Timeline of Charlotte, North Carolina

The following is a timeline of the history of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 19th century

• 1763 - Mecklenburg County established.^[1]
• 1768 - Charlotte Town incorporated.
• 1770 - Queen's Museum chartered.^[2]
• 1774 - Charlotte becomes capital of county.^[3]
• 1775 - Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed.
• 1777 - Liberty Hall Academy incorporated.^[3]

19th century

• 1835 - Charlotte Journal newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1837 - Charlotte Mint opens.
• 1850 - William F. Davidson becomes mayor.
• 1852 - Western Democrat newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1857
  • Charlotte Female Institute established.^[2]
  • Young Men's Christian Association active.^[5]
  • Gas lighting in use.^[3]
• 1858 - Charlotte Military Academy established.^[3]
• 1867 - Biddle Memorial Institute founded.
• 1875 - Charlotte public schools established.^[6]
• 1880 - Population: 7,084.
• 1886 - Charlotte Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[4][7]
• 1887
  • Electric lighting in use.^[3]
  • Charlotte Fire Department founded.
• 1888 - The Charlotte News begins publication.^[4]
• 1890 - Charlotte Post newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1891
  • City hall built.^[3]
  • Charlotte Literary and Library Association organized.^[9]
• 1897 - Elizabeth College established.^[10]

20th century

• 1903 - Charlotte Carnegie Public Library opens.^[11]
• 1905
  • Brevard Street Library for Negroes opens.
  • Southern Power Company incorporated.^[12]
• 1908 - Union National Bank founded.
• 1915 - Temple Israel built.
• 1924
  • Hotel Charlotte opens.
  • Radiator Specialty Company founded.
• 1930 - Population: 82,675.
• 1932 - Charlotte Symphony Orchestra formed.
• 1935 - Charlotte Municipal Airport established.
• 1936 - Mint Museum opens.
• 1946 - Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina opens.
• 1947 - The Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte founded.
• 1948 - Children's Theatre of Charlotte founded.
• 1955 - Ovens Auditorium opens.
• 1957 - American Commercial Bank formed.
• 1966 - Charlotte Botanical Gardens established.^[13]
• 1967 - WCNC-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1968 - Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories Arboretum established.^[14]
• 1970 - SouthPark Mall opens.
• 1973 - Carowinds Monorail begins operating.
• 1974 - Airplane accident.
• 1976 - Afro-American Cultural Center established.^[15][16]
• 1980 - Population: 314,447.^[17]
• 1982 - Heroes Convention (comic books) begins.
• 1985 - Metrolina Theatre Association established.
• 1986
  • Opera Carolina formed.
  • Airplane accident.
• 1987 - WJZY begins broadcasting.
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo.
• 1990
  • Charlotte Allstar Cheerleading founded.
  • Population: 395,934.^[18]
• 1991
  • Blockbuster Pavilion opens.
  • Museum of the New South incorporated.
• 1992
  • North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center opens.
  • Carolina Actors Studio Theatre and Carolinas Aviation Museum founded.
• 1993 - City government computer network begins operating.^[19]
• 1994
  • WMYT-TV begins broadcasting.
  • Airplane accident.
  • Charlotte's Web Community Network online.^[20]
• 1995
  • Pat McCrory becomes mayor.
  • Charlotte Convention Center and Tremont Music Hall open.
  • City website online.^[21][22]
• 1997 - Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery.
• 1998 - Bank of America formed.

21st century

• 2000 - Population: 540,828.
• 2002 - ConCarolinas begins.
• 2003 - Airplane accident.
• 2004
  • Slow Food Charlotte founded.^[23]
  • Street Soccer USA headquartered in city.^[24]
• 2005 - Charlotte Bobcats Arena and ImaginOn open.
• 2007 - Billy Graham Library opens.
• 2009 - Anthony Foxx becomes mayor.^[25]
• 2010
  • NASCAR Hall of Fame and Bechtler Museum of Modern Art open.
  • Population: 731,424.
• 2011 - Occupy Charlotte begins.
• 2012
  • Little Sugar Creek Greenway built.
  • City hosts Democratic National Convention.
• 2013 - Population: 792,862.^[26]

See also

• History of Charlotte
• Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (list)
• List of Charlotte neighborhoods
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
• List of tallest buildings in Charlotte

Other cities in North Carolina

• Timeline of Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Timeline of Greensboro, North Carolina
• Timeline of Raleigh, North Carolina
• Timeline of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

References

1. Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "North Carolina: Individual County Chronologies". Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library. Retrieved May 2015.
2. Charles Lee Raper (1898), The church and private schools of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C: J.J.Stone, printer
3. Tompkins 1903.
4. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
5. Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1888), A history of the Young Men's Christian Association movement in North Carolina, 1857-1888, Raleigh, N.C: Observer Printing Company, OCLC 13253321
6. Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina. 1898
7. "About The Charlotte Observer". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
8. "African American newspapers in North Carolina". Research Guides for North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Retrieved May 2015.
9. Laws and resolutions of the State of North Carolina. 1891
10. American College and Private School Directory. 1914
11. American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918 – via Hathi Trust.
12. Walsh 1907.
13. "Botanical Gardens History and Mission". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
14. "Garden Search: United States of America: North Carolina". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved May 2015.
15. American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. ISBN 0759100020.
16. "Timeline of Our History". Charlotte NC: Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture. Retrieved May 2015.
17. United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
18. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
19. "NII Awards 1995". USA: National Information Infrastructure Awards. Archived from the original on January 1997.
20. Steve Snow (ed.). "Charlotte's Web". Archived from the original on February 1998.
21. Patricia A. Langelier (1996). "Local Government Home Pages". Popular Government (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 6 (3): 38+. ISSN 0032-4515. Special Series: Local Government on the Internet
22. "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
23. "Featured Guides: City: Charlotte". Eat Well Guide. New York: Grace Communication Foundation. Retrieved May 2015.
24. Tina Rosenberg (October 9, 2014), "In This World Cup, the Goal is a Better Life", New York Times
25. "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
26. "The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2014. Vintage 2013 Population Estimates

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Chataigne's Charlotte Business Directory 1875-76, J.H. Chataigne, 1875

Published in the 20th century

• Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1903), History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte, from 1740 to 1903, Charlotte, N.C: Observer Print. House
• Walsh's Charlotte, North Carolina City Directory, Charleston, S.C.: Walsh Directory Co., 1907
• Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1911, Asheville, N.C: Piedmont Directory Co., 1911
• Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1925, Asheville, N.C: Miller Press, 1925
• Miller's Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1931, Detroit: Piedmont Directory Co., 1931
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Charlotte, North Carolina", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
• "The South: North Carolina: Charlotte", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M

Published in the 21st century

• Hunter Bacot (2012), "Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture", in Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld, Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, ISBN 9781409436546
• Raj Chetty; Nathaniel Hendren (2015), City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood, Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, Rank #97: Charlotte, North Carolina

External links

• "History Timeline". The Charlotte - Mecklenburg Story. Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.
• Items related to Charlotte, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Coordinates: 35°13′37″N 80°50′36″W / 35.226944°N 80.843333°W