• Source: Timeline of Newark, New Jersey

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




Before 1800



1666 - Robert Treat and other Puritans buy land from Hackensack tribe.
1710s - Sydenham House and Plume House (residences) built (approximate date).
1712 - Harrison Cider Apple created (approximate date).
1726 - College of New Jersey founded.
1730 - Presbyterianism superseded Congregationalism.
1743 - Trinity Church built.
1756 - Princeton College relocated from Newark to Princeton.
1770 - One tannery operated.
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.
1795 - Newark Plank Road to Bergen constructed (approximate date).
1797 - Newark Fire Association founded.
1798 - Three tanneries operating.




1800s


1803 - Newark Female Charitable Society founded.
1810 - Weller's Circulating Library in business (approximate date).
1814 - Newark Bible Society founded.
1817 - Newark Colonization Society founded.
1819 - Whybrew Circulating Library in business (approximate date).
1823 - Smith & Wright saddlery in business (approximate date).
1830 - Population: 10,953.
1831 - Plane Street Church organized.
1832 - Newark Daily Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
1834 - Centre Street Bridge opens.
1836 - Newark incorporated as a city.
1837 - 155 curriers and patent leather makers in the city.
1840
Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company in business.
Population: 17,290.
1844 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery established.
1846 - New Jersey Historical Society headquartered in Newark.
1847 - Library Association founded.
1848 - Influx of Germans.
1849 - Newark Daily Mercury newspaper begins publication.
1850
Bethel Mission established.
Population: 38,894.
1853 - Newark Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
1857
City police department established.
Newark Orphan Asylum built.
City charter.
1858
New Jersey Freie Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.
Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in business.
1860 - Population: 71,941.
1864 - Lyon & Son's brewing company in business.
1865 - Murphy Varnish Company in business.
1869
Newark and New York Railroad begins operating.
Newark City Cemetery in use.
Newark Morning Register newspaper begins publication.
1870 - Bee Hive dry goods shop in business (later Plaut & Co.)
1872 - Newark Industrial Exposition begins.
1874 - St. Stephen's Church built.
1875 - Marshall & Ball clothing shop in business.
1879 - Newark City Brewery in business.
1880 - Newark Tribüne German-language newspaper begins publication.
1881 - Newark Technical School established.
1883 - Balbach electrolytic refinery opens.
1884 - Prince Street Synagogue built.
1885
Johnston & Murphy and Lutz Cafe in business.
1885 American Cup soccer tournament held.
1886 - Miner's Newark Theater opens.
1888 - First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church built.
1889
Newark Free Public Library opens.
Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway incorporated.
1890 - Population: 181,830.
1893 - L. Bamberger & Company in business.
1894
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
Montagna Italian-language newspaper begins publication.
1895 - Branch Brook Park established.
1899 - Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart construction begins.




1900s






= 1900-1909

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1900 - Population: 246,070.
1901
Beth Israel Hospital founded.
Newark Free Public Library opens its current location.
1902 - Newark City Hall opened.
1903
Jackson Street Bridge and Clay Street Bridge open.
Roseville railroad station built.
Newark trolley accident kills 8 students
1905
La Revista Italian/English-language newspaper begins publication.
Feigenspan mansion built.
Automobile Renting Co. in business.
1906
Trees planted in Pequannock Watershed.
Literary Stratemeyer Syndicate active.
1907 - Essex County Courthouse built.
1908
Kronika Polish/English-language newspaper begins publication.
St. Casimir's Church founded.
1909 - Newark Museum established.




= 1910s

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1910
Fire on High Street (now Martin Luther King Blvd) at factory kills 26
Population: 347,469.
1911 - Shubert Theatre opens.
1912
Adams Theatre and Empire Theatre built.
Equestrian statue of George Washington by J. Massey Rhind dedicated in Washington Park
1913
Bridge Street Bridge opens.
Moorish Science Temple of America headquartered in Newark.
1914 - New Jersey Observer begins publication.
1916
Robert Treat Hotel in business.
Military Park first opened.
1917 - Urban League founded.




= 1920s

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1920 - Carrier air conditioning plant begins operating.
1921 - Newark Morgen-Steren Yiddish/English-language newspaper begins publication.
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.
1927 - Stanley Theater opened.
1928
Newark Airport begins operating.
New Jersey Luso-Americano Portuguese-language newspaper begins publication (approximate date).




= 1930s

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1930 - Lefcourt building constructed.
1931
Italian Tribune begins publication.
National Newark building opens.
1935
Newark City Subway begins operating.
Newark Penn Station dedicated.
1936 - University of Newark established.
1939 - Newark Hot Club formed (music club).




= 1940s and 1950s

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1942
Savoy Records founded.
Hydeaway Bar in business.
1949 - After Hours magazine begins publication.
1954 - Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart consecrated.
1958 - September 15: Newark Bay rail accident.




= 1960s

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1960 - Population: 405,000.
1962 - Youth Career Development Center initiated.
1964 - Newark Symphony Hall established.
1966 - New Jersey Symphony Boys Choir founded.
1967
July 12–17: 1967 Newark riots occur.
July 20: Black power conference held in city.
1969 - Ironbound Community Corporation and New Community Corporation founded.




= 1970s

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1970 - Kenneth Gibson becomes first African American mayor on the eastern seaboard.
1971 - Gateway Center built.
1977 - City hosts first Islamic Conference of North America.
1978 - August 20: Clinton Avenue Five boys disappear.
1979 - Foreign trade zone established.




= 1980s

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1984 - Former Diamond Alkali plant site in Ironbound declared a Superfund site (polluted area).
1986 - Sharpe James becomes mayor.
1989
Donald M. Payne becomes U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district.
Sister city relationship established with Aveiro, Portugal.




= 1990s

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1990 - Population: 275,221.
1991 - Sister city relationship established with Banjul, Gambia.
1992
One Newark Center and Penn Plaza East building constructed.
Sister city relationship established with Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
1995 - Society Hill condo built.
1997
City website online.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center opens.
1999 - Bears Stadium opens.




2000s






= 2000-2009

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2000
Newark Legal Center built.
Population: 273,546.
2002 - City's "Open Public Records Act Office" established.
2003 - May 11: Murder of Sakia Gunn.
2006
Cory Booker becomes mayor.
Garden State Rollergirls headquartered in city.
2007
Jewish Museum of New Jersey opens.
Prudential Center built.




= 2010s

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2010
Newark Archives Project begins.
Population: 277,140; metro 18,897,109.
2013 - November 4: Luis A. Quintana becomes interim mayor.
2014 - Ras Baraka becomes mayor.




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
Timeline of New Jersey




References



This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.




Bibliography






External links



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

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