The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of the Bronx in New York City, New York, United States.
Prior to the 19th century
- Prior to European settlement: The Indian Siwanoy tribe of the Wappinger Confederacy roamed the eastern portion of the area that became the Bronx.
- 1639 - Jonas Jonasson Bronck settles and establishes a farm (which he named Emmaus) on 500 acres in what will become known as the Bronx.
- 1642 - Summer: Anne Hutchinson and family move to a location near Split Rock.
- 1643 - August: Anne Hutchinson and others are massacred in an Indian raid during Kieft's War. Anne's daughter Susanna was the only survivor.
- 1646
- Adriaen van der Donck gets a land grant from the Director of New Netherland Willem Kieft. van der Donck names the estate Colen Donck.
- Thomas Cornell granted a four square mile patent which encompasses what is now Clason Point.
- 1654
- Thomas Pell bought a large tract of land from Chief Wampage and other Siwanoy Indian tribal members under Treaty Oak.
- Westchester Village was founded by English settlers who left New Haven Colony for Dutch New Netherland, on land purchased by Thomas Pell in 1654. The settlement was called Oostdorp, or East Towne, and called Westchester by the English settlers.
- 1655 - September 15: Farms in what is now the Bronx were attacked during the Peach War between the Munsee and New Netherlands.
- 1664 - The Province of New York, a British colony, is created by the acquisition of the Dutch colony of New Netherland as part of the treaty ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1683 - Westchester County, is created. It contains all of the lands that would eventually become the Bronx.
- 1748 - Van Cortlandt House is built.
- 1758 - ValentineâÂÂVarian House is built.
- 1761 - Benjamin Palmer buys an island and renames it City Island.
- 1776
- Battle of Pell's Point (Battle of Pelham) takes place in what is now Pelham Bay Park.
- Two rival Loyalist military units, New Jersey Volunteers, and De Lancey's Brigade began operating in the area between Morrisania and the Croton Rivers. De Lancey's Brigade had three battalions stationed in Kingsbridge.
- 1777 - March: The Loyal American Regiment was raised and joins two other Loyalist military units that operate out of Morrisania and Kingsbridge.
- 1781 - January 22: Lieutenant Colonel William Hull led a part of the 2nd Canadian Regiment in raiding De Lancey's Brigade in Morrisania. The 2nd Canadian Regiment burned the enemy's barracks, captured 52 prisoners, and took large supplies of ammunition and forage.
19th century
1800s-1880s
- 1833 - Fort Schuyler is constructed.
- 1840 - St. Ann's Episcopal Church (Bronx), is constructed.
- 1841 - Fordham University established as St. John's College.
- 1844 - Grace Church, an Episcopal church in West Farms, Bronx was incorporated. The founding rector of the church was Washington Rodman.
- 1846 - Town of West Farms was created from the town of Westchester, New York
- 1848 - Gouverneur Morris Jr. sells 200 acres to create Morrisania Village.
- 1852 - July 28: The steamboat Henry Clay, travelling from Albany, catches fire on the Hudson river. The crew beached the steamboat in Riverdale where it continued to burn down. Forty-seven bodies were recovered.
- 1855
- Gouverneur Morris Jr. sells additional land to be combined with Morrisania Village to form the Town of Morrisania.
- Fonthill Castle purchased to become the campus of the College of Mount St. Vincent.
- The Union of Morrisania baseball team was founded in Morrisania.
- 1856 - The Haffen Brewing Company is founded by Matthias Haffen in the area of Melrose that is today known as "The Hub".
- 1857 - The foundry of Janes, Fowler, Kirtland & Company, owned by Adrian Janes moves to facilities in the Bronx in order to cast the second United States Capitol dome.
- 1860
- The Robert Colgate House is constructed.
- The Sunnyslope building is built.
- 1865 - The St. James' Episcopal Church and Parish House is consecrated.
- 1866 - St Barnabas Hospital founded.
- 1873 - The state legislature annexes three towns from Westchester County to New York City as of 1874. The three annexed towns of this "Annexed District" (later known as the West Bronx) were the Town of West Farms, the Town of Morrisania, and the Town of Kingsbridge.
- 1884
- Montefiore Medical Center founded in Manhattan. In 1913 it moved to the Bronx.
- Pelham Park and City Island Railway are both incorporated on August 30.
- 1888 - The Washington Bridge connects the Bronx and Manhattan island.
- 1889 - The Keeper's House at Williamsbridge Reservoir is built.
1890s
- 1890
- The Lebanon Hospital, a precursor to the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, is founded.
- Construction of the Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders building began in 1890 of land on a bluff overlooking the Harlem and Hudson rivers.
- 1891 - New York Botanical Garden established.
- 1892
- Union Railway Company of New York City, a streetcar franchise is chartered.
- Fordham Hospital became the first public (municipal) hospital to be located in the Bronx.
- 1893 - The building for the Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders was completed on the former Fordham estate of William Henry Webb. The building was "a romantic version of a medieval castle", with turrets, fanciful carving, and other flourishes.
- 1894
- Bronx Chamber of Commerce founded.
- Hall of Fame for Great Americans is built on what was then New York University's campus, which is now the Bronx Community College campus.
- 1895
- The East Bronx, (including City Island) is transferred to New York City from Westchester County.
- Van Cortlandt Park public golf course opens, the oldest public course in the United States.
- 1896 - The first United States marathon (40 km), ran from Stamford, Connecticut, to Columbia University's Columbia Oval athletic field in Norwood.
- 1897
- Morris High School opens.
- Jahn's ice cream parlor in business.
- Bronx Borough Hall is constructed.
- 1898
- January 1: The Bronx established as a borough in the City of Greater New York.
- Louis F. Haffen becomes the first borough president.
- Lincoln School for Nurses founded.
- 1899
- April 29: The Colored Home and Hospital dedicated its new home at the corner of 141st Street and Southern Boulevard.
- Bronx Zoo opens.
- Calvary Hospital opens.
20th century
1900s
1910s
- 1910
- Cyrus C. Miller becomes the third borough president.
- The first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is filmed in the Bronx by Edison Studios.
- 1911 - Bronx Hospital established.
- 1912
- Bronx County created (effected in 1914).
- Design of the Bronx flag adopted.
- The New York Knickerbockers of the United States Baseball League played in the Bronx Oval.
- December 3: Borough President Miller proposed the creation of terminal markets in New York City, including the seeds of the original Bronx Terminal Market.
- December 16: The first suffrage hike in America, organized by Rosalie Gardiner Jones, goes from the Bronx to Albany.
- 1913
- Montefiore Medical Center moves to its current location in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx.
- Bronx Opera House opens.
- 1914
- January 1: The parts of New York County which had been annexed from Westchester County were newly constituted as the County of the Bronx, the 62nd and last county to be created by the state, effective in 1914.
- Bronx Board of Trade established.
- October 28: Birth of Jonas Salk.
- Kingsbridge Armory built.
- Douglas Mathewson becomes the fourth borough president.
- Francis W. Martin takes office as the first Bronx County District Attorney.
- 1916 - Radio 2XG begins broadcasting.
- 1917
- March 3: New York City transit stations for the IRT White Plains Road Line, including Allerton Avenue, Bronx Park East, Burke Avenue, East 180th Street, Gun Hill Road, Nereid Avenue, Pelham Parkway, 219th Street, 225th Street, and 233rd Street were opened for service.
- The Bronx Terminal Market built.
- Portions of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line opened.
- The Pelham Bay Naval Training Station was constructed.
- Columbia University turns over the Columbia War Hospital, to the United States Army. It is renamed U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1.
- The Haffen Brewing Company is purchased, and closed down by Jacob Ruppert, Sr.
- 1918
- Bronx Rotary Club formed.
- Henry Bruckner becomes the fifth borough president.
- IRT Jerome Avenue Line fully opened.
- Portions of the IRT Pelham Line are opened.
- The Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries takes place in Exposition Park (Starlight Park)
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
21st century
2000s
2010s
2020s
- 2021 - February 5: SOMOS Community Care opened up Yankee Stadium as a COVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the SOMOS and the New York National Guard. Former Yankee Mariano Rivera participated in the opening of the site.
- 2022
- January 1: Vanessa Gibson became the fourteenth Bronx Borough President, as well as the first female and first African American elected to that office.
- January 9: At least nineteen people were killed, and at least 60 others were injured, after a fire tore through an apartment building in the Fordham Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. Officials are expecting it to be one of the New York City's worst fires in modern times.
See also
other NYC boroughs:
References
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