Timeline of Cleveland history

This article contains a timeline of the history of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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1904 map of Cleveland

18th century

Moses Cleaveland and survey party arrive at the location that would later become Cleveland.
Lorenzo Carter, a prominent early settler, arrives.

19th century

Trumbull County created, encompassing Cleaveland.
Ohio becomes the 17th State admitted to the Union.
Geauga County created, encompassing Cleaveland.
Lorenzo Carter builds the Zephyr, the first ship to be launched in Cleaveland.
Cuyahoga County organized; Cleaveland selected as county seat.
Oliver Hazard Perry wins the Battle of Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay.
Cleaveland receives its charter as a village.
Newburgh Township created.
Alfred Kelley is elected the first president of the village of Cleaveland.
The Cleaveland Gazette and Commercial Register, Cleaveland's first newspaper is published.[1]
A free bridge is opened across the Cuyahoga River.
The Cleveland Advertiser alters the spelling of the community's name to Cleveland.
James A. Garfield, 20th United States President, born in Orange Township.
Ohio and Erie Canal completed to the Ohio River.
Cleveland and Ohio City are incorporated as cities.
John W. Willey is elected the first mayor of Cleveland.
Bridge War between Cleveland and Ohio City takes place.
The Plain Dealer begins publication.[1]
City Bank of Cleveland (forerunner of National City Corp.) founded.
The Weddell House opens.
The first telegraph line (from Cleveland to Pittsburgh) is completed.
Colored National Convention held in city.[2]
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad completed.
Alienated American newspaper begins publication.[3][4]
The Cleveland Theater opens.
National Women's Rights Convention held.
Ohio City annexed to Cleveland.
The Cleveland Leader begins publication.
Perry Monument on Public Square dedicated.
The American Civil War begins.
The American Civil War ends.
Cleveland Police Department established.
Cleveland Public Library established.
Lake View Cemetery opens.
Standard Oil Company in business.[5]
Cleveland Bar Association established.
Newburgh annexed to Cleveland.
Euclid Avenue Opera House opens.
Penny Press, predecessor to the Cleveland Press, begins publication.
James A. Garfield, from Cleveland, elected 20th President of the United States.
Garfield lies in state on Public Square after being assassinated, July 2.
Western Reserve College moves to Cleveland.
Cleveland School of Art established.
First electric streetcar run in the city.
Cleveland Electric Light Co. formed.
Michelson–Morley experiment conducted at Western Reserve University.
The Arcade opens.
Garfield Monument dedicated in Lake View Cemetery.
Population: 261,353.[6]
May Day Riots of 1894
Soldiers and Sailors Monument dedicated.
Cleveland celebrates its centennial.
Tom L. Johnson is elected mayor of Cleveland.

20th century

Map of Territorial Changes to the City of Cleveland

1900s-1940s

The Cleveland Blues (predecessor to the Cleveland Indians) are established as one of the first teams in the new American League.
Cleveland worker and avowed anarchist, Leon Czolgosz assassinates U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York.
The Cleveland News begins publication
Glenville City and South Brooklyn annexed to Cleveland.
Collinwood School Fire
Tom L. Johnson loses mayoral race to Hermann Baehr.
Corlett Village annexed to Cleveland.
Collinwood annexed to Cleveland.
Tom L. Johnson dies.
Village of Nottingham annexed to Cleveland.
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 hits Cleveland.
Home Rule City Charter approved by Cleveland voters.
Cleveland chosen as the Fourth District headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Cleveland Municipal Light Plant goes into operation.
Cleveland Play House and Western Reserve University's School of Applied Social Science[7] established.
Cleveland Museum of Art opens.
Cleveland City Hall dedicated.
Cleveland Metroparks organized.
Federal Court trial of Eugene V. Debs held in Cleveland.
May Day Riots of 1919
State Prohibition is enacted in Cleveland
Voters approve placement of a new railroad terminal on Public Square.
Cleveland becomes the fifth-largest city in the nation.
The Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment become law.
Cleveland Indians win the World Series.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History established.
Cleveland Clinic and Playhouse Square established.
Demolition for the Terminal Tower site begins
Federal Reserve bank building completed.
Republican National Convention held in Cleveland.
Mayor/Council form of government replaced by City Manager plan.
New Public Library building opens.
Cleveland Airport (now Hopkins International) opens.
University Hospitals incorporated.
Cleveland Clinic disaster occurs.
National Air Race first held in Cleveland.
The Stock Market crashes
The Tower City Center is dedicated.
Severance Hall dedicated.
City Manager plan is reversed to the Mayor/Council form of government.
Depression-era unemployment peaks in Cleveland: nearly one-third of the city's citizens are out of work.
Prohibition is repealed on December 23 – nearly eight months longer than the Eighteenth Amendment.
Eliot Ness becomes Safety Director of Cleveland.
Cleveland Torso Murder mystery begins.
Clevelander Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympic Games.
Great Lakes Exposition opens.
Republican National Convention held in Cleveland.
Cleveland Barons hockey team established.
Cleveland Arena opens.
Cleveland Rams begin to play professional football.
John D. Rockefeller dies.
Cleveland Memorial Shoreway opens between East 9th Street and Gordon Park.
NACA, forerunner of NASA, established at the Cleveland airport.
Cleveland Bomber Plant (now the I-X Center) opens at Municipal Airport.
Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion claims 130 lives.
Cleveland Rams win NFL football title then move to Los Angeles.
Cleveland Browns begin play in All-American Football Conference.
Operations begin at the lakefront airport.
First telecast by WEWS, Ohio's first television station.
Eliot Ness runs for mayor of Cleveland but is defeated by incumbent Thomas A. Burke.
Cleveland Indians win World Series.
Cleveland named an All-America City for first time.

1950s-1990s

Browns enter the NFL and win the title.
Last streetcars run.
Rapid Transit begins operation.
Boddie Recording Company in business.[8]
Erieview urban renewal plan unveiled.
Final issue of the Cleveland News published.
Mapp v. Ohio
Innerbelt Freeway opens for its full length.
Erieview Tower completed.
Cleveland State University established.
WVIZ, an educational television station, begins broadcasting.
Hough Riots
Cuyahoga Community College opens its Metro Campus.
Carl B. Stokes elected the first African American mayor of a major American city.
Case Western Reserve University established.
Glenville Shootout
Terry v. Ohio
A burning oil slick on the Cuyahoga River attracts national attention regarding pollution.
Euclid Beach Park closes.
Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team organized.
Cleveland Magazine begins publication.
Cleveland Barons play their last hockey game.
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority established.
Desegregation of the Cleveland Public Schools ordered by U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti.
Cleveland is hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978
1978 recall election
On December 15, Cleveland becomes the first American city to go into default since the Depression.
Greater Cleveland Food Bank established.
Presidential debate between candidates Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan held in Cleveland.
Cleveland emerges from default.
City Council reduced from 33 to 21 members.
Term of office for mayor and council members increased from two to four years.
Ground broken for the Sohio (BP) Building on Public Square.
The Cleveland Press ceases publication.
Cleveland named an All-America City for second time.
Cleveland named an All-America City for third time.
Cleveland named an All-America City for fourth time.
Cleveland selected as site for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change established.
Key Tower "topped off" at 947 ft (289 m).
Cleveland named an All-America City for fifth time.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens.[9]
Indians win American League championship.
Bishop Anthony Pilla is elected to the presidency of USCCB
Cleveland celebrates its bicentennial.
Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony win a Grammy for "Tha Crossroads"
Cleveland Indians win the American League pennant and return to the World Series.
The new Cleveland Browns Stadium opens with the return of the Cleveland Browns.

21st century

Cleveland Barons are revived.
Cleveland citizens elect Jane L. Campbell as the first female mayor of Cleveland.
2003 North America blackout
Vice-presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards debate at Case Western Reserve University.
Frank G. Jackson is the first sitting city council member to be elected mayor of Cleveland since Stephen Buhrer in 1867.[10]
Barons leave Cleveland for the second time.
Cleveland, Columbus, and other Ohio cities argue against a bill passed by the Ohio House legislature that will eliminate residency rules in the state.
Cleveland is hit with a major winter storm in February, leaving the city covered with 15 inches of snow.
On October 20th, Cleveland became the first television market in the United States to have all of its local television stations to broadcast in high definition.
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the 2006 law prohibiting residency requirements.
Anthony Sowell, a rapist is charged with the murder of 5 women, but Cleveland Police find more bodies bringing the count to 10 even more could be found. This case is making international news from all over the world.
Frank Jackson wins a second term as Mayor of Cleveland.
11/3/2009 Ohio Voters open Ohio to casino gambling and Cleveland will have a casino by 2013.
Cleveland is selected by the International Gay Games committee to host the 2014 Gay Games. Cleveland beat out Boston, Washington DC, and Hamburg Germany.
Population: 396,815.[11]
Construction begins on the Medical Mart and new convention center, scheduled to open late 2013.
Castro kidnappings discovered.

See also

Other cities in Ohio

References

  1. 1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Conventions Organized by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware. Retrieved April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Timeline". The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ I. Garland Penn (1891), The Afro-American Press and its Editors, Springfield, Massachusetts: Willey & Co.
  5. ↑ M. S. Vassiliou (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6288-3.
  6. ↑ "Cleveland", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
  7. ↑ Cleveland Year Book. Cleveland Foundation. 1921.
  8. ↑ "The Tiny Record Empire in Cleveland". The Root. Oct 13, 2010. Retrieved February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Cleveland History Timeline". Encyclopedia Of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  10. ↑ "US mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Cleveland (city), Ohio". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  12. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Google Books
  13. ↑ "Timeline of Ohio History". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.

Further reading

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Published in the 21st century

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