Timeline of Boston history

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This is a timeline of the history of Boston, Massachusetts.

Trimount as it may have appeared in 1630. Painting by S.L. Gerry, 1836

Conjectural illustration of Blaxton's house ca.1625 (drawn ca.1825)

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[edit] 17th century

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Conjectural drawing of John Winthrop fording the Mystic River, 1630

1625
- William Blaxton arrives

1630
- First Church in Boston established
- September - Boston named

1635
- Boston Latin School founded

1637
- Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts founded

1638
- Anne Hutchinson excommunicated

1649
- Second Church, Boston established

Edmund Andros taken prisoner, April 18, 1689 (conjectural illustration, 19th c.)

1657
- Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded

1658
- First Town-House, Boston built

1660
- June 1 - Mary Dyer hanged

1679
- Province House (Boston, Massachusetts) built

1680
- Paul Revere House built (circa)

1688
- King's Chapel built

1699
- Brattle Street Church built

[edit] 18th century

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Earthquake, 1727

Newspaper item about catamount (cougar), "at the Sign of the Three Horse Shoes," Boston, Sept. 1741

American Magazine, 1744, published in Boston

1704
- Capen house built (circa)
- April 24 - The Boston News-Letter begins publication

1711
- Pierce-Hichborn House built (circa)

1712
- Old Corner Bookstore built (circa)

1713
- May - Boston Bread Riot

1719
- December 21 - Boston Gazette begins publication

1723
- Old North Church built, Salem Street

1729
- Old South Meeting House built

1732
- Hollis Street Church established

1733
- September 27 - Rebekah Chamblit executed

1735
- Trinity Church built on Summer St.

1742
- Faneuil Hall built

Stamp Act riot, 1764

1754
- Boston Marine Society incorporated

1755
- 1755 Cape Ann Earthquake

1760
- March 20 - Fire

[edit] 1770s

1770
- Massachusetts Spy begins publication
- March 5 - Boston Massacre

1773
- Hutchinson Letters Affair
- December 16 - Boston Tea Party

1774
- January - Royal American Magazine begins publication

1775
- April 19 - Siege of Boston begins^[1]

1776
- March 17 - Siege of Boston ends

[edit] 1780s

1787
- October 18 - Massachusetts General Court receives U.S. Constitution^[2]

1788
- January 9 - Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. Constitution begins at State House^[2]
- January 17 - Convention to ratify U.S. Constitution moves to Federal Street Church^[2]
- February 6 - Delegates ratify U.S. Constitution^[2]
- February 8 - Parade in honor of ratification of U.S. Constitution^[2]

1789
- William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy published
- Massachusetts Magazine begins publication

[edit] 1790s

1791
- Massachusetts Historical Society founded

1792
- Board Alley Theatre opens
- Boston Library Society established

1794
- Julien's Restorator opens on Milk Street
- February 3 - Federal Street Theatre opening performance

1795
- Columbian Museum opens
- Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association established

1796
- Haymarket Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts) opens
- Boston Medical Dispensary established

1797
- October 21 - USS Constitution launched

1798
- Massachusetts State House built

[edit] 19th century

[edit] 1800s

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1803
- Boston Female Asylum incorporated
- Holy Cross Church, Boston built

1804
- Anthology Club organized
- Nichols house built
- Social Law Library founded

1806
- African Meeting House built
- Old West Church (Boston, Massachusetts) built

1807
- Boston Athenæum founded
- Charles Street Meeting House built

1808
- (Edward Augustus Kendall describes Boston in his travelogue)

1809
- Craigie Bridge opens

[edit] 1810s

1810
- Boylston Market built
- Park Street Church built

1811
- Massachusetts General Hospital founded

1813
- Boston Daily Advertiser begins publication

1814
- Linnaean Society of New England established

1815
- Handel and Haydn Society founded
- May - North American Review begins publication

1816
- Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston established

1818
- New-England Museum (Boston) opens
- November 3 - Exchange Coffee House, Boston burns down

1819
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston built

[edit] 1820s

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ca.1820s; engraving by Annin & Smith

1820
- Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts) established

1822
- Boston incorporated as a city
- Leverett Street Jail opens; old jail closes
- May 1 - John Phillips (mayor)

1823
- Josiah Quincy III, mayor

1826
- Massachusetts General Colored Association organized
- Quincy Market built

1827
- September 24 - Tremont Theatre, Boston opens

1829
- Harrison Gray Otis (lawyer), mayor
- Tremont House (Boston) built

[edit] 1830s

Flight of balloonist Charles F. Durant in Boston, September 13, 1834

Bronson Alcott's Temple School, opened in 1834 in the Masonic Temple, Tremont St., Boston

1830
- Boston Society of Natural History established
- July 24 - Boston Evening Transcript begins publication

1831
- The Boston Post begins publication
- New England Anti-Slavery Society established
- January 1 - The Liberator begins publication

1833
- The Boston Journal begins publication

1834
- Temple School opens

1835
- Abiel Smith School founded

1836
- East Boston annexed to Boston
- National Theatre built in the West End

1837
- June 11 - Broad Street Riot

[edit] 1840s

National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, Faneuil Hall, December 1846

Water celebration, 1848

1841
- Boston Artists' Association established
- Boston Museum (theatre) opens

1842
- Merchants Exchange (Boston, Massachusetts) built

1843
- Tremont Temple established

1845
- Chinese Museum (Boston) opens
- Howard Athenaeum opens
- New England Historic Genealogical Society established

1846
- October 16 - First public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic, Ether Dome

1848
- October 25 - Water celebration

1849
- Custom House built
- November 23 - Beacon Hill Reservoir opens

[edit] 1850s

Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, 1851; painting by William Sharp (courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Opening Exhibition of the U.S. Agricultural Society, Boston, 1855; painting by William Sharp

1850
- Parkman–Webster murder case

1851
- Charles Street Jail built
- Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion begins publication
- Sept. 17-19 - Railroad Jubilee^[3]

1852
- Orpheum Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts) built
- February 9 -Ordway Hall (Boston) opens
- October 24 - Daniel Webster dies

1854
- Boston Public Library opens
- Boston Theatre opens

1857
- State Street Block (Boston) built
- November 1 - Atlantic Monthly begins publication

1859
- Boston Aquarial Gardens open

[edit] 1860s

Members of the First National Photographic Convention assembled in the Public Garden, Boston, June 3, 1869; photo by J.W. Black

1860
- Gibson house built
- Public Garden (Boston) built
- Old Feather Store demolished
- October 18 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom visits Boston^[4]

1861
- Arlington Street Church built
- Jordan Marsh opens

1863
- Hancock Manor demolished^[5]
- March 24 - National Theatre burns down

1864
- Natural History Museum built^[6]
- Boston City Hospital opens

1865
- Old City Hall (Boston) built

1867
- New England Conservatory established
- YWCA Boston incorporated

1868
- Roxbury, Boston annexed to Boston

1869
- National Peace Jubilee

[edit] 1870s

After the fire, 1872

1870
- Dorchester, Boston annexed to Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston founded

1871
- May 16 - South End Grounds open

1872
- March 4 - The Boston Globe begins publication
- June - World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival
- November 9 - Great Boston Fire of 1872

1873
- Old South Church built
- Brookline-Boston annexation debate of 1873
- Roslindale, Boston annexed to Boston

1874
- Allston, Massachusetts annexed to Boston
- Brighton, Massachusetts annexed to Boston
- January 5 - Charlestown, Boston annexed to Boston

1875
- Cathedral of the Holy Cross built

1876
- Old elm tree felled by storm, Boston Common

1877
- Trinity Church (Boston) built

1879
- Massachusetts Bicycle Club established
- New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute established

[edit] 1880s

1880
- Sept. 17 - 250th anniversary of settlement of Boston^[7]

1881
- Boston Symphony Orchestra founded
- The Bostonian Society founded
- Filene's established

1884
- Cyclorama Building built

1885
- Boston Pops Orchestra established

1886
- June - New England Fair exhibition building burns down^[8]

1889
- January 7 - Thomas N. Hart, mayor

[edit] 1890s

Central Burying Ground: "Here were interred the remains of persons found under the Boylston St. Mall during the digging of the subway, 1895" (photo from 2008)

1894
- The First Church of Christ, Scientist built
- John Adams Courthouse built

1891
- Nathan Matthews, Jr., mayor

1895
- Edwin Upton Curtis, mayor
- Josiah Quincy (1859–1919), mayor
- McKim building, Boston Public Library, built

1897
- April 19 - Boston Marathon begins^[9]
- September 3 - Park Street (MBTA station) opens

1898
- YMCA "Evening Institute for Younger Men" established, precursor to Northeastern University

1899
- South Station built

[edit] 20th century

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[edit] 1900s

Boston, 1909; photo by Lewis Hine

1900
- Symphony Hall, Boston built
- Thomas N. Hart, mayor

1901
- Boston Red Sox founded
- Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts built, Massachusetts Avenue
- April 20 - Huntington Avenue Grounds open

1902
- Patrick Collins (mayor)

1903
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum established
- Jordan Hall opens

1905
- Daniel A. Whelton, acting mayor

1906
- John F. Fitzgerald, mayor
- Longfellow Bridge built
- Suffolk University established

1908
- The Christian Science Monitor begins publication
- George A. Hibbard, mayor

1909
- Boston Flower Exchange founded

[edit] 1910s

1910
- Charles River Dam Bridge built
- John F. Fitzgerald, mayor

1912
- Hyde Park, Boston annexed to Boston
- January - Revere House hotel burns down in Bowdoin Square
- April 20 - Fenway Park opens

1913
- Boylston Street Fishweir discovered

1914
- James Michael Curley mayor

1915
- Custom House Tower built

1918
- Andrew James Peters, mayor
- Red Sox win World Series

1919
- January 15 - Boston Molasses Disaster
- September 9 - Boston Police Strike

[edit] 1920s

1922
- James Michael Curley, mayor

1923
- September 8 - Boston Airport opens

1926
- Malcolm Nichols, mayor

1927
- August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed

1928
- Boston University Bridge built
- November 17 - Boston Garden opens

[edit] 1930s

1930
- James Michael Curley, mayor

1934
- Frederick Mansfield, mayor
- Sumner Tunnel opens

1936
- Boston Museum of Modern Art founded^[10]

1938
- Maurice J. Tobin, mayor

[edit] 1940s

Gerard Cote winning the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1940

Charlestown, May 2, 1943. Seated, left to right: City Councilor, Michael Leo Kingella; Reverend Frederic J. Allchin; Honorable Leverett B. Saltonstall, Governor; President James B. Conant of Harvard; Honorable Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston; Reverend Thomas W. Davison

1940
- Citgo sign erected
- Hatch Memorial Shell built

1942
- November 28 - Cocoanut Grove fire

1945
- John E. Kerrigan, acting mayor
- Schillinger House founded

1946
- James Michael Curley, mayor

1947
- Old John Hancock Building built

[edit] 1950s

1950
- John Hynes mayor
- January 17 - Great Brink's Robbery

1951
- Museum of Science (Boston) opens
- June 15 - Storrow Drive opens
- October 6 - WGBH (FM) begins broadcasting

1954
- Schillinger House renamed Berklee College of Music

1955
- May 2- WGBH-TV begins broadcasting
- June 5 - Martin Luther King, Jr. earns PhD from Boston University

1956
- Boston Airport renamed Logan International Airport

1957
- Boston Redevelopment Authority established

1958
- Freedom Trail established^[11]

[edit] 1960s

1960
- John F. Collins mayor

1961
- Callahan Tunnel opens

1962
- Scollay Square razed^[12]
- June 14 - Boston Strangler murders begin

1964
- Prudential Tower built
- University of Massachusetts Boston established

1966
- Boston Phoenix begins publication^[13]

1968
- Kevin White (mayor)
- April 5 - James Brown concert, Boston Garden^[14]

1969
- Boston City Hall built
- New England Aquarium opens

[edit] 1970s

1970
- Boston Center for the Arts established

1971
- Government Service Center (Boston) built

1972
- June 17 - Hotel Vendome fire

1973
- Bunker Hill Community College established
- Roxbury Community College established

1974
- Desegregation busing conflict

1976
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston built
- First Night begins
- John Hancock Tower built

1979
- Boston Children's Museum opens in Fort Point Channel
- The Computer Museum, Boston opens
- John F. Kennedy Library built

[edit] 1980s

1980
- Boston Early Music Festival founded

1984
- Raymond Flynn mayor

1988
- City of Boston Archives established
- Hynes Convention Center built

[edit] 1990s

1991
- Deer Island Prison closes

1993
- July 12 - Thomas Menino mayor

1995
- Ted Williams Tunnel opens

1996
- Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area established

1999
- John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse built

[edit] 21st century

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Ben Affleck directing Gone Baby Gone in Meaney Park, Dorchester, May 25, 2006

2003
- Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge opens

2004
- June - Boston Convention and Exhibition Center opens
- July - 2004 Democratic National Convention
- October 27 - Red Sox win World Series

2006
- July 10 - Big Dig ceiling collapse
- December - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston opens in South Boston

2007
- Big Dig completed

2008
- Rose Kennedy Greenway built

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Timothy Newell. A journal kept during the time yt Boston was shut up in 1775-6. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v.1. Boston: 1852
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Pauline Maier. Ratification: the People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2010
^ An Account of the Celebration Commemorative of the opening of Railroad Communication between Boston and Canada. Boston: J. J. Eastburn, 1852. Google books
^ The New England tour of H. R. H. the prince of Wales. Boston: Bee Printing, 1860. Google books
^ http://www.celebrateboston.com/sites/john-hancock-house.htm
^ Bacon. Boston: a guide book. 1903
^ Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, September 17, 1880. Printed by order of the City council, 1880. Google books
^ New York Times, June 22, 1886
^ http://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/History.asp
^ http://www.icaboston.org/about/history/
^ http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Retrieved 2010-05-23
^ http://www.bambinomusical.com/Scollay/Munsey.html
^ http://thephoenix.com/about/
^ http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3196439

[edit] Further reading

Bowen's picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838.
Edward Hartwell Savage. Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order. Boston: Tolman & White, printers, 1884.
Jim Vrabel. When in Boston: a time line & almanac. UPNE, 2004.

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[0] Timothy Newell. A journal kept during the time yt Boston was shut up in 1775-6. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v.1. Boston: 1852

[Maier2010-1] Pauline Maier. Ratification: the People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2010

[2] An Account of the Celebration Commemorative of the opening of Railroad Communication between Boston and Canada. Boston: J. J. Eastburn, 1852. Google books

[3] The New England tour of H. R. H. the prince of Wales. Boston: Bee Printing, 1860. Google books

[4] ttp://www.celebrateboston.com/sites/john-hancock-house.htm

[5] Bacon. Boston: a guide book. 1903

[6] Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, September 17, 1880. Printed by order of the City council, 1880. Google books

[7] New York Times, June 22, 1886

[8] ttp://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/History.asp

[9] ttp://www.icaboston.org/about/history/

[10] ttp://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Retrieved 2010-05-23

[11] ttp://www.bambinomusical.com/Scollay/Munsey.html

[12] ttp://thephoenix.com/about/

[13] ttp://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3196439

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