# 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* 1730 - Presbyterianism superseded Congregationalism.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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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.