# Timeline of Queens

The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, USA.

## Prior to 20th century

* 1657 – Flushing Remonstrance
* 1683 – Queens County created.
* 1790 – Population: 16,014.
* 1821 - Horse racing track opens.
* 1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place in Corona at the old Fashion Race Course.
* 1860 – Population: 57,391.
* 1870 – Population: 73,803.
* 1880 – Population: 90,574.
* 1889 – BMT Myrtle Avenue Line begins operating.
* 1890 – Population: 128,059.
* 1898 – January 1: Queens is established as a borough in the City of Greater New York. The borough consists of only part of the previous boundaries of Queens County; Nassau County is established in the remaining part.

## 20th century
### 1900s–1940s

* 1900
** King Manor Museum founded in Jamaica.
** Population: 152,999.
* 1909 – March 30: Queensboro Bridge opens.
* 1910
** September 8: East River Tunnels open.
** Population: 284,041.
* 1911 – Queens Chamber of Commerce established.
* 1912 – Chapin Home for the Aging active.
* 1914 – Murray Hill Theatre opens in Flushing.
* 1915 – US Open tennis tournament relocates to Queens.
* 1916 – November 16: Queensboro Plaza station opens.
* 1920 – Population: 469,042.
* 1928 – The 7 Train reaches Flushing
* 1930
** August 4: King Kullen grocery supermarket in business.
** Population: 1,079,129.
* 1933 – IND Crosstown Line begins operating.
* 1936 – Triborough Bridge built.
* 1939
** April 29: Bronx–Whitestone Bridge built.
** April 30: 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
* 1940
** November 15: Queens–Midtown Tunnel opens.
** Beacon Theater opens in Long Island City.
** Population: 1,297,634.
* 1941 – Strand Theatre opens in Astoria.

### 1950s–1990s

* 1950 – Population: 1,550,849.
* 1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.
* 1960 – Population: 1,809,578.
* 1963
** The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.
** May 15: Weight Watchers founded.
* 1964
** April 17: Shea Stadium opens, bringing Major League Baseball and the National Football League to Queens with the New York Mets and the New York Jets.
** April 22: 1964 New York World's Fair opens.
* 1968 – Queens Historical Society founded.
* 1969 – Mets win the World Series for the first time.
* 1970 – Flushing Tribune (now Queens Tribune) newspaper in publication.
* 1976
** Afrikan Poetry Theatre founded.
** Son of Sam serial killings take place over a year in Flushing, Bellerose, and Forest Hills.
* 1983
** Silvercup Studios in business.
** Gary Ackerman becomes U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district.
* 1985 – Greater Astoria Historical Society founded.
* 1986 – Mets win their second World Series.
* 1990
** Citicorp Building constructed, at the time the tallest building between Manhattan and Boston.
** Population: 1,951,598.
* 1993 – New York Hospital Queens active.
* 1996 – Energy Brands, maker of Vitamin Water, established in Whitestone.
* 1997 – Arthur Ashe Stadium opens, home to the US Open tennis tournament.
* 1998 – Gregory Meeks becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.

## 21st century
### 2000s–2010s

* 2000 – Population: 2,229,379.
* 2001
** November 12: American Airlines Flight 587 crashed.
** Astoria Performing Arts Center established.
* 2007 – Newtown Historical Society formed.
* 2010
** March 10: Jose Peralta, of Jackson Heights became the first Dominican-American to be elected to the New York State Senate.
** June: Queens Memory Project begins.
** Population: 2,230,722.
* 2013
** Grace Meng becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.
** The graffiti wall 5 Pointz in Long Island City falls prey to redevelopment and is torn down without any opportunity to preserve the artwork.
* 2014
** October 23: 2014 Queens hatchet attack.
** Melinda Katz becomes borough president.
* 2017
** January 20: Jamaica, Queens born Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States.
* 2019
** February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations for Amazon, the company announced it was withdrawing its plans to establish a presence in Long Island City, and with this withdrawal the prospect of 25,000 new jobs.

### 2020s

* 2020
** December 14: Sandra Lindsay, a Registered nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first recipient of the first dosage of the then only Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approved COVID-19 vaccine – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
** Population: 2,405,464.
* 2021
** January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine. With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.
** February 10: Citi Field is converted into a COVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the City of New York.