Timeline of Newark, New Jersey

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Newark, New Jersey, United States.

Before 1800

 * 1666 - Robert Treat and other Puritans buy land from Hackensack tribe.
 * 1710s - Sydenham House and Plume House (residences) built (approximate date).
 * 1712 - Harrison Cider Apple created (approximate date).
 * 1726 - College of New Jersey founded.
 * 1730 - Presbyterianism superseded Congregationalism.
 * 1743 - Trinity Church built.
 * 1756 - Princeton College relocated from Newark to Princeton.
 * 1770 - One tannery operated.
 * 1774 - Newark Academy established.
 * 1780 - January 25: Elizabethtown and Newark Raid by British forces.
 * 1787 - First Presbyterian Church built.
 * 1791 - Woods's Newark Gazette begins publication.
 * 1795 - Newark Plank Road to Bergen constructed (approximate date).
 * 1797 - Newark Fire Association founded.
 * 1798 - Three tanneries operating.

1800s

 * 1803 - Newark Female Charitable Society founded.
 * 1810 - Weller's Circulating Library in business (approximate date).
 * 1814 - Newark Bible Society founded.
 * 1817 - Newark Colonization Society founded.
 * 1819 - Whybrew Circulating Library in business (approximate date).
 * 1823 - Smith & Wright saddlery in business (approximate date).
 * 1830 - Population: 10,953.
 * 1831 - Plane Street Church organized.
 * 1832 - Newark Daily Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
 * 1834 - Centre Street Bridge opens.
 * 1836 - Newark incorporated as a city.
 * 1837 - 155 curriers and patent leather makers in the city.
 * 1840
 * Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company in business.
 * Population: 17,290.
 * 1844 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery established.
 * 1846 - New Jersey Historical Society headquartered in Newark.
 * 1847 - Library Association founded.
 * 1848 - Influx of Germans.
 * 1849 - Newark Daily Mercury newspaper begins publication.
 * 1850
 * Bethel Mission established.
 * Population: 38,894.
 * 1853 - Newark Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
 * 1857
 * City police department established.
 * Newark Orphan Asylum built.
 * City charter.
 * 1858
 * New Jersey Freie Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.
 * Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in business.
 * 1860 - Population: 71,941.
 * 1864 - Lyon & Son's brewing company in business.
 * 1865 - Murphy Varnish Company in business.
 * 1869
 * Newark and New York Railroad begins operating.
 * Newark City Cemetery in use.
 * Newark Morning Register newspaper begins publication.
 * 1870 - Bee Hive dry goods shop in business (later Plaut & Co.)
 * 1872 - Newark Industrial Exposition begins.
 * 1874 - St. Stephen's Church built.
 * 1875 - Marshall & Ball clothing shop in business.
 * 1879 - Newark City Brewery in business.
 * 1880 - Newark Tribüne German-language newspaper begins publication.
 * 1881 - Newark Technical School established.
 * 1883 - Balbach electrolytic refinery opens.
 * 1884 - Prince Street Synagogue built.
 * 1885
 * Johnston & Murphy and Lutz Cafe in business.
 * 1885 American Cup soccer tournament held.
 * 1886 - Miner's Newark Theater opens.
 * 1888 - First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church built.
 * 1889
 * Newark Free Public Library opens.
 * Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway incorporated.
 * 1890 - Population: 181,830.
 * 1893 - L. Bamberger & Company in business.
 * 1894
 * Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
 * Montagna Italian-language newspaper begins publication.
 * 1895 - Branch Brook Park established.
 * 1899 - Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart construction begins.

1900-1909

 * 1900 - Population: 246,070.
 * 1901
 * Beth Israel Hospital founded.
 * Newark Free Public Library opens its current location.
 * 1902 - Newark City Hall opened.
 * 1903
 * Jackson Street Bridge and Clay Street Bridge open.
 * Roseville railroad station built.
 * Newark trolley accident kills 8 students
 * 1905
 * La Revista Italian/English-language newspaper begins publication.
 * Feigenspan mansion built.
 * Automobile Renting Co. in business.
 * 1906
 * Trees planted in Pequannock Watershed.
 * Literary Stratemeyer Syndicate active.
 * 1907 - Essex County Courthouse built.
 * 1908
 * Kronika Polish/English-language newspaper begins publication.
 * St. Casimir's Church founded.
 * 1909 - Newark Museum established.

1910s

 * 1910
 * Fire on High Street (now Martin Luther King Blvd) at factory kills 26
 * Population: 347,469.
 * 1911 - Shubert Theatre opens.
 * 1912
 * Adams Theatre and Empire Theatre built.
 * Equestrian statue of George Washington by J. Massey Rhind dedicated in Washington Park
 * 1913
 * Bridge Street Bridge opens.
 * Moorish Science Temple of America headquartered in Newark.
 * 1914 - New Jersey Observer begins publication.
 * 1916
 * Robert Treat Hotel in business.
 * Military Park first opened.
 * 1917 - Urban League founded.

1920s

 * 1920 - Carrier air conditioning plant begins operating.
 * 1921 - Newark Morgen-Steren Yiddish/English-language newspaper begins publication.
 * 1922 - New Jersey Symphony Orchestra headquartered in city.
 * 1925
 * Shriners Salaam Temple built.
 * Newark Schools Stadium opens.
 * 1926 - Central Railroad of New Jersey Newark Bay Bridge and Davids' Stadium open.
 * 1927 - Stanley Theater opened.
 * 1928
 * Newark Airport begins operating.
 * New Jersey Luso-Americano Portuguese-language newspaper begins publication (approximate date).

1930s

 * 1930 - Lefcourt building constructed.
 * 1931
 * Italian Tribune begins publication.
 * National Newark building opens.
 * 1935
 * Newark City Subway begins operating.
 * Newark Penn Station dedicated.
 * 1936 - University of Newark established.
 * 1939 - Newark Hot Club formed (music club).

1940s and 1950s

 * 1942
 * Savoy Records founded.
 * Hydeaway Bar in business.
 * 1949 - After Hours magazine begins publication.
 * 1954 - Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart consecrated.
 * 1958 - September 15: Newark Bay rail accident.

1960s

 * 1960 - Population: 405,000.
 * 1962 - Youth Career Development Center initiated.
 * 1964 - Newark Symphony Hall established.
 * 1966 - New Jersey Symphony Boys Choir founded.
 * 1967
 * July 12–17: 1967 Newark riots occur.
 * July 20: Black power conference held in city.
 * 1969 - Ironbound Community Corporation and New Community Corporation founded.

1970s

 * 1970 - Kenneth Gibson becomes first African American mayor on the eastern seaboard.
 * 1971 - Gateway Center built.
 * 1977 - City hosts first Islamic Conference of North America.
 * 1978 - August 20: Clinton Avenue Five boys disappear.
 * 1979 - Foreign trade zone established.

1980s

 * 1984 - Former Diamond Alkali plant site in Ironbound declared a Superfund site (polluted area).
 * 1986 - Sharpe James becomes mayor.
 * 1989
 * Donald M. Payne becomes U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district.
 * Sister city relationship established with Aveiro, Portugal.

1990s

 * 1990 - Population: 275,221.
 * 1991 - Sister city relationship established with Banjul, Gambia.
 * 1992
 * One Newark Center and Penn Plaza East building constructed.
 * Sister city relationship established with Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
 * 1995 - Society Hill condo built.
 * 1997
 * City website online.
 * New Jersey Performing Arts Center opens.
 * 1999 - Bears Stadium opens.

2000-2009

 * 2000
 * Newark Legal Center built.
 * Population: 273,546.
 * 2002 - City's "Open Public Records Act Office" established.
 * 2003 - May 11: Murder of Sakia Gunn.
 * 2006
 * Cory Booker becomes mayor.
 * Garden State Rollergirls headquartered in city.
 * 2007
 * Jewish Museum of New Jersey opens.
 * Prudential Center built.

2010s

 * 2010
 * Newark Archives Project begins.
 * Population: 277,140; metro 18,897,109.
 * 2013 - November 4: Luis A. Quintana becomes interim mayor.
 * 2014 - Ras Baraka becomes mayor.

1850s-1890s

 * Martha J. Lamb, "Newark," Harper's New Monthly 53 (October 1876): 671–672.
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