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History of New Jersey
faculty.njcu.edu/ckarnoutsos/Chronology.htm
Chronology: Important Events in the History of New Jersey
Colonial Period
Lenape at Colts Neck
Lenape at Waterloo Village - photo of longhouse
1524 - Sailing for France, Giovanni daVerrazano possibly explored New Jersey’s shores
1609 - Henry Hudson on Half Moon sailed up river that will bear his name
1621 - Dutch West India Company chartered.
1623 - Captain Cornelius J. Mey built Fort Nassau near Gloucester City and became Director General of New Netherland
1629 - Michael Pauw received the first Dutch land-grant on the west bank of the Hudson River (Jersey City), known as Pavonia
1630 - Area of Harsimus was an island claimed by the Dutch West India Company that developed into present-day Jersey City
1633 - Dutch built a house at Communipaw
1638 - New Sweden settled by Peter Minuit who built Fort Christina along the Delaware River
1643 - Colonel Johan Printz became governor of New Sweden (to 1653); Fort Elfsborg (Sussex County) is constructed by settlers of New Sweden; Pavonia (Jersey City) Massacre on February 25 as part of (William) Kieft's war
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant became Director General of New Netherland
1651 - Dutch built Fort Casimir
1655 - Dutch under Peter Stuyvesant forced Swedes to give up forts in South Jersey; Peach Tree War occurred on September 15; second destruction of Pavonia settlement by Indians
1656 - Dutch capture settlement of New Sweden
1660 - Dutch founded the Bergen Township (Jersey City) on site of present-day Bergen Square, Jersey City
1661 - First recorded school at Bergen Township (Jersey City)
1664 - Dutch surrender New Netherland to England; proprietorship granted to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret (Hudson River to Delaware River) by the James, Duke of York (June 24); Philip Carteret named first proprietary governor
1665 - Concessions and Agreement (Part III and Part V) established government for the colony of New Jersey
1666 - Robert Treat founded Newark
1668 - First Assembly meeting held in Elizabethtown
1673 - Third New Jersey Regiment, known as the "Jersey Blues," started at Piscataway
1674 - Edward Byllynge and John Fenwick, Quakers, bought West Jersey from Lord Berkeley
1675 - John Fenwick established a Quaker colony at Salem in West Jersey
1676 - Quintipartite Deed divided colony into East Jersey and West Jersey (from Little Egg Harbor to Delaware Water Gap); West Jersey Proprietors purchase land from Lenape
1680 - New Jersey's first slaves bought for a plantation in Shrewsbury; Grant of 1680; George Carteret died.
1682 - Gov. Philip Carteret died. Carteret Estate sold to 24 Proprietors and establish Board of Proprietors (1685-1998)
1688 - Council of West Jersey Proprietors met in Burlington
1702 - East and West Jersey proprietorships ended, and New Jersey became a royal colony under a common governor with New York
1738 - New Jersey became a separate royal colony from New York and received its own royal governor, Lewis Morris
1746 - The College of New Jersey (Princeton University) chartered
1748 - Land Riots
1758 - New Jersey's Native American relocated to Brotherton Reservation in Burlington County by New Jersey Assembly; Barracks built in Trenton as winter quarters for British soldiers
1763 - William Franklin became New Jersey's last royal governor
1766 - Queen's College (Rutgers University) chartered
Revolutionary War
New Jersey and the Revolutionary War
1777 - New Jersey State Seal
1787 - John Fitch demonstrated the first steamboat on the Delaware River; he received patent in 1791
Early National Period
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1790 - Trenton selected as state capital
1791 - Governor William Paterson signed charter for the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
1792 - New Jersey State House is built; it is the second oldest state capitol in continuous use
1804 - Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1804); Hamilton -Burr duel at Weehawken (July 11)
1805 - Robert Fulton built the first ship dry-dock in US in Jersey City
1807 - Legislation passed that limited the franchise to "free, white, male citizens"
1813 - Captain James Lawrence (Burlington) and War of 1812
1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden decision on regulation of interstate commerce
1825 - Construction for Morris Canal begun
1827 - Joseph Dixon Crucible Company founded in Jersey City
1830 - Camden and Amboy RR and Delaware and Raritan Canal chartered
1831 - The Morris Canal is opened
1833 - Camden and Amboy Line, state's first railroad began service
1834 - The Delaware and Raritan Canal completed
1835 - A six-month strike at Paterson cotton mills
1836 - Morris Canal extension to Jersey City completed
1837 - The first locomotive in state built in Paterson
1838 - F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrated telegraph in Morristown
1840 - Cranberries first cultivated in the state
Civil War Era
1843- North American Phalanx founded near Red Bank
1844 - Second Constitution of New Jersey adopted
1846 - Baseball played between the Knickerbockers and the New York at Elysian Fields, Hoboken; New York won 23 to 1 (June 19)
1847 - Colgate-Palmolive Co. established its first factory on Jersey City waterfront; site was later known for its 54 foot high clock; company closed in 1985; clock is now located on the waterfront south of the Morris Canal
1848 - First state hospital opened at Trenton due to efforts of Dorothea Dix
1852 - Clara Barton established a free public school in Bordentown
1854 - Railroad line from Atlantic City to Camden
1855 - The first normal school in New Jersey founded at Trenton
1860 - The Underground Railroad and Map
1863 - Draft riots occurred in Newark (July 13) as well as Bloomfield, Orange, Jersey City and Princeton
1864 - George B. McClellan of West Orange carried New Jersey in presidential race against Abraham Lincoln
1866 - New Jersey State Board of Education started
Industrial Period
1869 - First intercollegiate football game played between Rutgers and Princeton in New Brunswick; Rutgers beat Princeton, 6- to-4; City of Bayonne incorporated
1870 - The first boardwalk in Atlantic City completed by Alex Boardman; Monmouth Park opened; John A. Roebling's Sons Company founded
1871 - Statewide free public school system established; Steven Institute of Technology founded; Asbury Park established by James Brady
1872 - Political cartoonist Thomas Nast moved to Macculoch Avenue in Morristown
1873 - Singer sewing machine factory opened in Elizabeth
1874 - School attendance made compulsory in New Jersey
1876 - John D. Rockefeller began the operation of Standard Oil Company in Bayonne
1877 - Thomas A. Edison invented the first phonograph at Menlo Park; Prudential Insurance Company founded
1878 - History of Monmouth County
1879 - Edison invented the incandescent lamp
1880 - John P. Holland demonstrated the submarine in the Passaic River; the first commercially produced electric light bulb was manufactured by Edison in Menlo Park
1881 - President James A. Garlield died at Elberon after being shot on September 19 in Washington, D.C.
1882 - Peter McQuire of Camden and Matthew Maquire of Jersey City succeeded in idea for a Labor Day parade; first one held in Union Square, New York City; Roselle became the first New Jersey community fully lit by electricity
1884 - Grover Cleveland of New Jersey was nominated for President by Democrats
1889 - Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal built at Jersey City
1885 - Johnson and Johnson began its operation in New Brunswick
1892 - Ellis Island Immigration Station opened
1893 - Edison's studio, the Black Maria, opened in West Orange
1895 - Mary Philbrook became first woman to pass the bar in New Jersey
1898 - Rev. Hannibal Goodwin of Newark received patent for rollable film for movies
The 20th Century
1904 - The Great Train Robbery is filmed by Edison
1908 - First route of Hudson and Manhattan tubes (now PATH) opened under the Hudson River
1908 - Legend of the "Jersey Devil" revived
1912 - Woodrow Wilson elected US President
1913 - Paterson, NJ Silk Strike; Botto House in Haledon served as headquarters for 20,000 silk mill workers during the strike
1915 - Standard Oil Strike in Bayonne
1916 - Black Tom ammunition depot explosion at Jersey City coast (July 30)
1917 - Fort Dix established; Frank (Boss) Hague became mayor of Jersey City
1918 - New Jersey College for Women (Douglass College) opened
1919 - Paterson textile workers strike for 44 hour week
1921 - Port of New York Authority established; Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight in Jersey City at Boyle's 30 acres (July 2); first Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City
1922 - WOR began broadcasting; Campbell Soup Co. incorporated in Camden
1925 - Standard Oil of New Jersey established an eight-hour work day
1926 - Passaic Textile Strike
1927 - Holland Tunnel opened
1928 - Newark Airport is opened; Goethals Bridge opened to traffic; Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic in New Jersey
1931 - George Washington Memorial Bridge opened to traffic as is the Bayonne Bridge on November 25, both designed by Othmar H. Ammann, (connecting Bayonne and Staten Island), the Kill Van Kull bridge (connecting New Jersey to Staten Island) and the Holland Tunnel; Parker Brothers received patent for board game "Monopoly"
1932 - Lindbergh baby is kidnapped at Hopewell; Bruno R. Hauptmann was executed in Trenton in 1936 for the murder
1933 - Pulaski Skyway completed; first "drive-in" movie theater in New Jersey in Camden; Radio astronomy developed at AT&T Bell Labs
1934 - The Morro Castle, sailing from Cuba to New York City, caught fire off the coast of New Jersey, killing 137 passengers and crew
1937 - German airship Hindenburg explodes over Lakehurst
1942 - US government seized the General Cable plant in Bayonne to end a strike
1943 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on May 23 and began service in the Pacific under Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.
1946 - Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's "color line" at Roosevelt Stadium that opened at Jersey City in 1937; a statue of Robinson was dedicated at PATH , Journal Square in Jersey City, in 1998
1947 - New Jersey's third state constitution adopted;it included non-gender language for a type of equal rights clause in the state constitution and outlawed school segregation
1948 - Transistor as a substitute for radio tubes developed at Bell Labs in Murray Hill
1949 - New Jersey Civil Rights Acts passed
1950 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on November 21 to serve during the Korean War
1951 - Opening of first 53 mile of New Jersey Turnpike; "Jersey Joe" Walcott won heavyweight championship
1955 - Opening of Garden State Parkway
1962 - Sandy Hook State Park opened
1965 - Mildred Barry Hughes was first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate
1967 - Cold War summit between LBJ and Kosygin at Glassboro (Rowan University); Riots in Newark killed 26 people and injured 1500
1968 - USS New Jersey went into service off the coast of North Vietnam (September 29); Princeton University admitted its first women undergraduates
1969 - New Jersey lottery approved to raise money for state government and education; Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Glen Ridge landed on moon with Neil Armstrong; New Jersey Office on Women established; Millicent Fenwick was first elected to the state assembly
1971 - Women granted further equal-rights protection under law by legislature
1972 - Vote in New Jersey extended to eighteen-year olds
1974 - New Jersey Supreme Court declared that Little League Baseball, Inc. was a public accommodation and could not discriminate against girls who wanted to join teams
1976 - State income tax became law under Gov. Brendon Byrne; Meadowlands sports complex opened; Liberty State Park in Jersey City opened; Karen Ann Quinlan decision
1978 - Opening of legalized gambling in Atlantic City.
1982 - USS New Jersey was recommissioned to serve in Persian Gulf on December 28
1983 - Mt. Laurel II decision issued by the New Jersey Supreme Court
1991 - USS New Jersey was decommissioned on February 8
1993 - Christine Todd Whitman became first woman governor; Liberty Science Center and Hall of Technology opened in Jersey City
1995 - New Jersey Devils win NHL’s Stanley Cup
2000 - Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service began operation from Bayonne; now extends to Weehawken
2001 - Shirley M Tilghman named the first woman president of Princeton University; she was a professor of molecular biology
faculty.njcu.edu/ckarnoutsos/Chronology.htm
Chronology: Important Events in the History of New Jersey
Colonial Period
Lenape at Colts Neck
Lenape at Waterloo Village - photo of longhouse
1524 - Sailing for France, Giovanni daVerrazano possibly explored New Jersey’s shores
1609 - Henry Hudson on Half Moon sailed up river that will bear his name
1621 - Dutch West India Company chartered.
1623 - Captain Cornelius J. Mey built Fort Nassau near Gloucester City and became Director General of New Netherland
1629 - Michael Pauw received the first Dutch land-grant on the west bank of the Hudson River (Jersey City), known as Pavonia
1630 - Area of Harsimus was an island claimed by the Dutch West India Company that developed into present-day Jersey City
1633 - Dutch built a house at Communipaw
1638 - New Sweden settled by Peter Minuit who built Fort Christina along the Delaware River
1643 - Colonel Johan Printz became governor of New Sweden (to 1653); Fort Elfsborg (Sussex County) is constructed by settlers of New Sweden; Pavonia (Jersey City) Massacre on February 25 as part of (William) Kieft's war
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant became Director General of New Netherland
1651 - Dutch built Fort Casimir
1655 - Dutch under Peter Stuyvesant forced Swedes to give up forts in South Jersey; Peach Tree War occurred on September 15; second destruction of Pavonia settlement by Indians
1656 - Dutch capture settlement of New Sweden
1660 - Dutch founded the Bergen Township (Jersey City) on site of present-day Bergen Square, Jersey City
1661 - First recorded school at Bergen Township (Jersey City)
1664 - Dutch surrender New Netherland to England; proprietorship granted to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret (Hudson River to Delaware River) by the James, Duke of York (June 24); Philip Carteret named first proprietary governor
1665 - Concessions and Agreement (Part III and Part V) established government for the colony of New Jersey
1666 - Robert Treat founded Newark
1668 - First Assembly meeting held in Elizabethtown
1673 - Third New Jersey Regiment, known as the "Jersey Blues," started at Piscataway
1674 - Edward Byllynge and John Fenwick, Quakers, bought West Jersey from Lord Berkeley
1675 - John Fenwick established a Quaker colony at Salem in West Jersey
1676 - Quintipartite Deed divided colony into East Jersey and West Jersey (from Little Egg Harbor to Delaware Water Gap); West Jersey Proprietors purchase land from Lenape
1680 - New Jersey's first slaves bought for a plantation in Shrewsbury; Grant of 1680; George Carteret died.
1682 - Gov. Philip Carteret died. Carteret Estate sold to 24 Proprietors and establish Board of Proprietors (1685-1998)
1688 - Council of West Jersey Proprietors met in Burlington
1702 - East and West Jersey proprietorships ended, and New Jersey became a royal colony under a common governor with New York
1738 - New Jersey became a separate royal colony from New York and received its own royal governor, Lewis Morris
1746 - The College of New Jersey (Princeton University) chartered
1748 - Land Riots
1758 - New Jersey's Native American relocated to Brotherton Reservation in Burlington County by New Jersey Assembly; Barracks built in Trenton as winter quarters for British soldiers
1763 - William Franklin became New Jersey's last royal governor
1766 - Queen's College (Rutgers University) chartered
Revolutionary War
New Jersey and the Revolutionary War
1777 - New Jersey State Seal
1787 - John Fitch demonstrated the first steamboat on the Delaware River; he received patent in 1791
Early National Period
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1790 - Trenton selected as state capital
1791 - Governor William Paterson signed charter for the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
1792 - New Jersey State House is built; it is the second oldest state capitol in continuous use
1804 - Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1804); Hamilton -Burr duel at Weehawken (July 11)
1805 - Robert Fulton built the first ship dry-dock in US in Jersey City
1807 - Legislation passed that limited the franchise to "free, white, male citizens"
1813 - Captain James Lawrence (Burlington) and War of 1812
1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden decision on regulation of interstate commerce
1825 - Construction for Morris Canal begun
1827 - Joseph Dixon Crucible Company founded in Jersey City
1830 - Camden and Amboy RR and Delaware and Raritan Canal chartered
1831 - The Morris Canal is opened
1833 - Camden and Amboy Line, state's first railroad began service
1834 - The Delaware and Raritan Canal completed
1835 - A six-month strike at Paterson cotton mills
1836 - Morris Canal extension to Jersey City completed
1837 - The first locomotive in state built in Paterson
1838 - F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrated telegraph in Morristown
1840 - Cranberries first cultivated in the state
Civil War Era
1843- North American Phalanx founded near Red Bank
1844 - Second Constitution of New Jersey adopted
1846 - Baseball played between the Knickerbockers and the New York at Elysian Fields, Hoboken; New York won 23 to 1 (June 19)
1847 - Colgate-Palmolive Co. established its first factory on Jersey City waterfront; site was later known for its 54 foot high clock; company closed in 1985; clock is now located on the waterfront south of the Morris Canal
1848 - First state hospital opened at Trenton due to efforts of Dorothea Dix
1852 - Clara Barton established a free public school in Bordentown
1854 - Railroad line from Atlantic City to Camden
1855 - The first normal school in New Jersey founded at Trenton
1860 - The Underground Railroad and Map
1863 - Draft riots occurred in Newark (July 13) as well as Bloomfield, Orange, Jersey City and Princeton
1864 - George B. McClellan of West Orange carried New Jersey in presidential race against Abraham Lincoln
1866 - New Jersey State Board of Education started
Industrial Period
1869 - First intercollegiate football game played between Rutgers and Princeton in New Brunswick; Rutgers beat Princeton, 6- to-4; City of Bayonne incorporated
1870 - The first boardwalk in Atlantic City completed by Alex Boardman; Monmouth Park opened; John A. Roebling's Sons Company founded
1871 - Statewide free public school system established; Steven Institute of Technology founded; Asbury Park established by James Brady
1872 - Political cartoonist Thomas Nast moved to Macculoch Avenue in Morristown
1873 - Singer sewing machine factory opened in Elizabeth
1874 - School attendance made compulsory in New Jersey
1876 - John D. Rockefeller began the operation of Standard Oil Company in Bayonne
1877 - Thomas A. Edison invented the first phonograph at Menlo Park; Prudential Insurance Company founded
1878 - History of Monmouth County
1879 - Edison invented the incandescent lamp
1880 - John P. Holland demonstrated the submarine in the Passaic River; the first commercially produced electric light bulb was manufactured by Edison in Menlo Park
1881 - President James A. Garlield died at Elberon after being shot on September 19 in Washington, D.C.
1882 - Peter McQuire of Camden and Matthew Maquire of Jersey City succeeded in idea for a Labor Day parade; first one held in Union Square, New York City; Roselle became the first New Jersey community fully lit by electricity
1884 - Grover Cleveland of New Jersey was nominated for President by Democrats
1889 - Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal built at Jersey City
1885 - Johnson and Johnson began its operation in New Brunswick
1892 - Ellis Island Immigration Station opened
1893 - Edison's studio, the Black Maria, opened in West Orange
1895 - Mary Philbrook became first woman to pass the bar in New Jersey
1898 - Rev. Hannibal Goodwin of Newark received patent for rollable film for movies
The 20th Century
1904 - The Great Train Robbery is filmed by Edison
1908 - First route of Hudson and Manhattan tubes (now PATH) opened under the Hudson River
1908 - Legend of the "Jersey Devil" revived
1912 - Woodrow Wilson elected US President
1913 - Paterson, NJ Silk Strike; Botto House in Haledon served as headquarters for 20,000 silk mill workers during the strike
1915 - Standard Oil Strike in Bayonne
1916 - Black Tom ammunition depot explosion at Jersey City coast (July 30)
1917 - Fort Dix established; Frank (Boss) Hague became mayor of Jersey City
1918 - New Jersey College for Women (Douglass College) opened
1919 - Paterson textile workers strike for 44 hour week
1921 - Port of New York Authority established; Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight in Jersey City at Boyle's 30 acres (July 2); first Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City
1922 - WOR began broadcasting; Campbell Soup Co. incorporated in Camden
1925 - Standard Oil of New Jersey established an eight-hour work day
1926 - Passaic Textile Strike
1927 - Holland Tunnel opened
1928 - Newark Airport is opened; Goethals Bridge opened to traffic; Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic in New Jersey
1931 - George Washington Memorial Bridge opened to traffic as is the Bayonne Bridge on November 25, both designed by Othmar H. Ammann, (connecting Bayonne and Staten Island), the Kill Van Kull bridge (connecting New Jersey to Staten Island) and the Holland Tunnel; Parker Brothers received patent for board game "Monopoly"
1932 - Lindbergh baby is kidnapped at Hopewell; Bruno R. Hauptmann was executed in Trenton in 1936 for the murder
1933 - Pulaski Skyway completed; first "drive-in" movie theater in New Jersey in Camden; Radio astronomy developed at AT&T Bell Labs
1934 - The Morro Castle, sailing from Cuba to New York City, caught fire off the coast of New Jersey, killing 137 passengers and crew
1937 - German airship Hindenburg explodes over Lakehurst
1942 - US government seized the General Cable plant in Bayonne to end a strike
1943 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on May 23 and began service in the Pacific under Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.
1946 - Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's "color line" at Roosevelt Stadium that opened at Jersey City in 1937; a statue of Robinson was dedicated at PATH , Journal Square in Jersey City, in 1998
1947 - New Jersey's third state constitution adopted;it included non-gender language for a type of equal rights clause in the state constitution and outlawed school segregation
1948 - Transistor as a substitute for radio tubes developed at Bell Labs in Murray Hill
1949 - New Jersey Civil Rights Acts passed
1950 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on November 21 to serve during the Korean War
1951 - Opening of first 53 mile of New Jersey Turnpike; "Jersey Joe" Walcott won heavyweight championship
1955 - Opening of Garden State Parkway
1962 - Sandy Hook State Park opened
1965 - Mildred Barry Hughes was first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate
1967 - Cold War summit between LBJ and Kosygin at Glassboro (Rowan University); Riots in Newark killed 26 people and injured 1500
1968 - USS New Jersey went into service off the coast of North Vietnam (September 29); Princeton University admitted its first women undergraduates
1969 - New Jersey lottery approved to raise money for state government and education; Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Glen Ridge landed on moon with Neil Armstrong; New Jersey Office on Women established; Millicent Fenwick was first elected to the state assembly
1971 - Women granted further equal-rights protection under law by legislature
1972 - Vote in New Jersey extended to eighteen-year olds
1974 - New Jersey Supreme Court declared that Little League Baseball, Inc. was a public accommodation and could not discriminate against girls who wanted to join teams
1976 - State income tax became law under Gov. Brendon Byrne; Meadowlands sports complex opened; Liberty State Park in Jersey City opened; Karen Ann Quinlan decision
1978 - Opening of legalized gambling in Atlantic City.
1982 - USS New Jersey was recommissioned to serve in Persian Gulf on December 28
1983 - Mt. Laurel II decision issued by the New Jersey Supreme Court
1991 - USS New Jersey was decommissioned on February 8
1993 - Christine Todd Whitman became first woman governor; Liberty Science Center and Hall of Technology opened in Jersey City
1995 - New Jersey Devils win NHL’s Stanley Cup
2000 - Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service began operation from Bayonne; now extends to Weehawken
2001 - Shirley M Tilghman named the first woman president of Princeton University; she was a professor of molecular biology