Timeline of Philadelphia

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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17th-18th centuries[]

  • 1682 – Philadelphia founded as capital of the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania by William Penn.
  • 1685 – Quaker meeting house built[citation needed]
  • 1689 – William Penn Charter School founded.[1]
  • 1691 – Appointment of first mayor, Humphrey Morrey, by Penn.
  • 1700 – Swedish Lutheran Gloria Dei Church consecrated.[2]
  • 1710 – Town Hall built.[3]
  • 1711 – Trinity Church built.
  • 1719 – American Weekly Mercury newspaper begins publication.[4]
  • 1722 – James Logan becomes mayor.
  • 1728
  • 1731 – Library Company of Philadelphia established
  • 1735 – Pennsylvania State House built.[7]
  • 1736 – Union Fire Company formed
  • 1740 – Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel founded.
  • 1742
  • 1743 – Philosophical Society founded.
  • 1744 – Christ Church built.
  • 1745 – New Market built.[8]
  • 1749 – Academy of Philadelphia founded.
  • 1751
    • Street lighting begins.[8]
    • Pennsylvania Hospital founded.
  • 1753 – Bell hung in tower of State House.
  • 1755 – College of Philadelphia chartered.
  • 1757 – Amicable Library Co. founded.[9]
  • 1766
    • American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established.[10]
    • Foundation of the city's first permanent theatre, the Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia.
  • 1767
  • 1769 – American Philosophical Society formed.[7]
  • 1771
  • 1773 – Walnut Street Jail in operation.[12]
  • 1774
  • 1775
  • 1776
    • January 10: Thomas Paine's Common Sense published.
    • July 4: United States Declaration of Independence signed in the Pennsylvania State House.
    • December 12: threat of British occupation of Philadelphia prompts Congress to move to Baltimore (Henry Fite House) for two months
  • 1777
    • March 5: Congress returns to Philadelphia.
    • September 11: British victory at the Battle of Brandywine forces Congress to flee from Philadelphia to Lancester, and then York. Pro-Revolutionary civilians flee as well.
    • September 23: British troops occupy Philadelphia, greeted by Loyalist civilians.
  • 1778
    • June 18: British troops abandon Philadelphia in order to defend New York City; Continental forces retake Philadelphia the same day.
    • July 2: Congress returns to Philadelphia.
  • 1781
  • 1783
    • June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783.
    • June 22: Congress flees to Princeton, New Jersey due to the Pennsylvania Munity.
  • 1784
    • Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum founded.[10]
    • Dock Street laid out.[7]
  • 1785 – Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture instituted.[7]
  • 1786
    • Labor strike by printers.[14]
    • Philadelphia Dispensary established.[7]
  • 1787
    • May–September: U.S. Constitutional Convention held.
    • College of Physicians,[10] Free African Society,[15][16] and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons[12] founded.
  • 1789 – Pennsylvania Abolition Society for the Abolition of Slavery incorporated.[7]
  • 1790
  • 1791
    • City Hall building constructed; U.S. Supreme Court convenes.[18]
    • University of Pennsylvania established.[7]
  • 1792
  • 1793 – Yellow Fever Epidemic.
  • 1794
  • 1798 – Bank of the United States opens.[7]
  • 1800 – United States capital relocates from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

19th century[]

1800s-1840s[]

  • 1801
    • Chamber of Commerce established.[10]
    • St. Augustine Church built.
    • The Port Folio magazine begins publication.
  • 1805
    • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts founded.[20][21]
    • Arch Street Friends Meeting House built.
  • 1806 - U.S. Supreme Court decides Commonwealth v. Pullis, criminalizing labor strikes.[14]
  • 1807 – First African Presbyterian Church founded.[15]
  • 1809 – First African Baptist Church founded.[15]
  • 1810
    • Columbian Garden opens on Market Street.[22]
    • Population: 53,722.
  • 1811 – Girard Bank founded.
  • 1812
    • Colossus Bridge built near city.
    • Wooden pipes installed to carry water through the city.[23]
    • Pennsylvania's capital moved to Harrisburg.
  • 1813 – Analectic Magazine begins publication.[24]
  • 1814 – Athenaeum of Philadelphia founded.[10]
  • 1816 – African Methodist Episcopal Church (denomination)[25] and Philadelphia Saving Fund Society founded.
  • 1817 – Academy of Natural Sciences incorporated.[10]
  • 1820 – Apprentices' Library Company founded.[9]
  • 1821 – Mercantile Library Company and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy[10] established.
  • 1822
  • 1824
    • Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Franklin Institute[10] and American Sunday School Union[26] established.
  • 1826 – The Casket magazine begins publication.[27]
  • 1827 – Pennsylvania Horticultural Society established.
  • 1828 – Register of Pennsylvania begins publication.[28]
  • 1829
    • Pennsylvania Inquirer newspaper begins publication.[4]
    • Eastern State Penitentiary built.
  • 1830 – Population: 80,462.
  • 1831
  • 1834 – Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and Merchants' Exchange Building constructed.
  • 1835 – June: 1835 Philadelphia general strike.
  • 1836 – Public Ledger newspaper begins publication.[4]
  • 1837
  • 1842
    • Lombard Street Riot.
    • Augustinian College of Vilanova founded near city.
  • 1844 – May–July: Philadelphia Nativist Riots.
  • 1845 – American Literary Union organized.[32]
  • 1848
    • Philadelphia School of Design for Women founded.
    • Girard College opens.
    • St. Augustine Church rebuilt.

1850s-1890s[]

20th century[]

1900s-1940s[]

  • 1902
    • Automat eatery in business.
    • Corn Exchange National Bank building constructed.[56]
  • 1901 – Philadelphia City Hall built.
  • 1903 – Textile strike.[42]
  • 1905 – City Club of Philadelphia chartered.[57]
  • 1907 – Broad Street Subway begins operation.
  • 1909 – Bureau of Municipal Research established.[58]
  • 1910
  • 1914 – Empress Theater[59] and Christian Street YMCA[60] open.
  • 1915
  • 1917 – American Stores Company in business.[63]
  • 1918
    • Airport opens.[42]
    • September 19: The Spanish Flu hits through the Philadelphia Navy Yard from sailors returning from Europe
    • September 28: Liberty Loan Parade leads to explosion of influenza [64]
    • October: Spanish Flu explodes in Philadelphia killing 12,000 and sickening over 48,000
  • 1919
    • July: Racial unrest.
    • Aero Service Corporation in business.[39]
  • 1920
    • Colored Dunbar Theatre built (approximate date).[65]
    • Population: 1,823,779.[55]
  • 1921 – Municipal piers built on Delaware River.[39]
  • 1923 – Philadelphia trolley bus (trackless trolley) system opens.
  • 1924 – Curtis Institute of Music established.[42]
  • 1925 – Philadelphia Daily News begins publication.[4]
  • 1926
    • Roosevelt Theatre[59] and Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Camden, New Jersey open.
    • May 31: Sesquicentennial Exposition opens.[66]
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
  • 1930 – Population: 1,950,961.[42]
  • 1931
    • Municipal Auditorium opens.[42]
    • Girard Trust Building constructed.
    • Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks founded.
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1935 – United States Post Office-Main Branch built.
  • 1936 – Democratic National Convention held.[42]
  • 1937 – Philadelphia Housing Authority established.
  • 1938 – Jack and Jill (organization) founded.[68]
  • 1940
    • Philadelphia Transportation Company begins operation, replacing the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
    • Population: 1,931,334.[55]
  • 1941 – Philadelphia History Museum dedicated.
  • 1943 – September 6: Frankford Junction train wreck.
  • 1944 – August: Philadelphia transit strike of 1944.[69]
  • 1945 – Philadelphia Northeast Airport opens.
  • 1946
    • University of Pennsylvania's ENIAC computer introduced.[70]
    • women's club founded.[68]
  • 1948 – June: 1948 Republican National Convention held.
  • 1949 – Philadelphia Textile Institute established.[49]

1950s-2000s[]

  • 1950
  • 1952 - Philadelphia City Archives established.[71][72]
  • 1955 – Philadelphia Historical Commission and Foreign Policy Research Institute established.
  • 1956 – Independence National Historical Park established.
  • 1958
  • 1963 - Syracuse Nationals move to Philadelphia and become the 76ers.
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1966 - Sister city relationship established with Tel Aviv, Israel.[76]
  • 1967
    • Temple University's Urban Archives (of Philadelphia) established.[79][72]
    • Philadelphia Flyers NHL team founded.
  • 1968
  • 1970
    • September: Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention held in city.[80]
    • Le Bec-Fin restaurant in business.
    • Population: 1,948,609.
  • 1971 – Mariposa Food Co-op established.[81][82]
  • 1972
    • Frank Rizzo becomes mayor.
    • One Meridian Plaza built.
  • 1974 – Philadelphia Green launched.
  • 1975
    • August: 1975 Philadelphia Refinery Fire.
    • Opera Company of Philadelphia formed.
  • 1976
    • African American Museum in Philadelphia and National Museum of American Jewish History established.
    • Gray's Ferry Bridge opens.
    • Sister city relationship established with Toruń, Poland.[76]
  • 1977 – The Gallery at Market East shopping mall opens.
  • 1980
    • Population: 1,688,210.
    • March 21: Angelo Bruno assassinated outside his home. The murder was orchestrated by his consigliere, Antonio Caponigro, who was unhappy with Bruno's conservative leadership style and had been led to believe that, if he attempted a coup, he would have the support of the Genovese crime family.[83] That April, Caponigro visited New York City, apparently under the assumption he was about to be confirmed as boss. Instead, he was tortured and murdered.[84]
    • Sister city relationship established with Tianjin, China.[76]
    • Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series.
  • 1981 – Philadelphia City Paper begins publication.
  • 1983 – SEPTA Regional Rail begins operating.[77]
  • 1984
  • 1985 – The MOVE bombing in West Philadelphia kills 11 people and destroys about 60 homes.
  • 1986
    • Sister city relationship established with Douala, Cameroon.[76]
  • 1987
    • One Liberty Place built.
    • The Roots (band) formed.
  • 1989 – Dock Street Brewing Company pub in business.
  • 1990 - Population: 1,585,577.[17]
  • 1992
    • First Friday begins in Old Town.[56]
    • Sister city relationship established with Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.[76]
  • 1992 - Ed Rendell becomes mayor of Philadelphia.
  • 1993 – Pennsylvania Convention Center opens.
  • 1995 – Chaka Fattah becomes Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district representative.[86]
  • 1996
  • 1997 - October 25: National Million Woman March held in city.
  • 1998 – Bob Brady becomes Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district representative.[86]
  • 2000

21st century[]

  • 2001
    • Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts opens.
  • 2004
    • Iraq Veterans Against the War headquartered in Philadelphia.[88]
    • Citizens Bank Park opens.
  • 2005 – July 4: Philadelphia Freedom Concert held.
  • 2008
  • 2010 – Population: 1,526,006; metro 5,965,343.[89]
  • 2011
  • 2012
    • City open data and government transparency order enacted.[91][92]
    • Barnes Foundation relocates to the Parkway.[38]
  • 2013
  • 2015
  • 2016
    • January 4: Jim Kenney becomes mayor of Philadelphia.
    • July: 2016 Democratic National Convention held in city.
  • 2018
  • 2019
    • September 19: The Fashion District Philadelphia opens at the site of The Gallery at Market East.[93]
  • 2020
    • March 2020: Philadelphia was hardest-hit by COVID-19 pandemic, which put few thousands of residents out of work, and shifted others to work at home.
    • October 26: Walter Wallace a black man in Philadelphia is killed by police and protesting starts on the day of his death.
  • 2021
    • January 20: Joe Biden becomes the first President of the United States from the Greater Philadelphia Area

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