Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1792/00/00 Scottish chemist, William Murdoch, demonstrates the practical use of gaslighting, 1792-1794.
1816/00/00 Gaslights are installed in the Passage des Panoramas. These are the first gaslights to be introduce in Paris. Passage des Panoramas, Paris
1818/00/00 A house is built for Isaac Jones Jr and his wife Mary Mason Jones at 122 Chambers St (lost). New York Times reports the house is the first in the city to have gas lighting and a bathtub. Jones Building, NYC, New York City
1825/00/00 Gas lighting is in introduced to Dublin. The Shelbourne Hotel is the first Dublin hotel to be lit by gaslight. The Shelbourne Dublin, Dublin
1848/00/00 Gas lights, central heating and a built-in kitchen range are installed in the Thomas P Ives House. Thomas P Ives House, Providence, RI
1851/00/00 Riverton Improvement Company, 10 gentlemen form Philadelphia, hire Samuel Sloan to develop a plan for a village of summer homes on the New Jersey bank of the Delaware River. Modern streets are lit with 52 original Victorian gaslights and 28 reproductions. Riverton Historic District, Riverton Borough
1855/00/00 Waltham Gas Light Company is built at 2 Cooper Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, 1854-1855. Most of the original Waltham Gas Light Company buildings were demolished in 2007. Waltham Gas and Electric Company Generating Plant, Waltham, MA
1878/00/00 Gallatin Mansion with a dramatic gaslight in the tower is completed in Sacramento, California, for Albert Gallatin. California Governor's Mansion, Sacramento
1881/03/04 Inaugural Ball for President James Garfield and Vice President Chester A Arthur is held at the National Museum decorated with 2 electric lights, 3,000 gas lights, festive bunting, state flags and seals and a colossal "Statue of America". Arts and Industries Building, Washington, DC
1885/00/00 The Finke Opera House is built in the Late Victorian - Eclectic style. Gaslights and chandeliers provide illumination. The basement houses a billiard hall, its main floor and balcony the opera house and its second floor meeting rooms for fraternal orders. Finke Opera House, California, MO
1905/00/00 Ralph Cram reads stories from Uncle Remus and Mallory's Morte d'Arthur to his children, Mary and Ralph. Before they had electricity, he will often dramatizes the stories by lowering or increasing the gaslights. Ralph A Cram Residence, Boston, Boston
1907/00/00 Grace and Hubbard Mansfield buy the Wait residence and hire architect Charles R Wait to modernize the house by adding a furnace, gas lighting and town water. R Pote Wait House, Wakefield
1914/00/00 Hyde Park Station is built by Walsh Construction Co. Lit by gas lamps, the station is wired for electricity but it will not be energized for several years until electric streetlights are installed on River Road. Hyde Park Railroad Station, Hyde Park, NY
1944/05/04 "Gaslight" is released

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