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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
| 1800 | Population 211,149. |
| 1801 |
Morris Turnpike-Elizabethtown to Delaware River-is chartered. Cape May becomes first summer resort to advertise for guests. |
| 1804 | February 15. Act passed making free all persons born in New
Jersey after July 4, 1804. First bank chartered, the Newark Banking and Insurance Company. July 11. Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel at Weehawken. |
| 1807 | November 16. Franchise extended to every white male taxpayer. |
| 1810 | Population 245,562. |
| 1811 | First steam ferry operated between New York and Hoboken. |
| 1817 | Legislature permits townships to raise money for free schools. |
| 1818 |
First patent leather produced at Newark by Seth Boyden. Vail Works at Speedwell (Morris County) builds machinery for Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic. |
| 1820 |
Population 277,575. Jersey City chartered. |
| 1824 | First steam locomotive in United States demonstrated by John Stevens on circular track at Hoboken. |
| 1825 | Excavation of Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, begins. |
| 1826 | Seth Boyden produces first malleable cast iron in United States. |
| 1828 |
Legislature first allocates taxes for support of education. Paterson mechanics join millworkers in first recorded sympathy strike. |
| 1830 | Population 320,823. |
| 1831 | Morris Canal opened from Phillipsburg to Newark. |
| 1832 | Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in New Jersey. |
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| New Jersey's first railroad, the Camden and Amboy, begins operation with English locomotive, the John Bull. |
| 1834 |
Delaware and Raritan Canal between New Brunswick and Bordentown opened. Boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey settled. |
| 1836 | First Colt revolver made in Paterson by Samuel Colt. |
| 1837 | Locomotive industry of Paterson is founded. |
| 1838 |
Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates his magnetic telegraph at Morristown with Alfred Vail. First high school opened at Newark. |
| 1840 | Population 373,306. Silk winding on spools, devised by John Ryle, builds Paterson industry. |
| 1844 |
New State Constitution abolishes property qualification for voters. Convention in session May 14 to June 29; Constitution ratified by people August 13. Dorothea Dix stirs legislature to reform prison system and to build asylums. |
| 1845 | New Jersey Historical Society organized at Trenton. |
| 1846 | First professional baseball game in world played at Hoboken between Knickerbocker Giants and a New York Team. |
| 1848 |
Representative (later Governor) William A. Newell begins successful campaign for Federal aid to lifesaving service. John Roebling moves his wire-rope factory to Trenton. |
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