Timeline of Boston history

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

Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 17th century 1.2 18th century 1.2.1 1770s 1.2.2 1780s 1.2.3 1790s 1.3 19th century 1.3.1 1800s 1.3.2 1810s 1.3.3 1820s 1.3.4 1830s 1.3.5 1840s 1.3.6 1850s 1.3.7 1860s 1.3.8 1870s 1.3.9 1880s 1.3.10 1890s 1.4 20th century 1.4.1 1900s 1.4.2 1910s 1.4.3 1920s 1.4.4 1930s 1.4.5 1940s 1.4.6 1950s 1.4.7 1960s 1.4.8 1970s 1.4.9 1980s 1.4.10 1990s 1.5 21st century 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

Timeline

17th century

• 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

• 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

• 1689
  • The Boston Revolt results in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, unpopular governor of the Dominion of New England.

• 1699
  • Brattle Street Church built

18th century

• 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

• 1754
  • Boston Marine Society incorporated

• 1755
  • 1755 Cape Ann Earthquake

• 1760
  • March 20 - Fire

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

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

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

19th century

1800s

• 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

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

1820s

• 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

1830s

• 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

1840s

• 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

1850s

• 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

1860s

• 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

1870s

• 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

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

1890s

• 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

20th century

1900s

• 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

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

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

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

1940s

• 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

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]

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

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
  • City Life/Vida Urbana founded

• 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

1980s

• 1980
  • Boston Early Music Festival founded

• 1983
  • Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation founded^[15]

• 1984
  • Raymond Flynn mayor

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

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

21st century

• 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
  • Boston Social Forum held

• 2005
  • Boston Workers Alliance established

• 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

• 2009
  • Boston Street Lab incorporated^[16]

• 2011
  • Occupy Boston

See also

• Annual events in Boston
• History of Boston
• List of mayors of Boston
• Past Members of the Boston City Council

References

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.

External links

• Walkingboston.com
• Bostonradio.org