Timeline of Washington, D.C.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Washington, D.C., USA.
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1700s
- 1791
- January 24: Federal District proclamation issued by US president Washington.[1]
- District surveyed by Ellicot and Banneker.[2]
- L'Enfant Plan for design of city introduced.[3]
- 1792 - Construction of White House (presidential residence) begins.
- 1794 - Tudor Place (residence) built.[4]
- 1797 - Bridge built.[4]
1800s
1800s-1850s
- 1800
- Seat of Federal government of the United States relocated to Washington from Philadelphia;[2] president Adams moves in to White House.[3]
- United States Capitol building constructed.
- Washington Navy Yard established.[4]
- Population: 14,093.[4]
- 1801
- February 24: US Congress establishes the District of Columbia (comprising Washington, Alexandria, and Alexandria County).[3]
- March 4: US president Jefferson inaugurated.[4]
- 1802
- 1806 - Public school opens.[4]
- 1809 - Alexandria-Washington bridge built.[4]
- 1814 - August 24: Burning of Washington by British forces.[5]
- 1815 - Washington City Canal begins operating.[3]
- 1816 - St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square built.[4]
- 1818 - Central heating installed in the US Capitol building.[6]
- 1835
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operating.[7]
- Labor strike by federal navy yard workers.[8]
- 1836 - December 15: 1836 U.S. Patent Office fire.
- 1840 - Population: 23,364 in city;[9] 43,712 in district.[3]
- 1842 - United States Naval Observatory established.[5]
- 1844 - Baltimore-Washington telegraph begins operating.[6]
- 1846
- District of Columbia retrocession of Alexandria and Alexandria County to Virginia.[3]
- National Smithsonian Institution established.[5]
- 1848 - Washington Gas Light Company established.[3]
- 1850 - Slave trade abolished per Compromise of 1850.[3]
1860s-1890s
- 1860 - Population: 61,122.[9]
- 1862 - Slavery abolished.[3]
- 1863 - National Academy of Sciences headquartered in city.[2]
- 1864 - July: Battle of Fort Stevens.[3]
- 1865 - April 14: Assassination of president Lincoln.[10]
- 1867
- Howard University founded.[11][12]
- "Blacks given right of suffrage."[1]
- 1869
- National Convention of the Colored Men of America held in city.[13]
- American Equal Rights Association meets in city.[1]
- 1870
- Children's Hospital established.[12]
- Population: 109,199.[9]
- 1871
- 1877 - Washington Post newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1878 - Telephone begins operating.[3]
- 1880 - Population: 147,293 in city;[9] 177,624 in district.[3]
- 1881
- February: Flood.[3]
- "Tiber Canal filled in to become Constitution Avenue."[15]
- American National Red Cross headquartered in city.[12]
- 1885 - Washington Monument dedicated.[5]
- 1888 - Electric streetcar begins operating.[3]
- 1889 - National Zoo opens.[3]
- 1890
- Rock Creek Park established.[3]
- Population: 230,392.[9]
- 1893 - American University founded.[12]
- 1897 - American Negro Academy founded.[11]
- 1899 - Height of Buildings Act of 1899 legislated.[3]
1900s
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1900s-1940s
- 1900 - Population: 278,718.[9]
- 1902 - McMillan Plan for design of city introduced.[3]
- 1906 - District Building (city hall) constructed.[3]
- 1907
- Union Station built.[4]
- Washington National Cathedral construction begins.
- 1910 - Population: 331,069.[9]
- 1912 - "Cherry trees planted around the Tidal Basin."[15]
- 1915 - Association for the Study of Negro Life and History established.
- 1917 - National Sylvan Theater opens.[15]
- 1919 - July: Racial unrest.[3]
- 1920 - Population: 437,571.[9]
- 1922
- January 28: Storm crushes Knickerbocker Theatre.[3]
- May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.[3]
- 1923 - Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art opens.[15]
- 1924
- National Capital Park Commission established.[15]
- Washington Senators baseball team wins 1924 World Series.[3]
- 1926 - Federal Triangle construction begins.[3]
- 1930 - Population: 486,869.[9]
- 1931 - National Symphony Orchestra formed.[16]
- 1932
- May: "Bonus Army" demonstration.[17]
- Arlington Memorial Bridge opens.[15]
- Folger Shakespeare Library built.[18]
- 1935 - National Cherry Blossom Festival begins.[15]
- 1937 - Washington Redskins football team active.[3]
- 1940 - Population: 663,091.[9]
- 1941
- National Airport built.[3]
- National Gallery of Art opens.[6]
- 1942 - Declaration by United Nations signed in city.[1]
- 1944 - International Dumbarton Oaks Conference held in city.[19]
- 1946 - International Monetary Fund headquartered in city.
- 1949 - Whitehurst Freeway begins operating.[3]
1950s-1990s
- 1950 - Population: 802,178.[9]
- 1953 - January 15: 1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck.[7]
- 1954 - March 1: United States Capitol shooting incident (1954).
- 1959 - International Antarctic Treaty signed in city.[10]
- 1960
- Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan signed in city.[1]
- Population: 763,956.[9]
- 1962 - Streetcar stops operating.[3]
- 1963 - August 28: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; King gives "I Have a Dream" speech.[10]
- 1964
- November: "D.C. residents are able to vote for president for the first time."[20]
- Capital Beltway constructed.[3]
- 1965
- April 17: March Against the Vietnam War.[21]
- Washingtonian magazine begins publication.
- 1967
- Mayor-council form of government implemented;[3] Walter Washington becomes mayor.[6]
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins.[15]
- Biograph cinema opens.[22]
- 1968
- April: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots occur.[15]
- American Association of Retired Persons headquartered in city (approximate date).[12]
- 1969
- 1970 - Population: 756,510.[9]
- 1971
- April: Antiwar protest.[23]
- May: 1971 May Day protests against war.[10]
- June 30: New York Times Co. v. United States decided; allows Washington Post to publish Pentagon Papers about Vietnam.[10]
- Walter E. Fauntroy becomes delegate to the US House of Representatives from the District of Columbia.
- National Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens.[15]
- Center for Science in the Public Interest headquartered in city.[24]
- 1972 - Watergate scandal discovered.
- 1973 - Mayoral election established, per US Congress' District of Columbia Home Rule Act.[20]
- 1974 - Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum opens.[15]
- 1976
- March: Washington Metro begins operating.[7]
- May: Concorde supersonic airplane begins operating.[6]
- US Bicentennial held.[15]
- 1979
- Marion Barry becomes mayor.
- C-SPAN begins televising federal government proceedings.
- 1981
- March 30: Attempted assassination of president Reagan.[10]
- Washington City Paper begins publication.[14]
- 1982
- January 13: Crash of Air Florida Flight 90.[1]
- Washington Convention Center built.
- National Vietnam Veterans Memorial erected.[15][10]
- Washington Times newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1987
- Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery and National Museum of African Art open.[15]
- Dupont Circle 5 cinema in business.[22]
- 1990 – Population: 606,900.[9]
- 1991
- Eleanor Holmes Norton becomes delegate to the US House of Representatives from the District of Columbia.
- City bicentennial.[3]
- 1996 - City website online (approximate date).[25]
- 1999 - Anthony A. Williams becomes mayor.
2000s
- 2000 - May 14: Million Mom March held.[26]
- 2001 - September: 2001 anthrax attacks.
- 2003 - Washington Convention Center rebuilt.[3]
- 2007 - Adrian Fenty becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Nationals Park (stadium) opens.[3]
- 2009 - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is released, taking place in D.C.
- 2010 - Population: 601,723.[27]
- 2011
- Vincent C. Gray becomes mayor.
- CityCenterDC construction begins.
- 2015 - Muriel Bowser becomes mayor.
- 2016
- January 2016 United States winter storm.
- DC Streetcar begins operating.
- March-April: 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture opens.
See also
- History of Washington, D.C.
- List of mayors of Washington, D.C.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
- List of United States Congresses
- List of US presidential inaugural ceremonies
- Timeline of Alexandria, Virginia
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
- 1 2 3 Laurence Urdang, ed. (1996). Timetables of American History. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-7432-0261-9.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Evelyn 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Federal Writers' Project 1937: "Chronology"
- 1 2 3 4 Haydn 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- 1 2 3 "Timeline of Washington, D.C. Railroad History". National Railway Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Chapter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved January 4, 2016
- 1 2 Nell Irvin Painter (2006). "Timelines". Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. Oxford University Press. p. 361+. ISBN 978-0-19-513755-2.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Washington, DC". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 National Park Service 2008.
- ↑ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
- ↑ "Riding the Rails: Timeline of the Great Depression". American Experience. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Timeline of the Folger Shakespeare Library", Folgerpedia, retrieved April 30, 2016
- ↑ Richard Green (2008). Chronology of International Organizations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-35590-6.
- 1 2 Washington Post 2009: "Voting Rights"
- ↑ John Bassett McCleary (2004). "Anti-War Events". The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Ten Speed Press. pp. 602+. ISBN 978-1-58008-547-2.
- 1 2 3 "Movie Theaters in Washington, DC". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ Ronald B. Frankum Jr. (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7956-0.
- ↑ Andrew F. Smith (2011). "Chronology". Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-39393-8.
- ↑ "Official Home Page of The District of Columbia". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Kristin A. Goss (2006). "Gun control organizations founded 1990-2002". Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 1-4008-3775-8.
- ↑ "Washington (city), District of Columbia". State & County QuickFacts. US Census Bureau. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
Bibliography
- Alfred Hunter, ed. (1853). Washington and Georgetown Directory. Washington DC: Printed by Kirkwood & McGill – via HathiTrust.
- Andrew Boyd, ed. (1860). Boyd's Washington and Georgetown Directory. Washington DC: Taylor and Maury – via Internet Archive.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870), "Washington", Dictionary of Chronology, London: William Tegg, OCLC 2613202 – via HathiTrust
- George Henry Townsend (1877), "Washington", A Manual of Dates (5th ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- Boyd's Directory for the District of Columbia. Washington DC: Wm. H. Boyd. 1887 – via HathiTrust.
- Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan (1900). Bibliography of the District of Columbia. Washington: Government Printing Office.
- Boyd's Directory for the District of Columbia. Washington DC: R.L. Polk & Co. 1909 – via HathiTrust.
- "Washington", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Washington", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Chronology", Washington, City and Capital, American Guide Series
- Howard Furer (1975). Washington, a chronological & documentary history, 1790-1970. American Cities Chronology Series. Oceana Publications. ISBN 0379006111.
- David Goldfield, ed. (2007). "Washington, D.C.". Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Sage. ISBN 978-1-4522-6553-7.
- Douglas E. Evelyn; Paul Dickson (2008). "Historical Timeline of Washington DC". On this Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington (3rd ed.). Capital Books. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-1-933102-70-2.
- "Washington, DC Timeline and Historic Plans: Illustrating the Evolution of the 'Monumental Core' of the Nation's Capital" (PDF). US National Park Service. 2008.
- "Timeline: History of the Campaign for D.C. Voting Rights", Washington Post, February 23, 2009
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