Timeline of Queens

The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, USA.

Prior to 20th century

 * 1657 – Flushing Remonstrance
 * 1683 – Queens County created.
 * 1790 – Population: 16,014.
 * 1821 - Horse racing track opens.
 * 1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place in Corona at the old Fashion Race Course.
 * 1860 – Population: 57,391.
 * 1870 – Population: 73,803.
 * 1880 – Population: 90,574.
 * 1889 – BMT Myrtle Avenue Line begins operating.
 * 1890 – Population: 128,059.
 * 1898 – January 1: Queens is established as a borough in the City of Greater New York. The borough consists of only part of the previous boundaries of Queens County; Nassau County is established in the remaining part.

1900s–1940s

 * 1900
 * King Manor Museum founded in Jamaica.
 * Population: 152,999.
 * 1909 – Queensboro Bridge opens.
 * 1910
 * East River Tunnels open.
 * Population: 284,041.
 * 1911 – Queens Chamber of Commerce established.
 * 1912 – Chapin Home for the Aging active.
 * 1914 – Murray Hill Theatre opens in Flushing.
 * 1915 – US Open tennis tournament relocates to Queens.
 * 1916 – Queensboro Plaza (New York City Subway) opens.
 * 1920 – Population: 469,042.
 * 1928 – The 7 Train reaches Flushing
 * 1930
 * King Kullen grocery supermarket in business.
 * Population: 1,079,129.
 * 1933 - IND Crosstown Line begins operating.
 * 1936 – Triborough Bridge built.
 * 1939
 * April 30: 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
 * Bronx–Whitestone Bridge built.
 * 1940
 * Queens–Midtown Tunnel opens.
 * Beacon Theater opens in Long Island City.
 * Population: 1,297,634.
 * 1941 – Strand Theatre opens in Astoria.

1950s–1990s

 * 1950 – Population: 1,550,849.
 * 1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.
 * 1960 – Population: 1,809,578.
 * 1963
 * The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.
 * Weight Watchers founded.
 * 1964
 * Shea Stadium opens, bringing Major League Baseball and the National Football League to Queens with the New York Mets and the New York Jets.
 * April 22: 1964 New York World's Fair opens.
 * 1968 – Queens Historical Society founded.
 * 1969 – Mets win the World Series for the first time.
 * 1971 – Queens Tribune newspaper in publication.
 * 1976
 * Afrikan Poetry Theatre founded.
 * Son of Sam serial killings take place over a year in Flushing, Bellerose, and Forest Hills.
 * 1983
 * Silvercup Studios in business.
 * Gary Ackerman becomes U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district.
 * 1985 – Greater Astoria Historical Society founded.
 * 1986 – Mets win their second World Series.
 * 1990
 * Citicorp Building constructed, at the time the tallest building between Manhattan and Boston.
 * Population: 1,951,598.
 * 1993 – New York Hospital Queens active.
 * 1996 – Energy Brands, maker of Vitamin Water, established in Whitestone.
 * 1997 – Arthur Ashe Stadium opens, home to the US Open tennis tournament.
 * 1998 – Gregory Meeks becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.

2000s–2010s

 * 2000 – Population: 2,229,379.
 * 2001
 * November 12: Airplane crash occurs.
 * Astoria Performing Arts Center established.
 * 2007 – Newtown Historical Society formed.
 * 2010
 * March 10: José Peralta, of Jackson Heights became the first Dominican-American to be elected to the New York State Senate.
 * Queens Memory Project begins.
 * Population: 2,230,722 in Queens.
 * 2013
 * Grace Meng becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.
 * The graffiti wall 5 Pointz in Long Island City falls prey to redevelopment and is torn down without any opportunity to preserve the artwork.
 * 2014
 * October 23: 2014 Queens hatchet attack.
 * Melinda Katz becomes borough president.
 * 2017
 * January 20: Jamaica, Queens born Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States.
 * 2019
 * February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations for Amazon, the company announced it was withdrawing its plans to establish a presence in Long Island City, and with this withdrawal the prospect of 25,000 new jobs.

2020s

 * 2020
 * December 14: Sandra Lindsay, a Registered Nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first recipient of the first dosage of the then only Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approved COVID-19 vaccine – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
 * 2021
 * January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine. With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.
 * February 10: Citi Field is converted into a COVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the City of New York.