The following is a timeline of the history of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
- 1835 – Charlotte Journal newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1837 – Charlotte Mint opens.
- 1850 – William F. Davidson becomes mayor.
- 1852
- Railway begins operating.
- Western Democrat newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1857
- 1858 – Charlotte Military Academy established.
- 1867 – Biddle Memorial Institute founded.
- 1875 – Charlotte public schools established.[7]
- 1880 – Population: 7,084.
- 1886 – Charlotte Chronicle newspaper begins publication.[4][8]
- 1887
- 1888 – The Charlotte News begins publication.[4]
- 1890 – Charlotte Post newspaper begins publication.[9]
- 1891
- City hall built.
- Charlotte Literary and Library Association organized.[10]
- Latta Park established
- 1897 – Elizabeth College established.[11]
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Charles Lee Raper (1898), The church and private schools of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C: J.J.Stone, printer, OL 7177437M
Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1888), A history of YMCA's movement in North Carolina, 1857–1888, Raleigh, N.C: Observer Printing Company, OCLC 13253321, OL 22882813M
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina. 1898
Laws and resolutions of the State of North Carolina. 1891
American College and Private School Directory. 1914
Joe Germuska (ed.). "Charlotte, NC". Censusreporter.org. USA. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- Published in 19th century
- Published in 20th century
- Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1903), History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte, from 1740 to 1903, Charlotte, N.C: Observer Print. House, OL 23304731M
- Walsh's Charlotte, North Carolina City Directory, Charleston, S.C.: Walsh Directory Co., 1907
- Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1911, Asheville, N.C: Piedmont Directory Co., 1911, OL 13510683M
- Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1925, Asheville, N.C: Miller Press, 1925
- Miller's Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1931, Detroit: Piedmont Directory Co., 1931
- Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Charlotte". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. p. 158+ – via Internet Archive.
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- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Charlotte, North Carolina", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
- Thomas W. Hanchett (1998). Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4677-3.
- "The South: North Carolina: Charlotte", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
- Published in 21st century
- Vermelle Diamond Ely; Grace Hoey Drain; Amy Rogers (2001). Charlotte, North Carolina. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Catherine Maddison (2007). "Charlotte, North Carolina". In David Goldfield (ed.). Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Sage. pp. 134–136. ISBN 978-1-4522-6553-7.
- Hunter Bacot (2012), "Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture", in Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, ISBN 978-1-4094-3654-6
- Raj Chetty; Nathaniel Hendren (2015), City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood, Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, archived from the original on 2015-05-06,
Rank #97: Charlotte, North Carolina