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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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October 17 - A group of gold prospectors from Fort St. Vrain 30 mi. to the east camp in Red Rocks on Boulder Creek in modern-day Settler's Park at the mouth of Boulder Canyon. This was in Arapaho territory, near the camp of Southern Arapaho chief Chief Niwot (Left Hand) (1825–64) in Valmont Butte. Chief Niwot rode to their camp to warn them to leave, but changed his mind after being given food and liquor. He welcomed the visitors, but not before uttering the Curse of the Boulder Valley: "People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty."[1][2]
The first mayor, Jacob Ellison, is elected for a two-month term.[3]
January - Mary Rippon, first female professor at the University of Colorado, joined the faculty.
1880 - The town passes the 3,000 population mark, making it eligible for incorporation.[10]
1882
April 3 - Boulder is incorporated as a 2nd class town, and later that month a new town hall is completed in time for the first meeting of the city council.[10]
1942 - US Navy School of Oriental Languages moves from California to Boulder and begins training recruits to the US Navy and the Marine Corps in Japanese.[16]
^ abc"US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
^A. von Steinwehr (1875). "Boulder". Centennial Gazetteer of the United States. Philadelphia: McCurdy.
^"C.U. History". BoulderGuide. June 30, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
^Quarto-centennial celebration, University of Colorado, November 13, 14 and 15, 1902, Boulder, Colo, Boulder, Colorado: Regents of the University of Colorado, 1902, OL24860692M
^Roger V. Dingman, Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps codebreakers, translators, and interpreters in the Pacific War (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009).
^Patricia A. Langelier (1996). "Local Government Home Pages". Popular Government. 6 (3). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 38+. ISSN0032-4515. Special Series: Local Government on the Internet
^"History". Illegal Pete's. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
"Boulder", The Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer, for 1871, Denver: Samuel S. Wallihan & Company, 1870 – via Internet Archive
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"Boulder". Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory. Chicago: Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser. 1884 – via HathiTrust.
