Timeline of Cincinnati

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

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Prior to 19th century

• 1788 - Losantiville settled.
• 1789 - Fort Washington built.
• 1790 - Losantiville renamed "Cincinnati."
• 1791 - First Presbyterian Society formed.
• 1793 - Centinel of the North-Western Territory newspaper begins publication.
• 1799 - Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette newspaper begins publication.

19th century

• 1802 - David Ziegler becomes mayor.
• 1804 - Methodist Episcopal Society founded.
• 1810 - Population: 2,540.
• 1811 - New Jerusalem Society instituted.
• 1813 - Society of Friends formed.
• 1814
  • Circulating Library Society of Cincinnati founded.
  • German Christian Society instituted.
• 1817
  • Cincinnati Bell, Brass and Iron Foundry established.
  • Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated.
  • Episcopal Society organized.
  • Female Association for the Benefit of Africans formed.
• 1818
  • Western Museum Society instituted.
  • Roman Catholic Society organized.
  • Population: 9,120.
  • Letton's Museum opens.
• 1819
  • Cincinnati College founded.
  • Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette newspaper begins publication.
  • Haydn Society instituted.
  • Cincinnati Medical Society established.
• 1821 - Apprentices' Library founded.
• 1822 - Jewish congregation established.
• 1825 - Cincinnati Steam Paper Mill established.
• 1826
  • Cincinnati Type Foundry in operation.
  • Cincinnati Colonization Society organized.
• 1827 - Cincinnati Time Store established.
• 1828 - Frances Trollope's bazaar in business.
• 1829
  • Lane Theological Seminary established.
  • Cincinnati riots of 1829
• 1835
  • Young Men's Mercantile Library opens.
  • First bag of airmail, which was lifted by a hot air balloon [1]
• 1836
  • The Philanthropist (Cincinnati, Ohio) and German/English-language Volksblatt begin publication.
  • Cincinnati riots of 1836
• 1839 - Ohio Mechanics' Institute fair held.
• 1840 - Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge organized.
• 1841 - Cincinnati riots of 1841
• 1843 - Whitewater Canal built.
• 1844 - Cincinnati Historical Society organized.
• 1847 - Strobridge Lithography Company in business.
• 1848 - Turners' Library in operation.
• 1849
  • 1849 - First city in the U.S. to hold a municipal song festival, named Saengerfest [2]
  • Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio relocates to Cincinnati.
  • Carthage Road Cemetery founded.
• 1850
  • Cincinnati Volksfreund begins publication.
  • First city in the U.S. where a Jewish hospital was founded [3]
  • Population: 115,435.
• 1851 - J. P. Ball photography studio and gallery in operation.
• 1852 - Convention of Colored Freemen held.
• 1853
  • Cincinnati riot of 1853
  • First practical steam fire engine. First city to establish a municipal fire department and first fire pole.[4]
• 1854 - Mendenhall's Circulating Library in operation.
• 1855 - Cincinnati riots of 1855
• 1856 - Ehrgott & Forbriger established.
• 1858 - Daily Penny Press begins publication.
• 1859 - The first horse-drawn streetcars are introduced.
• 1867
  • Public Library established.
  • Cincinnati Conservatory of Music founded.
• 1869
  • Cincinnati Reds founded
  • First weather bureau.
• 1870
  • First municipal university - the University of Cincinnati
  • First city to hold annual industrial expositions [5]
  • Population: 216,239.
• 1871 - Tyler Davidson Fountain dedicated.
• 1872
  • Cincinnati Bar Association established.
  • Cincinnati Orchestra founded.
• 1873 - Wielert's built.
• 1876 - 1876 Republican National Convention
• 1875 - First city where a Jewish theological college, Hebrew Union College, was established.[6]
• 1877 - Cincinnati Southern Railway begins operating.
• 1878 - Music Hall built.
• 1880
  • 1880 Democratic National Convention
  • Population: 255,139.
• 1884 - Cincinnati riots of 1884
• 1885 - Cincinnati Stock Exchange founded.
• 1888 - City hosts Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States.
• 1889
  • Cincinnati Milling Machine Company incorporated.
  • Cincinnati streetcar system begins operating electric streetcars.
• 1893 - Cincinnati Orchestra Association founded.
• 1896 - Business Men's Club of Cincinnati incorporated.

20th century

• 1900 - Population: 325,902.
• 1902 - First reinforced concrete skyscraper - the Ingalls Building.[7]
• 1905 - U.S. premier of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
• 1906 - First university to offer cooperative education, University of Cincinnati.[8]
• 1909 - Evening School for Foreigners opens.
• 1911 - Mount Airy Forest established.
• 1912 - Labor Advocate newspaper begins publication.
• 1914 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1916 - 9th Street YMCA opens.
• 1920 - Population: 401,247.
• 1926 - Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1926–1930) in operation.
• 1928 - LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation established.
• 1930 - Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad in operation.
• 1933 - Cincinnati Union Terminal opens.
• 1937 - Ohio River flood of 1937
• 1951 - Last line of the Cincinnati streetcar system is abandoned.
• 1952 - First heart-lung machine- makes open heart surgery possible. Developed at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.[9]
• 1954 - First licensed public television station, WCET. [10]
• 1960 - Population: 502,550.
• 1967 - Race riot in Avondale.
• 1968 - Riot in Avondale following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
• 1977 - National Rifle Association convention held in city.
• 1978 - Great Blizzard of 1978
• 1979 - 1979 The Who concert disaster
• 1983 - Air Canada Flight 797 accident
• 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Munich, Germany.
• 1988 - Sister city relationships established with Gifu, Gifu, Japan and Liuzhou, China.
• 1989 - Sister city relationship established with Kharkiv, Ukraine.
• 1990
  • Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal opens.
  • Cincinnati History Museum opens.
  • Population: 364,040.
  • Sister city relationship established with Harare, Zimbabwe.
• 1991 - Sister city relationship established with Nancy, France.
• 1994 - Sister city relationship established with New Taipei, Taiwan.
• 1998 - City website online (approximate date).
• 1999 - April 1999 Cincinnati tornado

21st century

• 2000 - Population: 331,285.
• 2001 - Cincinnati riots of 2001.
• 2005 - Mark Mallory becomes mayor.
• 2012
  • Sister city relationship established with Mysore, India.
  • Construction of the Cincinnati Streetcar begins.

See also

• History of Cincinnati
• List of mayors of Cincinnati
• Timeline of Ohio

Other cities in Ohio

• Timeline of Cleveland
• Timeline of Columbus, Ohio
• Timeline of Toledo, Ohio

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • 1856
  • 1861, 1862
  • 1870, 1878

Published in the 20th century

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Cincinnati, various dates