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.

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.

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.

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.