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.^[1]
1763 - Mechanical Fire Company organized.^[2]
1767 - Baltimore designated county seat.^[1]
1770 - Henry Fite House built.
1773 - Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[3]
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.^[4]
1790 - Population: 13,503 people.^[5]
1794 - James Calhoun becomes mayor.
1795 - Holliday Street Theater opens.
1796
- City of Baltimore incorporated.
- Library Company of Baltimore founded.^[6]

19th century

1800 - Population: 26,504 people.^[7]
1803
- Fort McHenry built.^[8]
- Dispensary incorporated.^[5]
1806 - St. Mary's College and Theological Seminary incorporated.
1807
- University of Maryland founded.
- Baltimore Museum established.^[9]
- Baltimore Circulating Library in business.^[10]
1809 - Joseph Robinson's Circulating Library in business.^[10]
1810
- Population: 46,535 people.^[7]
- Alex. Brown & Sons incorporated.
1814
- September - Battle of Baltimore
- Peale Museum opens.
1815
- Battle Monument erected.^[1]
- Baltimore Exchange opens.^[11]
1816
- Asbury College founded.
- Delphian Club founded.^[12]
1819 - Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded.
1820 - Population: 62,738 people
1821
- Maryland Academy of Science and Literature established.^[5]
- Basilica consecrated.
1822 - Adelphi Theatre opens.^[13]
1823 - Athenaeum founded.^[14]
1826 - Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts founded.
1827
- Washington Medical College established.
- Franklin Lyceum active.^[11]
1829
- Mount Clare Station built.
- George Washington monument erected.^[1]
- Circus building constructed.^[5]
1830
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operating.
- Population: 80,620 people
1832
- Cholera epidemic.^[5]
- 1832 Democratic National Convention
1835
- 1835 Democratic National Convention
- Bank riot.
1837
- Baltimore Sun newspaper begins publication.^[3]
- Washington Hall opens.^[13]
- Orchard Street United Methodist Church built.
1839
- High School opens.
- Mercantile Library Association established.^[6]
- Green Mount Cemetery dedicated.
- Municipal Record Office of Baltimore built.
1840
- Madison Lyceum active.^[11]
- 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.^[15]
1848
- Howard Athenaeum and Gallery of Arts opens.^[13]
- Olympic Theatre opens.^[13]
- Concordia Club founded.^{[citation needed]}
- 1848 Democratic National Convention
1849 - Baltimore Female College in operation.^[15]
1850
- President Street Station built.
- Population: 169,054 people
1851
- Baltimore becomes independent city.
- New Assembly-Rooms open.^[13]
- Baltimore Wecker newspaper begins publication.
1852
- Loyola College established.^[1]
- Apollo Hall opens.^[13]
- 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.^[13]
1867
- Concordia Hall is founded.
- Morgan College established.
- Normal school opens.^[1]
1870 - Population: 267,354
1871 - Ford's Grand Opera-House opens.^[13]
1872
- Mount Auburn Cemetery established.
- 1872 Democratic National Convention
1873 - Leadenhall Street Baptist Church built.
1875
- City Hall built.
- Academy of Music opens.^[13]
- Free Summer Excursion Society incorporated.^[13]
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.^[16]
- 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.^[1]
1890
- Post office built.^[1]
- Population: 434,439 people.^[1]
- 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).^[1]
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.^[1]
- 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.^[17]
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.^[18]
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.

References

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^ John Calvin Colson (Winter 1986). "The Fire Company Library Associations of Baltimore, 1838-1858". Journal of Library History. 21.
^ ^a ^b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Baltimore", The American gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, OL 23272543M
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Charles Varle (1833), A complete view of Baltimore, Baltimore: S. Young, OL 19370655M
^ ^a ^b Charles Coffin Jewett (1851), Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, Washington D.C: Smithsonian
^ ^a ^b William Fry (1812), Fry's Baltimore directory, for the year 1812, Baltimore: Printed by B.W. Sower, & Co. for the publisher, OL 24653908M
^ "History of Fort McHenry". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ C. Keenan (1822), The Baltimore directory for 1822 & '23, Baltimore: Printed by R.J. Matchett, OL 23411032M
^ ^a ^b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Joseph Lawrence Yeatman (Fall 1985). "Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1840". Journal of Library History. 20.
^ Uhler, John Earle (December 1925). "The Delphian Club: A Contribution to the Literary History of Baltimore in the Early Nineteenth Century". Maryland Historical Magazine. 20 (4): 305.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j J. Thomas Scharf (1881), History of Baltimore city and county, from the earliest period to the present day: including biographical sketches of their representative men, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, OL 24157798M
^ Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell (1903), "Chronology", The medical annals of Maryland, 1799-1899, Baltimore: [Press of Williams & Wilkins company], OL 6966537M
^ ^a ^b The Baltimore city directory, for 1858-59, Baltimore, Md: John W. Woods, 1858, OL 17860479M
^ Baltimore (1881), 1730-1880: Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Baltimore, Baltimore: Printed by order of the Mayor and City Council, OL 19368892M
^ Wroth, Lawrence Counselman (1922). "Baltimore" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 395.
^ Paul T Hellmann (2004). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis.

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.