * 1975
 * Hartford Civic Center opens.
 * Real Art Ways established.
 * Valley Advocate and Hartford Inquirer newspapers begin publication.
 * 1976 – Connecticut Transit Hartford founded.
 * 1979
 * Hartford Whalers hockey team active.
 * Charter Oak Cultural Center established.
 * 1980
 * Population: 136,392.
 * City Place I built.
 * 1987
 * Hartford Karma Thegsum Choling established.
 * Carrie Saxon Perry elected mayor.
 * Hartford News begins publication.
 * 1992
 * Capital Community College established.
 * Connecticut Forum founded.
 * 1998 – City website online (approximate date).
 * 1999 – Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy established.

21st century

 * 2001 – Eddie Perez elected mayor.
 * 2004 – University High School of Science and Engineering established.
 * 2005 – Connecticut Convention Center opens.
 * 2008 – Global Communications Academy opens.
 * 2009 – Connecticut Science Center opens.
 * 2010
 * Population: 124,775.
 * Pedro Segarra becomes mayor.
 * 2011 – Hurricane Irene.
 * 2016 – Hartford Connecticut Temple of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated in Farmington, Connecticut, a suburb. It is the second Latter-day Saint temple dedicated in New England.