Timeline of Queens
The following is a timeline of the history of the [Boroughs of New York (state)|New York City|borough] of Queens in New York City, New York, USA.
Prior to 20th century
- 1657 – Flushing Remonstrance
- 1683 – Queens County created.
- 1790 – Population: 16,014.
- 1821 - Horse racing track opens.
- 1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place in Corona at the old Fashion Race Course.
- 1860 – Population: 57,391.
- 1870 – Population: 73,803.
- 1880 – Population: 90,574.
- 1889 – BMT Myrtle Avenue Line begins operating.
- 1890 – Population: 128,059.
- 1898 – January 1: Queens is established as a borough in the City of Greater New York. The borough consists of only part of the previous boundaries of Queens County; [Nassau List of counties in New York|County, New York|Nassau County] is established in the remaining part.
20th century
1900s–1940s
- 1900
- * King Manor Museum founded in Jamaica.
- * Population: 152,999.
- 1909 – March 30: Queensboro Bridge opens.
- 1910
- * September 8: East River Tunnels open.
- * Population: 284,041.
- 1911 – Queens Chamber of Commerce established.
- 1912 – Chapin Home for the Aging active.
- 1914 – Murray Hill Theatre opens in Flushing.
- 1915 – US Open tennis tournament relocates to Queens.
- 1916 – November 16: Queensboro Plaza station opens.
- 1920 – Population: 469,042.
- 1928 – The 7 Train reaches Flushing
- 1930
- * August 4: King Kullen grocery supermarket in business.
- * Population: 1,079,129.
- 1933 – IND Crosstown Line begins operating.
- 1936 – Triborough Bridge built.
- 1939
- * April 29: Bronx–Whitestone Bridge built.
- * April 30: 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
- 1940
- * November 15: Queens–Midtown Tunnel opens.
- * Beacon Theater opens in Long Island City.
- * Population: 1,297,634.
- 1941 – Strand Theatre opens in Astoria.
1950s–1990s
- 1950 – Population: 1,550,849.
- 1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.
- 1960 – Population: 1,809,578.
- 1963
- * The revised New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.
- * May 15: Weight Watchers founded.
- 1964
- * April 17: Shea Stadium opens, bringing Major League Baseball and the National Football League to Queens with the New York Mets and the New York Jets.
- * April 22: 1964 New York World's Fair opens.
- 1968 – Queens Historical Society founded.
- 1969 – Mets win the World Series for the first time.
- 1970 – Flushing Tribune newspaper in publication.
- 1976
- * Afrikan Poetry Theatre founded.
- * Son of Sam serial killings take place over a year in Flushing, Bellerose, and Forest Hills.
- 1983
- * Silvercup Studios in business.
- * Gary Ackerman becomes U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district.
- 1985 – Greater Astoria Historical Society founded.
- 1986 – Mets win their second World Series.
- 1990
- * Citicorp Building constructed, at the time the tallest building between Manhattan and Boston.
- * Population: 1,951,598.
- 1993 – New York Hospital Queens active.
- 1996 – Energy Brands, maker of Vitamin Water, established in Whitestone.
- 1997 – Arthur Ashe Stadium opens, home to the US Open tennis tournament.
- 1998 – Gregory Meeks becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.
21st century
2000s–2010s
- 2000 – Population: 2,229,379.
- 2001
- * November 12: American Airlines Flight 587 crashed.
- * Astoria Performing Arts Center established.
- 2007 – Newtown Historical Society formed.
- 2010
- * March 10: Jose Peralta, of Jackson Heights became the first Dominican-American to be elected to the New York State Senate.
- * June: Queens Memory Project begins.
- * Population: 2,230,722.
- 2013
- * Grace Meng becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.
- * The graffiti wall 5 Pointz in Long Island City falls prey to redevelopment and is torn down without any opportunity to preserve the artwork.
- 2014
- * October 23: 2014 Queens hatchet attack.
- * Melinda Katz becomes borough president.
- 2017 - January 20: Jamaica, Queens born Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States.
- 2019 - February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations for Amazon, the company announced it was withdrawing its plans to establish a presence in Long Island City, and with this withdrawal the prospect of 25,000 new jobs.
2020s
- 2020
- * December 14: Sandra Lindsay, a Registered nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first recipient of the first dosage of the then only Emergency Use Authorization approved COVID-19 vaccine – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
- * Population: 2,405,464.
- 2021
- * January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine. With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.
- * February 10: Citi Field is converted into a COVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the City of New York.