1904 - The Great Train Robbery is filmed by Edison

1908 - First route of Hudson and Manhattan tubes (now PATH) opened under the Hudson River

1908 - Legend of the "Jersey Devil" revived

1912 - Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton University and former New Jersey governor, elected US President

1913 - Paterson, NJ Silk Strike; Botto House in Haledon served as headquarters for 20,000 silk mill workers during the strike

1915 - Standard Oil Strike in Bayonne

1916 - Black Tom ammunition depot explosion at Jersey City coast (July 30)

1917 - Fort Dix established; Frank (Boss) Hague became mayor of Jersey City; Hoboken used as a port of departure for American troops going to fight in World War I

1918 - New Jersey College for Women (Douglass College) opened

1919 - Paterson textile workers strike for 44 hour week

1921 - Port of New York Authority established; Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight in Jersey City at Boyle's 30 acres (July 2); first Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City and continued to 2004

1922 - WOR began broadcasting; Campbell Soup Co. incorporated in Camden

1925 - Standard Oil of New Jersey established an eight-hour work day

1926 - Passaic Textile Strike; first Scholastic Aptitude Test was prepared by Carl C. Brigham at Princeton University for the College Entrance Examination Board

1927 - Holland Tunnel opened as the first mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel

1928 - Newark Airport is opened; Goethals Bridge opened to traffic; Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic in New Jersey; the first drive-in-movie theater opened in Camden

1930 - The Institute for Advanced Study was founded in Princeton; Albert Einstein was one of the first professors at the institute for scholars

1931 - George Washington Memorial Bridge opened to traffic as is the Bayonne Bridge on November 25, both designed by Othmar H. Ammann, (connecting Bayonne and Staten Island), the Kill Van Kull bridge (connecting New Jersey to Staten Island) and the Holland Tunnel; Parker Brothers received patent for board game "Monopoly"

1932 - Lindbergh baby is kidnapped at Hopewell; Bruno R. Hauptmann was executed in Trenton in 1936 for the murder

1933 - Pulaski Skyway completed; first "drive-in" movie theater in New Jersey in Camden; Radio astronomy developed at AT&T Bell Labs; the first drive-in movie opened in Camden

1934 - The Morro Castle, sailing to New York City from Havanna, caught fire off the coast of New Jersey, killing 135 or 137 passengers and crew; the cause of the fire was not determined

1937 - On May 6, German airship Hindenburg exploded over Lakehurst Naval Air Station; 36 of the 97 passengers died

1938 - On October 30th, Orson Welles broadcast the radio play War of the Worlds; it told of a landing of Martians in West Windsor

1942 - Fort Dix, Fort Monmouth, Fort Hancock, Camp Kilmer, Raritan and Picatinny arsenals, and Earle Ammunition Depot expanded for use as World War II bases; Atlantic City hotels were used to train US Army Air Corps men; Camden and Kearny became ship building centers; Paterson made airplane engines; US government seized the General Cable plant in Bayonne to end a strike

1943 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on May 23 and began service in the Pacific under Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.

1945 - New Jersey Legislature designates Rutgers as the state university

1946 - Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's "color line" at Roosevelt Stadium that opened at Jersey City in 1937; a statue of Robinson was dedicated at PATH , Journal Square in Jersey City, in 1998; second tube of Lincoln Tunnel opened

1947 - New Jersey's third state constitution adopted;it included non-gender language for a type of equal rights clause in the state constitution and outlawed school segregation; the Educational Testing Service opened in Princeton to administer the SAT

1948 - Transistor as a substitute for radio tubes developed at Bell Labs in Murray Hill

1949 - New Jersey Civil Rights Acts passed

1950 - USS New Jersey was commissioned on November 21 to serve during the Korean War

1951 - Opening of first 53 mile of New Jersey Turnpike; "Jersey Joe" Walcott won heavyweight championship; Delaware Memorial Bridge was dedicated

1955 - Opening of Garden State Parkway

1956 - Newark Bay Bridge on New Jersey Turnpike opened

1957 - Walt Whitman Bridge opened

1961 - The first enclosd shopping mall on the East Coast opened in Cherry Hill; Rutgers Medical School, now the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, is founded

1962 - Sandy Hook State Park opened; lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opened

1965 - Mildred Barry Hughes was first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate

1967 - Cold War summit between LBJ and Kosygin at Glassboro (Rowan University); Riots in Newark killed 23 people and injured 1500 over six days in July

1968 - USS New Jersey went into service off the coast of North Vietnam (September 29); Princeton University admitted its first women undergraduates; Garden State Arts Center opened at Telegraph Hill in Monmouth County; Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission created to develop "Meadowlands" along the Hackensack River

1969 - New Jersey lottery approved to raise money for state government and education; Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Glen Ridge landed on moon with Neil Armstrong; New Jersey Office on Women established; Millicent Fenwick was first elected to the state assembly

1971 - Women granted further equal-rights protection under law by legislature

1972 - Vote in New Jersey extended to eighteen-year olds; Rutgers College becomes coeducational

1974 - New Jersey Supreme Court declared that Little League Baseball, Inc. was a public accommodation and could not discriminate against girls who wanted to join teams

1976 - State income tax became law under Gov. Brendon Byrne; New Jersey approved privately owned casinos only in Atlantic City with tax revenue intending to support education, the old and poor; Meadowlands sports complex opened in East Rutherford; on opening day at Giants Stadium, October 10, the Giants lost to the Dallas Cowboys; Liberty State Park in Jersey City opened; Karen Ann Quinlan decision

1978 - On May 26, Resorts International opened the nation's first legal casino outside Nevada in Atlantic City

1979 - The Pinelands Preservation Act was passed

1981 - On July 2, Bruce Springsteen opened the 20,000-seat Brendan Byrne Arena; in January 1, 1996, it was renamed the Continental Airlines Arena

1982 - Gov. Thomas Kean reinstated the death penalty for certain murders; USS New Jersey was recommissioned to serve in Persian Gulf on December 28; a fire destroyed about one-third of the length of the Atlantic City Steel Pier; Drumthwacket (354 Stockton Street) became the official residence of the governor of New Jersey and replaced the use of Morven built in the 1750s; it was home of Richard Stockton III, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and his wife Annis Boudinot Stockton, a published poet

1983 - Mt. Laurel II decision issued by the New Jersey Supreme Court

1985 - On May 7, the demolition of Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City began to make way for housing; the stadium is where Jackie Robinson played baseball for a year before breaking the Major League's "color barrier"

1986 - Ferry service between Weehawken and 38th Street in Manhattan crossing the Hudson River was re-instated after 29 years

1987 - The remaining male-only eating clubs (Tiger Inn and Ivy Club) at Princeton University were ordered to admit women by the state Division on Civil Rights based on a sex discrimination suit filed by Sally Frank in 1979

1989 - Construction of Interstate 78 was completed

1991 - USS New Jersey was decommissioned on February 8

1992 - The last class of graduates received basic training at Fort Dix after 75 years of preparing new recruits

1993 - Christine Todd Whitman became first woman governor; Liberty Science Center and Hall of Technology opened in Jersey City

1995 - New Jersey Devils won the NHL’s Stanley Cup; they also won in 2000 and 2003

1997 - The New Jersey Performing Arts Center opened in Newark with soprano Kathleen Battle at its first performance; state removed regulations preventing same-sex couples from adopting children, making it the first to place gay and lesbian couples on an equal basis with heterosexual couples in adoption

1998 - The US Supreme Court ruled that New Jersey had the right to control 24.5 of the 27.5 acres of Ellis Island, ending a conflict with New York

1999 - Hurricane Floyd caused major flood damage

2000 - Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service began operation from Bayonne; the rail system now extends to Weehawken; a fire at Seton Hall University killed three students in a dormitory; Gov. Christine Whitman bcame the head of the Environmental Protection Agency under the administration of President George W. Bush

2001 - On September 11, 700 New Jerseyans were killed in the attack on the Twin Towers; Shirley M Tilghman named the first woman president of Princeton University; she was a professor of molecular biology

2004 - On August 12, then governor James E. McGreevey resigned as his office

2005 - In April, the General Motors plant in Linden closed; the Pentagon announced the closing of the 80 year old Fort Monmouth; New Jersey was the first state to award public funding for stem-cell research

2007 - On February 17, the State recognized the civil union of same-sex couples