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New York City

most populous city in the United States

72 dated entries naming New York City, drawn from 63 separate years between 2800 BCE and 2020 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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28th century BC

  • 2800 BCEc. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.source

23rd century BC

  • 2288 BCEc. 2288 BC: "Queen Merye-ankhnes and her son Pepy II" is sculpted, Sixth dynasty of Egypt. The alabaster statuette is now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.source

5th century BC

  • 450 BCEThe grave stela from Paros, Little girl with a bird, is made. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (approximate date).source

13th century

  • 12151215–1216 – The Macy Jug, from Iran, is made. It is now kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.source

17th century

  • 1625The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town will transform into a piece of New York City.source
  • 1653February 2 – New Amsterdam (now New York City) received municipal rights by a charter from New Netherland Governor Peter Stuyvesant.source
  • 1664October 4 – New Netherland is captured by England. The English promptly rename the fledgling city New York, after the Duke of York (later King James II).source
  • 1673August 8 – In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of New York.source
  • 1673August 9 – Dutch forces under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest recapture New York from the English; the city is known as New Orange until regained by the English in 1674.source
  • 1674November 10 – As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of February 19, the Dutch Republic cedes its colony of New Netherland to England. This includes the colonial capital, New Orange, which is returned to its English name of New York. The colonies of Surinam, Essequibo and Berbice remain in Dutch hands.source

18th century

  • 1704February 28 – Establishment of the first school open to African-Americans in New York City by Frenchman Elias Neau.source
  • 1711December 13 – Wall Street in New York City becomes the city's first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians.source
  • 1730April 8 – Congregation Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.source
  • 1741April 6 – The New York Slave Insurrection, a plot to set fire to New York City, is discovered.source
  • 1756March 17 – St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).source
  • 1760April 18 – Mary Alexander, influential colonial-era merchant in New York City (b. 1693)source
  • 1767November 27 – Oconostota and Attakullakulla, Chiefs of the Cherokee people in the Carolinas, depart from Charleston, South Carolina on a ship voyage to New York City, where they are welcomed by British colonial officials as a prelude to negotiations with Britain's Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Sir William Johnson.source

19th century

  • 1811October 11 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry service, between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.source
  • 1834July 7–10 – Anti-abolitionist riots break out in New York City.source
  • 1836May 4 – The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.source
  • 1837May 10 – The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.source
  • 1840April 3 – Johnny Appleseed meets Abraham Lincoln, and plants apple trees in New York City.source
  • 1849Global healthcare and pharmaceutical company Pfizer founded in New York, United States.source
  • 1850July 19 – The ship Elizabeth, an American merchant freighter carrying cargo that included mostly marble from Carrara, slammed into a sandbar less than 100 yards from Fire Island, New York, drowning Margaret Fuller, her husband Ossoli, and their young son Angelino.source
  • 1855May 17 – Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, is dedicated (originally named as the Jews' Hospital) in New York City; it opens to patients on June 5.source
  • 1858Squibb Pharmacy, as predecessor of Bristol Myers Squibb, a worldwide pharmaceutical brand, is founded in New York, United States.source
  • 1867December 2 – In a New York City theater, English author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.source
  • 1868March 24 – The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed, in New York City.source
  • 1876June 4 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.source
  • 1879December 31 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance opens at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City (following a token performance the day before for U.K. copyright reasons in Paignton, Devon).source
  • 1885October 10 – The largest ever explosion for a non-military purpose is set off in the East River of New York City as part of a scheme for the removal of Hell Gate rocks by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.source
  • 1886September – Avon Products, a worldwide cosmetics and household brand is founded by David H. McConnell in New York City, United States.source
  • 1887The first English-language edition of Friedrich Engels' 1844 study of The Condition of the Working Class in England, translated by Florence Kelley, is published in New York City.source
  • 1890December 10 – The New York World Building is completed in New York City, the tallest building in the United States for 10 years at a height of 110 meters.source
  • 1897January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.source
  • 1898January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.source
  • 1899July 20 – Park Row Building in New York City is completed. It is the world's tallest building until 1908.source
  • 1899November 8 – The Bronx Zoological Park opens in New York City.source

20th century

  • 1902January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and the banning of steam locomotives in New York City.source
  • 1903March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.source
  • 1905May 4 –The first world championship of professional wrestling takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.source
  • 1905October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.source
  • 1909November 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.source
  • 1918December 14 – Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.source
  • 1918May 15 – The United States Post Office Department begins the world's third regular airmail service, between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.source
  • 1921June 15 – Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's liner makes her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York.source
  • 1932December 27 – The Radio City Music Hall is opened in New York City.source
  • 1933March 2 – King Kong: The original King Kong film, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, debuts in New York City.source
  • 1936February 5 – Modern Times, widely considered one of the greatest films ever, premieres in New York City.source
  • 1937September 30 – Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-born actress of Jewish descent, arrives in New York City to flee from her possessive husband, Friedrich Mandl, who made arms agreements with the Nazis, and to begin her Hollywood career.source
  • 1939November 8 – CBS television station W2XAB resumes test transmission, with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City.source
  • 1943March – Exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's self-illustrated children's novella, The Little Prince, is published in New York City, the all-time best-selling book originating in French.source
  • 1947April 16 – The first public demonstration of a TV camera zoom lens, the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar, is held at NBC studios in New York.source
  • 1947February 21 – Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City.source
  • 1949January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models are sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car has no future in the U.S. (The Type 1 goes on to become an automotive phenomenon.)source
  • 1952February 7 – New York City announces its first crosswalk devices to be installed.source
  • 1952July 3 - The SS United States Has Her maiden voyage en route from New York To Southampton And wins the Blue Ribandsource
  • 1959January 25 – American Airlines begins the first U.S. domestic jet service with a Boeing 707 airliner flight between New York and Los Angeles.source
  • 1960July 21 – English navigator Francis Chichester wins the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, arriving in New York aboard Gypsy Moth III having made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.source
  • 1969December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.source
  • 1969June 28 – The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the modern gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York City.source
  • 1970September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zurich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.source
  • 1971January 1 – Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover: A coalition of over 100 feminists illegally occupy an abandoned city building in New York City. They establish a women's center, homeless shelter, food co-operative, and lesbian center before being raided by police 13 days later.source
  • 1971July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 ft m, making it the second-tallest building in the world after the North Tower that had topped out in December 1970.source
  • 1979February 13 – The Guardian Angels are formed in New York City as an unarmed organization of young crime fighters.source
  • 1979October 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in New York City for his first papal tour where he addresses the U.N. General Assembly against all forms of concentration camps and torture.source
  • 1989April 19 – Central Park jogger case: Trisha Meili is seriously assaulted and raped whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; the convictions of five teenagers for the crime are vacated in 2002 (the jogger's identity remains secret for years, hence she is referred to as the "Central Park Jogger").source
  • 1991July 29 – In New York City, a grand jury indicts Bank of Credit and Commerce International of the largest bank fraud in history, accusing the bank of defrauding depositors of US$5 billion.source
  • 1998February 20 – Rudy Giuliani kicks off his "quality of life" campaign in New York City, focused on increasing civility and reducing nuisances like littering and reckless driving.source

21st century

  • 2002March 11 – The Tribute in Light is installed at the World Trade Center site in New York City.source
  • 2013November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.source
  • 2020April 5 – COVID-19 pandemic: The first case of COVID-19 in a zoo animal is reported: a four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.source

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