1829

The first issue of The Inquirer appears on June 1.

Yuengling Brewery is established.

Eastern State Penitentiary opens.

Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the nation's seventh president.

1830

The first penny newspaper, the Cent, is published in Philadelphia by C.C. Conwell.

Godey's Lady's Book is published by Louis Godey on Sixth Street near Chestnut.

1831

Matthias Baldwin founds what becomes the world's largest locomotive works.

Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its first bishop, dies at 71. Allen led black movements for equality in an era when people believed that the most African Americans could achieve would be a status between slavery and citizenship.

1832

The centennial of George Washington's birth is celebrated in Philadelphia.

1833

The New York Sun publishes the first successful penny newspaper.

1834

Wills Hospital for Diseases of the Eye is established.

1835

Philadelphians flock to see

the exhibit of a live Chinese woman. Afong Moy, 19, amazes spectators

by eating with chopsticks.

Philadelphia begins laying gas pipe.

1835-36

The Delaware River freezes in winter, stopping shipping for two months.

1838

Philadelphia Hall, dedicated to free speech and abolition, opens on May 14. Three days later, a mob burns it to the ground.

Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first work, The Conchologist's First Book.

1839

The earliest American daguerreotypes are taken, among them a view of Central High School.

1842

A mob of whites attacks a parade held to celebrate Jamaican Emancipation Day, sparking the three-day Lombard Street Riot.