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This is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.


Video Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts



17th century

  • 1630 - English settlers arrive.
  • 1632 - First Parish meeting house built.
  • 1636 - The "New College" founded.
  • 1638
    • Newe Towne renamed "Cambridge."
    • John Harvard, a Puritan minister, bequeaths his library and half his monetary estate to the college.
  • 1639 - New College renamed Harvard College for benefactor John Harvard.
  • 1640 - Bay Psalm Book printed.
  • 1642 - Harvard holds its first commencement.
  • 1662 - Great Bridge built.
  • 1663 - Algonquin-language Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God published.
  • 1682 - Cooper-Frost-Austin House built (date approximate).
  • 1685 - Hooper-Lee-Nichols House built.
  • 1688 - Cambridge Village, later renamed Newton, separated from Cambridge.

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18th century

  • 1713 - Town of Lexington separated from Cambridge.
  • 1720 - Harvard's Massachusetts Hall built.
  • 1727 - William Brattle House built.
  • 1759
    • Christ Church congregation founded.
    • Vassall House built.
  • 1760 - Apthorp House built.
  • 1767 - Elmwood (residence) built.
  • 1775
    • April 18: William Dawes traverses the town en route to sounding warnings on eve of Battles of Lexington and Concord.
    • April 19: Skirmishes between retreating British troops and American patriots at Watson's Corner and elsewhere in North Cambridge.
    • May 12: The New-England Chronicle in publication.
    • July 3: George Washington takes command of American army.
  • 1780 - May 19: New England's Dark Day.
  • 1782 - Harvard Medical School founded.
  • 1793 - West Boston Bridge built.
  • 1796 - Fresh Pond Hotel built.

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19th century

1800s-1840s

  • 1800 - Printer William Hilliard in business.
  • 1805 - Harvard Botanic Garden founded.
  • 1807
    • Cambridge and Concord Turnpike opens.
    • Little Cambridge separates from Cambridge and is renamed Brighton.
    • West Cambridge, later renamed Arlington, separated from Cambridge.
  • 1809 - Craigie's Bridge opens.
  • 1814 - Cambridge Humane Society and Female Humane Society founded.
  • 1815 - Harvard's University Hall built.
  • 1816 - Middlesex County Courthouse (Massachusetts) built.
  • 1817 - Harvard Law School founded.
  • 1818 - New England Glass Company established.
  • 1824 - East Cambridge Charitable Society formed.
  • 1826 - Frederic Tudor and Nathaniel Wyeth begin harvesting ice at Fresh Pond.
  • 1827 - First Evangelical Congregational church and Second Baptist Church established.
  • 1830 - Population: 6,072.
  • 1831
    • Mount Auburn Cemetery founded.
    • Cambridge Market Hotel (later Porter's Hotel) built.
  • 1832 - Cambridge Fire Department established.[2]
  • 1833
    • Hunt & Co's Circulating Library in business.
    • First Parish meeting house built, corner Church St. and Mass. Ave.
  • 1835 - West Cambridge Social Library active.
  • 1837
    • August 31: Emerson gives "American Scholar" speech.
    • East Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society formed.
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow moves to Craigie House.
  • 1839
    • Hopkins Classical School established.
    • Harvard College Observatory founded.
  • 1840
    • Cambridge Magnolia begins publication.
    • St. John's Mutual Relief Society organized.
    • Population: 8,409.
  • 1841 - Cambridge Lyceum organized.
  • 1846
    • Cambridge Chronicle begins publication.
    • Stickney-Shepard House built.
    • Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad begins operating.
    • Alvan Clark & Sons telescope maker in business.
    • City chartered.
    • James D. Green becomes mayor.
    • Population: 12,500.
  • 1847 - Great Refractor telescope installed.
  • 1848 - Franklin Library Association founded.
  • 1849 - Cambridge Athenaeum incorporated.

1850s-1890s

  • 1850 - Howard Benevolent Society organized.
  • 1852
    • Cambridge Water Works Corporation chartered.
    • Riverside Press established.
  • 1854 - Cambridge Cemetery consecrated.
  • 1856 - Population: 20,473.
  • 1857
    • Cambridge Circulating Library in business.
    • Walden Street Cattle Pass built.
  • 1858 - Harvard Glee Club founded.
  • 1859 - Museum of Comparative Zoology founded.
  • 1860 - Cambridge Horticultural Society organized.
  • 1861 - Veterans' Services established.
  • 1862 - Sanitary Society active (approximate date).
  • 1865 - Old Cambridge Mutual Relief Society organized.
  • 1866
    • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and New Church Theological School founded.
    • Cambridge Press newspaper begins publication.
  • 1867 - Episcopal Theological School founded.
  • 1868 - Cambridge Mechanics Literary Association organized.
  • 1869
    • Old Cambridge Baptist Church built on Harvard Street.
    • North Cambridge Choral Society organized.
  • 1870 - Soldiers' Monument dedicated on Cambridge Common
  • 1871
    • Cambridge Social Union founded.
    • Alpha Glee Club organized.
  • 1872 - Cambridge Choral Society formed.
  • 1873
    • The Harvard Crimson newspaper begins publication.
    • Basket Club formed.
  • 1875
    • Church of the Ascension organized.
    • Kennedy Steam Bakery built.
    • Population: 47,838.
  • 1876 - Harvard Lampoon begins publication.
  • 1877 - Harvard's Memorial Hall built.
  • 1878
    • The Cambridge Tribune newspaper begins publication.[3]
    • Harvard's Sever Hall built.
  • 1879 - Cambridge Public Library established.
  • 1880 - Population: 52,669.
  • 1881 - Cambridge Club active.
  • 1882
    • Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women incorporated.
    • Harvard Cooperative founded.
  • 1883
    • Cambridge YMCA opens.
    • Browne & Nichols School founded.
  • 1884 - Odd Fellows Hall built.
  • 1886 - Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge English High School (Broadway & Fayette St.), Cambridge Latin School (Lee St.), and Cambridge School for Girls established.
  • 1887 - Cambridgeport Cycle Club organized.
  • 1889
    • City Hall, Brattle Hall, and William James' house built.
    • Buckingham School founded.
    • Cambridge Plant Club established.
  • 1890 - Population: 70,028.
  • 1891 - Harvard Bridge built.
  • 1892 - Old Cambridge Photographic Club formed.
  • 1893 - Road built around Fresh Pond.
  • 1894
    • Radcliffe College chartered.
    • Cambridge Walking Club founded.
  • 1895
    • Lechmere Canal built.
    • Keezer's clothier in business.
    • W. E. B. Du Bois earns PhD from Harvard University.
  • 1896 - Cambridge Political Equality Association established.
  • 1897 - Cambridge Skating Club founded.

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20th century

1900s-1940s

  • 1900 - Population: 91,886.
  • 1901 - Swedenborg Chapel built.
  • 1903
    • Cambridge Sentinel newspaper begins publication.
    • Busch-Reisinger Museum opens.
  • 1904 - Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association established.
  • 1905 - Cambridge Historical Society founded.
  • 1906 - Longfellow Bridge opens.
  • 1908
    • Andover Theological Seminary relocates to city.
    • Harvard's Business School established.
  • 1909 - Lesley School founded.
  • 1910 - Harvard Extension School founded.
  • 1910 - Harvard Square Business Association founded.
  • 1911 - Cambridge Housing Association formed.
  • 1912 - Kendall/MIT (MBTA station), Central (MBTA station), and Harvard (MBTA station) open.
  • 1913
    • Harvard University Press and Harvard Legal Aid Bureau established.
    • Cohen harness maker in business.
  • 1914 - Cambridge Planning Board established.
  • 1915
    • Anderson Memorial Bridge and Harvard's Widener Library built.
    • Cooperative Open Air School founded.
  • 1916
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology moves to Cambridge
    • Tasty Sandwich Shop in business.
  • 1917
    • Wursthaus restaurant in business.
    • Arthur D. Little Inc., Building constructed.
  • 1923 - Washington Elm dies on Cambridge Common.
  • 1924 - The Church of St. Paul (Harvard Square) built.
  • 1926 - Harvard Square Theater opens.
  • 1927
    • John W. Weeks Bridge built.
    • Necco factory opens on Massachusetts Avenue.
    • Grolier Poetry Bookshop and Mac-Gray Corp. in business.
  • 1928 - Boston University Bridge built.
  • 1929 - Cambridge Community Center founded.
  • 1930
    • First Church of Christ, Scientist built.
    • Longy School of Music moves to Cambridge.
    • Russian bells installed in Harvard's Lowell House.
  • 1932
    • Harvard Book Store and MIT's Technology Press and School of Architecture established.
    • Harvard's Memorial Church built.
  • 1936 - Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration and Graduate School of Design established.
  • 1938
    • Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria in business (approximate date).
    • Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism established.
  • 1940 - National Research Corporation in business.
  • 1941
    • Magazine of Cambridge begins publication.
    • Harvard's Houghton Library built.
  • 1942 - John B. Atkinson becomes city manager.
  • 1945 - Cambridge Civic Unity Committee established.
  • 1945 - Irving House established.
  • 1946 - WMIT begins broadcasting.
  • 1947
    • September 9: Computer bug found at the Harvard Computation Lab.
    • Demise of the Harvard Botanic Garden.
    • Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier in business.

1950s-1970s

  • 1950
    • Cardullo's Gourmet Shop in business.
    • Joseph DeGuglielmo becomes mayor.
  • 1951
    • Fresh Pond Drive-In opens.
    • WHRB incorporated.
  • 1952
    • John J. Curry becomes city manager.
    • MIT School of Industrial Management and MIT Center for International Studies established.
  • 1953
    • Brattle Theatre begins screening movies.
    • Harvard Model United Nations conference begins.
  • 1954 - Wang Laboratories, Cheapo Records, and Hong Kong restaurant in business.
  • 1955
    • Out of Town News, Casablanca bar, Elsie's eatery and Ferranti-Dege camera store in business.
    • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory relocated to Cambridge.
  • 1957
    • Cambridge Buddhist Association established.
    • Pangloss Bookstore in business.
  • 1958
    • Club 47 (music venue) opens.
    • Joyce Chen restaurant and Chez Jean restaurant in business.
    • Lisp (programming language) invented at MIT.
    • Smoot measurement established.
  • 1959
    • Café Pamplona in business.
    • Harvard/MIT Center for Urban Studies and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory established.
  • 1960
    • Bartley's restaurant in business.
    • Harvard's Let's Go travel guides begin publication.
  • 1961
    • Julia Child moves to Cambridge.
    • October 14: Fire destroys the original WGBH television and radio studios, at MIT.
  • 1962
    • Temple Beth Shalom founded.
    • Fresh Pond Shopping Center built.
    • Cambridge Electron Accelerator in operation.
    • Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts built.
    • Cambridge Seven Associates in business.
    • Cambridge Sports Union founded.
  • 1963 - Cambridge Historical Commission established.
  • 1964 - NASA Electronics Research Center established.
  • 1965 - Head of the Charles Regatta established.
  • 1966 - Cambridge School Volunteers founded.[4]
  • 1967
    • Joseph DeGuglielmo becomes city manager.
    • Cambridge Forum, MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies established.
  • 1968
    • Cambridge Housing Convention active.
    • Shrdlu computer program developed at MIT.
  • 1969
    • Student antiwar protest.
    • Union of Concerned Scientists, and Harvard's Institute for African and African-American Research founded.
    • Passim and Plough and Stars in business.
  • 1970
    • The Middle East restaurant opens.
    • Rent control and Massachusetts Department of Transportation Volpe Center established.
    • Alfred Vellucci becomes mayor.
  • 1971
    • Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services established.
    • Grendel's Den pub in business.
    • Revels performance series begins.
  • 1972
    • Broadway Bicycle School in business.
    • Longfellow National Historic Site and Cambridge Women's Center established.
    • Harvard's Gund Hall built.
    • October: Protest in East Cambridge against police conduct.
  • 1973
    • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics established.
    • Draper Laboratory active.
    • T.T. the Bear's Place and Hacker's Haven car repair shop in business.
  • 1974
    • Cambridge Food Co-op, city Arts Council, city Community Development Department, and Buckingham Browne & Nichols school established.
    • James Sullivan becomes city manager.
    • Cambridge Naturals in business.
  • 1975 - Coffee Connection in business.
  • 1977
    • Cambridge Rindge and Latin School formed.
    • River Festival begins.
    • Changsho restaurant in business.
  • 1978
    • National Bureau of Economic Research active.
    • Formaggio Kitchen in business.
  • 1979 - Harvard's Film Archive opens.

1980s-1990s

  • 1980
    • American Repertory Theater and MIT's PiKa housing cooperative established.
    • MIT Museum active.
  • 1981
    • American Academy of Arts and Sciences moves to Cambridge.
    • Cambridge College active.
    • Robert W. Healy becomes city manager.
    • Cambridge Center complex construction begins.
  • 1982
    • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research founded.
    • Biogen, Toscanini's, and Upstairs at the Pudding restaurant in business.
    • Sister city relationships established with Coimbra, Portugal, and Gaeta, Italy.
  • 1983
    • Harvard Square Homeless Shelter and Albert Einstein Institution established.
    • Monitor Group and Cambridge Energy Research Associates headquartered in Cambridge.
    • Sister city relationships established with Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, Japan; and Dublin, Ireland.
    • Pegasystems Inc. and Forrester Research in business.
    • Premiere of Marsha Norman's play Night, Mother.
  • 1984
    • MIT Media Lab, Institute for Resource and Security Studies, and city Police Review & Advisory Board established.
    • Sister city relationship established with Ischia, Italy.
    • Porter MBTA Red Line station opens.
    • Conflict Management Group headquartered in city.
    • Thinking Machines Corporation and Charles Hotel in business.
  • 1985
    • Alewife (MBTA station) opens.
    • Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum built.
    • Dante Alighieri Society building inaugurated.
    • Memorial Drive partially pedestrianized along Riverbend Park.
  • 1986
    • Garment District (clothing retailer) in business.
    • Thinking Machines' Connection Machine invented.
    • MIT flea market begins.
  • 1987
    • Sister city relationships established with Yerevan, Armenia; San José Las Flores, Chalatenango, El Salvador; and Catania, Italy.
    • Cambridge becomes a Peace Messenger City.
    • Catch a Rising Star in business.
    • Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
  • 1988 - Cambridge Community Television and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone established.
  • 1989
    • Cambridge Sane/Freeze active.
    • Sister city relationship established with Kraków, Poland.
  • 1990
    • CambridgeSide Galleria built.
    • Sapient Corporation in business.[5]
  • 1991
    • City Bicycle Committee and Ig Nobel Prize established.
    • MÄK Technologies in business.[6]
  • 1992
    • Boston Dynamics (robotics firm) and Dewey, Cheetham & Howe in business.
    • Kenneth Reeves becomes mayor.
    • Sister city relationship established with Florence, Italy.
  • 1993
    • City master plan published.
    • MIT's The Tech newspaper web edition begins publication.
    • Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. becomes state representative for 29th Middlesex district.
  • 1994
    • Islamic Society of Boston mosque opens.
    • Rialto restaurant in business.
  • 1995
    • Kendall Square Cinema opens.
    • Porter Square Neighbors Association formed.
    • Cybersmith and Phoenix Landing (music venue) in business.
  • 1996
    • Cambridge Health Alliance and On The Rise nonprofit established.
    • City Dance Party begins.
    • Sheila Russell becomes mayor.
  • 1997
    • City website online.
    • Cambridge Civic Journal begins publication.
    • Sister city relationship established with Galway, Ireland.
    • French-American International School active.
  • 1998
    • Akamai Technologies in business.
    • MIT's Center for Reflective Community Practice active.
    • Francis Duehay becomes mayor.
    • Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society founded.
  • 1999
    • Cambridge Innovation Center in business.
    • Mike Capuano becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.

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21st century

  • 2000
    • Zipcar in business.
    • Anthony Galluccio becomes mayor.
    • MIT's Kismet (robot) introduced.
  • 2001
    • Veggie Planet and Oleana in business.
    • New water treatment plant at Fresh Pond opens.
  • 2002 - Michael A. Sullivan becomes mayor.
  • 2003
    • Novartis research division headquartered in city.
    • Longwood Players (theatre group) active.
    • MIT's Poverty Action Lab and Harvard's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation founded.
    • Sister city relationship established with Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic.
  • 2004
    • Broad Institute, Community Charter School of Cambridge, and ActBlue (nonprofit) established.
    • MIT's Stata Center built.
    • Lorem Ipsum bookshop in business.
    • Sister city relationship established with Southwark, London, England.
    • Cambridge Somerville Resource Guide begins publication.
    • February 4: Facebook launched at Harvard College.
  • 2005
    • Papercut Zine Library opens.
    • Cambridge Local First network organized.
    • Sister city relationships established with Cienfuegos, Cuba; Yuseong, Daejeon, Korea; and Haidian, Beijing, China.
    • Cambridge Day begins publication.
    • Patricia D. Jehlen becomes state senator for 2nd Middlesex district.
  • 2006
    • Green Decade Cambridge incorporated.
    • Kenneth Reeves becomes mayor again.
    • Harvard's Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston established.
    • HubSpot in business.
  • 2007
    • Microsoft New England Research & Development Center opens.
    • Cambridge Science Festival begins.
    • MIT's Center for Future Civic Media established.
    • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee headquartered in Cambridge.
    • Anthony Petruccelli becomes state senator for 1st Suffolk and Middlesex district.
  • 2008
    • Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, and Google Inc. branch established.
    • ImprovBoston moves to Cambridge.
    • Sofra bakery and Hungry Mother restaurant in business.
    • Harvard Square Library incorporated.
    • E. Denise Simmons becomes mayor.
    • ROFLCon meme convention begins.
    • Central Square Theater built.
    • Jon Hecht elected state representative for 29th Middlesex district.
  • 2009
    • July: Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy
    • West Cambridge Youth and Community Center opens.
    • Kendall Square Association established.
    • Cambridge Open Studios active.[7]
    • Trader Joe's grocery in business at Fresh Pond.
  • 2010
    • David Maher becomes mayor.
    • Population: 105,162; metro 4,552,402.
    • Sal DiDomenico becomes state senator for Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex district.
  • 2011
    • January 6: Aaron Swartz arrested.
    • Area Four restaurant, Veggie Galaxy restaurant and Danger!awesome in business.
  • 2012
    • MIT/Harvard edX launched.
    • Henrietta Davis becomes mayor.
    • Hack/reduce nonprofit founded.
    • Sinclair and Amazon office in business.
  • 2013
    • Richard Rossi becomes city manager.
    • Cambridge Open Data Ordinance drafted.
    • Cambridge Happenings in publication.
    • April 18-19: MIT officer killed; Boston Marathon bombings suspects manhunt takes place.
    • November: Municipal election.
    • December: Katherine Clark becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.
    • Marjorie Decker becomes state representative for 25th Middlesex district, Dave Rogers becomes state representative for 24th Middlesex district, and Jay Livingstone becomes state representative for 8th Suffolk district.
    • Kensho Technologies in business.
  • 2014
    • City open data portal launched.
    • H Mart grocery and Alden & Harlow restaurant in business.
    • David Maher becomes mayor again.
  • 2015
    • January 2015 North American blizzard.
    • September 6: Lawrence Lessig presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in city.
    • December 3: Fire.

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See also

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts history section
  • List of mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts, Cambridge section
  • History of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • History of Harvard University
  • Timelines of other municipalities in Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Lowell, Somerville, Waltham
  • Timeline of Massachusetts

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References


First Church History | First Church Cambridge
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Bibliography


License - City of Cambridge, MA
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External links

  • "Cambridge (Mass.)". Boston TV News Digital Library. WBGH.  1960s-2000
  • "Local Media Map". Cambridge Community Television. Local stories mapped right down to the street corner where they take place 
  • MIT Media Lab (2014). "Cambridge Biking Accidents". You Are Here. 2010-2013  (map)
  • "Cambridge Room (blog)". Cambridge Public Library. 
  • Items related to Cambridge, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
  • "Town Guides: Massachusetts: Cambridge". New England Historic Genealogical Society. 

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