Editing Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania (section)

=== Timeline ===
* 1681 March 4 – [[Charles II of England]] grants a land charter to [[William Penn]] to repay a debt of £20,000 owed to his father, creating the [[Province of Pennsylvania]]
* 1682 August 24 – Penn divided the Province into three counties, Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester; The last comprised all lands west and south of the Delaware and the Schuylkill; therefore the site of Mount Carmel was originally in an area claimed by [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]]
* 1729 May 10 – [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County]] created out of part of Chester County
* 1749 August 22 – Land comprising Mount Carmel part of a tract purchased from the [[Iroquois|Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederation]]
* 1752 March 11 – [[Berks County, Pennsylvania|Berks County]] created out of part of Lancaster County
* before 1770 – Area inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] 
* 1770 – Europeans first settled in the area
* 1772 March 21 – Northumberland County formed, area that would become Mt. Carmel located in what was then [[Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania|Augusta Township]]
* 1783 September 3 – [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] signed, formally recognizing Pennsylvania's independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]
* 1785 – [[Catawissa Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania|Catawissa Township]] formed from part of Augusta township
* 1788 – [[Ralpho Township, Pennsylvania|Ralpho Township]] formed from part of Catawissa township
* 1789 – Ralpho township renamed to [[Shamokin Township, Pennsylvania|Shamokin township]]
* 1790 – Anthracite coal discovered by [[Isaac Tomlinson]] on nearby Broad Mountain
* 1805 March 25 – [[Centre Turnpike]] Company incorporated
* 1808 – Centre Turnpike opens
* {{circa}}1811 – Centre Turnpike completed
* 1812 – Mt. Carmel Inn opens, located on the Centre Turnpike in (then) Shamokin township
* {{circa}}1830s – [[anthracite coal|coal]] mining begins
* 1837 – [[Coal Township, Pennsylvania|Coal Township]] formed from parts of [[Little Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania|Little Mahanoy]] and Shamokin townships
* 1846 – first [[Post Office]] opens
* 1847 – land now comprising Mount Carmel Borough purchased by speculators
* 1853 – town plot finalized
* 1854 November 14 – [[Mount Carmel Township, Pennsylvania|Mount Carmel Township]] incorporated, from part of Coal Township
* 1855 – Evangelical Grace Church, the town's first church, opens at Third & Market Streets
* 1855 – Centre Turnpike decommissioned
* 1862 November 3 – Mount Carmel Borough incorporated
* 1862 - First industrial business. Blacksmith shop operated by David Evert 
* 1869 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church is built
* 1877 December – ''Mt. Carmel Progress'', the pioneer newspaper, was established
* 1883 November 17 – [[Edison Illuminating Company|Edison Electric Illuminating Company]] of Mount Carmel founded
* 1888 – St. Matthew's Lutheran Church is built
* 1894 November – Shamokin-Mount Carmel Electric Railway ([[tram|trolley]] line) connecting [[Shamokin, Pennsylvania|Shamokin]] with Mount Carmel completed
* 1896 – Reliance Colliery is started by Thomas Baumgardner
* 1897 – Anthracite Brewing Company, later Mt. Carmel Brewery, founded
* 1900 – Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church is Built
* 1906 – Divine Redeemer Church is built
* 1906 April – 'Miners Dispute' striking miners are shot by 21 troopers of the State Constabulary – ten men were injured, but all survived
* 1908 – Construction of St. Michael Orthodox Church on North Willow St.
* 1914 – Sts. Peter and Paul Byzantine-Ukrainian Catholic Church is built (it later burned in a fire and was rededicated in 1994)
* 1930 – The first viaduct was constructed to eliminate crossing two railroad tracks to enter town
* 1931 – Mount Carmel High School football stadium or "Silver Bowl" is opened being one of the first high school stadiums to have lighting for night games
* 1934 – Mattucci's Willow Cafe' opens
* 1948 June 17 – [[United Airlines Flight 624]] crashes near Midvalley Colliery No. 2; killing all 4 crew members and 39 passengers on board
* 1950 – the coal mining 'boom' begins its decline
* 1951 – Mt. Carmel Brewery closes
* 1969 - WMIM Radio-  AM 1590 signs-on. Signed-off 1999.
* 2003 – Original viaduct is removed and a reconstructed version is built by the Department of Transportation even though the railroads are no longer there