1780Crime
In all, 15 men were killed on September 11, 1780, in what is now known as the Sugarloaf massacre.
1782Architecture
Some Moravians decided to stay, and in 1782, they built a settlement (St.
1809Architecture
An entrepreneur named Jacob Drumheller decided that this intersection was the perfect location for a rest stop, so in 1809, he built the first building in what would later be kn...
1818History
=== Discovery of coal ===
In 1818, anthracite coal deposits were discovered in nearby Beaver Meadows by prospectors Nathaniel Beach and Tench Coxe.
1836Government
Pardee incorporated the Hazleton Coal Company in 1836, the same year the rail link to the Lehigh Valley market was on the brink of being completed.
1843History
Perhaps the earliest map showing Hazleton (with the "le" spelling) was published in 1843 by Sydney E.
1857Government
It was incorporated as a borough on January 5, 1857, and as a city on December 4, 1891.
1860History
In 1860, there were only about one thousand people in Hazleton, but by 1880, there were nearly seven thousand people, which quickly became thirty-two thousand by 1920.
1867Disaster
The borough's first fire company, the Pioneer Fire Company, was organized in 1867 by soldiers returning home from the American Civil War.
1875Education
Hazleton High School (the first high school) was built in 1875 at the corner of Pine and Hemlock Streets (the present-day site of the Pine Street Playground).
1884Architecture
The hotel, built in 1884, burned down costing around $200,000 in damages.
1888History
In October 1888, a train crash killed 66 people near Mud Run when one passenger train crashed into the rear of another train on their way to White Haven.
1891Government
In 1891, Hazleton became the third city in the United States to establish a citywide electric grid.
1892History
Pardee died in 1892.
1893Architecture
The following year, in 1893, his son, Israel Platt Pardee, built a three-story, 19-room mansion in Hazleton; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1897Crime
On September 10, 1897, after several weeks of escalating walkouts and strikes at surrounding mines, the Lattimer Massacre occurred when 300-400 strikers near Hazleton marched to...
1899Architecture
The Duplan Silk Corporation opened in Hazleton in 1899, with financial support from local banks, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and $10,000 from a fundraising drive.
1900Sports
After the 1900 and 1902 anthracite coal strikes, mine workers won some improvements to their working conditions, which they were able to build upon in ensuing contracts.
1907Architecture
The first Hazleton Public Library opened in 1907.
1908Economy
The Duplan Silk Mill was expanded in 1908 and became one of the largest and most productive silk mills in the country, employing between 1,800 and 2,000 area residents and with ...
1912Architecture
In 1912, a new library opened on Church and Green streets.
1913Economy
In 1913, 1,200 silk workers, mostly young women, went on strike at the Duplan silk mill and voted to join the Industrial Workers of the World.
1926Economy
In 1926, 900 miners at the Jeddo-Highland Coal Company initiated a wildcat strike over a pay dispute.
1934History
On April 14, 1934, the Philadelphia Phillies entered into an affiliation agreement with the New York–Penn League Hazleton Mountaineers.
1941History
In 1941, UMWA President John L.
1946Civil Rights
In 1946, local milk producers initiated a capital strike, closing facilities and halting the delivery of milk to 100,000 residents in the region in protest of Office of Price Ad...
1947Disaster
In 1947, 22 consecutive days of rain flooded many Hazleton area mines and reduced year-to-date anthracite production by up to 35% below normal levels.
1950History
The last minor-league club to play in Hazleton was the Hazleton Dodgers in 1950, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm-club which played in the Class D North Atlantic League.
1954Disaster
Hurricanes Hazel and Diane, in 1954 and 1955, also devastated the local mining industry.
1956History
CAN DO (Community Area New Development Organization) was formally organized in 1956 by founder Dr.
1959Disaster
In 1959, a fire at the Gary Hotel killed six people.
1964Military
Because of CAN-DO's efforts, Hazleton was given the All-America City Award in 1964.
1969Architecture
The Hazleton Area Public Library opened a new building at Church and Maple Streets in 1969, where it remains to this day.
1971Architecture
It was opened in 1971 and closed in 2007 (by the order of former Bishop Joseph F.
1997Military
In 1997, the IWW returned to the Hazleton area in an effort to organize student workers at the Keystone Job Corps Center, but they found little success.
2000History
Almost all of the population growth in Hazleton (from 2000 to 2010) consisted of Hispanics and Latinos.
2002Culture
An article published in December 2002 by U.S.
2004Disaster
On September 11, 2004, the Hazleton campaign hall of the Socialist Workers Party was firebombed, damaging the front of the building and burning campaign literature.
2006Government
In 2006, Hazleton gained national attention as Republican Mayor Lou Barletta and council members passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act.
2010History
=== 2010 census ===
As of the 2010 census, the racial makeup of the city was 69.4% White (59.0% non-Hispanic/Latino white), 4.0% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American,...
2012Civil Rights
In 2012, Amilcar Arroyo, a Hazleton Integration Project board member, estimated that 80% of Hazleton's Hispanics and Latinos were of Dominican origin, and that many of them had ...
2015History
As of 2015, nearly 40 percent of Hazleton's population was of Hispanic or Latino descent.
2016Infrastructure
In 2016, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Wyoming Street corridor was revived from a moribund state.
2021History
Many Hispanic and Latino businesses are on Wyoming Street, the linguistic landscape of which Spier and Ruano (2021) investigated in light of Barletta's aforementioned comments.