Timeline of Denver

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Denver, Colorado, United States, from its founding in 1858 to the present.

1800s

1857 to 1879

  • 1857
    • Summer: Mexican gold miners create small settlement at about present day Alameda Avenue on the South Platte River in what is now Denver.[1]
  • 1858
    • September 24: A group of squatters draw up an agreement to found the St. Charles Town Association in what is now downtown Denver.[2]
    • November 1: The settlement of Auraria, Kansas Territory founded in the low ground near the confluence of the Platte and Cherry Creek.[3]
    • November 22: Denver City founded east of Cherry Creek as a rival to Auraria, displacing the St. Charles Association.[4][2]
  • 1859
    • The first burial ground, the Mount Prospect Cemetery (later called the Old Denver City Cemetery) was established.[5]
    • John C. Moore becomes mayor.[6]
    • April 23: Rocky Mountain News begins publication.[7]
    • May 7: First stagecoaches of the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Stage Company arrive in Denver.[8]
    • October 3: The first school, a private institution founded by O.J. Goldrick, opens for classes in Auraria on 12th Street between Market and Larimer Streets.[9]
  • 1860
    Illustration of Denver in 1860
    • Population of the City: 4,749[10]
    • Construction of the first canal called, the "Big Ditch", to deliver water to the city begun by the Capitol Hydraulic Company.[11]
    • January – Denver Police Department established by Mayor Moore, replacing Denver Marshals.[12]
    • April 6: Moonlight ceremony on Larimer Street bridge over Cherry Creek unites Auraria with Denver City.[1]
    • May 18: Barney Ford, who later became an important civil rights activist, arrives in Denver for the first time.[13]
    • July – Clark, Gruber & Co. a privately owned gold brokerage and mint, produces the first coins in Colorado.[14]
    • September – "People's Government" formed in the Apollo Hall Saloon in Larimer Square.[15]
    • October 6: James Gordon executed by hanging for the drunken murder of German immigrant Jacob Gantz by order of the "People's Court" and Alexander Cameron Hunt presiding as judge.[16]
  • 1861
    • Denver City becomes part of Colorado Territory.
    • November 19: "People's Government" of Denver replaced by the territorial government.[17]
  • 1863
    • Telegraph begins operating.[18]
    • April 19: Fire destroys much of Downtown and results in laws requiring new buildings to be made of brick.[19][20]
  • 1864
    Flood on Cherry Creek 19 May 1864
  • 1867
    • Colorado Tribune newspaper begins publication.[25]
    • Platte Water Company finishes the "Big Ditch" to provide Denver with water, terminating in Smith Lake in what is today Washington Park.[11]
    • December – Legislature of Colorado Territory votes to relocate to Denver City from Golden City.[26]
  • 1868
    • Schools in Denver segregated due to the demands of parents, a separate school for black students being founded at 16th and Market Streets.[27]
    • May 18: Public holiday declared to celebrate the start of construction on the Denver Pacific Railroad to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad in Cheyenne, Wyoming.[28]
  • 1870
  • 1871
    Horse tram to Cook's Addition in 1891
    • December 17: Denver Horse Railroad the first rail transit service begins operating, changing its name in the next year to the Denver City Railway Co.[31]
  • 1873 – Palace Theater, a gambling and entertainment establishment, opened by Ed Chase.[32]
  • 1875 – East High School opens as part of the Arapahoe School.[33]
  • 1876
  • 1878
    Evans Chapel c. 1880–1890
  • 1879
    • Typhoid fever outbreak sickens more than 600 residents and kills at least 40. First of six significant outbreaks that occur through 1896 due to contaminated water.[36]
    • February 24: first telephone exchange in city opens, one of the first 25 in the world.[37]
    • July 11: State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado, later History Colorado headquartered in Denver.[38]
    • September 1: Delivery of mail to addresses starts in Denver with six mail carriers.[39]

1880 to 1899

  • 1880
    The Denver Club in 1890
    • Population of the City: 35,629
      50th most populous US city. First time in 100 most populous cities in the US.[40]
    • Denver Club, a private gentleman's club founded by leading wealthy residents.[41]
  • 1881
    Tabor Grand Opera House, c. 1888
    • April 13: Denver Fortnightly Club, one of Denver's first women's clubs has its first meeting.[42]
    • June 1: Union Station opens.[43]
    • September 5: Opening of the Tabor Grand Opera House by a production of Maritana.[44]
  • 1882
    • High Line Canal opens to provide water to agricultural areas south of Denver.[45]
    • February 18: Purchase of land for City Park approved by Denver City Council.[46]
    • December – Colorado Scientific Society founded in Denver, not incorporated until January 1885.[38]
  • 1883
    • First St. Patrick's Day parade organized by Father Joseph P. Carrigan.[47]
    • Second City Hall completed.[48]
    • Arapahoe County Courthouse completed on 16th and Tremont Streets. It served until 1902 when Denver was separated from the county.[49]
  • 1884
    • Denver Athletic Club founded.[50]
    • July – Denver Press Club organized.[51]
  • 1885
    • November – Mercantile Library, a predecessor of the Public Library, opened by the Denver Chamber of Commerce.[52]
  • 1886
    • The Holden Smelter, which later became the ASARCO Globe Plant begins operating.[53]
    • Construction begins on the Colorado State Capitol building.[54]
    • Denver Union Stockyards Company moves to location on the South Platte River bounded by 46th Avenue and 52nd Avenue to the north.[55]
    • "Ugly law" effected, prohibiting those deemed unsightly (generally the impoverished) from public spaces.[56]
    • July 31: Denver Tramway operates first passenger car on 15th Street.[57]
  • 1887
    • College of the Sacred Heart (later renamed Regis University) relocates to Denver.[58]
    • February 28: Congress votes to establish an army base near Denver, later named Fort Logan, due to the petitioning of the citizens of the city.[59]
  • 1889
    • Construction of the Boston Building, Denver's first modern office building begins.[60]
    • Denver Athletic Club's historic clubhouse is built.[61]
    • July 30: Soapy Smith assaults and injures Rocky Mountain News editor John Arkins. The News declares a crusade to rid Denver of the bad man, which took a decade to complete.[62]
    • November: Permission granted to Citizens' Water Company to go into competition with the established Denver Water Company to build a system to provide water to the city.[63]
  • 1890
    Poster for Elitch Gardens
    • Population of the City: 106,713
      26th most populous US city.[40]
    • Mount Prospect, the Denver City Cemetery, closed to further burials.[64]
    • April 8: Construction of the Masonic Temple begins at 16th and Welton Streets.[65]
    • May 1: Elitch Gardens amusement venue opens.[66]
  • 1891
    • Central Presbyterian Church built.
    • Oxford Hotel, Denver's oldest still existing hotel, built.[67]
    • May 1: Town of Colfax incorporates in what is now the Sun Valley neighborhood.[68]
  • 1892
    • The Denver Post newspaper begins publication as the Evening Post.[25]
    • January: The competing town of Brooklyn incorporated an area inside the town of Colfax setting up a six month fight that was ultimately won by the town of Colfax.[68]
    • August 12: Brown Palace Hotel opens.[69]
  • 1893
    • Denver's oldest continuously operating restaurant, the Buckhorn Exchange opens under the name "The Rio Grande Exchange".[70]
    • Denver government orders all bodies to be removed from the old City Cemetery.[71]
    • Denver Artist Club, which later became the Denver Art Museum founded.[72]
    • June – Silver prices fall from $1.05 per ounce to 83¢ per ounce, starting the Denver Depression.[73]
    • July
      • 18: Six Denver banks fail.[73]
      • 19: Three more banks suspend payments.[73]
  • 1894
    Colorado State Capitol c. 1901-1902
    • Citizens' Water Company purchases and merges with rival taking the new name, the Denver Union Water Company.[74]
    • February 7: South Denver annexed by the city.[75]
    • Colorado State Capitol building complete, Governor Davis Hanson Waite moves his office to the building.[54]
    • March 15: Governor Waite orders state militiamen to march on Denver City Hall to remove the Police and Fire Commissioners in what became known as the City Hall War.[76]
  • 1895
    • October 22–24 First annual Festival of Mountain and Plain.[77]
  • 1896 – Denver Zoo founded because of the gift of an orphan bear to Mayor Thomas S. McMurray.[78]
  • 1898
    • Denver Public Library established.[79]
    • February 1: Around 10,000 people attempt to attend the funeral of the Congregationalist minister and social reformer Myron W. Reed.[80]
  • 1899
Downtown Denver in 1898 photograph taken from state capitol towards 16th Street

1900s

Crystalline gold from Farncomb Hill, near Breckenridge, Colorado.

1900 to 1919

  • 1900
    • Population of the City: 133,859
      25th most populous US city.[40]
    • May 3: Spring flood overtops the still under construction Cheesman Dam, flooding low lying areas of Littleton at about 1:00 in the afternoon and sweeping away all but the foundations of the dam.[83]
    • December 6: Denver Museum of Nature and Science incorporated as the Colorado Natural History Museum.[84]
  • 1902
    • Voters approve Article XX of the Colorado State Constitution, popularly known as the Rush Amendment, granting home rule for the Government of Denver.[85]
    • Grant–Humphreys Mansion built.[86]
    • June 21: USS Denver (CL-16), named in honor of the city, launched in Philadelphia.[87]
  • 1903
    • Denver Juvenile Court established.[88]
    • July – What will become the east wing of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Completed in City Park.[84]
  • 1904
    • May – Robert W. Speer elected mayor for the first time.[89] Judge and reformer Ben B. Lindsey later alleged there were 10,000 illegal votes cast in the election.[90]
  • 1905
    • May 9: Water reaches the spillway of the Cheesman Dam. Constructed by the Denver Union Water Company, on the South Platte River, it is the city's first mountain water reservoir and the tallest in the world at the time of completion.[91]
    • Mayor Speer starts tree planting program.[92]
  • 1906
  • 1908
    Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1908
  • 1910
    • Population of the City & County: 213,381
      27th most populous US city.[40]
    • Construction of the Cheesman memorial in what would become Cheesman Park begins.[101]
      The Cheesman Memorial c. 1909
    • Denver Gas & Electric Building, a building studded with then modern electric bulbs, completed.[102]
    • Dumb Friends League established.[103]
    • August 11: Children's Hospital Colorado opens.[104]
  • 1911
  • 1912
    • January: E.W. Merritt leads fundraising campaign to raise the money to save land in what will become Genesee Park from being logged.[109]
    • May 21: Voters enact a property tax to acquire lands and build amenities for the Denver Mountain Parks.[110]
    • October 21: The inaugural Mass of the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is held.[111]
  • 1913
    • August 27: Official opening of the first two Denver Mountain Parks, Genesee Park and Lookout Mountain Park. Though officially the land in Genesee Park is purchased the next month.[109]
  • 1915
    • February 26: First issue of the Intermountain Jewish News, under the name Denver Jewish News.[112]
    • September 4: Colorado National Bank opens its new building at 17th and Champa Streets.[113]
  • 1916
  • 1918
    • January 18: Federal Reserve Bank branch opens.[115]
    • August 6: A vote of the people forms the public utility, Denver Water, by purchasing the Denver Water Company.[116]

1920 to 1939

  • 1920
    Photograph of crowd during the Denver streetcar strike
    • Population of the City & County: 256,491
      25th most populous US city.[40]
    • Fitzsimmons Army Hospital built.[117]
    • August: Streetcar strike kills seven, ending with federal soldiers placing the city under martial law.[118]
  • 1922
  • 1923
  • 1927
    • Merchants Biscuit Company joins together with several other companies to form United Biscuit Company of America, the predecessor of the Keebler Company.[123]
    • Molly Brown purchases the cottage the formerly belonged Eugene Field and has it moved to Washington Park for preservation.[124]
  • 1929
  • 1930
  • 1932
    • October 29: Denver City and County Building completed.[120][64]
  • 1933
    • August 3: At about 5:00 in the morning the Castlewood Dam collapsed sending floodwaters into Denver.[129]
  • 1934
  • 1938
  • 1939 – The Pit, the first gay bar in Denver opens.[133]

1940 to 1959

  • 1940
    • Population of the City & County: 322,412
      24th most populous US city.[40]
  • 1941
    Red Rocks Amphitheatre photographed from the air, 1941
    • The Denver Ordnance Plant, the first part of what would become the Denver Federal Center, begins operating.
    • June 15: Red Rocks Amphitheatre opens near city.[134]
  • 1942
  • 1944
  • 1947
    • J. Quigg Newton defeats incumbent Mayor Stapleton, becoming the first Mayor born in the city and Denver's youngest mayor to date.[137]
  • 1948
  • 1950
    • Population of the City & County: 415,786
      24th most populous US city.[40]
    • To improve the Denver Zoological Foundation formed to better manage the Denver Zoo.[139]
    • June 3 – Final day of service by the Denver Tramway street trollies.[140]
  • 1951
  • 1952
  • 1955 – The Inter-County Regional Planning Commission, predecessor to the Denver Regional Council of Governments, formed.[144]
  • 1956

1960 to 1979

Denver Mile High Stadium postcard (c. 1970s-1980s)

1980 to 1999

Republic Plaza is a skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. Rising 717 feet (219 m), the building currently stands as the tallest building in the city of Denver.

2000s

2000s

2010s

2020s

  • 2020
    • Population of the City & County: 715,522
      19th most populous US city.
    • August 5: Diol-Beye family murders, where 5 members of a family died in an arson.[207]
  • 2021
    • December 27: A gunman goes on a shooting spree across the Denver metropolitan area, killing five including local artist Alicia Cardenas and injuring two before dying in a shootout with Lakewood police.[208][209]
  • 2023
Jokić and Murray with the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy
Nuggets players celebrating during parade
Denver Nuggets victory parade

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