This is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States.
Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts - also known as the Vassall House
Massachusetts Medical College, Mason Street
Massachusetts Medical College, Grove Street
1800s–1840s
An 1836 illustration by the daughter of Harvard President . Harvard University. Eliza Susan Quincy's drawing of the September 1836 procession of Harvard alumni leaving the First Parish Meeting House and walking to the Pavilion. Eliza Susan Quincy was the daughter of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University 1829-45.
1837
1839
1840
Cambridge Magnolia begins publication.[27]
St. John's Mutual Relief Society organized.
Population: 8,409.[22]
1841 - Cambridge Lyceum organized.
1846
1847 - Great Refractor telescope installed.[31]
1848 - Franklin Library Association founded.[25]
1849 - Cambridge Athenaeum incorporated.[32]
1850s–1890s
Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University, insdie Harvard Yard.
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, location of many Glee Club concerts
1850 - Howard Benevolent Society organized.
1852
1854 - Cambridge Cemetery consecrated.
1856 - Population: 20,473.
1857
1858 - Harvard Glee Club founded.[33]
1859 - Museum of Comparative Zoology founded.
1860 - Cambridge Horticultural Society organized.
1861 - Veterans' Services established.[34]
1862 - Sanitary Society active (approximate date).[18]
The predecessor West Boston Bridge, circa 1864. before the Longfellow Bridge
1865 - Old Cambridge Mutual Relief Society organized.
1866
1867 - Episcopal Theological School founded.
1868 - Cambridge Mechanics Literary Association organized.
Old Cambridge Baptist Church from Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1869
1870 - Soldiers' Monument dedicated on Cambridge Common[36]
1871
Cambridge Social Union founded.[21]
Alpha Glee Club organized.
1872 - Cambridge Choral Society formed.
1873 Map of Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall , located at 795 Massachusetts Avenue
1950s–1970s
Out of Town News, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1955
1957
1958
1959
1960
Bartley's restaurant in business.
Harvard's Let's Go travel guides begin publication.
Out of Town News [75] opens in Harvard Square and goes to last sixty years selling newspapers from all over the world.[76]
1961
Julia Child's kitchen Smithsonian National Museum of American History .
Built in 1970s style, National Bureau of Economic Research. Cambridge, Massachusetts - Harvard Square, USA
1962
1963 - Cambridge Historical Commission established.[81]
1964 - NASA Electronics Research Center established.
1965 - Head of the Charles Regatta established.
1966 - Cambridge School Volunteers founded.
1967
1968
Cambridge Housing Convention active.[84]
Shrdlu computer program developed at MIT.[74]
1969
1970
1971
Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services established.[89]
Grendel's Den pub in business.
Revels performance series begins.
1972
1973
1974
1975 - Coffee Connection in business.
1977
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (building.Cambridge, MA)Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO ) is a research institute of the Smithsonian Institution Harvard , concentrating on astrophysical studies including galactic and extragalactic astronomy , cosmology , solar , earth and planetary sciences , theory
River Festival begins.[97]
Changsho restaurant in business.[98]
1978
1979 - Harvard's Film Archive opens.
1980s–1990s
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Tasty sandwich shop in Harvard Square, 1985.
1985
1986
1987
1988 - Cambridge Community Television[113] and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone established.
1989
Cambridge Sane/Freeze active.[21]
Sister city relationship established with Kraków , Poland.[105]
1990
Cambridgeside Galleria, built in 1990.
Boston Dynamics BigDog
1993
1994
Islamic Society of Boston mosque opens.[78]
Rialto restaurant in business.[118]
1995
Kendall Square Cinema opens.[56]
Porter Square Neighbors Association formed.
Cybersmith[119] and Phoenix Landing (music venue)[120] in business.
1996
1997
Akamai's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Part of the world-famousHarvard Yard
One of many entrances to Harvard Yard , November 2019
Harvard University,. November, 2019
The Out of Town News, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2019.
"Boston" , Appleton's Handbook of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour , New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870
Weightman, Gavin (2003). The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story . New York: Hyperion. p. 110
Henry Varnum Poor (1860), History of the railroads and canals of the United States , New York: J.H. Schultz
Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts . 1891.
Department of Veterans' Services. "Our History" . City of Cambridge. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge , Cambridge, Massachusetts: J. Wilson and Son, 1870, OCLC 6322068 , OL 6906910M
Cambridge Historical Society. Proceedings, 1980-1985 .
Cambridge Historical Society Proceedings for the years 1953-54 .
Proceedings , vol. 1, Cambridge Historical Society, 1906
"Big Bang at Lechmere", Boston Globe , June 2, 1989
"Mac-Gray is Cleaning Up in World of Wash and Dry", Boston Globe , May 16, 2006
Magazine of Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, 1941-1973 . OCLC 28534348 – via WorldCat.
Pluralism Project. "Buddhism in America" . America's Many Religions: Timelines . Harvard University. Retrieved October 4, 2013 .
"About" . Broadway Bicycle School. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
"Stylish New Home for Cambridge Favorite", Boston Globe , January 29, 1987
"Cultural Center: a Slice of Italy", Boston Globe , June 17, 1985
"Looking to strengthen family ties with 'sister cities' ", Boston Globe , October 12, 2008
"Member Cities" . International Association of Peace Messenger Cities. Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
"CCTV newsletter". January 2002.
"Tech Speak", Boston Globe , February 10, 1995
"New club in Central Square", Boston Globe , November 23, 1995
"Issues" . Cambridge Civic Journal . Robert Winters. Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
"About Us" . Cambridge: Longwood Players, Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
"Member Directory" . Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
Published in the 19th century
1800s-1840s
Abiel Holmes (1801), History of Cambridge , Boston: Samuel Hall, OL 22882322M
"Cambridge". Edinburgh Gazetteer . Edinburgh: A. Constable and co.; etc., etc. 1822. hdl :2027/nyp.33433000458731 .
Jedidiah Morse ; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Cambridge" , A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
William Darby; Theodore Dwight Jr. (1834), "Cambridge" , New gazetteer of the United States of America (2nd ed.), Hartford: E. Hopkins
City of Cambridge, Annual Report
Cambridge Directory ... for 1848 . 1848.
1850s-1870s
John Hayward (1857), "Cambridge, Ms." , New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp , OCLC 3441657
Charter and Ordinances of the City of Cambridge . Riverside Press. 1871.
Dean Dudley (1872). Cambridge Directory . Cambridge: Published by Dean Dudley at 8 Congress Square, Boston.
Cambridge Directory for 1873 . Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
Griffith Morgan Hopkins (1873). Atlas of the City of Cambridge . Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins & Co. – via Harvard University. 1886 ed.
Annual Report of the City Engineer , City of Cambridge . 1875-
Cambridge in the 'Centennial': Proceedings, July 3, 1875, in Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of Washington's Taking Command of the Continental Army . City Council. 1875.
Greenough's Cambridge Directory . Boston: Greenough & Co.
Lucius R. Paige (1877), History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 , Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company, OCLC 1305589 , OL 7045727M
"Cambridge (3.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 732.
1880s-1890s
Samuel Adams Drake (1880), History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts , Boston: Estes and Lauriat, OL 23400952M
Exercises in celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge, held December 28, 1880 , Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, John Wilson & Son, 1881, OL 23359150M
(Cambridge and parts of Somerville) . Vol. 6. New York: Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. 1888 – via Harvard University.
George F. Crook, ed. Cambridge annual for 1886-1888 .
Blue Book of Cambridge for 1892 . 1891.
Gossiping Guide to Harvard and Places of Interest in Cambridge , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Tribune, 1892, OCLC 4571172 , OL 6943590M
Park Commission, Annual Report , City of Cambridge 1894- . 1890s
Atlas of the City of Cambridge . Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley and Co. – via Harvard University. . 1894?
Blue Book of Cambridge for 1895 . 1890.
Arthur Gilman (1896), Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six , Cambridge: Riverside Press, OL 7062042M
Walter Gee Davis, ed. (1897), Cambridge Fifty Years a City, 1846-1896 , Cambridge: Riverside Press, OCLC 911131 , OL 7145491M
John Wesley Freese (1897), Historic Houses and Spots in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Near-By Towns , Boston: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1821792 , OL 7060328M
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1899), Old Cambridge , New York: Macmillan Company, OCLC 2220162 , OL 528896M
Published in the 20th century
Insurance Maps of Cambridge, Massachusetts . New York: Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 1900 – via Harvard University.
Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly New-Towne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703 , Cambridge, 1901, OL 7057190M {{citation }}
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Atlas of the City of Cambridge . Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley and Co. 1903 – via Harvard University. 1916 ed.
Robert F. Roden (1905), The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692 , NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company, OL 6964651M
Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, Hannah Winthrop Chapter, Cambridge (1907), An Historic Guide to Cambridge , Cambridge, Massachusetts, OCLC 3292475 , OL 6981640M {{citation }}
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"Cambridge" , United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
"Cambridge (Massachusetts)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 96–97.
Cambridge Directory . Boston: Greenough & Co. 1910.
Samuel A. Eliot (1913), A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913 , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Tribune, OCLC 6876563 , OL 6563862M
Atlas of the City of Cambridge . G.W. Bromley & Co. 1930 – via State Library of Massachusetts .
Norman Hill White Jr. (1931), Proceedings for the Years 1920 and 1921 , Publications, vol. 15, Cambridge Historical Society, hdl :2027/wu.89067481739 , Printing in Cambridge Since 1800
Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Cambridge", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People , American Guide Series , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl :2027/mdp.39015014440781 {{citation }}
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Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Northwest Cambridge , Cambridge Historical Commission, 1977, ISBN 0-262-53032-5
Police Department, Annual Crime Report , City of Cambridge 1995- 2004-present
"Cambridge". Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts . Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1997. pp. 28–29. (Timeline of boundary changes)
"Commonwealth Communities: City of Cambridge" . Commonwealth of Massachusetts Official Website . Archived from the original on 1998-02-15.
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (1999), Cambridge , Arcadia Publishing, OL 7981887M
Published in the 21st century
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"Timeline: 1972-1976" , Harvard Crimson , June 5, 2001
"Timeline 2001-2002" , Harvard Crimson , June 6, 2002
Natalie Moravek (2010), "Walking Tour" , William James' Cambridge , Cambridge Historical Society
"MIT Timeline" . MIT 150 . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2011.
Rain Robertson (2012). "Cambridge's Culinary Culture" . Cambridge Historical Society.
"A Kendall Square Timeline" , Boston Globe , February 2, 2014
Saul Tannenbaum (February 21, 2014), The Case for Municipal Broadband in Cambridge , NeighborMedia, Cambridge Community Television
George Washington in Cambridge, 1775
Harvard alumni procession, Harvard Square, 1836
Cambridge Observatory, 1849
Harvard Square, ca.1880s-1900s
Washington Elm, Cambridge Common, ca.1880s-1900s
Cambridge Public Library, 1891
Central Square and Mass. Ave., 1910s
Overview of Harvard Square area, 1919
Harvard Bridge and MIT, ca.1920
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