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William PItt the Elder
William was the prime minister of England. And because of him they won in Europe and The French and Indian War. -
Marquis Duquense
Duquesne had a plan to build forts. He stopped with the third fort, Ft. Duquense- the French destroyed it. -
John Forbes
Forbes was a British General who directed the last six weeks of his victorious march to Fort Duquense. He named the land "Pittsborough" in honor of William Penn. -
Fort Pitt
It was the last and largest of the forts built by the British and French. By 1761, the fort started weathering away. Some of the bricks had been saved to make houses. -
Development of Pittsburgh
Streets were bulit, apartment buildings, a market and courthouse were built. Boat buildings started to make Pittsburgh a city. -
Grant's Hill
Gant's Hill projected the bluff of the city. Named for James Grant who was killed in 1858. -
Maj. Ebenezer Denny
Denny was the first major of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was changed from a borough to a city. -
The Monongehela Warf
Used for boats coming to Pittsburgh for business. -
Stephan Collins Foster
Foster wrote 189 songs, many of them melodic, sentimental ballads. His inspiration came from slave songs, blackface minstrel songs, and the African American dialect. -
Neville B. Craig
Craig was the influential publisher and editor of Pittburgh Gazette. He also authored the city's first published history. -
Thomas Mellon
Mellon opened T. Mellon and Sons Bank on Smithfield Street, which backed much of Pittsburgh's industry growth. -
John Chislett
Pittsburgh's first professional architect. Chislett built the country's new courthouse. He also designed the city's oldest office building- Burke's Building. -
A Great Fire
The fire consumed 24 blocks in the heart of the city. Nearly 1,000 buildings and homes were destroyed including Western University, Bank of Pittsburgh, Monongehela House, Global Cotton Factory, and the customhouse. -
John Roebling
Roebling used wire rope in the design of the world's first cable suspension bridge across the Monongahela River at Smithfield Street. -
The Mystery
An issue of this newpaper, The Mystery edited by Martin R. Delaney, urged Pres. James Polk to accept African American soilders for the Mexian War. -
Jane Grey Swisshelm
Swisshelm published the Pittsburgh Satuday Visitor to further her crusades against slavery and for women's rights. Because of her, Pennsylvania passed a law allowing married women to own property. -
David N. White
White was a founder of the national party that completed organization in Pittsburgh at its first national covention. -
Oil Trade
Crude oil from the Titusville area was transported down the Alleghany River by flatboat. Oil trades like these met the boats and transacted business on the Duquense Way Wharf. -
Henry Clay Frick
Frick was the first to mass-produce coke in beehive ovens and major in the opening of the steel industry. At 14, he was earning $3.50 a week as an errand boy for a store in Mount Pleasant. -
The Pittsburgh Comission
Organized early in the war to send medical aid to the front lines. A physician named Felix R. Burnot was captured with the field hospital and held short itme in Libby Prison. Under Burnot's direction, the Sanitary Fair was staged on the Alleghany Commons; it raised $322,217. -
Henry K. Porter
Porter began producing light swtiching locomotives in a Lawrenceville plant under the name Smith and Peter. The firm continued making about 600 locomotives a year until 1939 when it entered into diversified fields. -
George Westinghouse
Westinghouse introduced the air brake, the first effective means for stopping heavy trains, and started manufacturing it in a plant at Twenty-ninth Street and Liberty Avenue. It began a remarkable career that included alternate current, natural gad supply, the safety signal, and the electric locomotive. -
Riot Law Triumphant
Pennsylvania Railroad workers were protesting about wage cuts and layoffs. After strikers and supporters directed a barrage of stones and a revolver shot at the troops, they fired into the crowd, killing 20 men, women, and children. -
Andrew William Mellon
Mellon became the head of T. Mellon and Sons Bank. From then he and his brother Richard B., with combined interests, developed one of the world's greatest financial empires around the Mellon National Bank. -
Mount Washington's Duquesne Incline
Built in 1877 for $47,000, the incline had attracted 500,000 passengers by 1880 when an illustration appeared in Scientific American. -
The Smithfeild Street Bridge
The bridge was designed by Gustav Lindenthal as successor to Roebling's span, separated carriage and wagon traffic from horse-drawn trolleys. The portals remained until the bridge was modernized in 1915. -
Battle of Homestead
In the early morning, as the guards approached the mill on the river barges, they were met by steelworker and their families. No one knows who shot first but the battle went on for several hours. It ended with at least 14 dead: 11 steelworkers and 3 Pinkerton guards. -
The Pirates
The Pirates were one of baseball's strongest-htting clubs. Louis Biebauer was the disputed player over when the Pirates got their name from after sgning a loose infielder claimed by the American Association. -
Carnegie International
Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie International "for the masses of the people primarily, not for the educated few." Today it is the oldest exhibition of international comtemporary Art in North America, second oldest in the world. -
Unites States Steel Corporation
89 executives of Carnegie companies gathered for dinner at Schenley hotel ballroom. Caleb Schwab feared the Carnegie-Rockefeller steel war would have disatrous results so he pleaded for inducstrial peace and growth through consolidation. Banker J. Pierpoint Morgan agreed, buying out Carnegie and eight other steel firms. -
Wabash Terminal
The Wabash Terminal was a busy travel center from 1904-1913, the years of rise and fall of George Jay Gould's railroad empire. The $800,000 Beaux-Artspalace was an office building until 1953 when it was raised for development of Gateway Center. -
Luna Park
Luna Park attracted crowds of up to 35,000 people nightly who came for the arial arts, band concerts, and a shoot-the chutes ride into a pool of water. When a lion escaped and killed a women in 1907, its attraction went down. After a fire at the park two years later, it was not rebuilt. -
Homestead Grays
Cumberland W. Posey organized a group of Homestead stell-workers into one of baseball's greatest clubs and gate attractions. The Homestead Grays won eight out of nine National Negro League titles. -
Gulfoil
Gulfoil opened the world's first drive-in station on Baun Boulevard. Before that, gas pumps were located at curbs and automobiles parked on city streets to be serviced. -
Jennie Bradley Roessing
To gain support for women's right to vote, Roessing drove a truck over the roads of Pennsylvania to travel and speak in all 67 counties. 1920 was the year women voted for the first time in Pennsylvaina. -
Dr. Frank Conrad
Conrad was a westinghouse engineer who began experimenting with "wireless telephone". This led to the station 8XK in a garage behind his home. This is how KDKA came to be. -
Langley Aeonautical Laboratory
1,000 soilders stood at attention in front of the College of Fine Arts on the Carnegie Tech campus for the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. Dr. Tohn A. Brashear asked that it be named in memory of his good friend, Samuel P. Langley. -
Strip District
A group of 35 steel workers' wives who cared for the sick and needy and sponsored social events like the Urban League of Pittsburgh organized by the Lawerenceville Commuinty Uplift Club. The women may have been part of the ware of migration of Southern black men and their families to Pittsburgh for steel jobs in the decades of the 20th century. -
Frick Acres
Frick Acres was a gift from the Mellons that became the site of the University of Pittsburgh's new campus. The focus point would be the neo-Gothic skyscraper desgined by Charles Klauder. -
KDKA
1,000 Pittsburghers started to listen to KDKA, based in East Pittsburgh, to hear the Harding-Cox election. That was the world's first scheduled radio broadcast. -
Liberty Bridge
The $6 million Liberty Tube project was completed in 1924; four years later, county comssioner Joseph G. Armstrong's two grandsons undid a ribbon to open the companion Liberty Bridge. For the next 90 minutes, automobiles lined up with the three lanes heading into the tubes. -
Hugh J. Ward
Bingo was originally from the Romans and called 'lotto', but Ward popularized it in America. -
Louis Americus's Oyster Bar
Thirsty Pittsburghers began drinking in a new era of brewed cheerfulness. In barrooms everywhere, legalized 3.5 beer was gulped down in great quantities. -
Henrietta Leaver
Leaver won the Miss America crown and posed in a bathingsuit for sculptor Frank Vittor. The resulting statue was nude and even though Leaver protested, Vittor refused to add a swimsuit. When a jury found it was a "true and beautiful work of art", Leaver withdrew her objections. -
Pittsburgh Flood
Streets in the triangle layed under water, almost 20 feet. For transportation you had to take a rowboat or canoe. Between 1854 and 1936, the three rivers had risen to flood stage 112 times. -
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt came to town to inspect the Homestead Works and Mesta Machine plant and to dedicate Terrace Village with the nation's second-largest public housing project. -
Fifth Avenue Flee
On this day, the streets of downtown Pittburgh were empty. A solid mass of people were trying to get out, it was seen from the Smithfield street corner. -
Antismoke Laws
Before antismoke laws began clearing skies, it was not uncommon for Pittsburgh to be in darkness at 9:20 in the morning. -
Snow Flurries
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Press, and Sun-Telegraph reported that "snow flurries" were on the way, though they failed to publish. Pittsburgh was covered in snow- 30.5 inches, it was the heaviest in local history. Five thousad cars blocked trolley routes. -
The Golden Triangle
The city's first downtown redevelopment project was the Equitable Life's Gateway Center. Everytime the shells of old buildings were going down and the skeleton's of new ones were rising. -
Greater Pittsburgh Airport
After the airport opened, families took their children to watch arrivals and take-offs. One of the features was a mobile Alexander Calder created for the 1958 Carnegie International, it now hangs in the Pittsburgh Inetnational Airports Airside Terminal. -
Mellon Square Park
The park camme from a innovative public-private alliance 5,000 people gathered on the terazzo plaza to watch Richard K. Mellon and David L. Lawerence join in dedicating the park. -
Harvey Haddix
Haddix became the first pitcher in baseball history to throw 12 perfect inning. Theough, he was beaten by Joe Alcock in the 13th inning. -
Bill Mazeroski
Mazeroski headed for home plate, making it the winning home run against Ralph Terry and the New York Yankees. In April 2008, 57,125 fans voted the homer the greatest moment in Pittsburgh sports history. -
Civic Arena
The 22.5 million Arena featured the wrold's largest retractable dome. Pittsburghers wanted to call it the Auditiondrome, the Big Beanie, and the Renassaver. Civic Auditorium was its official name but since people kept calling it the Civic Arena and it fit better on the road signs, it was kept as the Civic Arena. -
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy made political visits to Pittsburgh addressing about 8,300 people at the Pitt Field house. 300,000 people saw him in an open car a year before he was assasinated in Dallas. -
The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundations
The city had targeted the Mexican War streets dor demolition. This made Arthur P. Ziegler Jr. and James D. Van make the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundations. The group worked with the city to save the neighborhoods with a loan fund for purchase and restoration with a $100,000 grant from the Sarah Scaife Foundation. -
Rioting in the Hill District
Neighborhoods following the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ended in 505 fires, the death of a women in Homestead, millions in theft, trade losses, police, National Guard costs, $620,000 in proberty damage, and 926 arrests. -
Walt Harper
Harper was a jazz pianist that helped the Market Square nocturnal scene with the opening of his Attic nightclub. After the Attic closed in 1976, he ran Harper's Jazz Club in One Oxford centre in the 1980s. -
The Passing of Lawerence and Mellon
When David L. Lawerence and Richard King Mellon passes, new leaders emerged in various sectors witht the political arena dominated by Major Peter Flaherty. Flaherty managed to avoid tex increases during his first five yearsin office. -
Tropical Strom Agnes
After four days of rain, the rivers had risen at 35.82 feet at the concluence. Point Sate Park was inundated and many low-lying communitied flooded, Damage was estimated at $45 million. -
The Fountain
The Fountain was the final component of Point State Park. It leadto a new Fort Pitts Museum in the re-created Monongahela Bastion of Fort Pitt. -
Roberto Clemente
Clemente became the only 11th player in baseball history to make 3,000 hits. During his 18-year career with the Pirates, he complied a .318 lifetime batting average. -
Pres. Gerald Ford
Ford made a commitment to feredal aid for day-to-day operations of financially troubled transit systems. -
Dr. Thomas Starzl
Starzl was a surgeon that did liver transplant surgery. His work made Pittsburgh the frontline of medical research. -
Dorothy Six
The Dorothy Six was one the world's biggest blast furnaces. It came to a crashing end in Duquesne. Failure to maodernize and comparatively high costs all contributed to the decline of the American Steel Industry. -
Waterfront
When the Homestead Works was reduced ro rubble, 10 years later there was a shopping center called Waterfront. -
President Sophie Masloff
Masloff was Pittsburgh's first female mayor. She suggested Pittsburgh build a ballpark for the pirates. -
Andy Warhol Museum
The museum opened on the North Side, celebrating the work of America's most influential artists. It is a cultural force in the region and beyond. -
John Heinz History Center
When the center was opened in the Strip District, Pittsburgh gained a large history space. It pays tribute to the city's engineering achievements. -
Three Rivers Stadium
The Stadium had disappared, in its place took Heinz Field and PNC Park, regarded as the best ballpark in Major League Baseball. -
Guyasuta and George Washington Statue
The statue depicts the reunion of George Washington and Guyasuta in 1770 when Washington came to surveylands in violation of the Proclamation of 1763. -
Hot Medal Pedestrian Bridge
The bridge was adapted from molten steel and other materials between Jones and Laughlin Plants. The bridge is a 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage between Pittsburgh and Cumberland. -
G20 Summit
Leaders came together to address the problem of financial institutions and to reform global financial institutions. -
Penguins Win Stanley Cup
The Penguins were, at first, losing by 3-0 but then Maxime Talbot challenged David Carcillo to a fight, making the Penguins work up steam and eventually, Sergei Gonchar scored the winning goal. The ending score was 5-3. (Penguins winning) -
North Shore Connector
The tunnel was built under Alleghany river. The 1.2 mile North Shore Connector can go from downtown, PNC Park, Heinz Field, Rivers Casino and more. -
Bill Peduto
Democrate was elected mayor of Pittsburgh over Josh Wander and Las Ludwig. -
Giant Inflatable Duck Comes to Pittsburgh
Over a million people came to Pittsburgh to see the duck. That made it the highest attended event in Pittsburgh history.
