Timeline of Newark, New Jersey facts for kids

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

1600s-1700s

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• 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).
• 1743 - Trinity Church built.
• 1756 - Princeton College relocated from Newark to Princeton.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1893 - L. Bamberger & Company in business.
• 1894
  • Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
  • Montagna Italian-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1895 - Branch Brook Park established.

1900s

• 1900 - Population: 246,070.
• 1901 - Beth Israel Hospital founded.
• 1903
  • Jackson Street Bridge and Clay Street Bridge open.
  • Roseville railroad station built.
• 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.
• 1911 - Shubert Theatre opens.
• 1912 - Adams Theatre and Empire Theatre built.
• 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.
• 1917 - Urban League founded.
• 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.
• 1928
  • Newark Airport begins operating.
  • New Jersey Luso-Americano Portuguese-language newspaper begins publication (approximate date).
• 1930 - Lefcourt building constructed.
• 1931 - Italian Tribune begins publication.
• 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).
• 1942
  • Savoy Records founded.
  • Hydeaway Bar in business.
• 1949 - After Hours magazine begins publication.
• 1958 - September 15: Newark Bay rail accident.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
  • 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.
• 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.