Timeline of Pittsburgh

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.

18th century

19th century

1800s-1840s
  • 1803
  • 1810
    • Eagle Fire Company formed.[9]
    • Population: 4,768.[10]
  • 1811
  • 1812
  • 1813
    • Pittsburgh Humane Society[9] and Chemical and Physiological Society[9] established.
  • 1815
  • 1814
    • Fort Lafayette is abandoned.
    • Pittsburgh Permanent Library Company established.[9]
  • 1816
  • 1820
    • Population: 7,248.[7]
  • 1825
    • Pittsburgh Apprentices' Library founded.[6]
  • 1828
    • Town of Allegheny incorporated as a borough.
    • City water pumping system put into effect for the Allegheny River.
  • 1829
  • 1830
    • Population: 12,542.[7]
  • 1831
    • Theban Literary Society organized.[5]
  • 1832
    • African Education Society founded.[12]
    • The Flood of 1832.
    • Cholera outbreak.
  • 1833
    • Pittsburg Theater built.[13]
  • 1835
    • Board of Trade created.[14]
  • 1838
    • Pittsburg Institute of Arts and Sciences incorporated.[13]
  • 1840
    • Allegheny borough incorporated as a city.
    • Pittsburgh and Beaver Canal opens.[3]
  • 1841
  • 1842
  • 1843
  • 1844
  • 1845
  • 1846
  • 1847
    • Young Men's Mercantile Library & Mechanics Institute established.[6]
    • The Catholic Sisters of Mercy establish Mercy Hospital, the first hospital in Pittsburgh
  • 1849

1850s–1890s

20th century

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

21st century

See also
other cities in Pennsylvania

References
  1. Townsend 1867.
  2. Neel, Gregg L. (December 1938). "Notes and Documents: Pittsburgh: An Address". The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine. 21 (4): 282–283.
  3. Killikelly 1906.
  4. "U.S. Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  5. Federal Writers' Project 1940: "Pittsburgh"
  6. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  7. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1832. Boston: Gray and Bowen.
  8. George H. Thurston (1888), Allegheny County's Hundred Years, Pittsburgh: A. A. Anderson & Son, OCLC 4173355, OL 6905087M
  9. Pittsburgh Directory for 1815, Pittsburgh: James M. Riddle, 1815, OCLC 21956933, OL 24166640M
  10. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  11. History of Pittsburgh and Environs. 2. American Historical Society. 1922. p. 57.
  12. Nina Mjagkij, ed. (2001), Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, ISBN 978-0-8153-2309-9
  13. Wilson 1898.
  14. Scott 1908.
  15. "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
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  17. Fleming 1916.
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  19. Reiss, Steven A. (2006). Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 299–300. ISBN 978-0-313-08306-8.
  20. Chamber of Commerce 1905.
  21. Decker, John. "Pittsburgh's First Minor League Team". Pirates Prospects. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  22. Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
  23. "Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh". American Newspaper Directory. George P. Rowell. 1884.
  24. "Historical Chronology". Our History. Senator John Heinz History Center. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  25. Wm. P. Smull (1883). Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg.
  26. The Manual of Statistics: Stock Exchange Hand-Book, NY, 1912
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  30. "Movie Theaters in Pittsburgh, PA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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  32. "Children Tie Up Pittsburgh Traffic", New York Times, April 23, 1913
  33. Patterson's American Educational Directory, 29, 1932
  34. Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852–1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.
  35. "Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy". Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  36. "History". Pittsburgh Foundation. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  37. "Pittsburgh Strike", New York Times, October 22, 1946
  38. "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved November 30, 2014
  39. "United States". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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  41. Pluralism Project. "Hinduism in America". America's Many Religions: Timelines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  42. "About Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, PA". Penn Hills. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  43. "History of the Food Bank". Duquesne, Pennsylvania: Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  44. "Pennsylvania Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  45. Harry Henderson (2007). "Chronology". Artificial Intelligence: Mirrors for the Mind. NY: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60413-059-1.
  46. "Pittsburgh Transit Strike Makes Commuters Scramble". New York Times. March 18, 1992. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  47. "New Talks Set in Pittsburgh Newspaper Strike". New York Times. July 16, 1992. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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  49. "About Us". Sustainable Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
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  51. "Thousands Attend Pittsburgh Tea Party". Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth Foundation. April 11, 2009. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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  53. Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Pennsylvania: a Guide to the Keystone State, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9781603540377 – via Google Books

Bibliography
See also: History of Pittsburgh § Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

1850s-1890s

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

Published in the 21st century

  • Louise A. Jezierski (2012), "Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civic cultures and organizational capacities", in Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, ISBN 978-1-4094-3654-6
  • James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (ed.), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Pittsburgh), 2014-

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