Timeline of Boston

This is a timeline of the history of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, US.

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17th century

• 1625 – William Blaxton arrives.
• 1630
  • English Puritans arrive.
  • First Church in Boston established.
  • September 7 (old style): Boston named.
• 1631 – Boston First Watch (police) established.
• 1632 – Settlement becomes capital of the English Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1]
• 1634
  • Boston Common established.^[2]
  • Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts on the 4th of March.
• 1635 – Boston Latin School founded.^[3]
• 1636 – Town assumes the prerogatives of appointment and control of the Boston Watch.
• 1637 – Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts founded.
• 1638
  • Desiré slave ship arrives.^[4]
  • Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.
• 1644 - "Slaving expedition" departs for Africa.^[5]
• 1648 - Margaret Jones hanged.^[6]
• 1649 – Second Church established.
• 1657 – Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded.
• 1658 – Town-House built.
• 1660
  • June 1: Mary Dyer hanged.
  • Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Granary Burying Ground established.^[2]
• 1669 – Third Church built.^[2]
• 1679
  • Province House and Baptist church built.^[2]
  • Fire.^[7]
• 1680 – Paul Revere House built (approximate date).
• 1688 – King's Chapel built.
• 1689 – The Boston Revolt results in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, unpopular governor of the Dominion of New England.
• 1690
  • September 25: Publick Occurrences newspaper begins publication.^[8]
  • London Coffee-House in business.^[9]
• 1692
  • Town becomes part of the British colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • Boston Overseers of the Poor established.^[10]
• 1699 – Brattle Street Church built.

18th century

1700s–1760s

Stamp Act riot, 1764

• 1700 – North Writing School established.^[11]
• 1701 – Castle William (fort) rebuilt in harbour.
• 1704
  • Capen house built (approximate date).
  • April 24: The Boston News-Letter begins publication.^[12]
• 1705 – Benjamin Franklin born on Milk St.
• 1711
  • October: Fire.^[2]
  • Pierce–Hichborn House built (approximate date).
• 1712 – Crease's apothecary rebuilt.
• 1713 – May: Boston Bread Riot.
• 1716 – Boston Light erected in harbour.^[7]
• 1719 – December 21: Boston Gazette newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 1722
  • John Bonner's map of Boston published.^[2][14]
  • Population: 10,567.
• 1723 – Old North Church built, Salem Street.
• 1729 – Old South Meeting House^[1] and Granary built.^[2]
• 1732 – Hollis Street Church established.
• 1733 – September 27: Rebekah Chamblit executed.
• 1735 – Trinity Church built on Summer St.
• 1737
  • Charitable Irish Society of Boston founded.^[10]
  • Saint Patrick's Day begins.^[15]
• 1738 – Workhouse built.^[2]
• 1742 – Faneuil Hall built.
• 1744 – Hospital active on Rainsford Island.^[7]
• 1745
  • March: Military expedition sails from Boston to Louisbourg.^[16]
  • November 5: Unrest during Pope's Night.^[7]
  • Bells installed in Christ Church.^[17]
• 1748 – Manufactory House established.^[7]
• 1752
  • Smallpox epidemic.^[7]
  • Concert Hall built.
• 1754 – Boston Marine Society incorporated.
• 1755 – November 18: Cape Ann earthquake.
• 1760
  • March 20: Great Boston Fire of 1760.^[7]
  • Population: 15,631.^[7]
• 1765 – Protest against Stamp Act.^[18]
• 1768
  • Britain's American Customs Board headquartered in Boston.
  • June 10: Protest against customs officials.
  • July: The Liberty Song published.
  • October: British troops begin to arrive.^[19][20]

1770s–1790s

• 1770
  • Massachusetts Spy newspaper begins publication.
  • March 5: Boston Massacre.^[1]
• 1772
  • Committee of correspondence formed.^[16]
  • Boston Pamphlet (rights declaration) published.^[21]
• 1773
  • Hutchinson Letters Affair.
  • December 16: Boston Tea Party.^[22][23]
• 1774
  • January: Royal American Magazine begins publication.
  • March 31: Boston Port Bill blocks trade.^[1]
• 1775
  • April 19: Siege of Boston begins.
  • June 17: Battle of Bunker Hill takes place near town.
• 1776 – March 17: Siege of Boston ends; British depart.^[1][18]
• 1784 – Massachusetts Bank founded.
• 1785 – Massachusetts Humane Society headquartered in Boston.^[24]
• 1786 – Charles River Bridge built.^[2]
• 1787
  • April: Fire.^[2]
  • October 18: Massachusetts General Court receives U.S. Constitution.^[25]
  • African Masonic lodge active.^[4]
• 1788
  • January 9: Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. Constitution begins at State House.^[25]
  • January 17: Convention to ratify U.S. Constitution moves to Federal Street Church.^[25]
  • February 6: Delegates ratify U.S. Constitution;^[25] Boston becomes part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • February 8: Parade in honor of ratification of U.S. Constitution.^[25]
• 1789
  • William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy published.
  • Boston Directory and Massachusetts Magazine begin publication.
• 1790
  • Memorial column erected atop Beacon Hill.
  • Population: 18,320.^[26]
• 1791 – Massachusetts Historical Society founded.
• 1792
  • Board Alley Theatre opens.
  • Boston Library Society established.
  • J. & T.H. Perkins shipping merchant in business.
• 1793 – West Boston Bridge opens.^[2]
• 1794
  • Julien's Restorator opens on Milk Street.^[27]
  • February 3: Federal Street Theatre opening performance.
• 1795
  • Columbian Museum and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association established.
  • Mount Vernon Proprietors in business.
  • Tontine Crescent built.
• 1796
  • Haymarket Theatre, African Society,^[28] and Boston Medical Dispensary^[29] established.
  • Otis House built in West End.
• 1797 – October 21: USS Constitution ship launched.
• 1798 – Massachusetts State House built.
• 1799 – Board of Health created.^[30]

19th century

1800s–1840s

Flight of balloonist Charles F. Durant in Boston, September 13, 1834

Water celebration, 1848

• 1800 – Population: 24,937.
• 1801 – Almshouse built on Leverett Street.^[2]
• 1803
  • Boston Female Asylum incorporated.
  • Holy Cross Church built.
• 1804
  • Anthology Club, Social Law Library,^[31] and Market Museum established.
  • Nichols house built.
  • Union Circulating Library in business.
• 1805
  • Ice merchant F. Tudor in business.^[32]
  • Boston Medical Library established.
• 1806 – African Meeting House and Old West Church built.
• 1807
  • Boston Athenæum founded.
  • Charles Street Meeting House built.
• 1808 – Roman Catholic diocese of Boston established;^[33] John Cheverus becomes bishop.^[34]
• 1809 – Craigie Bridge opens.
• 1810
  • American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions headquartered in Boston.
  • Boylston Market and Park Street Church built.
  • Philharmonic Society established (approximate date).
  • Bryant & Sturgis shipping merchants in business.^[35]
• 1811 – Massachusetts General Hospital^[29] and Boston Lyceum for the Education of Young Ladies established.
• 1812 – Fragment Society founded.
• 1813 – Boston Daily Advertiser begins publication.
• 1814 – Linnaean Society of New England established.
• 1815
  • Handel and Haydn Society founded.^[36]
  • May: North American Review begins publication.
• 1816 – Provident Institution for Savings established.
• 1818
  • New-England Museum opens.^[37]
  • November 3: Exchange Coffee House burns down.
  • Methodist Episcopal Church established.^[38][39]
  • Annin & Smith in business (approximate date).
• 1819 – Cathedral Church of St. Paul built.
• 1820 – Mercantile Library Association established.
• 1821
  • English Classical School established.^[40]
  • Doggett's Repository of Arts opens (approximate date).
• 1822
  • Boston incorporated as a city.^[41]
  • Leverett Street Jail opens; old jail closes.
  • May 1: John Phillips becomes mayor.^[42]
• 1823
  • Chickering and Sons piano manufacturer in business.^[36]
  • Josiah Quincy III becomes mayor.
  • City seal design adopted.^[43]
• 1824
  • City auditor established.^[30]
  • Area of city: 783 acres.^[44]
• 1825
  • Pendleton's Lithography in business.
  • American Unitarian Association headquartered in city.
• 1826
  • Massachusetts General Colored Association and House of Juvenile Reformation^[27] established.
  • Quincy Market built.
  • Atwood & Bacon Oyster House in business.
• 1827
  • September 24: Tremont Theatre opens.
  • Boston Seaman's Friend Society organized.^[29]
• 1829
  • Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Boston Lyceum established.
  • Harrison Gray Otis becomes mayor.
  • Tremont House built.
  • Walker's An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World published.^[45]
• 1830
  • Boston Society of Natural History established.
  • July 24: Boston Evening Transcript begins publication.
  • Population: 61,392.
• 1831
  • The Liberator^[46] and The Boston Post begin publication.
  • New England Anti-Slavery Society established.^[47]
  • S.S. Pierce in business.
• 1832
  • Boston Lying-In Hospital and Afric-American Female Intelligence Society^[48] established.
  • Charles Wells becomes mayor.
• 1833
  • The Boston Journal newspaper begins publication.
  • Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston Seaman's Aid Society, and East Boston Company^[27] founded.
  • Harding's Gallery active (approximate date).
• 1834
  • Parker & Ditson and Boston Sugar Refinery (East Boston) in business.
  • Temple School opens.
  • Theodore Lyman becomes mayor.
  • Thompson Island becomes part of Boston.^[49]
• 1835 – Abiel Smith School^[39] and American House (hotel) founded.
• 1836
  • East Boston annexed to Boston.^[50]
  • Boston Pilot Catholic newspaper in publication.^[34]
  • National Theatre and Lion Theatre open.^[35]
  • Chamber of Commerce established.^[51]
  • Samuel Turell Armstrong becomes mayor.
• 1837
  • June 11: Broad Street Riot.
  • Samuel Atkins Eliot becomes mayor.
  • Harvard Musical Association organized.^[36]
• 1838 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church established.^[52]
• 1839
  • Lowell Institute lectures begin.
  • Melodeon opens.
  • City lunatic asylum established.^[27]
• 1840
  • Friends of Ireland society founded.^[27]
  • Durgin-Park restaurant^[53] and Peabody's West Street Bookstore in business.
  • Cunard's steamship Britannia sails from Liverpool to Boston.^[54]
  • Population: 93,383.
  • Jonathan Chapman becomes mayor.
• 1841
  • Boston and Albany Railroad in operation.^[27]
  • Boston Museum, Boston Artists' Association, and Plumbe's photo gallery established.
  • Probation for prisoners introduced.^[55]
• 1842 – Merchants Exchange built.
• 1843
  • Tremont Temple established.
  • Martin Brimmer becomes mayor.
• 1844
  • Liverpool-Boston "White Diamond Line" begins operating.^[56]
  • Phillips School established.
• 1845
  • Chinese Museum, Howard Athenaeum, and New England Historic Genealogical Society established.
  • Horticultural Hall built.
  • William Parker becomes mayor, succeeded by Thomas Aspinwall Davis, Benson Leavitt, and Josiah Quincy, Jr.
  • McKay shipbuilder in business in East Boston.
• 1846
  • October 16: First public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic, Ether Dome.
  • J.B. Fitzpatrick becomes Catholic bishop of Boston.^[34]
  • John P. Jewett bookseller in business.
• 1847
  • City Point Iron Works, Bay State Iron Company,^[27] and Little, Brown and Company publisher in business.
  • Irish Immigrant Society^[34] and Needle Woman's Friend Society^[57] established.
• 1848
  • October 25: Water celebration.
  • C.F. Hovey and Co. in business.
  • Ladies Physiological Institute founded.^[58]
• 1849
  • Custom House built.
  • November 23: Beacon Hill Reservoir opens.
  • Mendelssohn Quintette Club founded.^[36]
  • John P. Bigelow becomes mayor.

1850s–1890s

Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, 1851; painting by William Sharp

After the fire, 1872

St. Leonard's Church

• 1850
  • Parkman–Webster murder case.
  • Fetridge and Company in business.
  • Roberts v. City of Boston racial segregation lawsuit decided.^[59]
• 1851
  • Charles Street Jail built.
  • Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion begins publication.
  • September 17–19: Railroad Jubilee^[60]
• 1852
  • February 9: Ordway Hall opens.
  • October 24: Daniel Webster dies.
  • Sovereign of the Seas (clipper ship) launched.^[44]
  • Mount Hope Cemetery consecrated.^[61]
  • Orpheum Theatre built.
  • Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston incorporated.^[10]
  • Somerset Club established.
  • Benjamin Seaver becomes mayor.
• 1853
  • Cambridge-Boston horsecar line established.^[44]
  • Henry Hastings & Company in business.^[62]
• 1854
  • Boston Watch and Police ceased, and Boston Police Department came into being.
  • Boston Public Library, Adath Israel synagogue, and Boston Theatre open.
  • Boston Art Club founded.^[63]
  • Ticknor and Fields publishers in business.
  • May: Anthony Burns arrested; abolitionist unrest ensues.^[18]
  • July: City Regatta begins.^[64]
  • Jerome V. C. Smith becomes mayor.
• 1855
  • Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital established.^[29]
  • Parker House hotel and Williams & Everett in business.
• 1856 - Alexander H. Rice becomes mayor.
• 1857
  • State Street Block built.
  • November 1: Atlantic Monthly begins publication.
• 1858
  • Frederic W. Lincoln becomes mayor.
  • Der Pionier German-language newspaper in publication.
  • Area of city: 1,801 acres.^[44]
• 1859
  • August: New England Colored Citizens' Convention held in city.^[65]
  • Boston Aquarial Gardens open.
• 1860
  • Public Garden and Gibson house built.
  • Old Feather Store demolished.
  • October 18: Edward VII of the United Kingdom visits Boston.^[66]
  • Young's Hotel in business.
  • Population: 177,840.^[26]
• 1861
  • Arlington Street Church and Studio Building constructed.
  • Jordan Marsh opens.
  • Joseph Wightman becomes mayor.
• 1862 – Boston Educational Commission^[67] and Oneida Football Club^[68] founded.
• 1863
  • March 24: National Theatre burns down.
  • May 28: 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry departs for South Carolina.
  • July 14: Protest against draft.^[69]
  • Boston College, Boston Children's Aid Society^[29] and Union Club of Boston established.
  • Hancock Manor demolished.^[70]
  • Frederic W. Lincoln becomes mayor again.
• 1864
  • New England Museum of Natural History built.^[71]
  • Boston City Hospital opens.^[30]
  • De Vries, Ibarra & Co. in business (approximate date).
• 1865
  • City Hall and Horticultural Hall built.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology opens.
  • Ropes & Gray in business.
  • Bostoner Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.^[27]
• 1867
  • New England Conservatory and Boston Society of Architects^[63] established.
  • YWCA Boston incorporated.
  • Otis Norcross becomes mayor.
  • December: Charles Dickens kicks off his second and final American reading tour at Tremont Temple
• 1868
  • Roxbury annexed to Boston.
  • Boston Lyceum Bureau established.
  • August 20: Chinese embassy visits Boston.^[72]
  • Woman's Board of Missions headquartered in Boston.^[73]
  • Nathaniel B. Shurtleff becomes mayor.
• 1869
  • June 15: National Peace Jubilee opens.^[12]
  • Boston University chartered.^[74]
  • Shreve, Crump & Low, Boston Musical Instrument Company, and Frost & Adams in business.
  • Boston Children's Hospital, Horace Mann School for the Deaf,^[40] and Evening High School^[40] established.
  • American Woman Suffrage Association headquartered in city.^[75]
• 1870
  • Dorchester annexed to Boston.^[50]
  • Woman's Journal begins publication.
  • Population: 250,526.^[26]
• 1871
  • May 16: South End Grounds open.
  • Globe Theatre and Apollo Club (chorus)^[10] established.
  • William Gaston becomes mayor.
• 1872
  • Lauriat's bookshop in business.^[76]
  • March 4: The Boston Globe newspaper begins publication.
  • June 17: World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival opens.^[12]
  • November 9: Great Boston Fire of 1872.^[12]
• 1873
  • Old South Church and St. Leonard's Church^[77] built.
  • Brookline-Boston annexation debate of 1873.
  • Massachusetts Normal Art School and Catholic Union of Boston^[78] founded.
  • Henry L. Pierce becomes mayor, succeeded by Leonard R. Cutter.
• 1874
  • Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Jamaica Plain^[61] and West Roxbury^[50] annexed to Boston.
  • Pastene's food shop in business.^[79]
  • Samuel C. Cobb becomes mayor.
• 1875 – Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Hayden Building constructed.
• 1876
  • February 15: Great Elm felled by storm, Boston Common.
  • July 4: Museum of Fine Arts opens on Art Square.^[80]
  • Appalachian Mountain Club headquartered in city.^[81]
  • Boston Merchants' Association^[82] and MIT Woman's Laboratory established.
• 1877
  • April: A telephone line connects Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts.^[83]
  • Trinity Church built.
  • Marcella-Street Home opens.^[61]
  • Women's Educational and Industrial Union and Footlight Club (theatre group) founded.
  • Frederick O. Prince becomes mayor.
• 1878
  • Gaiety Theatre opens.
  • New England Society for the Suppression of Vice founded.^[84]
  • Henry L. Pierce becomes mayor again.
• 1879
  • Boston Cooking School, Massachusetts Bicycle Club, New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Copley Society of Art,^[63] Irish Athletic Club,^[85] and Park Theatre established.
  • Frederick O. Prince becomes mayor again.
• 1880
  • September 17: 250th anniversary of settlement of Boston.^[86]
  • Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art founded.
  • Population: 362,839.
• 1881 – Boston Symphony Orchestra,^[36] The Bostonian Society, Filene's, Boston Camera Club, and Associated Charities of Boston^[29] established.
• 1882
  • Bijou Theatre established.
  • Whitman's Leaves of Grass banned.^[84]
  • Samuel Abbott Green becomes mayor.
  • Long Island becomes part of Boston.
• 1883
  • Chickering Hall built.
  • Albert Palmer becomes mayor.
• 1884
  • August 4: Thomas Stevens (cyclist) arrives from Oakland, California.^[87]
  • Cyclorama Building built.
  • Tavern Club founded.
  • Augustus Pearl Martin becomes mayor.
  • Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary opens.
• 1885
  • Boston Pops Orchestra, North Bennet Street Industrial School, and New England Woman's Press Association^[88] established.
  • Hugh O'Brien becomes mayor.
  • Boston Fruit Company (importer) in business.
  • First Spiritual Temple built.
  • Children's playground opens in the North End.^[89][90]
• 1886 – June: New England Fair exhibition building burns down.^[91]
• 1888
  • Grand Opera House established.
  • Sacred Heart Church built.^[77]
  • Bellamy's fictional Looking Backward: 2000-1887 published.
• 1889
  • January 7: Thomas N. Hart becomes mayor.
  • Tremont Theatre opens.
  • Boston Architectural Club organized.^[63]
  • Thomas N. Hart becomes mayor.

Central Burying Ground: "Here were interred the remains of persons found under the Boylston St. Mall during the digging of the subway, 1895" (photo from 2008)

• 1890
  • Boston Macaroni Company in business.^[79]
  • College Club founded.
  • Boston Courant newspaper begins publication.^[92]
  • New England Kitchen begins operating.^[93]
• 1891
  • Nathan Matthews, Jr. becomes mayor.
  • Columbia Theatre and Lend a Hand Society^[10] established.
  • New Riding Club building constructed.^[94]
• 1892 – Denison House (settlement) and North End Union founded.
• 1893
  • Adams Courthouse built.
  • Grundmann Studios and Mechanic Arts High School^[40] established.
• 1894
  • The First Church of Christ, Scientist built.
  • Keith's Theatre and Epicurian Club of Boston^[95] established.
  • Immigration Restriction League headquartered in city.
• 1895
  • Edwin Upton Curtis becomes mayor.
  • Boston Public Library, McKim Building built.^[30]
• 1896
  • Steinert Hall built.
  • Josiah Quincy becomes mayor.
  • Boston Cooking-School Cook Book published.
  • Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club formed.
• 1897
  • April 19: Boston Marathon begins.^[96]
  • September 3: Park Street (MBTA station) opens.
• 1898 – YMCA "Evening Institute for Younger Men" (precursor to Northeastern University) and Alliance Française^[97] established.
• 1899
  • South Station built.
  • Simmons College and Boston Rescue Mission founded.
  • Choate, Hall & Stewart in business.
  • MIT's Technology Review begins publication.^[98]

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1900
  • Symphony Hall and Colonial Theatre^[99] built.
  • Thomas N. Hart becomes mayor again.
  • Population: 560,892.^[100]
• 1901
  • January: L Street Brownies (swim club) plunge begins.^[101]
  • April 20: Huntington Avenue Grounds open.
  • Boston Red Sox and Boston Equal Suffrage Association^[102][103] founded.
  • Horticultural Hall built on Massachusetts Avenue.
  • Boston Guardian newspaper begins publication.^[28]
• 1902
  • Patrick Collins becomes mayor.
  • Tennis and Racquet Club building constructed.^[94]
• 1903
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Catholic Charitable Bureau,^[104] and the Boston Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants^[105] established.
  • Jordan Hall opens.
  • Gazzetta del Massachusetts newspaper begins publication.^[106]
• 1904
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology and Metropolitan Improvement League^[63] founded.
  • Cabot, Cabot & Forbes in business.
  • Fenway Studios built.^[94]
  • Universal Peace Congress held.
  • Boston American newspaper begins publication.
• 1905
  • Daniel A. Whelton becomes acting mayor.
  • Westland Gate built.^[94]
• 1906
  • John F. Fitzgerald becomes mayor.
  • Longfellow Bridge built.
  • Suffolk University, Boston City Club, and Junior League of Boston^[107] established.
• 1907 – Boston Finance Commission established.
• 1908
  • The Christian Science Monitor begins publication.
  • George A. Hibbard becomes mayor.
  • Boston Opera Company and Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology established.^[108]
  • Women's Municipal League of Boston active.^[109]
  • Paul Revere House restored.^[2]
• 1909
  • Boston Flower Exchange and Boston Marine Museum founded.
  • Boston Opera House and Museum of Fine Arts open on Huntington Avenue.^[63][110]
• 1910
  • Charles River Dam Bridge built.
  • Chilton Club for women and League of Catholic Women^[111] established.
  • John F. Fitzgerald becomes mayor again.
  • Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities,^[63] Armenian General Benevolent Union,^[112] and World Peace Foundation^[29] headquartered in city.
  • Boston Arena opens, and today the world's oldest operational indoor multisports facility.
• 1911 – Plymouth Theatre opens.
• 1912
  • January: Revere House hotel burns down in Bowdoin Square.
  • March: Red Line (MBTA) begins operating.^[113]
  • April 20: Fenway Park opens.
  • Hyde Park annexed to Boston.^[49]
  • St. James Theatre opens.
  • City Park and Recreation Department created.^[30]
  • Vedanta Center established (approximate date).^[114]
• 1913
  • Boylston Street Fishweir discovered.
  • Women's City Club^[111] and Boston Society of Landscape Architects^[63] established.
• 1914
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor.
  • May 4: Exeter Street Theatre opens.^[115]
  • Guild of Boston Artists incorporated.^[63]
  • City Planning Board^[30] and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston established.
• 1915
  • Custom House Tower built.
  • Artists League of Boston founded.^[63]
  • Boston Chronicle begins publication.^[116]
• 1916
  • Quong Kow Chinese School founded.^[117]
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology relocates from Boston to Cambridge.
• 1917 - Boston School for Secretaries established.^[118]
• 1918
  • Andrew James Peters becomes mayor.
  • Red Sox win World Series.
• 1919
  • January 15: Boston Molasses Disaster.
  • September 9: Boston Police Strike.
  • Emmanuel College founded.
• 1922
  • Loew's State Theater (cinema) opens.^[115]
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor again.
  • Boston Council of Social Agencies incorporated.^[104]
• 1923 – September 8: Boston Airport opens.
• 1924
  • WBZ (AM) radio begins broadcasting in Boston.^[119]
  • International Institute of Boston opens.^[120]
  • The Boston Bruins professional ice hockey team is founded, one of the NHL's Original Six teams.
• 1925 – Metropolitan Theatre built.^[99]
• 1926 – Republican Malcolm Nichols becomes mayor.
• 1927
  • August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti executed.^[121]
  • Boston College High School incorporated.
  • Park Plaza Hotel in business.
• 1928
  • Boston University Bridge built.
  • November 17: Boston Garden opens.
  • Beacon Hill Garden Club founded.
  • John William McCormack becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 12th congressional district.
• 1929 – Caffe Vittoria in business.
• 1930 – James Michael Curley becomes mayor yet again.
• 1932
  • Boston Municipal Research Bureau founded.
  • Charles/MGH (MBTA station) opens.^[113]
• 1933
  • Slifky's Reliable Oil Burner Service in business in Dorchester.^[122]
  • St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church established.
• 1934
  • Frederick Mansfield becomes mayor.
  • Sumner Tunnel opens.
  • Calvin Coolidge College established.^[1]
• 1935 – Boston Housing Authority established.^[30]
• 1936 – Boston Museum of Modern Art founded.^[123]
• 1937 – Marquand's fictional The Late George Apley published.
• 1938 – Maurice J. Tobin becomes mayor.
• 1939
  • Wheelock College incorporated.
  • Housewives League of Boston founded.^[111]
  • Holy Name Church built.

Gerard Cote winning the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1940

• 1940
  • Citgo sign erected.
  • Hatch Memorial Shell built.
  • Boston School of Pharmacy incorporated.^[110]
• 1941 – McCloskey's children's book Make Way for Ducklings published.
• 1942
  • November 28: Cocoanut Grove fire.^[3]
  • New England Chinese Women's Association headquartered in city.^[124]
• 1944 – Fenway Garden Society established.^[94]
• 1945
  • John E. Kerrigan becomes acting mayor.
  • Schillinger House and French Library^[97] founded.
• 1946
  • Fidelity in business.
  • City Department of Veterans’ Services created.^[30]
  • Community Boating incorporated.
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor yet again once more.
• 1947
  • Mayor Curley imprisoned; John Hynes becomes acting mayor.
  • Boston Trailer Park established.^[125]
  • Old John Hancock Building built.
  • John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district.^[126]
  • Wally's nightclub in business.
• 1949 – Freedom House established.^[28]

1950s–1970s

• 1950
  • January 17: Great Brink's Robbery.
  • Federation of South End Settlements^[110] and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts^[28] established.
  • Population: 801,444.
• 1951
  • June 15: Storrow Drive opens.
  • October 6: WGBH (FM) begins broadcasting.^[127]
  • Museum of Science opens.
  • Long Island Viaduct (bridge) built.^[128]
• 1954 – Schillinger House renamed Berklee College of Music.
• 1955
  • May 2: WGBH-TV begins broadcasting.
  • June 5: Martin Luther King, Jr. earns PhD from Boston University.
  • Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church active.^[129]
  • Boston Catholic Television begins broadcasting.
• 1956
  • Boston Airport renamed Logan International Airport.
  • O'Connor's fictional The Last Hurrah published.
• 1957
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority and Gibson House Museum established.
  • WILD (AM) radio on the air.^[119]
• 1958
  • February 16-17: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • November: Funeral of James Michael Curley.^[131]
  • Freedom Trail established.^[132]
• 1959
  • Central Artery (freeway) built.
  • Sister city relationship established with Kyoto, Japan.
• 1960
  • March 3-5: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • October 1: Peace rally held.^[133]
  • Model United Nations conference held at Northeastern University.^[134]
  • Sister city relationship established with Strasbourg, France.
  • John F. Collins becomes mayor.
  • American Meteorological Society headquartered in city.
• 1961
  • Callahan Tunnel and Boston Common Parking Garage^[135] open.
  • Puerto Rican Entering and Settling Service founded.^[110]
  • Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns headquartered in Boston.
• 1962
  • June 14: Boston Strangler murders begin.
  • Scollay Square razed.^[136]
  • Caffe Paradiso in business.^[137]
• 1963 – Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Boston Ballet founded.
• 1964
  • Prudential Tower built.
  • University of Massachusetts Boston and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority established.
  • May 22: Bellflower Street fire in Dorchester.^[138]
  • John Pinette is born in Boston.
• 1965 - April 23: Civil rights rally held on Boston Common.^[59]
• 1966
  • Boston Phoenix begins publication.^[139]
  • Lower Roxbury Community Corporation,^[110] Haley House,^[140] and South End Historical Society established.
  • Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity school desegregation program begins.^[141]
  • Copley Square remodelled.
• 1967
  • Charles Cinema in business.^[115]
  • Chinese American Civic Association headquartered in city.^[142]
  • Bowker Overpass built.^[94]
• 1968
  • April 4: Racial unrest.^[143]
  • April 5: James Brown concert, Boston Garden.^[144]
  • May 2: Boston Celtics win basketball championship.^[143]
  • National Center of Afro–American Artists, Alianza Hispana,^[110] Sociedad Latina de South Boston,^[110] Community Change and city Council on Aging^[30] established.
  • Blackside films in business.
  • Kevin White becomes mayor.
• 1969
  • February: Boston City Hall dedicated.^[143]
  • February 24-27: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • May 5: Boston Celtics win basketball championship again.^[143]
  • New England Aquarium opens.
  • Walk for Hunger begins.
• 1970
  • May: Antiwar demonstration held.^[145]
  • May 10: Boston Bruins win ice hockey championship.^[143]
  • Boston Pride begins.^[146]
  • Aerosmith (musical group), Boston Center for the Arts, and city Rent Board^[30] established.
  • One Boston Place and 28 State Street built.
  • Boston Properties in business.
• 1971
  • Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital and Boston Food Co-op established.^[147]
  • Government Service Center built.
  • Nova Scotia's donation of the Boston Christmas Tree tradition resumes.^[148]
• 1972
  • June 17: Hotel Vendome fire.
  • Labor demonstration.^[145]
  • Maison Robert restaurant in business.^[149]
  • Boston Public Library Johnson building opens.^[30]
• 1973
  • The Boston Caribbean Carnival, is founded (same year as New York City and Washington, D.C.)
  • Bunker Hill Community College, Roxbury Community College, Boston Harbor Association, City Life/Vida Urbana, and Boston Baroque^[150] founded.
• 1974
  • Desegregation busing conflict due to outcome of verdict Morgan v. Hennigan.^[151][152]
  • Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción active.^[110]
  • The Rathskeller music venue opens.
  • Rosie's Place founded.
• 1975
  • Boston Landmarks Commission^[153] and ArtsBoston established.
  • Boston Consulting Group in business.
  • New Boston Review begins publication.
• 1976
  • John Hancock Tower built.
  • First Night begins.
  • Boston Irish News begins publication.^[92]
  • Boston Film/Video Foundation and Boston By Foot established.
  • WGBH Ten O’Clock News (local news) begins broadcasting.^[154]
  • Faneuil Hall marketplace developed.^[155]
• 1977
  • Federal Reserve Bank Building constructed.
  • Chinese Progressive Association founded.^[110]
• 1978
  • January 20-21: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • February 6-7: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • Newbury Comics in business.
  • American Buddhist Shim Gum Do Association headquartered in Brighton.^[156]
  • Boston Preservation Alliance founded.^[157]
  • L'Espalier restaurant in business.^[158]
• 1979
  • WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble begins.
  • Boston Children's Museum building and Computer Museum open.
  • John F. Kennedy Library built.
  • Center for Chinese Art and Culture,^[110] and Mission of Burma (musical group) established.
  • Brian J. Donnelly becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district.

1980s–1990s

• 1980
  • Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth, and Culinary Historians of Boston^[159] founded.
  • The Channel (nightclub) opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Barcelona, Spain.
  • Population: 562,994.
• 1981
  • Boston Society of Film Critics, Dance Umbrella,^[160] and Boston Area Feminist Coalition^[110] founded.
  • Boston Food Bank incorporated.^[161][162]
  • J.P. Licks in business.
• 1982
  • Suffolk Construction Company in business.
  • Boston Gay Men's Chorus^[163] and Boston Fair Housing Commission^[30] established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Hangzhou, China.
  • Cheers fictional television program begins broadcasting.
• 1983
  • Dorchester Reporter begins publication.^[164]
  • Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation established.^[165]
  • Bayside Expo Center opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Padua, Italy.
• 1984
  • Raymond Flynn becomes mayor.
  • Bernard Law becomes Catholic bishop of Boston.^[34]
  • Bain Capital, Trident Booksellers,^[166] and Copley Place Cinemas^[115] in business.
  • Boston Human Rights Commission, and city Office of Business and Cultural Development established.^[30]
• 1985
  • Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative^[167] and Universal Buddhist Congregation^[156] established.
  • Lecco’s Lemma hip-hop radio program begins broadcasting on WMBR.^[168]
  • Sister city relationship established with Melbourne, Australia.
  • Massachusetts State Archives moves to Columbia Point.
• 1986 – Pixies (musical group), and city Office of Arts and Humanities established.^[30]
• 1987
  • ACT UP/Boston^[110] and Jamaica Plain Historical Society^[169] founded.
  • Back Bay (MBTA station) rebuilt.
  • Partners In Health nonprofit headquartered in city.
  • Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
  • Hamersley's Bistro in business.^[170]
• 1988
  • City of Boston Archives and City Year established.
  • Hynes Convention Center and 75 State Street^[171] built.
  • Aberdeen Group in business.
  • Michael Dukakis presidential campaign and Pioneer Institute headquartered in city.
  • Tent City (housing complex) dedicated.
• 1989
  • October 23: Stuart shootings in Mission Hill.
  • Biba restaurant in business.^[170]
  • Sister city relationship established with Haifa, Israel.
  • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church^[172] and New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans founded.
• 1990
  • March 18: Gardner Museum heist.
  • Population: 574,283.^[26]
• 1991- Deer Island Prison closes.
• 1992
  • Spare Change News begins publication.
  • Ten Point Coalition founded.^[173]
  • Chinese Historical Society of New England headquartered in city.^[174]
  • Avalon nightclub opens.
• 1993
  • July 12: Thomas Menino becomes mayor.
  • Urban College of Boston established.
  • C-Mart grocery in Chinatown^[175] and Alpha Management Corp. (landlord)^[176] in business.
• 1994
  • August 15: Chinook Checkers Program wins Man vs Machine World Team Championship.^[177]
  • Alternatives for Community and Environment founded.
  • Rent control ends.^[30]
  • Harbor Lights Pavilion (amphitheatre) opens.
• 1995
  • Ted Williams Tunnel opens.
  • Piers Park Sailing Center, and city Office of Civil Rights^[30] established.
  • Stop & Shop grocery in business in Jamaica Plain.^[175]
  • Citizen Schools nonprofit headquartered in Boston.
  • Boston Fashion Week begins.
• 1996
  • City website launched.^[178][179]
  • Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, city Public Health Commission,^[30] and Massachusetts Interactive Media Council established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth headquartered in city.
  • Boston Coalition of Black Women incorporated.^[110]
  • Operation Ceasefire implemented.^[180]
• 1997
  • April 1: Blizzard.^[130]
  • Grub Street writing center established.
  • Shaw's grocery in business in Dorchester.^[175]
  • Boston Demons begin play in inaugural USAFL season.
• 1998
  • Dudley Film Festival begins.
  • Urban Ecology Institute founded.
  • No. 9 Park restaurant in business.^[181]
• 1999
  • Mike Capuano becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
  • John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse built.
  • Northeastern University's Center for Urban and Regional Policy^[182] and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology established.
  • Nixon Peabody in business.
  • Sister city relationship established with Boston, England.

21st century

2000s

• 2000
  • T Rider's Union, Boston University's Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Technology Goes Home digital divide project^[183] established.
  • Flour Bakery in business.
  • Population: 589,141.^[100]
• 2001
  • Stephen Lynch becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district.^[184]
  • Sister city relationship established with Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.
  • Trader Joe's grocery in business in Back Bay.^[175]
  • MassEquality headquartered in Boston.
• 2002
  • Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston reported.
  • Super 88 grocery in business in Allston.^[175]
  • South End Technology Center active.^[185]
• 2003
  • February 17-18: Snowstorm.^[130]
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge opens.
  • Discover Roxbury established.^[186]
  • Independent Film Festival of Boston and Anime Boston convention begin.
  • AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts headquartered in city.
• 2004
  • June: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center opens.
  • July: 2004 Democratic National Convention held.
  • October 27: Red Sox win World Series.
  • Boston Social Forum held.
  • Artists for Humanity EpiCenter built.
  • Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti headquartered in Boston.
  • City's "Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events"^[30] and Boston Public Library Map Center established.
• 2005
  • January 22-23: Blizzard.^[130]
  • Boston Workers Alliance and Boston Derby Dames (rollerderby league) established.
  • Universal Hub begins publication.^[187]
  • Eastern Standard restaurant and Toro restaurant in business.^[181]
• 2006
  • July 10: Big Dig ceiling collapse.
  • December: Institute of Contemporary Art building opens in South Boston.
  • Crittenton Women's Union formed.
• 2007
  • Big Dig completed.
  • 826 Boston (writing center) and Berklee's Cafe 939^[188] open.
  • Charles/MGH (MBTA station) rebuilt.
  • Myers + Chang restaurant in business.^[181]
  • Xconomy begins publication.
  • Sister city relationship established with Valladolid, Spain.
  • Grow Boston Greener established.^[189]
• 2008
  • Rose Kennedy Greenway built.
  • Open Media Boston established.^[190]
  • BostInno begins publication.
• 2009
  • Boston Book Festival^[191] and TEDx Boston begin.
  • GlobalPost news headquartered in Boston.^[192]
  • Boston Street Lab incorporated.^[193]
  • City government "Citizens Connect" 3-1-1 app launched.^[185]
  • Higher Ground Boston,^[194] and Bocoup Loft,^[195] Boston World Partnerships nonprofit,^[196] and Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting established.
  • Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center opens in Roxbury.^[197]

2010s

• 2010
  • One City One Story,^[198] Boston Rising program in Grove Hall,^[199] Girls Rock Boston,^[200] JP Music Festival,^[201] and Design Museum Boston^[202] established.
  • MuckRock headquartered in Boston.
  • Island Creek Oyster Bar in business.^[181]
  • Population: 617,594; metro 4,552,402.^[203]
• 2011
  • September 30: Occupy Boston begins.
  • Hubway (bike system) and Future Boston Alliance established.
  • Boston Urban Iditarod begins.^[204]
  • Population: 625,087; metro 4,591,112.^[205]
• 2012
  • October: Hurricane Sandy.
  • Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012 headquartered in Boston.
  • Boston Contemporary Dance Festival begins.^[206]
  • Population: 636,479.
• 2013
  • February 8-9: Blizzard.^[130]
  • April 15: Boston Marathon bombings.^[207]
  • April 19: City shuts down for manhunt of marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev
  • June 12: Whitey Bulger trial begins.^[208]
  • October 30: The Boston Red Sox, in an end-of-year triumph, win the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals; the first win at Fenway Park since 1918, and the third they've won since 2004.
  • November 5: Boston mayoral election, 2013.
  • Millennium Tower construction begins.
  • Digital Public Library of America headquartered in Boston.
  • Code for Boston active.^[185][209]
  • Longfellow Bridge renovation begins.
  • November 14, 2013, Bulger was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes by U.S. District Judge Denise Casper.^[210] As of January 10, 2014 Bulger is currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona .
• 2014
  • Marty Walsh becomes mayor.^[211][212]
  • Boston Veterans Treatment Court begins operating.^[213]
  • April: City government open data executive order signed.^[214]
  • December: Boston bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics submitted.
  • TD Garden, the home of the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics, will receive a $70 million facelift over the next two years.^{[215][216][217]}
• 2015
  • January 5: Boston Marathon bombing trial begins.^[218]
  • January 26-27: January 2015 North American blizzard.^[130]
  • June: Kimono protest begins.^[219]
  • July 14: Tide Street snow pile melts.^[220]
  • City 15-year master plan process begins.^[221]
  • Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate opens.
  • Daily Table grocery^[222] and Boston Market in business.
  • Sunfish spotted in harbour.^[223]
  • Tower at One Greenway built.
  • One Dalton construction begins.^[224]

See also

• Annual events in Boston
• History of Boston
• List of mayors of Boston
• Past Members of the Boston City Council
• Timeline of Massachusetts^[225]

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External links

External video

Trolley Ride Through Boston (1903)

Drive through Boston (circa 1958–1964)

• Items related to Boston, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• Sawyer Library. "Boston History Resource Guide". Boston: Suffolk University.
• Materials related to Boston, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
• Walkingboston.com
• Items related to Boston, Massachusetts, various dates (via Europeana)
• "Websites of Boston social justice organizations that serve under-represented communities" – via Northeastern University; Internet Archive, Archive-It. (collection of archived websites)

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