Timeline of Jacksonville, Florida

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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Prior to 20th century

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  • Prior to 1564 - One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville; this may be the earliest recorded name for that area.
  • 1564 - French Fort Caroline established by René Goulaine de Laudonnière.
  • 1565 - Spanish forces take Fort Caroline.
  • 1822
  • Settlement named "Jacksonville" to honor Andrew Jackson.{{Citation |publisher = D. Appleton and company |author = James Wood Davidson |title = Florida of To-day: A Guide for Tourists and Settlers |date = 1889 |oclc = 1535118 |ol = 23527797M }}
  • Town grid laid out.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Jacksonville becomes seat of newly formed Duval County.
  • 1832
  • Town incorporated.{{citation |url=https://localgov.fsu.edu/readings_papers/Boundaries%20of%20Government/Munincipal_Incorporations_in_Florida.pdf |year=2001 |title=Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida |author=Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations |location=Tallahassee |series=LCIR Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428092419/https://localgov.fsu.edu/readings_papers/Boundaries%20of%20Government/Munincipal_Incorporations_in_Florida.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-28 |author-link=Florida Legislature }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • William J. Mills becomes mayor.
  • 1838 - Bethel Baptist Church established.{{cite book|title=Negro Year Book |year=1922|editor=Monroe N. Work |publisher=Negro Year Book Publishing Company, Tuskegee Institute |location=Alabama |chapter=The Church Among Negroes: First Churches Organized (timeline) |via=HathiTrust |hdl=2027/wu.89073092546}}
  • 1845 - Florida becomes part of the United States.
  • 1846 - October 12: Gale.{{sfn|Davis|1911}}
  • 1857 - City Park created.
  • 1858 - Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central Railroad begins operating.{{sfn|Fenlon|1953}}
  • 1862 - Town occupied by Union forces.
  • 1869 - St. James Hotel built.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1939}}
  • 1871 - Furchgott, Benedict & Co. dry goods store in business.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5s9FAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA27 |title=Dry Goods Economist |date=January 22, 1916 |publisher=Textile Publishing Co. |location=New York |oclc=8911005 }}
  • 1872 - Cookman Institute established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1873 - Florida Circulating Library active.{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html |title=American Libraries before 1876 |author= Davies Project |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=June 27, 2013}}
  • 1875 - Windsor Hotel built.{{sfn|Varnum|1885}}
  • 1876
  • Duval High School established.{{sfn|Gold|1929}}
  • Union Congregational Church built.{{sfn|Gold|1929}}{{citation |url=http://accucc.org/history/ |title=History |publisher= Arlington Congregational Church |location= Jacksonville |access-date=September 20, 2016 }}
  • 1877 - Board of Health established.{{sfn|Gold|1929}}
  • 1878 - Library and Literary Association formed.
  • 1881 - Florida Daily Times begins publication.{{cite web |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Florida&county=&city=Jacksonville&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington DC |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=June 27, 2013}}
  • 1882
  • Synagogue dedicated.{{sfn|Webb|1887|ps=: "Chronological"|pages=13-21 }}
  • Florida Baptist Academy established.
  • 1884 - Board of Trade organized.{{sfn|Board of Trade|1906}}
  • 1885 - Park Opera House in business.{{sfn|Fletcher|2015}}
  • 1886 - Boylan Industrial Home and school established.{{citation |title=Woman's home missions |date=August 1920 |publisher= Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |location=Cincinnati }}
  • 1887
  • Yellow fever epidemic.{{sfn|Shumsky|1998}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • The Metropolis newspaper begins publication.
  • St. Andrew's Episcopal Church built.
  • 1888 - Subtropical Exposition held.
  • 1890 - Population: 17,201.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1892 - Edward Waters College active.{{Citation |publisher = American Library Association |isbn = 0838906435 |ol = 1274269M |location = Chicago |title = Black Heritage Sites |author = Nancy C. Curtis |date = 1996 |id = 0838906435 }}
  • 1893 - Streetcars began operating.
  • 1897 - Woman's Club founded.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1900 -
  • "Lift Every Voice and Sing" song first performed.{{sfn|McCarthy|1992}}
  • Population: 28,429.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

20th century

=1900s-1950s=

  • 1901
  • May 3: Great Fire of 1901.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Brewster Hospital established.
  • Continental Hotel opens.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1903
  • Mason Park opens.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • Florida Automobile Association organized.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1904
  • Lincoln Park opens.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • First Baptist Church built.
  • 1905
  • Jacksonville Free Public Library opens.
  • Protestant Union Revival held.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1907
  • Manhattan Beach opens.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • Dixieland Amusement Park opens in South Jacksonville.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • South Jacksonville chartered as a city.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1908 - Filmmaker Kalem Studios active.
  • 1909 - YMCA building constructed.{{sfn|Crooks|1984}}
  • 1910
  • Atlantic Boulevard laid out.
  • Population: 57,699.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1912
  • St. James Building constructed.
  • City Rotary Club formed.
  • 1914 - Jacksonville Zoological Park established.{{cite book|editor=Vernon N. Kisling, Jr. |title=Zoo and Aquarium History|year= 2001|publisher=CRC Press |location=USA |isbn=978-1-4200-3924-5 |chapter=Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list) |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ulbMBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA375 }}
  • 1917
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Jacksonville chapter established.{{sfn|Bartley|2000}}
  • John W. Martin becomes mayor.
  • 1920 – Population: 91,558.
  • 1921 - St. Johns River Bridge opens.
  • 1923 - John T. Alsop becomes mayor.
  • 1925
  • Negro Welfare League organized.{{sfn|Bartley|2000}}
  • WJAX radio begins broadcasting.{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/218/mode/1up |chapter= Florida }}
  • 1926 - Carling Hotel opens.
  • 1927 - Florida Theatre and 5 Points Theatre built.
  • 1928 - Gator Bowl Stadium built.
  • 1929 - Jacksonville Historical Society founded.
  • 1930 – Population: 129,549.
  • 1934
  • Jacksonville Junior College established.
  • WMBR radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1938
  • WJHP radio begins broadcasting.
  • Theatre Jacksonville built.{{cite web |url=http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |title=Historic Theatre Inventory |location=Maryland, USA |publisher=League of Historic American Theatres |access-date=June 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721130121/http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |archive-date=July 21, 2013 }}
  • 1940
  • U.S. military Naval Air Station Jacksonville commissioned.
  • Population: 173,065.
  • 1946 - Annual Gator Bowl college football game begins.
  • 1947
  • Jacksonville Urban League formed.{{sfn|Bartley|2000}}
  • Hanna Park created.
  • 1949
  • WJXT (television) begins broadcasting.{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: Florida |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/794/mode/2up }}
  • W. Haydon Burns becomes mayor.
  • 1950 - Population: 204,517.
  • 1953 - Mathews Bridge opens.
  • 1955 - Jacksonville Expressway Authority established.
  • 1957 - WFGA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.

=1960s-1990s=

  • 1960
  • August: "Ax Handle Saturday" racial unrest.
  • Population: 201,030.
  • 1962 - Civic Auditorium opens.{{sfn|Fletcher|2015}}
  • 1963 - December, Hotel Roosevelt fire
  • 1964 - September 10, Hurricane Dora occurs.{{cite web |publisher= Jacksonville Public Library |title=Jacksonville Timeline |url=http://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/coll/florida/jacksonvillehistory.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206002403/http://jaxpubliclibrary.org/coll/florida/jacksonvillehistory.html |archive-date=February 6, 2012 }}
  • 1967
  • Hart Bridge opens.{{citation |title=Historic Highway Bridges of Florida |publisher= Florida Department of Transportation |url= http://www.fdot.gov/emo/pubs/bridgebk.pdf |year=2012 }}
  • Mary Singleton and Sallye B. Mathis became the first female African Americans elected to the City Council.
  • 1968
  • Consolidation of city and Duval County governments.
  • Hans Tanzler becomes mayor.
  • 1970 - Population: 528,865.
  • 1973 - Florida Municipal Home Rule Powers Act ratified.{{citation |author=League of Women Voters Jacksonville |display-authors=etal |title= Introduction to Duval County Government |url=http://www.coj.net/departments/ethics-office/docs/module-1-civics-ed-2-23-10.aspx |access-date= April 30, 2017 }}{{refn|group=nb|In Florida "'municipal home rule' power does not extend to fiscal home rule, however, because the state reserves all taxing authority to itself."}}
  • 1979 - Jake Godbold becomes mayor.
  • 1980
  • Foreign trade zone established.{{Citation |author=Susan Tiefenbrun |title= Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States |publisher= Edward Elgar |isbn=9781849802437|year= 2012 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bdz5eG3b2nwC |page=294 }}{{citation |title=Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States |year=2016 |chapter-url=http://enforcement.trade.gov/ftzpage/annual-report.html |chapter=Merchandise Received and Exports: Top 25, 2015 }}
  • Population: 540,920.
  • 1984 - Jacksonville Bulls football team formed.
  • 1989 - The Jacksonville Skyway begins operating{{cite web |url= http://www.jtbell.net/transit/Jacksonville/ |title= Jacksonville, Florida: The Skyway |last1= Bell |first1= Jon |date= December 1, 2007 |website= www.jtbell.net |publisher= Jon Bell |access-date=December 12, 2015}}
  • 1990 - Population: 635,230.{{citation |title=Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 |year=1998 |url=https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POP-twps0027.html |publisher=US Census Bureau }}
  • 1993 - Corrine Brown becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 3rd congressional district.{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=1993 |chapter= Florida |via=HathiTrust |hdl=2027/uc1.l0072691827 |title-link=Official Congressional Directory }}
  • 1995
  • Jacksonville Jaguars football team formed.
  • Jacksonville Municipal Stadium opens.
  • John Delaney becomes mayor.{{cite web | url = http://www.coj.net/Mayor/Biography.htm | title = Office of the Mayor | publisher = City of Jacksonville | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030202074808/http://www.coj.net/Mayor/Biography.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 2, 2003 }}
  • 1998 - City website online (approximate date).{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19981206235204/http://www.coj.net/ |url= http://www.coj.net/ |archive-date= 1998-12-06 |title= Welcome to Jacksonville's Virtual City Hall! |url-status=dead |via= Internet Archive, Wayback Machine }}{{citation |url=http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-12-28/story/jacksonville-hopes-citys-new-website-moves-services-online |title=Jacksonville hopes city's new website moves services online |date= December 28, 2010 |work= Jacksonville.com |publisher=Florida Times-Union }}{{Chronology citation needed|date=January 2016}}
  • 2000
  • "Better Jacksonville Plan" for urban growth approved.{{sfn|Prues|2003}}
  • Population: 735,617.{{citation |author=U.S. Census Bureau |work= Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003 |title=Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000 |url=https://www.census.gov/statab/hist/HS-07.pdf }}

==21st century==

  • 2001 - Ander Crenshaw becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 4th congressional district.{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=2003 |chapter= Florida |hdl=2027/mdp.39015054040954 |title-link=Official Congressional Directory }}
  • 2003 - May 13: Jacksonville mayoral election, 2003 held; John Peyton wins.
  • 2010 - Population: 821,784.{{citation |url=http://edr.state.fl.us/Content/area-profiles/index.cfm |work=2010 Census Detailed City Profiles |author1=Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research |author2=U.S. Census Bureau |year=2011 |title= City of Jacksonville |author1-link=Florida Legislature }}
  • 2011 - March 22: Jacksonville mayoral election, 2011 held; Alvin Brown wins. He was the city's first elected African-American mayor.{{cite web |publisher= Jacksonville Public Library |title=Timeline of African-Americans in North Florida |url=http://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/african-american-collection |access-date=September 20, 2016 }}
  • 2013 - Corrine Brown becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 3rd congressional district again.{{cite web |url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members |title=Members of Congress |work=GovTrack |author=Civic Impulse, LLC |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date= September 20, 2016 }}
  • 2015 - Lenny Curry becomes mayor.
  • 2022 - Jacksonville celebrates its bicentennial.
  • 2023
  • May 16 - 2023 Jacksonville mayoral election; Donna Deegan wins, becomes the city's first female mayor.
  • August 26 - Mass shooting at a Jacksonville Dollar General store.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the hate crime |url=https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-bd2bf9591f40903a923dbd8a46d8fb97 |website=AP News |date=27 August 2023 |access-date=28 August 2023}}

See also

Notes

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=Published in 19th century=

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File:Bay Street, west, Jacksonville, Fla, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views detail.jpg|Bay Street, Jacksonville, late 19th c.

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