1700 - 1899

1900 - 2000

1901 - Trolley line goes to Dover

1908 - City Hall built

1915 - Hanson Pines is gifted to the city

1916 - First hospital

1917 - USA enters World War I

1922 - Rochester celebrates bicentennial

1922 - Rochester Country Club opens

1939 - Spaulding High School opens

1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1942 - Frisbie Hospital opens

1954 - Hurricane Carol strikes region

1963 - John F. Kennedy murdered

1983 - City makes US historic register

1722 - Town incorporated

1728 - First Permanent settler

1731 - 1st meeting house built

1732 - First mill privilege granted

1737 - First ordained minister

1748 - Last Indian attack

1752 - First school established

1760 - First parsonage house built

1768 - First post route established

1792 - First Social Library

1797 - First court house built

1812 - First post office built

1834 - First bank organized

1843 - First shoe factory

1857 - First High School

1858 - First weekly newspaper

1861 - American Civil War starts

1874 - First Rochester Fair

1878 - First street lighting

1885 - Water system installed

1891 - First city government established

1893 - Sewerage system installed

1896 - Parson Main Monument is dedicated