The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S.

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.The 1858 Fashion Race Course Baseball Match, Baseball Almanac, http://www.baseball-almanac.com/treasure/autont2006b.shtml Accessed August 5, 2013 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.

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 (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.

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 (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.

See also Queens directories Queens history National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Queens List of streetcar lines in Queens List of New York City Subway stations in Queens List of Queens borough presidents List of Queens neighborhoods Neighborhood histories: Astoria, Bayside, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, Elmhurst, Flushing, Glendale, Jamaica, Long Island City, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Rockaway, Whitestone, Woodhaven, Woodside, etc.

other NYC boroughs Timeline of Brooklyn Timeline of the Bronx Timeline of Staten Island Timeline of New York City – a timeline inclusive of both Greater New York City and Manhattan history.

References

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

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Published in the 20th century

Mary A. Glascock. An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Queens County, New York (Queens College, 1977) 218 pages Janet E. Lieberman and Richard K. Lieberman. City Limits: A Social History of Queens (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983)

Published in the 21st century

(includes "History" section)

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