• Source: Timeline of Baltimore

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.




18th century


1729 - Town of Baltimore founded.
1752 - 25 houses and 200 inhabitants.
1763 - Mechanical Fire Company organized.
1767 - Baltimore designated county seat.
1770 - Henry Fite House built.
1773 - Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
1775 - Population: 5,934
1776 - December - Second Continental Congress meeting begins.
1782 - Lexington Market founded.
1784 - Christmas Conference (Methodism)
1787 - 1,955 dwellings in town.
1790 - Population: 13,503 people.
1794 - James Calhoun becomes mayor.
1795 - Holliday Street Theater opens.
1796
City of Baltimore incorporated.
Library Company of Baltimore founded.




19th century



1800 - Population: 26,504 people.
1803
Fort McHenry built.
Dispensary incorporated.
1806 - St. Mary's College and Theological Seminary incorporated.
1807
University of Maryland founded.
Baltimore Museum established.
Baltimore Circulating Library in business.
1809 - Joseph Robinson's Circulating Library in business.
1810
Population: 46,535 people.
Alex. Brown & Sons incorporated.
1814
September - Battle of Baltimore
Peale Museum opens.
1815
Battle Monument erected.
Baltimore Exchange opens.
1816
Asbury College founded.
Delphian Club founded.
1819 - Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded.
1820 - Population: 62,738 people
1821
Maryland Academy of Science and Literature established.
Basilica consecrated.
1822 - Adelphi Theatre opens.
1823 - Athenaeum founded.
1826 - Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts founded.
1827
Washington Medical College established.
Franklin Lyceum active.
1829
Mount Clare Station built.
George Washington monument erected.
Circus building constructed.
1830
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operating.
Population: 80,620 people
1832
Cholera epidemic.
1832 Democratic National Convention
1835
1835 Democratic National Convention
Bank riot.
1837
Baltimore Sun newspaper begins publication.
Washington Hall opens.
Orchard Street United Methodist Church built.
1839
High School opens.
Mercantile Library Association established.
Green Mount Cemetery dedicated.
Municipal Record Office of Baltimore built.
1840
Madison Lyceum active.
1840 Democratic National Convention
Population: 102,313 people
1844
Maryland Historical Society incorporated.
Western High School (Baltimore) opens.
1844 Democratic National Convention
1844 Whig National Convention
Baltimore-Washington telegraph line opens.
1845 - Newton University established.
1848
Howard Athenaeum and Gallery of Arts opens.
Olympic Theatre opens.
Concordia Club founded.
1848 Democratic National Convention
1849 - Baltimore Female College in operation.
1850
President Street Station built.
Population: 169,054 people
1851
Baltimore becomes independent city.
New Assembly-Rooms open.
Baltimore Wecker newspaper begins publication.
1852
Loyola College established.
Apollo Hall opens.
1852 Democratic National Convention
1852 Whig National Convention
1853 - Baltimore Police Department established.
1856
Know-Nothing Riot.
1856 Whig National Convention
1857 - Peabody Institute founded.
1859 - City Fire Department formed.
1860
1860 Constitutional Union Convention
Population: 212,418
1861 - Pratt Street Riot.
1864
St. Francis Xavier Church dedicated.
1864 Republican National Convention
1865 - Concordia Opera House opens.
1867
Concordia Hall is founded.
Morgan College established.
Normal school opens.
1870 - Population: 267,354
1871 - Ford's Grand Opera-House opens.
1872
Mount Auburn Cemetery established.
1872 Democratic National Convention
1873 - Leadenhall Street Baptist Church built.
1875
City Hall built.
Academy of Music opens.
Free Summer Excursion Society incorporated.
1876
Johns Hopkins University founded.
The Maryland Zoo opens.
1877 - Railroad Strike.
1878 - George Peabody Library opens.
1880
Woman's Industrial Exchange founded.
Celebration of 150th anniversary of city.
Population: 332,313
1881 - Faultless Pajama Company in business.
1882 - Enoch Pratt Free Library established.
1883
Baltimore Manual Training School founded.
Colored High and Training School founded.
Baltimore Young Women's Christian Association founded.
1885 - Goucher College established.
1890
Post office built.
Population: 434,439 people.
Riverview Park opens.
1891 - Union Park baseball field opens.
1892 - Baltimore Afro-American begins publication.
1894 - Lyric Opera House opens.
1895 - Clifton Park opens (approximate date).
1896
Electric Park opens.
Colored Young Women's Christian Association founded.
1898 - Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House built.




20th century


1900
Population: 508,957 people.
City courthouse dedicated.
Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper begins publication.

1903 - Belvedere Hotel opens.
1904 - Great Baltimore Fire.
1908 - Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway begins operating.
1910 - Population: 558,485
1911 - Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore) built.
1912
Arch Social Club founded.
1912 Democratic National Convention
1914
Baltimore Museum of Art founded.

Hippodrome Theatre built.
1916
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra formed.
Baltimore Black Sox baseball team formed.
1917
Fort Holabird established.
Lithuanian Hall opens.
1918
William Frederick Broening was elected mayor.
1920 - Population: 733.826
1922
Memorial Stadium built.
Royal Theatre opens.
1923 - Howard W. Jackson becomes mayor.
1925 - University of Baltimore founded.
1930
Baltimore Colored Symphony Orchestra organized.
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.
Population: 804,874
1934 - Walters Art Museum established.

1940 - Population: 859,100
1949 - Edgar Allan Poe House opens.
1950
Baltimore Civic Opera Company established.
Population: 949,708
1953 - B&O Railroad Museum opens.
1954
Orioles baseball team relocates to Baltimore.
Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center formed.
1955 - Civil rights protest at Read's Drug Store.
1956 - Desegregation of the Baltimore City Public School System
1960 - Population: 939,024
1962 - CFG Bank Arena opens.
1963 - Center Stage (theater) opens.
1964 - Baltimore News-American newspaper begins publication.
1968
Baltimore riot of 1968
Baltimore American Indian Center is established.
1970 - Population: 905,787
1971 - William Donald Schaefer becomes mayor.
1974 - Baltimore municipal strike of 1974
1976 - Maryland Science Center opens.
1977 - Baltimore World Trade Center opens.

1979
Baltimore Convention Center opens.
Baltimore School for the Arts founded.
1980
Harborplace opens.
Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association formed.
Population: 786,741
1981
National Aquarium in Baltimore opens.
Baltimore Museum of Industry opens.
1982 - Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall opens.
1983
Baltimore Metro Subway begins operating.
Great Blacks in Wax Museum established.
1986 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People headquarters relocates to Baltimore.
1987 - Kurt Schmoke becomes mayor.
1989 - Contemporary Museum Baltimore founded.
1990 - Population: 736,016
1992
Baltimore Light Rail begins operating.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens.
1996 - Baltimore Ravens football team established.
1998 - Ravens Stadium opens.
1999 - Martin O'Malley becomes mayor.




21st century



2000
National Katyń Memorial is constructed.
Population: 651,154
2002 - The Portal (community center) opens.
2005 - Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture opens.
2006 - The Baltimore Examiner begins publication.
2008 - Hilton Baltimore built.
2009 - Sheila Dixon trial.
2010
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake becomes mayor.
Population: 620,961 people.
2011
Occupy Baltimore begins.

Lyric Opera Baltimore established.
2015 - Freddie Gray protests
2016 - Catherine Pugh becomes mayor.
2019 - Jack Young becomes mayor.
2020
Brandon Scott becomes mayor.
Population: 585,708
2024 - The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses in a mass casualty incident.




See also


History of Baltimore
List of mayors of Baltimore
National Register of Historic Places listings in Baltimore, Maryland
List of museums in Baltimore
Baltimore portal
Maryland portal




References






Bibliography


Published in the 19th c.
Henry Schenck Tanner (1837), "Map of Baltimore", The American traveller (3rd ed.), Philadelphia: The author, OL 23337218M
Henry Schenck Tanner (1841), "Baltimore", A geographical, historical and statistical view of the central or middle United States, Philadelphia: H. Tanner, Jr., OCLC 1525712, OL 24649753M
J. Thomas Scharf (1874), The chronicles of Baltimore: being a complete history of "Baltimore town" and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time, Baltimore: Turnbull Bros., OCLC 11971847, OL 13489724M
"Baltimore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 298–299.
Published in the 20th c.
"Baltimore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 289–291.
"Baltimore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). 1922. p. 395.




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