This article is a timeline of the history of the city of Cleveland , Ohio , USA .
1904 map of Cleveland
1800 – Trumbull County created, encompassing Cleveland.
1803 – Ohio becomes the 17th State admitted to the Union.
1805 – Geauga County created, encompassing Cleveland.
1808 – Lorenzo Carter builds the Zephyr , the first ship to be launched in Cleveland.
1810 – Cuyahoga County organized; Cleveland selected as county seat.
1813 – Oliver Hazard Perry wins the Battle of Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay in the War of 1812 .
1814
1815
Alfred Kelley is elected the first president of the village of Cleveland.
Euclid Avenue commissioned, subsequently known as Millionaires' Row.
1818 – The Cleveland Gazette and Commercial Register , Cleveland's first newspaper is published.[2]
1822 – a free bridge is opened across the Cuyahoga River .
1827 – opening of the Ohio canal as far as Akron .
1830 – population: 1,076.
1831
1832 – Ohio and Erie Canal completed to the Ohio River .
1836
Cleveland and Ohio City are incorporated as cities.
John W. Willey is elected the first mayor of Cleveland.
Bridge War between Cleveland and Ohio City takes place.
1837 – Cleveland City Council votes to create City Hospital, now MetroHealth .
1840 – population: 6,071.
1842 – The Plain Dealer begins publication.[2]
1844 – Samuel Starkweather elected mayor.
1845 – City Bank of Cleveland (forerunner of National City Corp .) founded.
1847
The Weddell House opens.
The first telegraph line (from Cleveland to Pittsburgh ) is completed.
1848 – Colored National Convention held in city.[3]
1850
1851 – Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad completed.
1852 – The Aliened American newspaper begins publication.[4] [5]
1853
1854
1860
1861
1865
The American Civil War ends.
Thousands of Clevelanders mourn the death of Lincoln.[6]
1866 – Cleveland Police Department established.
1869
1870
1873
1874 – First Woman's National Temperance Convention held in Cleveland, establishing the Woman's Christian Temperance Union .[8]
1875 – Euclid Avenue Opera House opens.
1876
1878 – Penny Press , predecessor to the Cleveland Press , begins publication.
1880
1881
1882
1883 – John H. Farley elected mayor.
1884
First electric streetcar run in the city.
Cleveland Electric Light Co. formed.
1887 – Michelson–Morley experiment conducted at Western Reserve University.
1890
1894
1895 – Robert E. McKisson elected mayor.
1896 – Cleveland celebrates its centennial .
1897 – Bohemian National Hall built.
1899
1900 – population: 381,768.
Map of Territorial Changes to the City of Cleveland
1900s–1940s
1901
1905
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912 – Village of Nottingham annexed to Cleveland.
1913
1914
Cleveland chosen as the Fourth District headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Cleveland Municipal Light Plant goes into operation.
1915 – Cleveland Play House and Western Reserve University's School of Applied Social Science[10] established.
1916
1917 – Cleveland Metroparks organized.
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922 – demolition for the Terminal Tower site begins
1923
1924
1925
1929
1930 – The Tower City Center is dedicated.
1931
1932 – Hope Memorial Bridge construction completed.
1933
Harry L. Davis returns as mayor.
Depression-era unemployment peaks in Cleveland: nearly one-third of the city's citizens are out of work.
Prohibition is repealed on December 23 – nearly eight months longer than the Eighteenth Amendment.
1935
1936 – Republican National Convention held in Cleveland.
1937
1938
1939 – Main Avenue Bridge opened.
1940 – NACA , forerunner of NASA , established at the Cleveland airport.
1941
1942 – Cleveland Bomber Plant (now the I-X Center ) opens at Municipal Airport.
1944 – Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion claims 130 lives.
1945
1946
1947
Operations begin at the lakefront airport.
First telecast by WEWS , Ohio's first television station.
Eliot Ness runs for mayor of Cleveland but is defeated by incumbent Thomas A. Burke .
Cleveland Browns win the All-America Football Conference championship.
1948
Cleveland Indians win World Series.
Cleveland Browns win the All-America Football Conference championship.
1949
Cleveland named an All-America City for first time.
Cleveland Browns win the All-America Football Conference championship.
2001 – Cleveland Barons are revived.
2002 – Cleveland citizens elect Jane L. Campbell as the first female mayor of Cleveland.
2003 – 2003 North America blackout
2004 – vice-presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards debate at Case Western Reserve University .
2005 – Frank G. Jackson is the first sitting city councillor to be elected mayor since Stephen Buhrer in 1867.[13]
2006
Barons leave Cleveland for the second time.
Cleveland, Columbus , and other Ohio cities argue against a bill passed by the Ohio House legislature that will eliminate residency rules.
2007
2008 – Cuyahoga County federal corruption investigation.[14]
2009
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the 2006 law prohibiting residency requirements.
Frank Jackson wins a second term as Mayor of Cleveland.
November, Ohio Voters open Ohio to casino gambling and Cleveland will have a casino by 2013.
Cleveland is selected by the International Gay Games committee to host the 2014 Gay Games. Cleveland beat out Boston, Washington DC, and Hamburg Germany.
2010 – population: 396,815.[15]
2011 – construction begins on the Medical Mart and new convention center, scheduled to open late 2013.
2013 – Frank Jackson wins a third term as Mayor of Cleveland against Kenneth Lanci.
2014
2015 – Chief U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. signs consent decree for the Cleveland Division of Police .[16]
2016
2017 – Frank Jackson wins a fourth term as Mayor of Cleveland, becoming the city's longest-serving mayor.[17]
2018 – Cleveland's population begins to flatten as Downtown population increases.[18]
2019
2020
2021