Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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This is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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17th century[]

  • 1630 - English settlers arrive.
  • 1632 - First Parish meeting house built.
  • 1636 - The "New College" founded.
  • 1636 - Newe Towne was established as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on September 8th.
  • 1638
    • Newe Towne renamed "Cambridge."[1]
    • John Harvard, a Puritan minister, bequeaths his library and half his monetary estate to the college.
  • 1639 - New College renamed Harvard College for benefactor John Harvard.
  • 1640 - Bay Psalm Book printed.[2]
  • 1642 - Harvard holds its first commencement.
  • 1662 - Great Bridge built.
  • 1663 - Algonquin-language Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God published.[3]
  • 1682 - Cooper-Frost-Austin House built (date approximate).
  • 1685 - Hooper-Lee-Nichols House built.
  • 1688 - Cambridge Village, later renamed Newton, separated from Cambridge.[4]

18th century[]

  • 1713 - Town of Lexington separated from Cambridge.[1]
  • 1720 - Harvard's Massachusetts Hall built.
  • 1727 - William Brattle House built.
  • 1759
  • 1760 - Apthorp House built.[1]
  • 1767 - Elmwood (residence) built.
  • 1775
    • April 18: William Dawes traverses the town en route to sounding warnings on eve of Battles of Lexington and Concord.[5]
    • April 19: Skirmishes between retreating British troops and American patriots at Watson's Corner and elsewhere in North Cambridge.[6]
    • May 12: The New-England Chronicle in publication.[7]
    • July 3: George Washington takes command of American army.[8]
  • 1780 - May 19: New England's Dark Day.
  • 1782 - Harvard Medical School founded.[9]
  • 1793 - West Boston Bridge built.[10]
  • 1796 - Fresh Pond Hotel built.[11]

19th century[]

1800s–1840s[]

  • 1800 - Printer William Hilliard in business.[12]
  • 1805 - Harvard Botanic Garden founded.[13]
  • 1807
  • 1809 - Craigie's Bridge opens.
  • 1810 - Amicable Fire Society founded.[16]
  • 1814 - Cambridge Humane Society[17] and Female Humane Society founded.[18]
  • 1815 - Harvard's University Hall built.
  • 1816 - Middlesex County Courthouse (Massachusetts) built.
  • 1817 - Harvard Law School founded.
  • 1818 - New England Glass Company established.
  • 1824 - East Cambridge Charitable Society formed.[17]
  • 1826 - Frederic Tudor and Nathaniel Wyeth begin harvesting ice at Fresh Pond.[19]
  • 1827 - First Evangelical Congregational church[20] and Second Baptist Church[21] established.
  • 1830 - Population: 6,072.[22]
  • 1831
    • Mount Auburn Cemetery founded.[23]
    • Cambridge Market Hotel (later Porter's Hotel) built.[24]
  • 1832 - Cambridge Fire Department[2] and Cambridge Book Club[16] established.
  • 1833
    • Hunt & Co's Circulating Library in business.[25]
    • First Parish meeting house built, corner Church St. and Mass. Ave.
  • 1835 - West Cambridge Social Library active.[25]
  • 1837
    • August 31: Emerson gives "American Scholar" speech.[26]
    • East Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society formed.[18]
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow moves to Craigie House.[8]
  • 1839
  • 1840
    • Cambridge Magnolia begins publication.[27]
    • St. John's Mutual Relief Society organized.[17]
    • Population: 8,409.[22]
  • 1841 - Cambridge Lyceum organized.
  • 1846
  • 1847 - Great Refractor telescope installed.[31]
  • 1848 - Franklin Library Association founded.[25]
  • 1849 - Cambridge Athenaeum incorporated.[32]

1850s–1890s[]

  • 1850 - Howard Benevolent Society organized.[17]
  • 1852
    • Cambridge Water Works Corporation chartered.[29]
    • Riverside Press established.
  • 1854 - Cambridge Cemetery consecrated.[20]
  • 1856 - Population: 20,473.[30]
  • 1857
  • 1858 - Harvard Glee Club founded.[33]
  • 1859 - Museum of Comparative Zoology founded.
  • 1860 - Cambridge Horticultural Society organized.[17]
  • 1861 - Veterans' Services established.[34]
  • 1862 - Sanitary Society active (approximate date).[18]
  • 1865 - Old Cambridge Mutual Relief Society organized.[17]
  • 1866
    • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and New Church Theological School[1] founded.
    • Cambridge Press newspaper begins publication.[27][35]
  • 1867 - Episcopal Theological School founded.[1]
  • 1868 - Cambridge Mechanics Literary Association organized.[17]
  • 1869
  • 1870 - Soldiers' Monument dedicated on Cambridge Common[36]
  • 1871
    • Cambridge Social Union founded.[21]
    • Alpha Glee Club organized.[17]
  • 1872 - Cambridge Choral Society formed.[17]
  • 1873
    • The Harvard Crimson newspaper begins publication.[37]
    • Basket Club formed.[18]
  • 1875
  • 1876 - Harvard Lampoon begins publication.
  • 1877 - Harvard's Memorial Hall built.
  • 1878
  • 1879 - Cambridge Public Library established.[32]
  • 1880 - Population: 52,669.[1]
  • 1881 - Cambridge Club active.[18]
  • 1882
    • Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women incorporated.
    • Harvard Cooperative founded.
  • 1883
    • Cambridge YMCA opens.[38]
    • Browne & Nichols School founded.[39]
  • 1884 - Odd Fellows Hall built.
  • 1886 - Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge English High School (Broadway & Fayette St.),[40] Cambridge Latin School (Lee St.),[40] and Cambridge School for Girls established.
  • 1887 - Cambridgeport Cycle Club organized.[38]
  • 1889
  • 1890 - Population: 70,028.[1]
  • 1891 - Harvard Bridge built.
  • 1892 - Old Cambridge Photographic Club formed.[18]
  • 1893 - Road built around Fresh Pond.[11]
  • 1894
    • Radcliffe College chartered.
    • Cambridge Walking Club founded.[18]
  • 1895
    • Lechmere Canal built.
    • Keezer's clothier in business.[43]
    • W. E. B. Du Bois earns PhD from Harvard University.[44]
  • 1896 - Cambridge Political Equality Association established.[45]
  • 1897 - Cambridge Skating Club founded.[46]

20th century[]

1900s–1940s[]

  • 1900 - Population: 91,886.[1]
  • 1901 - Swedenborg Chapel built.[41]
  • 1903
  • 1904 - Harvard's established.
  • 1905 - Cambridge Historical Society founded.[47][48]
  • 1906 - Longfellow Bridge opens.[1]
  • 1908
  • 1909 - Lesley School founded.[49]
  • 1910 - Harvard Extension School founded.
  • 1910 - Harvard Square Business Association founded.[50]
  • 1911 - Cambridge Housing Association formed.[51]
  • 1912 - Kendall/MIT (MBTA station), Central (MBTA station), and Harvard (MBTA station) open.
  • 1913
  • 1914 - Cambridge Planning Board established.[53]
  • 1915
  • 1916
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology moves to Cambridge[54]
    • Tasty Sandwich Shop in business.[55]
  • 1917
  • 1923 - Washington Elm dies on Cambridge Common.
  • 1924 - The Church of St. Paul (Harvard Square) built.
  • 1926 - Harvard Square Theater opens.[56]
  • 1927
  • 1928 - Boston University Bridge built.
  • 1929 - Cambridge Community Center founded.[58]
  • 1930
  • 1932
  • 1936 - Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration and Graduate School of Design established.
  • 1938
    • Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria in business (approximate date).[55]
    • Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism established.
  • 1940
    • National Research Corporation in business.[59]
    • Cambridge citizens vote to adopt proportional representation for elections of its city council and school committee, with first use in 1941.[60]
  • 1941
    • Magazine of Cambridge begins publication.[61]
    • Harvard's Houghton Library built.
  • 1942 - John B. Atkinson becomes city manager.
  • 1945 - Cambridge Civic Unity Committee established.[62]
  • 1945 - Irving House established.[63]
  • 1946 - WMIT begins broadcasting.
  • 1947

1950s–1970s[]

  • 1950
  • 1951
    • Fresh Pond Drive-In opens.[56]
    • WHRB incorporated.
  • 1952
    • John J. Curry becomes city manager.
    • MIT School of Industrial Management and MIT Center for International Studies[65] established.
  • 1953
    • Brattle Theatre begins screening movies.
    • Harvard Model United Nations conference begins.
  • 1954 - Wang Laboratories, Cheapo Records,[66] and Hong Kong restaurant[67] in business.
  • 1955
    • Out of Town News, Casablanca bar,[55] Elsie's eatery[68] and Ferranti-Dege camera store[69] in business.
    • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory relocated to Cambridge.
  • 1957
  • 1958
    • Club 47 (music venue) opens.[72]
    • Joyce Chen restaurant[73] and Chez Jean restaurant[55] in business.
    • Lisp (programming language) invented at MIT.[74]
    • Smoot measurement established.
  • 1959
  • 1960
    • Bartley's restaurant in business.[55]
    • Harvard's Let's Go travel guides begin publication.
  • 1961
    • Julia Child moves to Cambridge.[75]
    • October 14: Fire destroys the original WGBH television and radio studios, at MIT.
  • 1962
    • Temple Beth Shalom founded.[76]
    • Fresh Pond Shopping Center built.[11]
    • Cambridge Electron Accelerator in operation.[77]
    • Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts built.
    • Cambridge Seven Associates in business.
    • Cambridge Sports Union founded.[78]
  • 1963 - Cambridge Historical Commission established.[79]
  • 1964 - NASA Electronics Research Center established.[80]
  • 1965 - Head of the Charles Regatta established.
  • 1966 - Cambridge School Volunteers founded.[4]
  • 1967
    • Joseph DeGuglielmo becomes city manager.
    • Cambridge Forum,[81] MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies established.
  • 1968
    • Cambridge Housing Convention active.[82]
    • Shrdlu computer program developed at MIT.[74]
  • 1969
  • 1970
  • 1971
    • Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services established.[87]
    • Grendel's Den pub in business.
    • Revels performance series begins.
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975 - Coffee Connection in business.
  • 1977
    • Cambridge Rindge and Latin School formed.
    • River Festival begins.[95]
    • Changsho restaurant in business.[96]
  • 1978
    • National Bureau of Economic Research active.[85]
    • Formaggio Kitchen in business.[97]
  • 1979 - Harvard's Film Archive opens.

1980s–1990s[]

  • 1980
    • American Repertory Theater and MIT's PiKa housing cooperative[98] established.
    • MIT Museum active.
  • 1981
    • American Academy of Arts and Sciences moves to Cambridge.[99]
    • Cambridge College active.[100]
    • Robert W. Healy becomes city manager.[101]
    • Cambridge Center complex construction begins.[80]
  • 1982
    • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research founded.
    • Biogen,[102] Toscanini's, and Upstairs at the Pudding restaurant in business.[55]
    • Sister city relationships established with Coimbra, Portugal, and Gaeta, Italy.[103]
  • 1983
    • Harvard Square Homeless Shelter and Albert Einstein Institution established.
    • Monitor Group and Cambridge Energy Research Associates headquartered in Cambridge.
    • Sister city relationships established with Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, Japan; and Dublin, Ireland.[103]
    • Pegasystems Inc. and Forrester Research in business.
    • Premiere of Marsha Norman's play Night, Mother.
  • 1984
    • MIT Media Lab,[104] Institute for Resource and Security Studies,[105] and city Police Review & Advisory Board[106] established.
    • Sister city relationship established with Ischia, Italy.[103]
    • Porter MBTA Red Line station opens.
    • Conflict Management Group headquartered in city.
    • Thinking Machines Corporation and Charles Hotel in business.
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988 - Cambridge Community Television[111] and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone established.
  • 1989
    • Cambridge Sane/Freeze active.[21]
    • Sister city relationship established with Kraków, Poland.[103]
  • 1990
    • CambridgeSide Galleria built.
    • Sapient Corporation in business.[5]
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
    • City master plan published.[114]
    • MIT's The Tech newspaper web edition begins publication.
    • Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. becomes state representative for 29th Middlesex district.[115]
  • 1994
    • Islamic Society of Boston mosque opens.[76]
    • Rialto restaurant in business.[116]
  • 1995
    • Kendall Square Cinema opens.[56]
    • Porter Square Neighbors Association formed.
    • Cybersmith[117] and Phoenix Landing (music venue)[118] in business.
  • 1996
    • Cambridge Health Alliance and On The Rise nonprofit established.[119]
    • City Dance Party begins.[120][121]
    • Sheila Russell becomes mayor.
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999

21st century[]

See also[]

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  • Samuel Adams Drake (1880), History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Boston: Estes and Lauriat, OL 23400952M
  • Exercises in celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge, held December 28, 1880, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, John Wilson & Son, 1881, OL 23359150M
  • (Cambridge and parts of Somerville). Boston, Massachusetts. 6. New York: Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. 1888 – via Harvard University.
  • George F. Crook, ed. Cambridge annual for 1886-1888.
  • Blue Book of Cambridge for 1892. 1891.
  • Gossiping Guide to Harvard and Places of Interest in Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Tribune, 1892, OCLC 4571172, OL 6943590M
  • Park Commission, Annual Report, City of Cambridge 1894- . 1890s
  • Atlas of the City of Cambridge. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley and Co. – via Harvard University.. 1894?
  • Blue Book of Cambridge for 1895. 1890.
  • Arthur Gilman (1896), Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six, Cambridge: Riverside Press, OL 7062042M
  • Walter Gee Davis, ed. (1897), Cambridge Fifty Years a City, 1846-1896, Cambridge: Riverside Press, OCLC 911131, OL 7145491M
  • John Wesley Freese (1897), Historic Houses and Spots in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Near-By Towns, Boston: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1821792, OL 7060328M
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1899), Old Cambridge, New York: Macmillan Company, OCLC 2220162, OL 528896M

Published in the 20th century[]

  • Insurance Maps of Cambridge, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 1900 – via Harvard University.
  • Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly New-Towne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703, Cambridge, 1901, OL 7057190M
  • Atlas of the City of Cambridge. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley and Co. 1903 – via Harvard University. 1916 ed.
  • Robert F. Roden (1905), The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692, NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company
  • Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, Hannah Winthrop Chapter, Cambridge (1907), An Historic Guide to Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, OCLC 3292475, OL 6981640MCS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • "Cambridge", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
  • "Cambridge", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Cambridge Directory. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1910.
  • Samuel A. Eliot (1913), A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Tribune, OCLC 6876563, OL 6563862M
  • Atlas of the City of Cambridge. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1930 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
  • Norman Hill White Jr. (1931), Proceedings for the Years 1920 and 1921, Publications, 15, Cambridge Historical Society, hdl:2027/wu.89067481739, Printing in Cambridge Since 1800
  • Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Cambridge", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781 + Chronology
  • Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Northwest Cambridge, Cambridge Historical Commission, 1977, ISBN 0-262-53032-5
  • Police Department, Annual Crime Report, City of Cambridge 1995- 2004-present
  • "Cambridge". Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1997. pp. 28–29. (Timeline of boundary changes)
  • "Commonwealth Communities: City of Cambridge". Commonwealth of Massachusetts Official Website. Archived from the original on 1998.
  • Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (1999), Cambridge, Arcadia Publishing, OL 7981887M

Published in the 21st century[]

External links[]

Images[]

  • George Washington in Cambridge, 1775

  • Harvard alumni procession, Harvard Square, 1836

  • Cambridge Observatory, 1849

  • Harvard Square, ca.1880s-1900s

  • Washington Elm, Cambridge Common, ca.1880s-1900s

  • Cambridge Public Library, 1891

  • Central Square and Mass. Ave., 1910s

  • Overview of Harvard Square area, 1919

  • Harvard Bridge and MIT, ca.1920

Coordinates: 42°22′25″N 71°06′38″W / 42.373611°N 71.110556°W / 42.373611; -71.110556

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