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Timeline of Burlington, Vermont

• 1763 - Town charter granted by the British Province of New Hampshire.^[1]
• 1774 - Settlement established.^[1]
• 1791
  • March 4: Town becomes part of the State of Vermont.
  • November 3: University of Vermont founded.^[2][3]
  • Burlington becomes shire town of Chittenden County.^[4]
• 1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.^[5]

• 1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.^[5]
• 1802 - Court house built.^[4]
• 1804 - Grasse Mount built, now a campus building of the University of Vermont
• 1810 - Population: 1,690.^[6]
• 1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
• 1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.^[2]
• 1816 - Unitarian Church built.
• 1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.^[7]
• 1825 - LaFayette visits town.^[2]
• 1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.^[8]
• 1827
  • Free Press Weekly begins publication.^[9]
  • Champlain Glass Company established.^[4]
• 1829
  • Lyman block built.^[2]
  • Burlington High School and Burlington Fire Company incorporated.^[10]
• 1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.^[8]
• 1834 - Baptist church established.^[11]
• 1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.^[12]
• 1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.^[4]
• 1847
  • E. & E. Lyman in business.^[2]
  • Commercial Bank of Burlington and Burlington Savings Bank chartered.^[2]
• 1848 - Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).^[1]
• 1849
  • Rutland & Burlington Railroad built.^[13][14]
• 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.^[12]
• 1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.^[2]
• 1854
  • Town Hall built.^[4]
  • Vermont Episcopal Institute incorporated.^[2]
• 1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.^[2]
• 1857
  • Custom House built.^[4]
  • Burlington Breakwater Lights established.^[3]
• 1858
  • Marine Hospital built.^[2]
  • Burlington Times newspaper begins publication.^[5]
• 1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.^[2]
• 1865
  • Burlington chartered as a city;^[1] town of South Burlington established.^[15]
  • Albert Catlin becomes mayor.^[16]
  • Vermont Agricultural College incorporated with the University of Vermont.^[2][3]
  • Home for Destitute Children founded.^[2]
• 1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.^[2]
• 1867
  • J.M. Henry & Sons in business.^[2]
  • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.^[1]
• 1869 - First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
• 1870
  • City market building constructed.^[2]
  • E.S. Fullam & Co. in business.^[2]
  • Population: 14,387.^[3]
• 1872
  • Winooski & Burlington Horse Railroad incorporated.^[17]
  • Wells, Richardson & Co. in business.^[2]
• 1873
  • Fletcher Free Library established.^[18]
  • County courthouse built.^[2]
• 1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.^[2]
• 1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).^[2]
• 1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.^[2]
• 1879 - Mary Fletcher Hospital founded.^[1]
• 1880 - Population: 11,365.^[1]
• 1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.^[19]
• 1885
  • Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue built.
  • Urban A. Woodbury becomes mayor.
• 1886 - Daniel Webster Robinson House built.
• 1887 - Cathedral of Saint Joseph completed.
• 1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.^[20]
• 1889
  • St. Mary's academy founded.^[1]
  • Baldwin Refrigerator Company established (approximate date).^[8]
• 1890 - Population: 14,590.^[1]
• 1894
  • Queen City Cotton Co. incorporated.^[20]
  • William J. Van Patten becomes mayor.
  • Burlington Daily News begins publication.^[5]
  • Fort Ethan Allen established.^[1]
• 1897
  • Burlington Masonic Temple built.^[1]
  • Battery Park established.^[21]
• 1900 - Population: 18,640.^[1]

• 1902 - Fletcher Free Library re-located.
• 1904 - Strong Theatre opens.^[22]
• 1905
  • Burlington Electric Department created.
  • McIntosh and Crandall engineering company in business.^[8]
• 1910 - Population: 20,468.^[1]
• 1916 - Union Station operated until 1953.
• 1920 - First aircraft lands at Burlington International Airport.
• 1922
  • State Tree Nursery relocates from Burlington to Essex.^[23]
  • Champlain Valley Fair begins in nearby Essex.^[24]
• 1925 - Trinity College founded.^[8]
• 1926 - Ira Allen Chapel dedicated.
• 1930 - Flynn Theatre built.^[25]
• 1948 - U.S. Coast Guard Station Burlington established on Juniper Island.
• 1953 - Ethan Allen Air Force Base activated.
• 1964 - Burlington High School moves to current location; as part of a major realignment of the city's schools, Edmunds Elementary opens on the former campus replacing Adams (sold off and repurposed as office space) and Converse (demolished in urban renewal) schools.
• 1967
  • City Council expands to 13 aldermen.^[26]
  • Population: 35,531.^[26]
• 1969 - Howard Center headquartered in city.
• 1972 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception destroyed by arson.
• 1973 - Burlington International Airport new terminal opens.
• 1977 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception re-built (closed 2018)
• 1978 - Ben & Jerry's in business.
• 1981
  • Church Street Marketplace constructed.
  • Bernie Sanders becomes mayor.^[27]
• 1983 - City government Community and Economic Development Office established.^[28]
• 1989
  • Outright Vermont founded.
  • Peter Clavelle becomes mayor.^[16]
• 1990
  • Burlington City Arts established.^[29]
  • Cara Wick designs the flag of Burlington as a school project.
• 1993
  • City Council expands to 14 councilors.^[26]
  • Population: 39,127.^[26]
• 1998 - City website online.^[30]
• 2000 - "Legacy Plan" for development created.^[28]

• 2003 - Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004 headquartered in Burlington.^[31]
• 2006 - Bob Kiss becomes mayor.
• 2009 - Vermont Daily News begins publication.
• 2010
  • Population: 42,417
  • The city-owned Burlington Telecom cable provider is unable to pay the city of Burlington the $17 million it owes. As a result, Moody's downrates the debt for the city to A2, "upper medium". Moody's also downrates the credit rating for Burlington International Airport.^[32]
• 2012 - Miro Weinberger becomes mayor.^[33]
• 2014 - with the purchase of the Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River electricity comes from 100 percent renewable sources^[34]
• 2015 - Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in Burlington.
• 2017 - Owen and Lucas Marchessault win a competition to redesign the former flag of Burlington. Their winning design is the current flag of the city.

• Burlington history
• Burlington, Vermont metropolitan area
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Burlington", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Zadock Thompson (1824), "Burlington", A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont, E. P. Walton, OCLC 5276863
• John Hayward (1857), "Burlington, Vt.", New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp, OCLC 3441657
• Walton, Joseph Soper (1866). "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont Manufacturing Company. hdl:2027/wu.89063116057.
• Abby Maria Hemenway, ed. (1867), "Burlington", Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Burlington, Vt.: A.M. Hemenway
• "Burlington, Vt.", Appleton's Handbook of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour, New York: D. Appleton, 1870
• "Burlington (1.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 550.
• "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1877. + 1879 ed.
• "City of Burlington". Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont. NY: Hamilton Child. 1882.
• Burlington, Vt. as a Manufacturing, Business, and Commercial Center. Burlington Board of Trade. 1889.
• "Industries and Wealth of Burlington". Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Vermont. NY: American Publishing and Engraving Co. 1891.
• Joseph Auld (1894), Picturesque Burlington, Burlington, Vt: Free Press Association, OL 14034397M
• Charter & Revised General Ordinances of the City of Burlington, Vt. 1897.
• Charles S. Forbes (1900). "Twentieth Century Burlington". The Vermonter. 5.

Published in the 20th century

• Katharine Lord (1904). Address book of Burlington, Vermont: 1904-5. Burlington: F. L. Lane & Company.
• Charles Edwin Allen (1905), About Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Shanley
• "Burlington (Vermont)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 837–838.
• "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. 1910.
• Federal Writers’ Project (1937). "Burlington". Vermont: a Guide to the Green Mountain State. American Guide Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. + Chronology
• Tom W. Rice (1985). "Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont". Polity. 17 (4): 795–806. doi:10.2307/3234575. JSTOR 3234575. S2CID 153889856.
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Burlington, Vermont", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)

Published in the 21st century

• James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, ed. (5 April 2017), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Burlington, Vt.), 2014-
• Colin Woodard (November 17, 2016), "America's First All-Renewable-Energy City", Politico

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