Year

Institution

Events

1816

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Indiana Statehood

1827

Hanover College

NYC starts first public transit system; Beethoven dies

1832

Wabash College

Black Hawk War versus Sac and Fox Indians; Goethe dies

1834

Franklin College

Louis Braille invents raised point writing; Whig Party formed in US

1837

DePauw University

Morse Code invented; John Deere invents steel-toothed plow

1840

Saint Mary-of-
the-Woods College

James Fenimore Cooper writes The Pathfinder; Amistad mutiny

1842

University of Notre Dame

Fremont maps the Oregon Trail; Tennyson publishes his Poems

1844

Saint Mary’s College

YMCA formed in England; Joseph Smith killed, Brigham Young becomes leader of Mormons

1846

Taylor University

Alexander Cartwright codifies rules of baseball; Smithsonian Institute founded

1847

Earlham College

Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Donner Party trapped

1851

Marian College

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Melville’s Moby Dick published; Colt revolver mass-produced in England

1854

University of Evansville

Republican Party founded; Crimean War begins; Thoreau writes Walden

1855

Butler University

Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls; Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass

1859

Valparaiso University

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry; Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

1874

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Chautauqua movement begins in US; French Impressionists hold first show

1884

Tri-State University

first roller coaster opens at Coney Island; Twain publishes Huckleberry Finn

1885

Oakland City University

Louis Pasteur administers anti-rabies vaccine; Gilbert & Sullivan premiere The Mikado in London

1889

Manchester College;
Saint Joseph’s College

Eiffel Tower completed; Wall Street Journal begins publication; Van Gogh completes Starry Night

1890

University of Saint Francis

Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota; Sherman Anti-Trust Act enacted

1894

Goshen College

Labor Day becomes a legal US holiday; first US Open golf tournament held

1897

Huntington University

US annexes Hawaii; Sousa debuts The Stars and Stripes Forever;  Stoker’s Dracula and Wells’ The Invisible Man published

1902

University of Indianapolis

Aswan Dam completed; first Rose Bowl game played

1917

Anderson University

US enters World War I; Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

1920

Indiana Wesleyan University

US ratifies 19^th Amendment; League of Nations, ACLU established; Prohibition takes effect

1930

Indiana Tech

Pluto discovered; Wood paints American Gothic