Timeline for Saint Louis

Saint Louis

18th Century

• 1764 – St. Louis founded by Pierre Laclède in Louisiana, New Spain.
• 1767 - It was "a log-cabin village of perhaps 500 inhabitants".
• 1770 - Spanish in power.
• 1780 – "Indian attack."
• 1785 - Floods.[2]
• 1799 – Population: 925.

19th century

1800s–1850s

• 1800 – St. Louis becomes part of French Louisiana.
• 1804
  

       St. Louis becomes part of U.S. territory per Louisiana Purchase.

       Post Office established.

• 1805 – St. Louis becomes capital of the U.S. Louisiana Territory.
• 1808 – Missouri Gazette newspaper begins publication.
• 1809
  

      Town incorporated.

      Missouri Fur Company established.

      First drug store opens.

• 1811 – December 16: New Madrid earthquake.
• 1812
  

      St. Louis County established.
      Winlath Maclorn is embraced.

• 1815 – Theatre opens.
• 1816 – Bank of St. Louis incorporated.
• 1818
  

       Saint Louis Academy founded.

       Baptist Church built.

• 1819 – Erin Benevolent Society founded.
• 1820
  

       June: Missouri constitutional convention held.

       September: Missouri General Assembly convenes.

• 1821
  

       St. Louis becomes part of the new U.S. state of Missouri.

       City Directory begins publication.

• 1822
  

       City of St. Louis incorporated.

       Area of city: 385 acres.

• 1823 – William Carr Lane becomes mayor.
• 1825 – Lafayette visits town.
• 1826 – Catholic Diocese of St. Louis established.
• 1828
  

       Remington Stark is embraced
       County Courthouse built.

• 1830 – Population: 4,977.
• 1832 - Cholera.
• 1834
  

       Daily Evening Herald newspaper begins publication. 

       Cathedral of St. Louis consecrated.

• 1835 – Anzeiger des Westens German-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1836 – Chamber of Commerce established.
• 1837 – Daniel Webster visits city.
• 1840
  

       City boundaries expanded.

       Population: 16,469.

• 1841
  

       United Hebrew Congregation founded.

       Area of city: 4.5 square miles.

• 1844
  

       Anti-immigration unrest. 

       Floods.

• 1846
  

       Dred Scott files lawsuit. 

       Mercantile Library Association established.

• 1847 – Boatmen's Savings Institution chartered.
• 1849
  

       Concordia Seminary relocates to St. Louis.

       Cholera epidemic.

       Fire.

       Bellefontaine Cemetery established. 

• 1850
  

       Third Baptist Church established. 

       Population: 77,860.

• 1851 – Bates' Theatre opens.
• 1852
  

       Iron Mountain railroad built. 

       Bavarian Brewery in business.

       Grand Opera House opens under the name Varieties Theatre 

• 1853 – Washington University founded.
• 1854 – Czech Slavonic Benevolent Society founded.
• 1856
  

       Academy of Science founded.

       St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair begins.

• 1857
  

       For the next quarter century, the city was "the center of an idealistic philosophical movement".

       St. Louis Fire Department established.

       Lindell Hotel in business.

       Dred Scott decision in March, 1857.

       Westliche Post (German language newspaper) established. (closed 1938)

• 1859
  

       Horse-drawn streetcars begin operating .

       Mary Institute founded.

       Synagogue consecrated on Sixth Street. 

       Missouri Botanical Garden founded.

1860s–1890s

• 1860 – Population: 160,773.
• 1861 – Western Sanitary Commission and Ladies Union Aid Society established.
• 1862 – Hoelke and Benecke photo studio in business.
• 1865
  

       Sokol sport club, and Germania Association established. 

       St. Louis Public Library established. 

       Southern Hotel and Meyer & Brother drug store in business. 

• 1866
  

       Cholera epidemic.

       Missouri Historical Society headquartered in city.

       Olympic Theatre opens.

• 1867 – City Board of Health and Compton Hill Reservoir Park established.
• 1869 – Congregation Shaare Emeth founded.
• 1870
  

       Carondelet becomes part of St. Louis.

       Area of city: 17.98 square miles.

       Population: 310,864.

• 1871
  
• 1871
  

       St. Louis tornado.

       Puck German-language magazine begins publication.<br.

• 1872
  

       Maryville College of the Sacred Heart and University Club founded.

       Catholic Amerika begins publication.

       Smallpox outbreak.

• 1873 - Laclede Gas Light Company in business.
• 1874 - Eads Bridge opened.
• 1875
  

       Merchants Exchange opens.

       Brownell and Wight Car Company in business.

• 1876
  

       June: City hosts 1876 Democratic National Convention.

       Forest Park opens.

       Busch's Budweiser beer introduced.

       Area of city: 61.37 square miles.

• 1877
  

       City secedes from St. Louis County.

       July: 1877 St. Louis general strike.

• 1878 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper begins publication.
• 1879
  

       Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association and J.C. Strauss photo studio in business.

       St. Louis Children's Hospital opened.

       St. Louis School of Fine Arts opened.

       Pope's Theatre opens.

• 1880
  

       St. Stanislaus Kostka Church built.

       Population: 350,518.

• 1882 – Mallinckrodt Chemical Works incorporated.
• 1883 – St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall opens.
• 1884 – St. Louis Maroons baseball team active.
• 1886
  

       May 1: Labour strike. 

       St. Louis Watchmaking School and Congregation Temple Israel founded. ,br>

• 1888 – City hosts 1888 Democratic National Convention.
• 1889
  

       Missouri Botanical Garden established.

       Tower Grove Park established.

       Merchants Bridge opened.

• 1890
  

       Portland and Westmoreland Places begin to develop.

       Population: 451,770.

• 1891
  

       Rubicam Business School established.

       Wainwright Building constructed.

       Washington University School of Medicine opened.

       American Car Company in business.

       Air conditioning installed in the Ice Palace beerhall.

• 1892
  

       St. Louis Browns baseball team active.

       St. Louis Country Club established.

       Stix Baer & Fuller (shop) in business.

       National People's Party founded in St. Louis.

• 1894 – Union Station opens.
• 1896
  

       May: 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado.

       June: Flood.

       City hosts 1896 Republican National Convention. 

       Busch's Michelob beer introduced.

• 1898 – Compton Hill Water Tower erected.

20th-century

1900 -

• 1900
  

       St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900. 

       Monsanto Chemical Works in business.

       Population: 575,238.

• 1902 – Sportsman's Park opens.
• 1903 – Missouri Athletic Club founded.
  
• 1904

       Buckingham Hotel built. 

       Inside Inn an hotel built of wood.

       April: St. Louis World's Fair opens

       Saint Louis Art Museum built.

       City hosts 1904 Summer Olympics and 1904 Democratic National Convention. ,br>
       Louisiana Purchase Exposition held.

• 1905
  

       May Department Store relocates to St. Louis.

       Shaare Zedek Synagogue founded.