Timeline of Newark, New Jersey

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Newark, New Jersey, United States.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 19th century

History of New Jersey
Colonial period
American Revolution
Nineteenth century
Twentieth century
Twenty-first century

• 1666 - Robert Treat and other Puritans buy land from Hackensack tribe.^[1]
• 1710s - Sydenham House and Plume House (residences) built (approximate date).
• 1712 - Harrison Cider Apple created (approximate date).^[2]
• 1743 - Trinity Church built.
• 1756 - Princeton College relocated from Newark to Princeton.^[3]
• 1774 - Newark Academy established.
• 1780 - January 25: Elizabethtown and Newark Raid by British forces.
• 1787 - First Presbyterian Church built.
• 1791 - Woods's Newark Gazette begins publication.^[4]
• 1795 - Bergen-Newark road constructed (approximate date).
• 1797 - Newark Fire Association founded.^[5]

19th century

• 1803 - Newark Female Charitable Society founded.^[6]
• 1810 - Weller's Circulating Library in business (approximate date).^[7]
• 1814 - Newark Bible Society founded.^[8]
• 1817 - Newark Colonization Society founded.^[9]
• 1819 - Whybrew Circulating Library in business (approximate date).^[7]
• 1823 - Smith & Wright saddlery in business (approximate date).^[10]
• 1830 - Population: 10,953.^[11]
• 1831 - Plane Street Church organized.^[1]
• 1832 - Newark Daily Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1834 - Centre Street Bridge opens.
• 1836 - Newark incorporated as a city.^[5]
• 1840 - Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company in business.^[12]
• 1844 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery established.
• 1846 - New Jersey Historical Society headquartered in Newark.
• 1847 - Library Association founded.^[7]
• 1849 - Newark Daily Mercury newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1850 - Bethel Mission established.
• 1853 - Newark Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1857
  • City police department established.^[13]
  • Newark Orphan Asylum built.^[14]
• 1858
  • New Jersey Freie Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in business.
• 1864 - Lyon & Son's brewing company in business.^[15]
• 1865 - Murphy Varnish Company in business.^[16]
• 1869
  • Newark and New York Railroad begins operating.
  • Newark City Cemetery in use.
  • Newark Morning Register newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1870 - Bee Hive dry goods shop in business (later Plaut & Co.)^[16]
• 1872 - Newark Industrial Exposition begins.^[17][18]
• 1874 - St. Stephen's Church built.
• 1875 - Marshall & Ball clothing shop in business.^[15]
• 1879 - Newark City Brewery in business.^[10]
• 1880 - Newark Tribüne German-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1881 - Newark Technical School established.
• 1883 - Balbach electrolytic refinery opens.
• 1884 - Prince Street Synagogue built.
• 1885
  • Johnston & Murphy^[19] and Lutz Cafe in business.^[15]
  • 1885 American Cup soccer tournament held.^[20]
• 1886 - Miner’s Newark Theater opens.^[21]
• 1888 - First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church built.
• 1889 - Newark Free Public Library opens.^[22]
• 1893 - L. Bamberger & Company in business.
• 1894
  • Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
  • Montagna Italian-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1895 - Branch Brook Park established.

20th century

• 1901 - Beth Israel Hospital founded.^[23]
• 1903
  • Jackson Street Bridge and Clay Street Bridge open.
  • Roseville railroad station built.
• 1905
  • La Revista Italian/English-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Feigenspan mansion built.^[14]
  • Automobile Renting Co. in business.^[15]
• 1906
  • Trees planted in Pequannock Watershed.^[24]
  • Literary Stratemeyer Syndicate active.^[25]
• 1907 - Essex County Courthouse built.^[14]
• 1908
  • Kronika Polish/English-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • St. Casimir's Church founded.
• 1909 - Newark Museum established.
• 1911 - Shubert Theatre opens.^[21]
• 1912 - Adams Theatre^[26] and Empire Theatre built.^[21]
• 1913
  • Bridge Street Bridge opens.
  • Moorish Science Temple of America headquartered in Newark.^[27]
• 1914 - New Jersey Observer begins publication.^[28]
• 1916 - Robert Treat Hotel in business.^[15]
• 1917 - Urban League founded.^[29]
• 1920 - Carrier air conditioning plant begins operating.
• 1921 - Newark Morgen-Steren Yiddish/English-language newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1922 - New Jersey Symphony Orchestra headquartered in city.
• 1925
  • Shriners Salaam Temple built.
  • Newark Schools Stadium opens.
• 1926 - Central Railroad of New Jersey Newark Bay Bridge and Davids' Stadium open.
• 1928
  • Newark Airport begins operating.
  • New Jersey Luso-Americano Portuguese-language newspaper begins publication (approximate date).^[4]
• 1930 - Lefcourt building constructed.
• 1931 - Italian Tribune begins publication.^[30]
• 1935
  • Newark City Subway begins operating.
  • Newark Penn Station dedicated.
• 1936 - University of Newark established.

Newark Penn Station, c.1940

• 1939 - Newark Hot Club formed (music club).^[31]
• 1942
  • Savoy Records founded.^[32]
  • Hydeaway Bar in business.^[32]
• 1949 - After Hours magazine begins publication.^[32]
• 1958 - September 15: Newark Bay rail accident.
• 1960 - Population: 405,000.^[33]
• 1962 - Youth Career Development Center initiated.^[34]
• 1964 - Newark Symphony Hall established.
• 1966 - New Jersey Symphony Boys Choir founded.
• 1967 - July: 1967 Newark riots.^[23]
• 1969 - Ironbound Community Corporation^[35] and New Community Corporation founded.
• 1971 - Gateway Center built.
• 1977 - City hosts first Islamic Conference of North America.^[27]
• 1978 - August 20: Clinton Avenue Five boys disappear.
• 1984 - Former Diamond Alkali plant site in Ironbound declared a Superfund site (polluted area).^[36]
• 1986 - Sharpe James becomes mayor.^[37]
• 1989
  • Donald M. Payne becomes U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district.^[38]
  • Sister city relationship established with Aveiro, Portugal.^[39]
• 1991 - Sister city relationship established with Banjul, Gambia.^[40]
• 1992
  • One Newark Center and Penn Plaza East building constructed.^[14]
  • Sister city relationship established with Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.^[41]
• 1995 - Society Hill condo built.^[42]
• 1997 - New Jersey Performing Arts Center opens.
• 1999 - Bears Stadium opens.^[43]

21st century

• 2000 - Newark Legal Center built.
• 2003 - May 11: Murder of Sakia Gunn.
• 2006
  • Cory Booker becomes mayor.^[44]
  • Garden State Rollergirls headquartered in city.
• 2007
  • Jewish Museum of New Jersey opens.
  • Prudential Center built.
• 2013 - November 4: Luis Quintana becomes interim mayor.^[45]

See also

• History of Newark, New Jersey
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey
• List of Mayors of Newark, New Jersey
• Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey

References

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Newark", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse 
• "Newark", American Advertising Directory, for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods, New York: Jocelyn, Darling & Co., 1831, OCLC 1018684 
• Thomas Francis Gordon (1834), "Newark", Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey, Trenton: Daniel Fenton, OCLC 4366560 
• Directory of Newark, for 1835-6, Newark, N.J.: Office of the Newark Daily Advertiser, 1835 
• Directory of the City of Newark, for 1838-9, Newark, N.J.: Pierson, 1838 

1850s-1890s

• B.T. Pierson (1851), Directory of the City of Newark, for 1851-52, Newark, N.J.: Holbrook's Steam Press 
• Hand book and guide for the city of Newark, New Jersey, Newark: Newark daily advertiser print, 1872 
• William F. Ford (1874), The industrial interests of Newark, N. J, New York: Van Arsdale & Company, OCLC 7369689 
• "Newark", Goulding's Business Directory of New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Paterson, Jersey City, and Hoboken, Lawrence G. Gulding, 1875 
• Martha J. Lamb, "Newark," Harper's New Monthly 53 (October 1876): 671-72.
• City Charter and Supplements Thereto of the City of Newark. 1877. 
• George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Newark". The American Cyclopaedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company. 
• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "Newark, N.J.". Bibliotheca Americana 13. New York. OCLC 13972268. 
• Terence Devine (1886), Devine's Newark City Street Guide, Newark, N.J. 
• "Newark Department", Business Directory of New York City, and Newark City, N.J., American Reporter Co., 1886 
• F. Killenberger (1887), "Newark", F. Killenberger's Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey, New Brunswick: New Jersey Pub. Co. 
• "Newark". Quarter-Century's Progress of New Jersey's Leading Manufacturing Centres. NY: International Publishing Company. 1887. 
• "Business Directory of Newark City, NJ", Business Directory of New York, Brooklyn, and Newark, H.A. Curtin, 1888  + 1889 ed.
• Newark and its leading businessmen, Newark, N.J.: Mercantile Publishing Co., 1891, OCLC 13695297 
• Peter J. Leary (1893), Newark, N.J., illustrated, Newark, N.J.: W.A. Baker 

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• The 'Guide Book' Street Guide and General Information of Newark, Newark, N.J.: Cities Map & Guide Co., 1900 
• Herbert L. Thowless (1902), Historical Sketch of the City of Newark, New Jersey, Newark 
• "Newark". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908. 
• "Newark", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 
• Newark in the public schools of Newark: A course of study on Newark, its geography, civics and history, Newark: Board of Education, 1911 
• Directory, Newark Made Goods: Newark Manufacturers, Alphabetically Arranged in English, French, and Spanish. Newark Board of Trade. 1913. 
• Arthur Fremont Rider (1916), "Newark", Rider's New York City and Vicinity, including Newark, Yonkers and Jersey City, New York: H. Holt and Company 
• Official Guide and Manual of the 250th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1916. 1916. 
• Historic Newark: a Collection of Facts and Traditions about the Most Interesting Sites, Streets and Buildings of That City, Newark, N.J.: Fidelity Trust Company, 1916, OCLC 27101481 
• Frank John Urquhart (1916), A Short History of Newark, Newark, N.J.: Baker Printing Co., OCLC 3050302 
• "Newark, Essex County". Industrial Directory of New Jersey. Paterson NJ. 1918. 
• Federal Writers' Project (1946). "Newark". New Jersey: a Guide to its Present and Past. American Guide Series. NY: Hastings House. 

1950s-1990s

• Arnold S. Rice (1977), Howard B. Furer, ed., Newark: a chronological & documentary history, 1666-1970, American Cities Chronology Series, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, ISBN 0379006081 

Published in the 21st century

• "Newark". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003. 
• Ezra Shales (2010), Made in Newark: industrial arts and civic identity in the progressive era, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, OCLC 436387175 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newark, New Jersey.

• University Libraries. "The Newark Experience". Research Guides. New Jersey: Rutgers University. 
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Newark, various dates
• Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division. Items related to Newark, New Jersey, various dates.

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