New York History Timeline (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 649

• 1872-02-20 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
• 1873-03-01 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter
• 1875-01-25 Anti-slavery society forms in New York

• 1875-12-25 Lambs Club in New York forms
• 1876-02-02 Baseball's National League forms at the Grand Central Hotel, NYC with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St Louis

• 1881-01-22 "Cleopatra's Needle", a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York [1]
• 1881-05-21 US National Lawn Tennis Association is established in NYC, New York

• 1884-05-13 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms in New York

• 1890-04-11 Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station
• 1890-08-06 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair
• 1890-10-13 The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

• 1891-10-20 1st International 6 day bike race at New York's Madison Square Garden begins
• 1892-03-15 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
• 1893-08-09 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York
• 1893-10-13 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (UK) in 9th America's Cup, in New York
• 1893-12-16 Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 - "New World Symphony" premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York
• 1894-03-08 The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law
• 1894-12-22 United States Golf Association forms in New York
• 1896-03-23 The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels
• 1899-01-03 1st known use of the word "automobile", appears in an editorial in The New York Times
• 1899-05-20 First speeding infraction by a New York cabbie driving an electric car - 12mph down Lexington Street
• 1899-12-10 Delta Sigma Phi fraternity founded at City College of New York, to spread "the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed."
• 1901-04-25 New York becomes 1st state requiring automobile license plates ($1 fee)

• 1901-12-04 Anne Russell's play "'Girl and the judge" premieres in New York

• 1902-07-16 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)
• 1903-04-22 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
• 1903-05-16 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip began in San Francisco by George A. Wyman (arrives in New York July 6)
• 1903-05-23 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
• 1903-07-26 Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete the first automobile trip across the United States, traveling from San Francisco to New York in a 2-cylinder Winton in 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes

• 1904-08-09 Libanus McLouth Todd of Rochester, New York patents his check-writing machine, the Protectograph designed to protect against check forgers
• 1904-10-02 White Sox left-hander Doc White's streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park III
• 1904-10-27 First section of New York subway - Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel
• 1904-12-31 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square, New York City

• 1905-04-17 US Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional in Lochner v. New York by declaring the "right to free contract" implicit in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
• 1905-08-05 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York

• 1906-01-08 A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
• 1906-09-01 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
• 1906-09-04 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
• 1907-04-17 Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants

• 1907-12-16 Eugenia Farrar is the 1st to sing over a wireless radio broadcast, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York
• 1908-07-04 MLB New York Giants pitcher George "Hooks" Wiltse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inning; missed a perfect game by hitting one batter with a pitch (Polo Grounds, NYC)
• 1908-08-17 Booth Tarkington & Harry Leon Wilson's play "Man from Home" premieres in New York
• 1909-02-28 1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
• 1909-03-30 New York's Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens

• 1909-11-26 Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.

• 1910-02-19 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
• 1911-08-31 The "Sullivan Act" requiring New Yorkers to possess licences for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
• 1912-09-25 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City

• 1914-02-01 Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning, 3-3 tie in Cairo, Egypt in an exhibition MLB game; part of special 56-game world tour
• 1914-02-26 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
• 1914-11-03 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob
• 1914-11-28 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
• 1915-01-11 Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase the New York Yankees for $460,000, Ruppert pays his portion in cash
• 1915-03-27 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
• 1915-08-19 British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident
• 1915-10-09 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York

• 1917-01-11 Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's musical "Have a Heart" premieres in New York
• 1917-03-17 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School

• 1917-10-27 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US
• 1917-11-06 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections

• 1920-01-07 Five duly elected Socialist assemblymen are denied by the New York State Assembly
• 1920-05-01 Legendary slugger Babe Ruth records his first HR for the New York Yankees in 6-0 win over his former club, the Boston Red Sox
• 1920-07-06 New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators
• 1920-07-29 First successful transcontinental US airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
• 1920-08-23 Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Roberts play "The Bat" based on Reinhart's novel "The Circular Staircase"premieres on Broadway in New York

• 1921-02-14 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," in New York
• 1921-10-02 New York Yankees outfielder Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR in 7-6 win over former club Boston Red Sox at Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1923-09-04 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0
• 1924-07-01 Dircet regular transcontinental airmail service between New York and San Francisco forms
• 1924-08-05 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
• 1925-02-21 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
• 1925-12-26 NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans' 3-1 win; Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
• 1927-01-07 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
• 1927-02-17 Toronto Maple Leafs, in the team's first game since changing name from "St. Patricks", beat the visiting New York Americans, 4-1 at the Mutual Street Arena
• 1927-03-04 Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 2,380

• 1820-01-19 John Haskell King, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sackets Harbor, New York (d. 1888)
• 1820-03-09 Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Auburn, New York (d. 1893)
• 1820-05-04 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45), born in Gardiners Island, New York (d. 1889)
• 1820-05-23 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1891)
• 1820-08-03 William Miller, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Ithaca, New York (d. 1909)
• 1820-10-05 David Wilber, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Quaker Street, Duanesburg, New York (d. 1890)
• 1820-12-10 David Allen Russell, United States Army officer (Union), born in Salem, New York (d. 1864)
• 1821-01-04 John James Peck, American Major General (Union Army), born in Manlius, New York (d. 1878)
• 1821-03-19 Francis Barretto Spinola, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Old Field, New York (d. 1891)

• 1821-04-19 Mortimer Dormer Leggett, American Major General (Union Army), born in Ithaca, New York (d. 1896)
• 1821-07-10 Christopher Columbus Augur, American Major General (Union Army), born in Kendall, New York (d. 1898)
• 1821-09-08 Henry Baxter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sidney, New York (d. 1873)
• 1821-09-11 Erastus Flaval Beadle, American publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels), born in Oswego County, New York (d. 1894)
• 1822-04-21 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, born in Taughannock, New York (d. 1900)
• 1822-04-24 Erastus Barnard Tyler, American businessman, merchant, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Bloomfield, New York (d. 1891)
• 1822-06-10 John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (Astor Estate holdings), born in New York (d. 1890)
• 1822-07-25 Schuyler Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Putnam County, New York (d. 1903)

• 1822-11-16 Charles Smith Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westernville, New York (d. 1891)
• 1823-04-22 Alfred Gibbs, American Major General (Union Army), born on Long Island, New York (d. 1868)
• 1823-05-22 Solomon Bundy, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district), born in Oxford, New York (d. 1889)
• 1823-08-09 Daniel M. Frost, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Duanesburg, New York (d. 1900)

• 1824-03-30 Innis Newton Palmer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1900)
• 1824-05-10 Charles Henry Van Wyck, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1895)
• 1825-05-01 George Inness, American landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1894)
• 1825-12-19 George Frederick Bristow, American composer (Rip Van Winkle), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1898)
• 1825-12-20 Romeyn Beck Ayres, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Manheim, New York (d. 1888)
• 1826-08-02 William Denison Whipple, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Madison County, New York (d. 1902)
• 1826-10-13 Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Stafford, New York (d. 1868)
• 1827-02-20 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Unadilla, New York (d. 1912)
• 1827-05-27 Samuel F. Miller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Franklin, New York (d. 1892)
• 1827-08-24 Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Penn Yan, New York (d. 1867)
• 1827-09-06 John Morrison Oliver, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), and lawyer, born in Penn Yan, New York (d. 1872)
• 1827-09-24 Henry Warner Slocum, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Pompey, New York (d. 1894)
• 1828-01-27 Samuel Allen Rice, American Attorney General of Iowa and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cattaraugus, New York (d. 1864)
• 1828-02-22 Robert Alexander Cameron, American soldier and newspaper publisher (Union Army), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1894)
• 1828-08-16 Joseph Bradford Carr, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Albany, New York (d. 1895)
• 1828-11-30 Jedediah Hotchkiss, American topographer and cartographer, born in Windsor, New York (d. 1899)
• 1828-12-08 Clinton Bowen Fisk, American abolitionist, Brevet Major General (Union Army), helped establish 1st free public schools in the South, born in York, New York (d. 1890)
• 1829-04-15 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon, born in Fort Ann, New York (d. 1895)
• 1829-07-16 Robert Brown Potter, American lawyer and Major General (Union Army), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1887)
• 1829-08-05 Milo Smith Hascall, American banker, real estate executive, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1904)
• 1829-09-22 William Worth Belknap, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1876)
• 1829-09-29 Giles Alexander Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in Jefferson County, New York (d. 1876)
• 1829-10-30 Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), born in Albany, New York (d. 1888)
• 1830-01-08 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, American civil engineer and Major General (Union Army), born in Cold Spring, New York (d. 1882)
• 1830-03-20 Eugene Asa Carr, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hamburg, New York (d. 1910)
• 1830-05-11 John Converse Starkweather, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cooperstown, New York (d. 1890)
• 1830-05-28 George Lucas Hartsuff, American Major General (Union Army), born in Tyre, New York (d. 1874)
• 1830-10-24 Belva Ann Lockwood, American attorney (1st woman to argue before the US Supreme Court, 1879), born in Royalton, New York (d. 1917)
• 1831-03-06 Philip Sheridan, American general (fought Civil War for Union army, helped preserve Yellowstone Park), born in Albany, New York (d. 1888)
• 1831-08-16 Edward Payson Chapin, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Waterloo, New York (d. 1863)
• 1831-09-29 John McAlister Schofield, American Major General (Union Army), born in Gerry, New York (d. 1906)
• 1831-10-31 Daniel Butterfield, American Major General (Union Army), assistant US Treasurer, born in Utica, New York (d. 1901)
• 1831-12-22 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), born in Hunter, New York (d. 1874)
• 1832-04-14 James Hewett Ledlie, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Utica, New York (d. 1882)
• 1832-04-22 Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (3rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) and founder of Arbor Day, born in Adams, New York (d. 1902)
• 1832-08-23 Alexander Chambers, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cattaraugus, New York (d. 1888)
• 1832-11-05 William W. Averell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Cameron, New York (d. 1900)
• 1832-11-07 Andrew Dickson White, American historian and educator, 1st President of Cornell University, born in Homer, New York (d. 1918)
• 1832-11-26 Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War), born in Oswego, New York (d. 1919)
• 1832-12-21 John Henry Ketcham, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dover Plains, New York (d. 1906)
• 1833-03-14 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist (1866), and women's rights activist, born in Constable, New York (d. 1910)
• 1833-04-02 Thomas Howard Ruger, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Livingston County, New York (d. 1907)
• 1833-07-19 John Wesley Turner, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Saratoga, New York (d. 1899)
• 1833-09-24 Henry Alanson Barnum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Jamesville, New York (d. 1892)
• 1834-01-16 Albert Lindley Lee, American lawyer, Kansas State Supreme Court Judge, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Fulton, New York (d. 1907)
• 1834-04-26 Horatio Richmond Palmer, American composer and choir director, born in Sherburne, New York (d. 1907)
• 1834-11-17 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Potsdam, New York (d. 1863)
• 1834-11-21 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, American attorney, diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1893)
• 1835-05-21 Newton Martin Curtis, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in De Peyster, New York (d. 1910)
• 1835-12-18 George Dashiell Bayard, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Seneca Falls, New York (d. 1862)
• 1836-01-10 Charles Ingalls, father of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in Cuba, New York (d. 1902)
• 1836-04-26 Erminnie Adelle Platt, American anthropologist (first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work), born in Marcellus shale, New York (d. 1886)
• 1836-05-27 Jay Gould, American railroad developer and speculator, born in Roxbury, New York (d. 1892)
• 1836-08-25 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat), born in Albany, New York (d. 1902)
• 1837-04-03 John Burroughs, American writer and nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake), born in Delaware County, New York (d. 1921)
• 1837-04-10 Forceythe Willson, American poet (The Old Sergeant), born in Little Genesee, New York (d. 1867)
• 1837-04-11 Elmer E. Ellsworth, American soldier who was the 1st Union officer killed in the American Civil War, born in Malta, New York (d. 1861)
• 1837-05-28 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1908)

• 1839-06-18 William Henry Seward Jr, American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Auburn, New York (d. 1920)

• 1839-08-27 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), born in Batavia, New York (d. 1881)
• 1839-09-17 Ira Erastus Davenport, American magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1911)
• 1839-09-28 Frances Willard, American educator and founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union), born in Churchville, New York (d. 1898)
• 1840-03-11 Edmund Kirby Jr, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brownville, New York (d. 1863)
• 1840-07-27 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Westchester County, New York (d. 1889)
• 1840-09-27 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American naval officer (Influence of Sea Power), born in West Point, New York (d. 1914)
• 1841-02-01 William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1877)
• 1842-06-06 Steele MacKaye [James Morrison Steele MacKaye], American playwright and actor (Spectatorium, Paul Kauvar), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1894)
• 1843-05-06 Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist (investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1918)
• 1843-08-29 David B. Hill, American politician and Governor of New York (1885-91), born in Montour Falls, New York (d. 1910)
• 1843-09-25 Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, born in Hartwick, New York (d. 1889)
• 1843-10-22 Stephen Babcock, American agricultural chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), born in Oneida County, New York (d. 1931)
• 1845-01-15 Ella Flagg Young, American educator and1st woman pres. (National Educational Association), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1918)
• 1846-09-04 Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban designer (built skyscrapers), born in Henderson, New York (d. 1912)

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