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Timeline of Detroit

Summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

18th century edit

19th century edit

20th century edit

1900s-1950s edit

- Diego Rivera paints Detroit Industry Murals in the Institute of Arts.

  • 1934: Formation of the Federal Housing Authority. The FHA is responsible for setting standards for construction and insuring and underwriting loans made by various lenders.
  • 1935: The United Auto Workers labor union was founded. Ford was the first company to sign a contract with them, again showing the impact that the Ford Motor Company has had throughout Detroit's history.

- Detroit Tigers baseball team win 1935 World Series defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. The season was their 35th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the first World Series championship for the Tigers.

  • 1936: 239 maps were commissioned by FHLB for the HOLC and the FHA.

The FHLB determined which neighborhoods were safe for loans and which were not. This resulted in redlining and Blacks found it very difficult to get loans.

- Citizen's housing and planning council formed in Detroit

- The Davidson Freeway was built (the first urban one ever built in the U.S). - Exec Order 8802 (FEPC) - mandated non discrimination in the workplace (factories) - Electric streetcars run on Woodward Avenue every 60 seconds at peak times.

  • 1942: Pickets at Sojourner Truth Housing
  • 1943: - The Detroit riot. A race riot, spurred by competition among black and white residents for wartime factory jobs, resulted in 34 deaths.
  • 1944: GI Bill was passed.

-Blacks had trouble buying property outside redline areas and couldn't get loans to buy within red line areas. - Future singer Diana Ross born.

  • 1945 - Detroit Tigers won the 1945 World Series.
  • 1946 - Russell Kelly Office Service
  • 1948: Shelley v Kraemer. The decision ruled that restrictive covenants cannot be enforced. However, it was ineffective to get people to stop using them because they didn't want their neighborhood to get a poor rating.
  • 1949: Taft Ellender Wagner Act is passed. This resulted in more funding for public housing.

1950s-1990s edit

21st century edit

  • 2002 - Detroit Lions football team begin play in the new, state-of-the-art Ford Field, returning to downtown Detroit after 27 years in suburban Pontiac.
  • 2003
  • 2004
    • "Restored" Campus Martius Park opens in downtown Detroit. Featuring an ice-skating rink, it is the focal point of the city's new Winter Blast festival.
    • The Detroit Pistons win the NBA Finals.
  • 2005 - Comerica Park hosts Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
  • 2006 - February: city hosts Super Bowl XL, and in October, the Detroit Tigers, only three years after having a 119-loss season, defeat the Oakland A's in the American League Championship Series, winning the Penant. They then play in their first World Series since 1984, losing to their 1968 series rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, in five games.
  • 2008 - Kwame Kilpatrick resigned his office as mayor effective September 19, 2008, after pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and no contest to one count of assaulting and obstructing a police officer.[40][41] Kilpatrick was succeeded in office on an interim basis by City Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.
  • 2009 - Following a special election in May 2009, businessman and former Detroit Pistons star Dave Bing became the Mayor and was subsequently re-elected to a full term of office.
  • 2010 - Population: 713,777.[42]
  • 2013
  • 2014 - Mike Duggan becomes mayor.
    • December: Governor Rick Snyder announced that Detroit had emerged from bankruptcy, and that he had accepted Orr's resignation as emergency manager, returning control of Detroit to its elected government.
  • 2016 - June: CNU24, the 24th Congress for the New Urbanism, is held in Detroit. Congress focuses on the city's resurgence and legacy projects.
  • 2017 - October: National Women's Convention held.[48]
  • 2018 - Bedrock Detroit, owned by Dan Gilbert, announces a $900 million, two building project on the site of the former J.L. Hudson store (which once had the tallest retail tower in the world), including a 58-story tower.[49]
  • 2020 - Population: 639,111.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Detroit History". City of Detroit. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "FRENCH DETROIT (1700-1760)". Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 629+, Chronology.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Timeline of Detroit". Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  7. ^ Bonk 1957.
  8. ^ Burton 1922.
  9. ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  10. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: United States of America". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  13. ^ a b "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  14. ^ a b c "Encyclopedia of Detroit". Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  15. ^ Franklin 1903.
  16. ^ "Police Commissioners History". City of Detroit. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  17. ^ a b c "Detroit". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  18. ^ "About the DIA". Detroit Institute of Arts. 2022. Retrieved March 17, 2022. Founded in 1885, the museum was originally located on Jefferson Avenue...
  19. ^ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
  20. ^ "The River that changed the World". Motorcities.org. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  21. ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Detroit, MI". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  22. ^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
  23. ^ "Garden Search: United States of America: Michigan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  24. ^ "Michigan". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1956. hdl:2027/mdp.39015073070339 – via HathiTrust.
  25. ^ Gavrilovich & McGraw 2000, p. 232.
  26. ^ Hill, Eric J.; Gallagher, John (2003). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8143-3120-0.
  27. ^ Detroit Historical Society (8 July 2016). "The Spirit of Detroit (1959)" – via YouTube.
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  29. ^ a b "Sister Cities Program". City of Detroit. Archived from the original on June 29, 2010.
  30. ^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
  31. ^ American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Michigan: Detroit". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. pp. 397–398. ISBN 0759100020.
  32. ^ "Michigan". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1966. hdl:2027/mdp.39015071164142.
  33. ^ Detroit's 'great warrior,' Coleman Young, dies, CNN.com, November 29, 1997
  34. ^ "History of Cities in 50 Buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
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  36. ^ Hill, Eric J.; Gallagher, John (2003). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8143-3120-0.
  37. ^ Brennan, Christine (January 8, 1994). "Injured Kerrigan Withdraws From Olympic Trials". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  38. ^ "City of Detroit Official Web Site". Archived from the original on December 7, 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  39. ^ Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Michigan". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on December 5, 1998.
  40. ^ Bill McGraw (March 24, 2008), "Kilpatrick a first for Detroit", Detroit Free Press
  41. ^ Monica Davey; Nick Bunkley (March 25, 2008). "Mayor of Detroit Faces 8 Counts in Perjury Case". New York Times.
  42. ^ "Detroit city, Michigan". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  43. ^ Richard Blackden (April 1, 2013), "Kevyn Orr - the man who must fix Detroit", The Telegraph
  44. ^ Bankrupt Detroit goes on trial, Politico.Com, 2013-10-22 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  45. ^ "Detroit bankruptcy eligibility case goes to trial", PBS NewsHour, October 23, 2013
  46. ^ Isidore, Chris (November 7, 2013). "Detroit is broke. Who's going to pay?". Money.cnn.com.
  47. ^ "Federal grant to hire 150 Detroit firefighters", Detroit News, November 29, 2013
  48. ^ "At Women's Convention in Detroit, a Test of Momentum and Focus", New York Times, October 28, 2017
  49. ^ Detroit breaks ground on tallest tower, symbol of resurgence Retrieved May 26, 2018

Bibliography edit

Published in 18th-19th century edit

  • Jedidiah Morse (1797). "D'Etroit". American Gazetteer. Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews. OL 23272543M.
  • Samuel R. Brown (1817). "Detroit". Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant's Directory. Auburn, N.Y: Printed by H.C. Southwick. OCLC 10530489. OL 24649079M.
  • James H. Wellings (1845), Directory of the City of Detroit, Detroit: Printed by Harsha & Willcox, OL 23357545M
  • James H. Wellings (1846), Directory of the City of Detroit, Detroit: A.S. Williams, printer, OCLC 10900751, OL 6989331M
  • Johnston's Detroit Directory. 1855.
  • "Detroit", State of Michigan Gazetteer & Business Directory, H. Huntington Lee & Co. & James Sutherland, 1856, pp. 33+
  • Johnston's Detroit City Directory, James Dale Johnston & Co, 1861, OCLC 81840923, OL 23526571M
  • "Detroit", Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, Charles F. Clark, 1863, pp. 239+
  • "Detroit", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
  • "Detroit" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 133.
  • Silas Farmer (1890). History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: a Chronological Cyclopedia (3rd ed.). Detroit.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Delos Franklin Wilcox (1896), Municipal Government in Michigan and Ohio: A Study in the Relations of City and Commonwealth, Columbia University (About Detroit and Cleveland)
  • "Detroit", Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, R.L. Polk & Co., 1897, pp. 481–718

Published in 20th century edit

  • Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Detroit, Mich.", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351
  • "Detroit". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/njp.32101065312884.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lyman Pierson Powell, ed. (1901), "Detroit", Historic Towns of the Western States, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
  • Leo M. Franklin (1903), "Detroit", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 4, New York, hdl:2027/mdp.49015002282284{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Hugo S. Grosser, ed. (1907), "Detroit", What is What in Our Cities, Book of American Municipalities, League of American Municipalities
  • "Detroit", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437 – via Internet Archive
  • The Detroiter, Detroit Board of Commerce. 1910-
  • "Detroit" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 113–116.
  • Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1921). "(Detroit)". Michigan Bibliography. Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission. pp. 99–147.
  • Clarence M. Burton, ed. (1922). City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. (5 volumes)
  • Stocking, William (1922). "Detroit" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.).
  • Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Detroit". Michigan: a Guide to the Wolverine State. American Guide Series. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 228+. ISBN 9781603540216 – via Google Books.
  • Wallace John Bonk (1957), Michigan's first bookstore; a study of the books sold in the Detroit Book Store, 1817-1828, Department of Library Science Studies, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
  • Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. online; see index at p. 408-9 for list.
  • Steve Babson (1986) [1984]. Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1819-3.
  • Peter Gavrilovich & Bill McGraw (2000). Detroit Almanac: 300 years of life in the motor city.

Published in 21st century edit

  • Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Detroit". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
  • David Lee Poremba, Detroit in Its World Setting: A Three Hundred Year Chronology, 1701-2001 (2001).
  • Eric J. Hill; John Gallagher (2003). AIA Detroit: the American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
  • David Marley (2005), "United States: Detroit", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 557+, ISBN 1576070271
  • Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Michigan: Detroit". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
  • Michael O. Smith (2007). "Detroit, Michigan". In David Goldfield (ed.). Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Sage. pp. 218+. ISBN 978-1-4522-6553-7.
  • Dan Austin (2010). Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-62584-237-4.
  • Catherine Cangany (2014). Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt. American Beginnings, 1500-1900. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-09684-1.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Detroit.
  • Detroit Public Library Digital Collections
  • Detroit, Research Guides, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library
  • Items related to Detroit, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • Yves Marchand; Romain Meffre. "Ruins of Detroit (2005-2010)". (Photos)
  • Clarke Historical Library. "Wayne County". Bibliographies: Michigan Local History. Mount Pleasant: Central Michigan University. (Includes Detroit)

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