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This is a timeline of Staten Island .
17th century
18th century
1713 – St. Andrew's Church built.
1727 – Richmond village becomes seat of Richmond County, New York.
1740 – Moravian Cemetery established.
1749 – Population: 2,154
1763 – Moravian Church built.
1774 – Staten Island elects not to send a representative to the First Continental Congress , the only county in New York State to decline.
1776
1777 – August 22: Battle of Staten Island occurs.
1783
November 25: British military occupation ends.
December: British evacuation complete.
1786 – Population: 3,152
1787 – First Woodrow Methodist congregation established and church built, called "Mother Church of Staten Island".
1788 – Towns of Castleton , Northfield , Southfield , and Westfield established.
1792 – Reformed Dutch Church incorporated.
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt is born.
1799 – Quarantine established (NY Marine Hospital) over fierce opposition; ultimately burned in 1858.
19th century
1800s–1840s
1802 – Episcopal Church (Northfield) built.
1808 - Staten Island "became the borough of Richmond in Greater New York".
1812 - War of 1812 .
1817 – Richmond Turnpike Company ferry begins operating to New York City.
1823 – Population: 6,135.
c.1825 – Old Staten Island Dyeing Establishment incorporated.
1826 – Agricultural Society organized.
1828 – Fort Tompkins Light commissioned.
1833 – Sailors' Snug Harbor opens for retired merchant seamen.
1836 – Aaron Burr dies in a boardinghouse in Port Richmond.
1837
Courthouse and jail built.
Pavilion Hotel in business.
1839 – St. Peter's Church established, first Roman Catholic parish on the Island.
1840 – Bethel United Methodist Church (Tottenville) built.
1842 – Current Woodrow Methodist Church built after fire.
1844 – Current Dutch Reformed Church on Staten Island built.
1845 – Moravian Church built.
1847 – Richmond County Law Library and Marine's Family Asylum founded.
1848 – St. Peter's Cemetery established.
1850s–1890s
1855 – St. Joseph's Church established.
1856
1858 – Quarantine War
1860
1861 – Battery Weed fortification built.
1865
1866
1869 – Tottenville and S.R. Smith Infirmary incorporated.
1870
Population: 33,029.
Atlantic Brewery established by Joseph Rubsam and August Horrmann in Stapleton.
1871
1874 – Tennis introduced to North America for the first time on the island.
1875 – Frederick Walton sets up the first North American linoleum factory in Travis .
1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt dies and is buried in Moravian Cemetery.
1878 – St. Philip's Baptist Church, the first Black church on Staten Island, opens.
1880 – Staten Island Water Supply Company established.
1881
1882 - Father Drumgoole acquires the land which will become the Mount Loretto orphanages.
1883
November: Richmond County bicentennial.
Wagner College founded in Rochester . It does not move to Staten Island until 1918.
1884 – St. George Terminal and Staten Island Academy open.
1886
1888 – Richmond County Country Club opens.
1890 – Population: 51,693.
1893 – Emily Post , 20th Century arbiter of American etiquette, moves to Staten Island.
1894 – Calvary Presbyterian Church built.
1898
20th century
1900s–1940s
1900
Tottenville Copper Company (later Nassau Smelting) founded by Benjamin Lowenstein.
Population: 67,021.
1901 – June 14: Northfield ferry accident.
1903 – Fort Wadsworth Light commissioned. Notre Dame Academy (Grymes Hill ) established.
1904 – Christ Church New Brighton (Episcopal) built. Tottenville Library the oldest branch of the New York Public Library on Staten Island opens. Curtis High School is established.
1905
The Wittemann brothers operate America's first airplane manufacturing plant.
Population: 72,845.
1906 – Staten Island Borough Hall built in Saint George. Happyland Amusement Park opens in South Beach.
1907 – Public Museum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences established.
1910 – Population: 85,969.
1915 – Staten Island Stapletons football team founded; later plays in the National Football League from 1929 to 1932.
1918 – Wagner College moves from Rochester to Staten Island.
1919
1923 – Staten Island Tunnel construction begins; cancelled in 1925.
1924
May: Huguenot-Walloon-New Netherland 300th Anniversary of Religious Freedom in 1924 celebrated in Huguenot with 2,000 spectators attending dedication of a church as a National Memorial to the Huguenots.
Ritz Theater (Port Richmond) built.
1926
Staten Island Armory built.
Conference House Park established.
Fire destroys St. George ferry terminal, killing three and causing $22 million in damage.
1927 – Port Richmond High School established.
1928 – Outerbridge Crossing (bridge) opens to Perth Amboy, New Jersey . Goethals Bridge opens to Elizabeth, New Jersey .
1929
1930 – Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church opens.
1931 – Bayonne Bridge opens to Bayonne, New Jersey .
1933 – Notre Dame College (Staten Island) opens.
1935 – South Beach-Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk constructed.
1936 – Staten Island Zoo opens. Robin Road Trestle (bridge) built. Foreign trade zone established on Staten Island.
1937
1938 – Lane Theater opens in New Dorp.
1941 – Beachland Amusements opens.
1942 – January 1: Staten Island jails transferred from the County Sheriff's Department to the NYC Department of Corrections
1947 – Fresh Kills Landfill , Willowbrook State School , and Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art established.
1949
1950s–1990s
1950 – Population: 191,555.
1953 – March 31: Passenger service discontinued on the North Shore Branch and the South Beach Branch train lines.
1956 – Staten Island Community College (later College of Staten Island) founded.
1957 – Queen Elizabeth visits the Island by train en route from Washington DC to Manhattan, the first Royal to visit since William IV during the American Revolution.
1958 – Historic Richmond Town (museum) established.
1959 – Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge opens to Elizabethport, New Jersey .
1960 – December 16: One of the two planes in the 1960 New York mid-air collision crashes into Staten Island.
1961 – Monsignor Farrell High School opens.
1962 – Archaeology Society of Staten Island founded.
1963
1964
1965 – Willowbrook Parkway opens.
1966 – Staten Island Register newspaper begins publication. Robert T. Connor becomes Borough President. Hylan Plaza shopping centre in business.
1970 – Population: 295,443.
1971
1972
1973
1975 – "Borough of Richmond" becomes "Borough of Staten Island."
1976 – Arthur Kill Correctional Facility and College of Staten Island established. Staten Island Children's Museum opens.
1977 – Preservation League of Staten Island and Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art founded. Anthony Gaeta becomes Borough President.
1978 – Northfield Community Local Development Corp. founded.
1979 – Fort Wadsworth transferred to US Navy from US Army.
1980 – Population: 352,029.
1981
1982 – New Dorp High School relocates to new building south of Hylan Boulevard near Miller Field.
1984
1988 – Staten Island AIDS Task Force founded.
1989 – The remaining unfinished portion of the Richmond Parkway proposed by Robert Moses and defeated by public outcries, is officially demapped, solidifying the establishment of Staten Island Greenbelt . US Supreme Court abolishes NYC Board of Estimate , propelling Staten Island secession movement .
1990
1992 – RZA , GZA , and Ol' Dirty Bastard form the Wu-Tang Clan out of the Clifton and Stapleton sections of the Island. Along with Inspectah Deck , Raekwon the Chef, U-God , Ghostface Killah , Method Man , and Masta Killa .
1993 – November 2: Voters approve secession of Staten Island from New York City in a non-binding referendum.
1994 – Staten Island Conservatory of Music founded. Naval Homeport is closed due to BRAC .
1997 – Staten Island Ferry becomes free.
1999 – The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden and College of Staten Island Baseball Complex open. Staten Island Yankees baseball team established.
21st century
See also
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Further reading
Published in the 19th century
William Darby (1834), "Richmond County" , A new gazetteer of the United States of America (2nd ed.), Hartford: E. Hopkins
Charles H. Sweetser (1868), "Seaside Resorts: Staten Island" , Book of Summer Resorts , New York: Evening Mail Office, OCLC 6043819
John Jacob Clute (1877), Annals of Staten Island, from its discovery to the present time , New York: C. Vogt, OL 24554570M
John Disturnell, ed. (1877), "Staten Island" , Summer Resorts and Watering Places ... within fifty miles of the city of New York , New York: J. Wiley & Sons
Selden C. Judson (1886), Illustrated Sketch Book of Staten island, New York, its industries and commerce , New York: S.C. Judson, OL 24505964M
Reau Campbell (1889), Rides and Rambles on Staten Island , New York: C.G. Crawford, OL 23330352M
Gustav Kobbé (1890), Staten Island: a Guide , New York: G. Kobbé, OL 23340017M
Daniel Van Pelt (1898), Leslie's History of the Greater New York , vol. 2, New York, U.S.A: Arkell Pub. Co., OCLC 1850560
chapter 20 : Richmond, or Staten Island: Olden Times
chapter 21 : Richmond, or Staten Island: Present Century
Trow's Business and Residential Directory of the Borough of Richmond, City of New York . NY: Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. 1899.
Published in the 20th century
"Borough of Richmond" , Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (27th ed.), Appleton, 1905
Ernest Ingersoll (1906), "Greater New York: Staten Island" , Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and other districts included in the enlarged city (20th ed.), Chicago: Rand, McNally, OCLC 29277709
Richmond Borough Association of Women Teachers. (1909), Staten Island and Staten Islanders , New York: Grafton Press, OL 7099909M
"Staten Island" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 801–802.
Frank Bergen Kelley; City History Club of New York (1913), "Borough of Richmond" , Historical Guide to the City of New York (2nd ed.), New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, OCLC 4723529
Calvin D. Van Name (1921), Staten Island: a report by the President of the Borough of Richmond to the Mayor , OL 7117824M
Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Richmond" . New York City Guide . American Guide Series. NY: Random House. hdl :2027/mdp.39015008975883 .
Richard Briffault (1992). "Voting Rights, Home Rule, and Metropolitan Governance: The Secession of Staten Island as a Case Study in the Dilemmas of Local Self-Determination" (PDF) . Columbia Law Review . 92 (4): 775–850. doi :10.2307/1122970 . JSTOR 1122970 .
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