Timeline of Queens

The following is a timeline of the history of the 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 County is established in the remaining part.

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.

1950 – Population: 1,550,849.
1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.
1960 – Population: 1,809,578.
1963
- The revised (1963) 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 (now Queens 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 (EUA) 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.

"Timeline of Queens History". Queens Historical Society.
"Queens Timeline". Greater Astoria Historical Society.
"Archives at Queens Library". NY: Queens Library. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
Walter Greenspan. "Geographic History of Queens County" – via RootsWeb.com. (timeline)
"Best of the Web: New York City History: Queens". New York Public Library.

History of New York City
Manatus Map of the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary in the 17th century
Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 Federal and early American, 1784–1854 Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897 (Civil War, 1861–1865) Early 20th century, 1898–1945 Post–World War II, 1946–1977 Modern and post-9/11, 1978–present
See also
Timelines: New York City • Manhattan • Bronx • Brooklyn • Queens • Staten Island Transportation Category
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