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Indiana's Independent Colleges: A Timeline

Year	Institution	Events
1816	------	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
1937	Ancilla College	Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific; Picasso paints Guernica; George Gershwin dies
1947	Bethel College	India gains independence from Britain; Jackie Robinson breaks baseball’s color barrier
1948	Grace College and Seminary	Gandhi assassinated; Israel established; Transistor invented
1966	Holy Cross College	The National Organization for Women formed; US Supreme Court issues Miranda ruling
1973	Calumet College of St. Joseph	US Supreme Court issues Roe v. Wade ruling; Agnew resigns as Vice President; Picasso dies
1979	Martin University	Three Mile Island nuclear accident; US Embassy in Iran taken over, Americans held hostage
1992	Taylor University-Ft. Wayne	Riots in LA following Rodney King verdict; NAFTA signed by US, Canada, and Mexico

Event summaries courtesy of TheHistoryChannel.com

Revised 01/12/01.

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