This is meant to be a very basic timeline of events that could have affected your Ancestors lives. Click here for any articles, letters, etc. that relate to Newark, New Jersey. Click here for the list of cities in Essex. Click here for the list of Counties in New Jersey. Click here to go to the State list.
1666- Robert Treat and other Puritans purchase land from Hackensack Tribe
1743 - Trinity Church Built
1754 - 1763 French and Indian Wars
1765 - 1783 War of independence
1780 - Newark raided by British Forces
1787 - First Presbyterian Church Established
1791 - Woods Newark Gazette starts publication
1797 - Newark Fire Association Founded
1803 - Newark Female Charitable Society Founded
1832 - Newark Daily Advertiser Newspaper begins publication
1832 - Cholera Epidemic
1836 - Newark Incorporated as a city
1844 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery founded
1846 - New Jersey Historical Society located in Newark
1849 - Newark Daily Mercury Paper starts publication
1849 - 1855 Cholera Outbreaks
1850 - Bethel Mission Founded
1853 - Newark Daily Eagle begins publication
1857 - City Police Department started
1857 - Newark Orphan Asylum built
1861 - 1865 - Civil War
1866 - 1867- Cholera Epidemic
1869 - 1950 Newark City Cemetery was in use for the indigent
1874 - St. Stephens Church built
1884 - Prince Street Synagogue built
1885 - American Soccer tournament held
1888 - First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church built
1889 - Newark Free Public Library built
1894 - Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built
1914 - 1918 - WW1
1935 - Newark City Subway begins operation
1939 - 1945 - WW2
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