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. 1 2 Townsend 1867.
  2. ↑ Neel, Gregg L. (December 1938). "Notes and Documents: Pittsburgh: An Address". The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine. 21 (4): 282–283.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Killikelly 1906.
  4. 1 2 3 "U.S. Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Federal Writers' Project 1940: "Pittsburgh"
  6. 1 2 3 4 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1832. Boston: Gray and Bowen. 1832.
  8. ↑ George H. Thurston (1888), Allegheny County's Hundred Years, Pittsburgh: A. A. Anderson & Son, OCLC 4173355, OL 6905087M
  9. 1 2 3 4 Pittsburgh Directory for 1815, Pittsburgh: James M. Riddle, 1815, OCLC 21956933, OL 24166640M
  10. 1 2 3 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. Vol. 2. American Historical Society. 1922. p. 57.
  12. 1 2 3 Nina Mjagkij, ed. (2001), Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, ISBN 978-0-8153-2309-9
  13. 1 2 3 4 Wilson 1898.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 Scott 1908.
  15. ↑ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  16. ↑ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
  17. 1 2 3 Fleming 1916.
  18. ↑ M. S. Vassiliou (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6288-3.
  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. 1 2 "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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  26. ↑ The Manual of Statistics: Stock Exchange Hand-Book, NY, 1912{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. 1 2 3 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (May 9, 2013). "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  28. 1 2 U.S. Census Bureau, "Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000" (PDF), Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003
  29. 1 2 3 4 "Pittsburgh Chronology". Historic Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  30. 1 2 3 "Movie Theaters in Pittsburgh, PA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  31. ↑ "United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  32. ↑ "Children Tie Up Pittsburgh Traffic", New York Times, April 23, 1913
  33. ↑ Patterson, Homer L. (1932), Patterson's American Educational Directory, vol. 29
  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.
  40. ↑ "NCGA Co-ops: Pennsylvania". Iowa: National Cooperative Grocers Association. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  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.
  48. ↑ "City of Pittsburgh Home Page". Archived from the original on December 2, 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  49. ↑ "About Us". Sustainable Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  50. ↑ "About". I Heart PGH. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  51. ↑ "Thousands Attend Pittsburgh Tea Party". Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth Foundation. April 11, 2009. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  52. ↑ "Pittsburgh". Hackerspaces. Retrieved February 10, 2014.

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. (April 5, 2017), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Pittsburgh), 2014-
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