Timeline of Memphis, Tennessee
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1739 - Fort Assumption built by French.
- 1740 - Fort Assumption abandoned.
- 1797 - U.S. fort built.[1]
19th century
- 1819 - Town laid out.[2]
- 1826 - Town incorporated.[3]
- 1827
- Memphis Advocate newspaper begins publication.[4]
- Marcus B. Winchester becomes mayor.
- 1836 - Memphis Enquirer newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1841 - The Appeal newspaper begins publication.
- 1843
- 1844 - Calvary Episcopal Church consecrated.[5]
- 1849 - Memphis incorporated as a city.[1]
- 1850
- 1852 - Elmwood Cemetery established.
- 1853 - Congregation B'nai Israel founded.
- 1854 - Jones & Co. chemists in business.[7]
- 1855 - German Benevolent Society formed.[8]
- 1857 - Memphis & Charleston Railroad completed.[3]
- 1858 - Memphis Daily Avalanche newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1860 - Population: 22,650.[9]
- 1861 - Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed.[10]
- 1862
- Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville.[3]
- June 6: Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis.[3]
- 1864
- August 21: Second Battle of Memphis.
- First National Bank of Memphis established.[7]
- 1866
- May: Racial unrest.
- Greenwood School established.[11]
- Memphis Post begins publication.
- 1868 - Peabody Hotel in business.[5]
- 1870
- Goldsmith's store in business.
- Population: 40,226.[6]
- 1871
- LeMoyne Normal Institute[12] and College of Christian Brothers[2] established.
- St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral consecrated.
- 1873 - Yellow fever epidemic.[2]
- 1874 - Memphis Cotton Exchange founded.
- 1875 - Southwestern at Memphis (college) established.[1]
- 1878 - Yellow fever epidemic.[3]
- 1879 - Yellow fever epidemic.[2]
- 1880 - Population: 33,592.[6]
- 1882
- 1883 - Young Men's Christian Association chartered.[8]
- 1885 - Peoples Grocery in business.
- 1887 - Memphis National Bank organized.[7]
- 1890
- Nineteenth Century Club formed.[8]
- Population: 64,589.[3]
- 1891 - City rechartered.[2]
- 1892 - Railroad bridge constructed.[6]
- 1899 - Manassas High School established.
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900 - Population: 102,320.[6]
- 1905 - Madison Hotel built.
- 1906 - Memphis Zoo and Overton Park established.
- 1910
- Commission form of government begins.[2]
- Exchange Building constructed.
- E. H. Crump becomes mayor.
- Population: 131,105.[2]
- 1912 - Handy's The Memphis Blues (song) published.
- 1914 - Union Avenue United Methodist Church built.
- 1915 - Guthrie Elementary School founded.
- 1916
- Harahan Bridge opens to West Memphis, Arkansas.
- Memphis Brooks Museum of Art established.
- Piggly Wiggly grocery in business.[14]
- 1917
- May 22: Lynching of Ell Persons.[15]
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch established.
- 1919 - Citizens' Co-operative Stores incorporated.[16]
- 1920 - City hosts Commission on Interracial Cooperation Women's Interracial Conference.[17]
- 1922 - Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church established.
- 1924 - Lincoln American Tower built.
- 1929 - Memphis Municipal Airport dedicated.[18]
- 1930
- Memphis Museum of Natural History and Industrial Arts opens.
- Sterick Building constructed.
- 1931
- 1932 - Memphis Times newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1936 - Memphis Academy of Art founded.
- 1937
- 1938 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.
- 1939 - First Colored Baptist Church built.
- 1941 - Mason Temple built.
- 1945 - Lorraine Motel in business.
- 1946
- Douglass High School opens.
- Tri-State Bank established.[20]
- 1947 - WDIA radio begins broadcasting.
1950s-1990s
- 1956 - Opera Memphis established.
- 1957 - Satellite Records in business.
- 1960 - Henry Loeb becomes mayor.
- 1965 - 100 North Main building and White Station Tower constructed.
- 1968
- January: Henry Loeb becomes mayor again.
- February 11: Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
- April 3: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers I've Been to the Mountaintop speech.
- April 4: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr..[22]
- April 8: March in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.[23]
- 1936 - Sesquicentennial Celebration
- 1970
- 1971 - Clark Tower built.
- 1972 - National Bank of Commerce building constructed.
- 1973 - May: City hosts Rock Writers of the World Convention.[26]
- 1974 - Women's Resource Center founded.[27]
- 1975 - Hyatt hotel opens.
- 1976 - Temple Israel built.
- 1977 - Memphis in May festival begins.
- 1978 - Muslim Society of Memphis founded.[28]
- 1985
- Tall Trees (prison) privatised.[29]
- Morgan Keegan Tower built.
- 1990 - Population: 610,337.[25]
- 1991
- National Civil Rights Museum and Pyramid Arena open.
- Willie Herenton becomes mayor.[30]
- 1996 - City website online.[31][32]
21st century
- 2002 - June 8: Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson boxing match.
- 2003
- Clark Opera Memphis Center opens.[33]
- July 22: Memphis Summer Storm of 2003, also known as "Hurricane Elvis".
- December 18: Airplane crash.
- 2008 - February 5–6: Tornado outbreak.
- 2009
- October: A C Wharton elected mayor.[34]
- City open government standard enacted.[35]
- 2012 - Population: 655,155.
- 2015 - October 8: Jim Strickland elected mayor.[36]
See also
- History of Memphis, Tennessee
- List of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Tennessee
- Timeline of Tennessee[37]
- Other cities in Tennessee
- Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee
- Timeline of Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Timeline of Knoxville, Tennessee
References
- 1 2 3 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1183
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- 1 2 Reilley 1883.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Angelo Heilprin and Louis Heilprin, ed. (1906). "Memphis". Lippincott's New Gazetteer. Philadelphia.
- 1 2 3 4 Memphis Merchants' Exchange 1888.
- 1 2 3 Young 1912.
- ↑ Polk 1876.
- ↑ "List of Manuscript Collection Finding Aids". Tennessee State Library and Archives. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- 1 2 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 2008.
- ↑ Hamilton 1908.
- ↑ James T. Haley, ed. (1895), Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Nashville: Haley & Florida
- ↑ Walter Sumner Hayward (1922), Chain stores: their management and operation, New York: McGraw-Hill
- ↑ "Memphis, May 22, A.D., 1917". The Crisis (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 14 (3 (supplement)). July 1917.
- ↑ "(Roddy's Citizens' Co-operative Stores)". The Crisis (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 19 (2). December 1919.
- ↑ Thomas Dublin, Kathryn Kish Sklar (ed.), "Chronology", Women and Social Movements in the United States (Alexander Street Press) (subscription required)
- ↑ "Our History". Memphis International Airport. Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ George William Douglas (1948), American Book of Days, New York: H. W. Wilson Co., OL 23248320M – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
- 1 2 Christopher Silver; John V. Moeser (1995), The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968, Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 0813119111
- ↑ Honey 1993.
- ↑ "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved November 2014
- ↑ "Memphis, Tennessee". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Cases: United States. Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Kirby (1998), "Vollintine-Evergreen, Memphis", Cityscape 4, JSTOR 41486477
- 1 2 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ R. Serge Denisoff (1975). Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-3479-7.
- ↑ Gilmore 2003.
- ↑ Pluralism Project. "Memphis, Tennessee". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ Martin P. Sellers (1993). "Privately Contracted Penal Facilities". History and Politics of Private Prisons. Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8386-3492-9.
- ↑ Ebony 2002.
- ↑ "County, city crank computer Internet sites", Commercial Appeal, November 2, 1995 – via Memphis Public Library, "Ask A Question"
- ↑ "City of Memphis". Archived from the original on October 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "History and Mission". Opera Memphis. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ "About the Mayor". City of Memphis. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ "Open Data Policies at Work". Washington DC: Sunlight Foundation. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ↑ "2015 Memphis Election Results". www.commercialappeal.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Chronology", Tennessee: a Guide to the State, American Guide Series, New York: Viking – via Hathi Trust
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- "Memphis", Kimball & James' Business Directory for the Mississippi Valley, Cincinnati: Printed by Kendall & Barnard, 1844
- "Memphis". Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61. Nashville: John L. Mitchell.
- Denson's Memphis Directory, for 1865. A. Clark Denson.
- "Memphis". Commercial Directory of the Western States. St. Louis: Richard Edwards. 1867.
- "Mississippi River: Memphis". James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1871.
- Joseph Buckner Killebrew (1874), "Shelby County; County Seat: Memphis", Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee 2, Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell
- William T. Avery (1876), City of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
- "Memphis". Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1876-7. Nashville: R.L. Polk & Co. 1876.
- Commercial and Statistical Review of the City of Memphis, Reilley & Thomas, 1883
- Directory of the Taxing District of Memphis. Memphis, Tenn.: C.F. Weatherbe. 1883.
- J.M. Keating (1888). History of the City of Memphis Tennessee. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co.
- Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Memphis, Tenn. ... Reported to the Memphis Merchants' Exchange, 1888
- James Phelan (1888), "Memphis", History of Tennessee, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
- Published in the 20th century
- G.P. Hamilton (1908). Bright Side of Memphis: A Compendium of Information Concerning the Colored People of Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis.
- "Memphis", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "Memphis", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- John Preston Young, ed. (1912), Standard history of Memphis, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn: H.W. Crew, OCLC 850900
- Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Memphis", Tennessee: a Guide to the State, American Guide Series, New York: Viking
- Tennessee Historical Records Survey (1941), "Shelby County (Memphis)", Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee (Nashville) (79)
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Memphis", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- Michael K. Honey (1993), Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252020006
- "The South: Tennessee: Memphis", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
- Published in the 21st century
- "Memphis: Mecca on the Mississippi", Ebony, October 2002
- Stephanie Gilmore (2003). "Dynamics of Second-Wave Feminist Activism in Memphis, 1971-1982: Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide". National Women's Studies Association Journal 15. JSTOR 4316946.
- Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. 2008. ISBN 0915525100.
- 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 #93: Memphis
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- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Memphis, TN, various dates
- Tennessee State Library and Archives. Memphis City Directories, various dates (digitized)
Coordinates: 35°07′03″N 89°58′16″W / 35.117365°N 89.971068°W
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