Timeline of Baltimore

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

18th century
  • 1763 - Mechanical Fire Company organized.[1]
  • 1773 - Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[3]
  • 1787 - 1,955 dwellings in town.[4]
  • 1790 - Population: 13,503 people.[5]
  • 1796
    • City of Baltimore incorporated.
    • Library Company of Baltimore founded.[6]

19th century
Map of Baltimore, 1867
  • 1800 - Population: 26,504 people.[7]
  • 1809 - Joseph Robinson's Circulating Library in business.[10]
  • 1821
    • Maryland Academy of Science and Literature established.[5]
    • Basilica consecrated.
  • 1822 - Adelphi Theatre opens.[13]
  • 1823 - Athenaeum founded.[14]
  • 1849 - Baltimore Female College in operation.[15]
  • 1865 - Concordia Opera House opens.[13]
  • 1871 - Ford's Grand Opera-House opens.[13]
  • 1896
    • Electric Park opens.
    • Colored Young Women's Christian Association founded.

20th century

21st century

See also

References
  1. John Calvin Colson (Winter 1986). "The Fire Company Library Associations of Baltimore, 1838-1858". Journal of Library History. 21.
  2. "Baltimore", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
  3. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  4. Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Baltimore", The American gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, OL 23272543M
  5. Charles Varle (1833), A complete view of Baltimore, Baltimore: S. Young, OL 19370655M
  6. Charles Coffin Jewett (1851), Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, Washington D.C: Smithsonian
  7. William Fry (1812), Fry's Baltimore directory, for the year 1812, Baltimore: Printed by B.W. Sower, & Co. for the publisher, OL 24653908M
  8. "History of Fort McHenry". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  9. C. Keenan (1822), The Baltimore directory for 1822 & '23, Baltimore: Printed by R.J. Matchett, OL 23411032M
  10. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  11. Joseph Lawrence Yeatman (Fall 1985). "Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1840". Journal of Library History. 20.
  12. Uhler, John Earle (December 1925). "The Delphian Club: A Contribution to the Literary History of Baltimore in the Early Nineteenth Century". Maryland Historical Magazine. 20 (4): 305.
  13. J. Thomas Scharf (1881), History of Baltimore city and county, from the earliest period to the present day: including biographical sketches of their representative men, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, OL 24157798M
  14. Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell (1903), "Chronology", The medical annals of Maryland, 1799-1899, Baltimore: [Press of Williams & Wilkins company], OL 6966537M
  15. The Baltimore city directory, for 1858-59, Baltimore, Md: John W. Woods, 1858, OL 17860479M
  16. Baltimore (1881), 1730-1880: Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Baltimore, Baltimore: Printed by order of the Mayor and City Council, OL 19368892M
  17. Paul T Hellmann (2004). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis.

Further reading
Published in the 19th c.
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