Timeline
+ History to 1830
- 1787 Northwest Ordinance
- 1809 John Paul, founding father of Madison
- 1811 "Old Buckeye," the first courthouse in Madison
- 1811 The year of the steamboat and earthquake
- 1814 The first bank in Madison
- 1816 Indiana becomes a state
- 1818 Land acquisition
- 1824 Madison incorporates as a town
- 1826 The Michigan Road
+ 1831-1870
- 1830 Madison becomes largest city in the state
- 1836 Railroad
- 1837 Madison becomes a city
- 1840 Porkopolis
- 1841 the Laniers
- 1851 Gaslight comes to Madison
- 1851 Jenny Lind comes to Madison
- 1861 Civil War
+ 1871-1910
- 1873 Streetcars start rolling
- 1878 First telephone installed
- 1899 King's Daughters' Hospital
- 1901 Chautauqua
- 1908 West Madison incorporated into Madison
- 1910 Madison State Hospital
+ 1911-1950
- 1917 World War I
- 1917-18 the Winter the Ohio froze over
- 1920 Clifty Falls State Park
- 1929 The Madison-Milton Bridge
- 1937 Flood
- 1941 World War II
- 1943 The Town: WWII government propaganda film
+ 1951-1999
- 1952 Indiana Kentucky Electric Corp plant built
- 1971 Gold Cup won by Miss Madison
- 1973 Marble Hill nuclear power plant
- 1974 Tornado!
+ 2000 to today
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