The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burlington, Vermont, USA
- 1763 - Town charter granted by the British Province of New Hampshire.
- 1774 - Settlement established.
- 1791
- 1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1802 - Court house built.
- 1804 - Grasse Mount built, now a campus building of the University of Vermont
- 1810 - Population: 1,690.
- 1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
- 1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.
- 1816 - Unitarian Church built.
- 1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.[7]
- 1825 - LaFayette visits town.
- 1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.[8]
- 1827
- 1829
- Lyman block built.
- Burlington High School and Burlington Fire Company incorporated.[10]
- 1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.[8]
- 1834 - Baptist church established.[11]
- 1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.[12]
- 1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.
- 1847
- E. & E. Lyman in business.
- Commercial Bank of Burlington and Burlington Savings Bank chartered.
- 1848 - Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).
- 1849
- 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.[12]
- 1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.
- 1854
- Town Hall built.
- Vermont Episcopal Institute incorporated.
- 1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.
- 1857
- 1858
- Marine Hospital built.
- Burlington Times newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.
- 1865
- Burlington chartered as a city; town of South Burlington established.
- Albert Catlin becomes mayor.[16]
- Vermont Agricultural College incorporated with the University of Vermont.
- Home for Destitute Children founded.
- 1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.
- 1867
- 1869 - First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
- 1870
- City market building constructed.
- E.S. Fullam & Co. in business.
- Population: 14,387.
- 1872
- Winooski & Burlington Horse Railroad incorporated.[17]
- Wells, Richardson & Co. in business.
- 1873
- 1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.
- 1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).
- 1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.
- 1879 - Mary Fletcher Hospital founded.
- 1880 - Population: 11,365.
- 1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.
- 1885
- 1886 - Daniel Webster Robinson House built.
- 1887 - Cathedral of Saint Joseph completed.
- 1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.[20]
- 1889
- St. Mary's academy founded.
- Baldwin Refrigerator Company established (approximate date).[8]
- 1890 - Population: 14,590.
- 1894
- 1897
- 1900 - Population: 18,640.
C. A. Castle (1903), History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Free Press Association, OL 2673435M
Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library. "Finding Aids". Burlington: University of Vermont. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Henry Crocker (1913), History of the Baptists in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Vt.: P.H. Gobie Press, OL 13497208M
"About Us". Essex Junction, VT: Champlain Valley Exposition, Inc. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Burlington", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- Zadock Thompson (1824), "Burlington", A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont, E. P. Walton, OCLC 5276863
- John Hayward (1857), "Burlington, Vt.", New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp, OCLC 3441657
- Walton, Joseph Soper (1866). "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont Manufacturing Company. hdl:2027/wu.89063116057.
- Abby Maria Hemenway, ed. (1867), "Burlington", Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Burlington, Vt.: A.M. Hemenway
- "Burlington, Vt.", Appleton's Handbook of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour, New York: D. Appleton, 1870
- "Burlington (1.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 550.
- "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1877. + 1879 ed.
- "City of Burlington". Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont. NY: Hamilton Child. 1882.
- Burlington, Vt. as a Manufacturing, Business, and Commercial Center. Burlington Board of Trade. 1889.
- "Industries and Wealth of Burlington". Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Vermont. NY: American Publishing and Engraving Co. 1891.
- Joseph Auld (1894), Picturesque Burlington, Burlington, Vt: Free Press Association, OL 14034397M
- Charter & Revised General Ordinances of the City of Burlington, Vt. 1897.
- Charles S. Forbes (1900). "Twentieth Century Burlington". The Vermonter. 5.
- Published in the 20th century
- Katharine Lord (1904). Address book of Burlington, Vermont: 1904-5. Burlington: F. L. Lane & Company.
- Charles Edwin Allen (1905), About Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Shanley
- "Burlington (Vermont)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 837–838.
- "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. 1910.
- Federal Writers’ Project (1937). "Burlington". Vermont: a Guide to the Green Mountain State. American Guide Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. + Chronology
- Tom W. Rice (1985). "Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont". Polity. 17 (4): 795–806. doi:10.2307/3234575. JSTOR 3234575. S2CID 153889856.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Burlington, Vermont", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
- Published in the 21st century