Contents

Timeline of Hartford, Connecticut

Prior to 19th century[edit]

• 1623 – Fort Hoop built by Dutch West India Company.
• 1635 – English settlers arrive.
• 1636 – First Church congregation relocates to "Newtown", Connecticut, from New Town, Massachusetts.^[1]
• 1637
  • Settlement renamed Hartford.
  • Town square laid out.^[1]
• 1638 – Latin school founded.
• 1640 – Burying Ground established (approximate date).
• 1647 – Alse Young hanged for witchcraft.^[2]
• 1662 – Hartford serving as capital of Connecticut Colony.^[1]
• 1670 – Indian treaty signed.^[3]
• 1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of Connecticut Colony.
• 1720 - “Hartford Hills” separate to form the town of Bolton.
• 1758 - Noah Webster born here, publisher of Grammatical Institute of the English Language^[1]
• 1764 – Connecticut Courant newspaper begins publication.^[4][1]
• 1774 – Library Company formed.
• 1775 – 4th Connecticut Regiment organized.
• 1783 – Town of East Hartford separates from Hartford.
• 1784
  • City chartered.^[1][5]
  • American Mercury newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1788 – Woollen mill in operation.^[1]
• 1790 – Population: 2,683.^[6]
• 1792 – Hartford Bank incorporated.^[7]
• 1796
  • American Cookery published.
  • State House built.
• 1797 – Joseph Steward's museum opens.

19th century[edit]

• 1810 – Hartford Fire Insurance Company incorporated.^[7]
• 1812 – Chauncey Goodrich elected mayor.
• 1814
  • Hartford Convention.
  • Phoenix Bank incorporated.^[7]
• 1818
  • Bridge over Connecticut River built.^[1]
  • American Asylum for Deaf-mutes incorporated.
• 1819 – Aetna Insurance Company^[8] and Society for Savings^[7] incorporated.
• 1820 – Population: 4,726.
• 1823
  • Washington College founded.
  • Hartford Female Seminary established.
  • Connecticut River Steamboat Co. incorporated.^[7]
• 1824
  • Nathaniel Terry becomes mayor.
  • Connecticut Retreat for the Insane opens.
• 1825
  • Connecticut Historical Society established.
  • Times & Hartford Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Connecticut River Banking Co.^[7] and Protection Insurance Co. incorporated.^[7]
• 1826
  • The Hartford Times newspaper begins publication.
  • African Religious Society church built on Talcott Street.^[9]
• 1827 – Christ Church Cathedral built.
• 1830 – Population: 7,074.
• 1833
  • Miss Draper's Seminary for Young Ladies in operation (approximate date).^[10]
  • Hartford Literary and Religious Institution^{[citation needed]} and Colored Methodist Episcopal congregation formed.^{[citation needed]}
  • Farmers & Mechanics Bank incorporated.^[7]
• 1834 – Exchange Bank incorporated.^[7]
• 1835 – Patriot and Democrat newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1836
  • Firemen's Benevolent Society organized.^[7]
  • Northern Courier newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1837 – Daily Courant newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1838 – Hartford Young Men's Institute formed.
• 1840
  • Hartford Times newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Population: 9,468.^[6]
• 1841 – Washington Temperance Society, Martha Washington Temperance Society, and Young Men's Temperance Society organized.^[7]
• 1843 – Hartford Journal newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1844
  • Hartford and New Haven Railroad and Hartford and Springfield Railroad begin operating.
  • Wadsworth Atheneum opens.
• 1847 – I. & G. Fox Co. established.
• 1848 – Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company founded.
• 1849 – The Republican newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1850 – Population: 13,555.
• 1853 – Aetna Life Insurance Company incorporated.
• 1854
  • Henry C. Deming becomes mayor.
  • West Hartford municipality splits from Hartford.
  • Connecticut State Library and Hartford Hospital established.
• 1856
  • City rechartered.
  • Charter Oak felled in storm.
  • Hartford Evening Press newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Armsmear built for Samuel Colt.
• 1858
  • The Putnam Phalanx, a ceremonial honor guard, established.^[11]
  • Hartford Daily Post newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1860
  • Boys' Club founded.
  • Population: 26,917.
  • Police department established.^{[citation needed]}
• 1864 – Travelers Insurance Company founded.
• 1865 – Theological Institute of Connecticut relocates to Harford.
• 1866 – Charles R. Chapman becomes mayor.
• 1868
  • Bushnell Park laid out.
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery consecrated.
• 1869 – Travelers Journal newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1872
  • New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and Ados Israel Synagogue founded.
  • Windsor Avenue Congregational Church built (approximate date).
• 1873 – Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church built.
• 1874 – Mark Twain's house built on Farmington Avenue.
• 1876 – Cheney Building constructed.
• 1877 – Hartford Society for Decorative Art formed.
• 1878
  • George G. Sumner elected mayor.
  • State Capitol building constructed.
  • Pope Manufacturing Company in business, making Columbia Bicycles.^[12]
• 1880 – Morgan Bulkeley becomes mayor.
• 1881 – Watkinson School founded.
• 1882 – Post Office and Custom House built.
• 1883
  • Hartford Telegram newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Hartford Electric Light Co. organized.^[13]
• 1884 – The Wooden Nutmeg begins publication.^[4]
• 1885 – Hartford Camera Club organized.^[14]
• 1886 – Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch dedicated.
• 1888 – Hartford Morning Record newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1889 – Union Station built.
• 1890 – Population: 53,230.
• 1892 – Hartford Public Library opens.
• 1896 – City consolidated.^{[citation needed]}
• 1897 – Elizabeth Park laid out (approximate date).
• 1898
  • Pope Park laid out.
  • La Salette Missionary college in operation.^[1]
  • Sage-Allen building constructed.
• 1899 – Corning Fountain in Bushnell Park dedicated.
• 1900 - Population: 79,850.^[1]

20th century[edit]

• 1901 – Underwood Typewriter Company factory in operation.
• 1908
  • Bridge over Connecticut River rebuilt.^[1]
  • Royal Typewriter Company manufactory in operation.
  • Morgan art gallery built.^[1]
• 1909 – Flood.
• 1910
  • Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building constructed.
  • Population: 98,915.^[1]
• 1919 – Travelers Tower built.
• 1920 – The Hartt School founded.
• 1921 – University of Connecticut School of Law established.
• 1925 – WTIC (AM) radio begins broadcasting.^[15]
• 1930 – Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall opens.^[16]
• 1931 – Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford organized.^[17]
• 1934
  • February 7: Premiere of Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts.^[18]
  • Symphony Society of Greater Hartford formed.^[19]
• 1935 – Thomas J. Spellacy elected mayor.
• 1938 – Hurricane.
• 1941 – Windsor Locks airfield active.
• 1942 – Connecticut Opera formed.
• 1944
  • Interstate 84 constructed.
  • Circus fire.
• 1945
  • Hartford Collection of local history established at the public library.^[20]
  • State governor's residence locates to Prospect Avenue in Hartford.
• 1947
  • Edward N. Allen becomes mayor.
  • Bradley International Airport established.
  • Hillyer College established.
• 1950 – Population: 177,397.
• 1955 – Hartford Graduate School established by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• 1957 – University of Hartford chartered.
• 1962 – Cathedral of St. Joseph rebuilt.
• 1963
  • Hartford Stage founded.
  • Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building constructed.
• 1964 – Constitution Plaza built.
• 1967 – Greater Hartford Community College established.
• 1968 – Harriet Beecher Stowe House museum opens.^[21]
• 1970
  • Racial unrest.^[22]
  • Cinestudio founded.
• 1974
  • Mark Twain House museum opens.
  • Hartford Advocate begins publication.
• 1975
  • Hartford Civic Center opens.
  • Real Art Ways established.
  • Valley Advocate and Hartford Inquirer newspapers begin publication.^[4]
• 1976 – Connecticut Transit Hartford founded.
• 1979
  • Hartford Whalers hockey team active.
  • Charter Oak Cultural Center established.
• 1980
  • Population: 136,392.^[23]
  • City Place I built.
• 1987
  • Hartford Karma Thegsum Choling established.^[24][25]
  • Carrie Saxon Perry elected mayor.
  • Hartford News begins publication.^[4]
• 1992
  • Capital Community College established.
  • Connecticut Forum founded.
• 1998 – City website online (approximate date).^{[26][chronology citation needed]}
• 1999 – Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy established.

21st century[edit]

• 2001 – Eddie Perez elected mayor.
• 2004 – University High School of Science and Engineering established.
• 2005 – Connecticut Convention Center opens.
• 2008 – Global Communications Academy opens.
• 2009 – Connecticut Science Center opens.
• 2010
  • Population: 124,775.
  • Pedro Segarra becomes mayor.^[27]
• 2011 – Hurricane Irene.
• 2016 – Hartford Connecticut TempleofThe Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated in Farmington, Connecticut, a suburb. It is the second Latter-day Saint temple dedicated in New England.

See also[edit]

• History of Hartford, Connecticut
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• William Smith Porter (1842), "Hartford in 1640", Historical notices of Connecticut, Hartford: E. Geer's Press, OCLC 6658847, OL 271754M
• Geer's Hartford City Directory for 1845. Hartford: Elihu Geer. 1845.
• Isaac William Stuart (1853), Hartford in the olden time: its first thirty years, by Scæva, ed. by W.M.B. Hartley, Hartford: Brown, OL 23440748M
• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1877). "Hartford, Conn.". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 8. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Hartford" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (9th ed.). 1880. pp. 496–497.
• The charter and revised ordinances of the city of Hartford, Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Co., 1884, OL 13999518M
• J. Hammond Trumbull (1886), The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Boston: E. L. Osgood, OCLC 1187853, OL 13499736M
• Hartford town votes, 1635-1716, Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1897, OL 14010992M

published in the 20th century

• Geer's Hartford City Directory. Hartford: Hartford Printing Co. 1903.
• "Hartford" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 32–34.
• "Hartford", Handbook of New England, Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916, OCLC 16726464
• Federal Writers' Project (1938). "Hartford". Connecticut: a Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People. American Guide Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. hdl:2027/mdp.39015001142218 – via Hathi Trust.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link). + Chronology
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Hartford", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Hartford, Connecticut", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)

published in the 21st century

• "Connecticut: Hartford", New England (3rd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2002, p. 476+, OL 24765202M

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Hartford, Connecticut.

• Connecticut History Online. Items related to Hartford.
• http://www.courant.com/sports/hockey/hartford-whalers/hc-whalers-historical-timeline,0,5898691.story
• Items related to Hartford, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).