The following is a timeline of thehistory of theborough ofQueens inNew York City,New York, USA.

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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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• 1657 –Flushing Remonstrance
• 1683 – QueensCounty created.^[1]
• 1790 – Population: 16,014.^[2]
• 1821 - Horse racing track opens.^[3]
• 1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place inCorona at the old Fashion Race Course.^[4]
• 1860 – Population: 57,391.^[2]
• 1870 – Population: 73,803.^[2]
• 1880 – Population: 90,574.^[2]
• 1889 –BMT Myrtle Avenue Line begins operating.
• 1890 – Population: 128,059.^[2]
• 1898 – January 1: Queens is established as aborough in theCity 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.^[5]

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• 1900
  • King Manor Museum founded in Jamaica.^[6]
  • Population: 152,999.^[2]
• 1909 – March 30:Queensboro Bridge opens.^[5]
• 1910
  • September 8:East River Tunnels open.^[5]
  • Population: 284,041.^[2]
• 1911 – Queens Chamber of Commerce established.^[7]
• 1912 – Chapin Home for the Aging active.^[8]
• 1914 – Murray Hill Theatre opens in Flushing.^[9]
• 1915 –US Open tennis tournament relocates to Queens.
• 1916 – November 16:Queensboro Plaza station opens.
• 1920 – Population: 469,042.^[2][10]
• 1928 – The7 Train reachesFlushing
• 1930
  • August 4:King Kullen grocerysupermarket in business.^[11]
  • Population: 1,079,129.^[2]
• 1933 –IND Crosstown Line begins operating.^[12]
• 1936 –Triborough Bridge built.^[5]
• 1939
  • April 29:Bronx–Whitestone Bridge built.^[5]
  • April 30:1939 New York World's Fair opens.^[7]
• 1940
  • November 15:Queens–Midtown Tunnel opens.
  • Beacon Theater opens in Long Island City.^[13]
  • Population: 1,297,634.^[2]
• 1941 – Strand Theatre opens in Astoria.^[14]

• 1950 – Population: 1,550,849.^[2]
• 1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.^[15]
• 1960 – Population: 1,809,578.^[2]
• 1963
  • The revised (1963)New York City Charter createscommunity boards within each borough.^[16]
  • May 15:Weight Watchers founded.
• 1964
  • April 17:Shea Stadium opens, bringingMajor League Baseball and theNational Football League to Queens with theNew York Mets and theNew York Jets.
  • April 22:1964 New York World's Fair opens.^[7]
• 1968 –Queens Historical Society founded.
• 1969 – Mets win theWorld Series for the first time.
• 1970 –Flushing Tribune (nowQueens Tribune) newspaper in publication.^[17]
• 1976
  • Afrikan Poetry Theatre founded.^[18]
  • Son of Sam serial killings take place over a year in Flushing, Bellerose, and Forest Hills.
• 1983
  • Silvercup Studios in business.
  • Gary Ackerman becomesU.S. representative forNew 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 andBoston.^[19]
  • Population: 1,951,598.^[2]
• 1993 –New York Hospital Queens active.^[8]
• 1996 –Energy Brands, maker of Vitamin Water, established in Whitestone.
• 1997 –Arthur Ashe Stadium opens, home to theUS Open tennis tournament.
• 1998 –Gregory Meeks becomesU.S. representative forNew York's 6th congressional district.^[20]

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• 2000 – Population: 2,229,379.
• 2001
  • November 12:American Airlines Flight 587 crashed.^[21]
  • Astoria Performing Arts Center established.^[18]
• 2007 – Newtown Historical Society formed.^[22]
• 2010
  • March 10:Jose Peralta, ofJackson Heights became the firstDominican-American to be elected to theNew York State Senate.^[23][24]
  • June:Queens Memory Project begins.
  • Population: 2,230,722.^[25]
• 2013
  • Grace Meng becomesU.S. representative forNew York's 6th congressional district.^[26]
  • The graffiti wall5 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 becomesborough president.
• 2017
  • January 20:Jamaica, Queens^[27] bornDonald Trump becomes the 45thPresident of the United States.
• 2019
  • February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations forAmazon, 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, aRegistered nurse atLong Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first recipient of the first dosage of the then onlyEmergency Use Authorization (EUA) approvedCOVID-19 vaccine – thePfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.^[28]
  • Population: 2,405,464.^[29]
• 2021
  • January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine.^[30] With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.^[30]
  • February 10:Citi Field is converted into aCOVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the City of New York.^[31]

• 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 bothGreater New York City andManhattan history.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toQueens, New York City.

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

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