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

Contents

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.
  • 2016 - The Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar system opens

    • References

    Timeline of Cincinnati Wikipedia
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