Timeline of Baltimore

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

18th century[]

1729 - Town of Baltimore founded.

1763 - Mechanical Fire Company organized.^[1]

1767 - Baltimore designated county seat.^[2]

1770 - Henry Fite House built.

1773 - Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[3]

1776 - December - Second Continental Congress meeting begins.

1782 - Lexington Market active.

1784 - Christmas Conference (Methodism)

1787 - 1,955 dwellings in town.^[4]

1790 - Population: 13,503 people.^[5]

1794 - James Calhoun becomes mayor.

1795 - Holliday Street Theater opens.

1796
- City of Baltimore incorporated.
- Library Company of Baltimore founded.^[6]

19th century[]

Map of Baltimore, 1867

1800 - Population: 26,504 people.^[7]

1803
- Fort McHenry built.^[8]
- Dispensary incorporated.^[5]

1806 - St. Mary's College and Theological Seminary incorporated.

1807
- University of Maryland founded.
- Baltimore Museum established.^[9]
- Baltimore Circulating Library in business.^[10]

1809 - Joseph Robinson's Circulating Library in business.^[10]

1810
- Population: 46,535 people.^[7]
- Alex. Brown & Sons incorporated.

1814
- September - Battle of Baltimore
- Peale Museum opens.

1815
- Battle Monument erected.^[2]
- Baltimore Exchange opens.^[11]

1816
- Asbury College founded.
- Delphian Club founded.^[12]

1819 - Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded.

1821
- Maryland Academy of Science and Literature established.^[5]
- Basilica consecrated.

1822 - Adelphi Theatre opens.^[13]

1823 - Athenaeum founded.^[14]

1826 - Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts founded.

1827
- Washington Medical College established.
- Franklin Lyceum active.^[11]

1829
- Mount Clare Station built.
- George Washington monument erected.
- Circus building constructed.^[5]

1830 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operating.

1832
- Cholera epidemic.^[5]
- 1832 Democratic National Convention

1835
- 1835 Democratic National Convention
- Bank riot.

1837
- Baltimore Sun newspaper begins publication.^[3]
- Washington Hall opens.^[13]
- Orchard Street United Methodist Church built.

1839
- High School opens.
- Mercantile Library Association established.^[6]
- Green Mount Cemetery dedicated.
- Municipal Record Office of Baltimore built.

1840
- Madison Lyceum active.^[11]
- 1840 Democratic National Convention

1844
- Maryland Historical Society incorporated.
- Western High School (Baltimore) opens.
- 1844 Democratic National Convention
- 1844 Whig National Convention
- Baltimore-Washington telegraph line opens.

1845 - Newton University established.^[15]

1848
- Howard Athenaeum and Gallery of Arts opens.^[13]
- Olympic Theatre opens.^[13]
- Concordia Club founded.^{[citation needed]}
- 1848 Democratic National Convention

1849 - Baltimore Female College in operation.^[15]

1850 - President Street Station built.

1851
- Baltimore becomes independent city.
- New Assembly-Rooms open.^[13]
- Baltimore Wecker newspaper begins publication.

1852
- Loyola College established.
- Apollo Hall opens.^[13]
- 1852 Democratic National Convention
- 1852 Whig National Convention

1853 - Baltimore Police Department established.

1856
- Know-Nothing Riot.
- 1856 Whig National Convention

1857 - Peabody Institute founded.

1859 - City Fire Department formed.

1860 - 1860 Constitutional Union Convention

1861 - Pratt Street Riot.

1864
- St. Francis Xavier Church dedicated.
- 1864 Republican National Convention

1865 - Concordia Opera House opens.^[13]

1867
- Concordia Hall is founded.
- Morgan College established.
- Normal school opens.^[2]

1871 - Ford's Grand Opera-House opens.^[13]

1872
- Mount Auburn Cemetery established.
- 1872 Democratic National Convention

1873 - Leadenhall Street Baptist Church built.

1875
- City Hall built.
- Academy of Music opens.^[13]
- Free Summer Excursion Society incorporated.^[13]

1876
- Johns Hopkins University founded.
- Zoo opens.

1877 - Railroad Strike.

1878 - George Peabody Library opens.

1880
- Woman's Industrial Exchange founded.
- Celebration of 150th anniversary of city.^[16]

1881 - Faultless Pajama Company in business.

1882 - Enoch Pratt Free Library established.

1883
- Baltimore Manual Training School founded.
- Colored High and Training School founded.
- Baltimore Young Women's Christian Association founded.

1885 - Goucher College established.

1890
- Post office built.^[2]
- Population: 434,439 people.^[2]
- Riverview Park opens.

1891 - Union Park baseball field opens.

1892 - Baltimore Afro-American begins publication.

1894 - Lyric Opera House opens.

1895 - Clifton Park opens (approximate date).^[2]

1896
- Electric Park opens.
- Colored Young Women's Christian Association founded.

1898 - Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House built.

20th century[]

1900
- Population: 508,957 people.^[2]
- City courthouse dedicated.
- Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper begins publication.

1903 - Belvedere Hotel opens.

1904 - Fire.

1908 - Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway begins operating.

1911 - Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore) built.

1912
- Arch Social Club founded.
- 1912 Democratic National Convention

1914
- Baltimore Museum of Art founded.
- Hippodrome Theatre built.

1916
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra formed.
- Baltimore Black Sox baseball team formed.

1917
- Fort Holabird established.
- Lithuanian Hall opens.

1922
- Memorial Stadium built.
- Royal Theatre opens.

1923 - Howard W. Jackson becomes mayor.

1925 - University of Baltimore founded.

1930
- Baltimore Colored Symphony Orchestra organized.
- U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.

1934 - Walters Art Museum established.

1949 - Edgar Allan Poe House opens.

1950
- Baltimore Civic Opera Company established.
- Population: 950,000 people (approximate).

1953 - B&O Railroad Museum opens.

1954
- Orioles baseball team relocates to Baltimore.
- Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center formed.

1955 - Civil rights protest at Read's Drug Store.

1956 - Desegregation of the Baltimore City Public School System

1963 - Center Stage (theater) opens.

1964 - Baltimore News-American newspaper begins publication.

1968
- Baltimore riot of 1968
- Baltimore American Indian Center is established.

1971 - William Donald Schaefer becomes mayor.

1974 - Baltimore municipal strike of 1974

1976 - Maryland Science Center opens.

1979
- Baltimore Convention Center opens.
- Baltimore School for the Arts founded.

1980
- Harborplace opens.
- Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association formed.
- Population: 787,000 people (approximate).

1981
- National Aquarium in Baltimore opens.
- Baltimore Museum of Industry opens.

1982 - Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall opens.

1983
- Baltimore Metro Subway begins operating.
- Great Blacks in Wax Museum established.

1986 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People headquarters relocates to Baltimore.^[17]
1987 - Kurt Schmoke becomes mayor.

1989 - Contemporary Museum Baltimore founded.

1992
- Baltimore Light Rail begins operating.
- Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens.

1996 - Baltimore Ravens football team established.

1998 - Ravens Stadium opens.

1999 - Martin O'Malley becomes mayor.

21st century[]

2000 - National Katyń Memorial is constructed.

2002 - The Portal (community center) opens.

2005 - Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture opens.

2006 - The Baltimore Examiner begins publication.

2008 - Hilton Baltimore built.

2009 - Sheila Dixon trial.

2010
- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake becomes mayor.
- 2010 Baltimore beating
- Population: 620,961 people.

2011
- Occupy Baltimore begins.
- Officer James Fowler ticket incident
- Lyric Opera Baltimore established.
- Beating of Chrissy Lee Polis

2012 - 2012 St. Patrick's Day beating

References[]

^ John Calvin Colson (Winter 1986). "The Fire Company Library Associations of Baltimore, 1838-1858". Journal of Library History. 21.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Baltimore", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Baltimore", The American gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, OL 23272543M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Charles Varle (1833), A complete view of Baltimore, Baltimore: S. Young, OL 19370655M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Charles Coffin Jewett (1851), Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, Washington D.C: Smithsonian
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b William Fry (1812), Fry's Baltimore directory, for the year 1812, Baltimore: Printed by B.W. Sower, & Co. for the publisher, OL 24653908M
^ "History of Fort McHenry". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ C. Keenan (1822), The Baltimore directory for 1822 & '23, Baltimore: Printed by R.J. Matchett, OL 23411032M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Joseph Lawrence Yeatman (Fall 1985). "Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1840". Journal of Library History. 20.
^ Uhler, John Earle (December 1925). "The Delphian Club: A Contribution to the Literary History of Baltimore in the Early Nineteenth Century". Maryland Historical Magazine. 20 (4): 305.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j J. Thomas Scharf (1881), History of Baltimore city and county, from the earliest period to the present day: including biographical sketches of their representative men, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, OL 24157798M
^ Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell (1903), "Chronology", The medical annals of Maryland, 1799-1899, Baltimore: [Press of Williams & Wilkins company], OL 6966537M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The Baltimore city directory, for 1858-59, Baltimore, Md: John W. Woods, 1858, OL 17860479M
^ Baltimore (1881), 1730-1880: Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Baltimore, Baltimore: Printed by order of the Mayor and City Council, OL 19368892M
^ Paul T Hellmann (2004). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis.

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[1] John Calvin Colson (Winter 1986). "The Fire Company Library Associations of Baltimore, 1838-1858". Journal of Library History. 21.

[brit1910-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Baltimore", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424

[lc-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

[4] Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Baltimore", The American gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, OL 23272543M

[varle-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Charles Varle (1833), A complete view of Baltimore, Baltimore: S. Young, OL 19370655M

[jewett-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b Charles Coffin Jewett (1851), Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, Washington D.C: Smithsonian

[dir1812-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b William Fry (1812), Fry's Baltimore directory, for the year 1812, Baltimore: Printed by B.W. Sower, & Co. for the publisher, OL 24653908M

[8] "History of Fort McHenry". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

[9] C. Keenan (1822), The Baltimore directory for 1822 & '23, Baltimore: Printed by R.J. Matchett, OL 23411032M

[davies-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

[yeatman-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Joseph Lawrence Yeatman (Fall 1985). "Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1840". Journal of Library History. 20.

[12] Uhler, John Earle (December 1925). "The Delphian Club: A Contribution to the Literary History of Baltimore in the Early Nineteenth Century". Maryland Historical Magazine. 20 (4): 305.

[scharf1881-13] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j J. Thomas Scharf (1881), History of Baltimore city and county, from the earliest period to the present day: including biographical sketches of their representative men, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, OL 24157798M

[14] Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell (1903), "Chronology", The medical annals of Maryland, 1799-1899, Baltimore: [Press of Williams & Wilkins company], OL 6966537M

[dir1858-15] Jump up to: ^a ^b The Baltimore city directory, for 1858-59, Baltimore, Md: John W. Woods, 1858, OL 17860479M

[16] Baltimore (1881), 1730-1880: Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Baltimore, Baltimore: Printed by order of the Mayor and City Council, OL 19368892M

[17] Paul T Hellmann (2004). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis.

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Timeline of Baltimore

Contents

18th century[]

19th century[]

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Further reading[]

External links[]