700 A.D. - 1200
A.D.: Mound
Builders Indians:
live on the Ohio
River near
Evansville

1614-1671:
Samuel de Champlain,
the founder of
Quebec, is the first
of many French
explorers to reach
the area, most
claiming the land
for France

1728-32: The
French establish
Vincennes on the
Wabash River, and it
becomes the first
European settlement
in the area

1752: A
smallpox outbreak
devastates the local
Indian population

1763: After
a decisive victory
in the French and
Indian War, the
British now control
the land

1778: During
the American
Revolutionary War,
George Rogers Clark,
with a small band of
men, capture the
British fort at
Vincennes

1779: The
British surrender
Fort Sackville

1783: A
far-reaching treaty
signed in Paris
gives the entire
area to the United
States

1800:
Indiana Territory
established, and
Vincennes was made
capital city

1811: After
minor uprisings, the
Indian Chief
Tecumseh and his
forces were
decisively defeated
in the Battle of
Tippecanoe

1814: The
War of 1812 ends,
and a broad-based
treaty with the
remaining Indians is
reached

1816:
Indiana becomes the
19th U.S. State

1816:
Abraham Lincoln
moves to Indiana
with his family

1825: The
state's capital is
relocated to
Indianapolis

1842: The
University of Notre
Dame is founded in
South Bend

1889:
Standard Oil Company
build a huge oil
refinery in Whiting,
on the shores of
Lake Michigan

1906: The
city of Gary is
created by U.S.
Steel Corporation's
new plant

1911: The
inaugural running of
the Indianapolis 500
occurs

1937: The
Ohio Rivers flooding
severely damages
southern Indiana

1956: After
years of
construction, the
Northern Indiana
Tool Road is
finished

1963: The
Studebaker
Automobile
Corporation ends its
auto production in
their South Bend
plant

1988: J.
Danford "Dan" Quale,
Indiana's junior
senator, is elected
U.S. Vice President
(1998)
Explosion at
Southern Energy Co.
in Hammond killed 16

(1999) Lilly
Endowment Inc.
presented $50
million grant to
Hispanic Scholarship
Fund

(2001)
Cicero's town
president, nine
others, charged with
stealing $10 million
in taxpayer monies;
Oklahoma City
bomber, Timothy
McVeigh, executed at
Federal Penitentiary
in Terre Haute

(2003)
Governor Frank
O'Bannon suffered
massive stroke, died

(2004)
Indianapolis Colts'
Peyton Manning broke
Dan Marino's pass
record

(2005)
Measles outbreak
among school
children; tornado
struck Evansville,
22 killed, 200
injured

(2007)
Indianapolis Colts
won Super Bowl XLI
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