Timeline of Cincinnati

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