page_title: Timeline of Memphis, Tennessee
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Memphis, Tennessee / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Original 1819 plan of Memphis, believed to be the 1820 engraving made in Baltimore, assigned the date 1819 by the Tennessee Archives, Nashville.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Memphis, Tennessee, US.
context_section_description: 1819 – Town laid out.
  1826 – Town incorporated.
  1827
  Memphis Advocate newspaper begins publication.
  Marcus B. Winchester becomes mayor.
  1836 – Memphis Enquirer newspaper begins publication.
  1841 – The Appeal newspaper begins publication.
  1843
  New Orleans-Memphis telegraph begins operating.
  Memphis Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
  1844 – Calvary Episcopal Church consecrated.
  1849 – Memphis incorporated as a city.
  1850
  Town designated a port of customs.
  Population: 8,841.
  1852 – Elmwood Cemetery established.
  1853 – Congregation B'nai Israel founded.
  1854 – Jones & Co. chemists in business.
  1855 – German Benevolent Society formed.
  1857 – Memphis & Charleston Railroad completed.
  1858 – Memphis Daily Avalanche newspaper begins publication.
  1860 – Population: 22,623.
  1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed.
  1862
  Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville.
  June 6: Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis.
  1864
  August 21: Second Battle of Memphis.
  First National Bank of Memphis established.
  1866
  May: Racial unrest.
  Greenwood School established.
  Memphis Post begins publication.
  1868 – Peabody Hotel in business.
  1870
  Goldsmith's store in business.
  Population: 40,226.
  1871
  LeMoyne Normal Institute and College of Christian Brothers established.
  St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral consecrated.
  1873 – Yellow fever epidemic.
  1874 – Memphis Cotton Exchange founded.
  1875 – Southwestern at Memphis (college) established.
  1878 – Yellow fever epidemic.
  1879 – Yellow fever epidemic.
  1880
  Sewer system construction begins
  Population: 33,592.
  1882
  Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church established.
  Chickasaw Cooperage Company incorporated.
  1883 – Young Men's Christian Association chartered.
  1885 – Peoples Grocery in business.
  1887 – Memphis National Bank organized.
  1890
  Nineteenth Century Club formed.
  Population: 64,589.
  1891 – City rechartered.
  1892 – Railroad bridge constructed.
  1899 – Manassas High School established.
  1900 – Population: 102,320.
caption: The original plan for Memphis, as surveyed in 1819.
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