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Timeline of Louisville, Kentucky

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The following is atimeline of thehistory of the city ofLouisville, Kentucky, USA.

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Prior to 19th century

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History of Kentucky

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1773 –Captain Thomas Bullitt surveys the land.^[1]
1778
- George Rogers Clark settles onCorn Island.
- Fort-on-Shore constructed
1780
- Louisville chartered.^[1]
- Jefferson County established with Louisville as seat
1781 –Fort Nelson (Kentucky) constructed
1790s –Zachary Taylor, 12th US president, spent his childhood in Louisville.^[1]
1798 –Jefferson Seminary chartered.

19th century

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1800 – Population: 359
1807 –Louisville Gazette newspaper begins publication.^[2]
1808/12 –John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist and painter lived locally.^[1]
1813 –University of Louisville opened.^[1]
1820 –Population: 4,012.^[3]
1828
- Louisville chartered as a city.^[1]
- John Bucklin becomes mayor.
1829
- Lewis Pottery Company incorporated.^[4]
- Dover's Pottery in business.^[5]
1830
- Louisville Daily Journal newspaper begins publication.^[2]
- Louisville and Portland Canal opens.^[1]
- Population: 10,341.^[3]
1831 – Louisville Lyceum established.^[6]
1837 –Louisville Medical Institute founded.
1838 –Louisville Gas and Water established.
1839 –Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind founded.
1840
- Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company began on the banks of the Ohio River.
- Louisville Collegiate Institute founded.
- Franklin Lyceum founded.^[7]
1841
- Louisville Law Library in operation.^[8]
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville established.
1842
- Jefferson County Courthouse opens.
- Mercantile Library Association founded.^[8]^[9]
1844 –Louisville Morning Courier newspaper begins publication.^[2]
1846 –University of Louisville formed.
1848 –Cave Hill Cemetery dedicated.
1850
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad begins operating.
- Kentucky Glass Works in business.
1851 – German Protestant Orphan's Home founded.
1852 –Louisville and Frankfort Railroad completed.^[1]
1855 –Bloody Monday anti-immigrant rioting fed by theKnow Nothing Party.^[1]
1859 –J. F. Hillerich in business.^[10]
1860 – Population: 71,832.^[3]
1862 – Board of Trade organized.^[11]
1860s –Mary Anderson theatre actress, brought up locally.^[1]
1868 –The Courier-Journal newspaper begins publication.^[1]
1870 –Fourteenth Street Bridge opens.
1872 – Industrial Exposition.
1874 – Louisville Jockey Club and Driving Park Association formed.
1875 –Kentucky Derby begins;Churchill Downs opens.
1876 –Polytechnic Society of Kentucky organized.^[7]
1877 –Southern Baptist Theological Seminary relocates to Louisville.
1879 –Kaufman-Straus department store opens.
1880 –Population: 123,758.^[3]
1882 –Louisville Eclipse baseball team formed.
1883 –Southern Exposition begins.
1884
- Filson Club founded.
- The Louisville Times newspaper begins publication.
- Chestnut Street Baptist Church built.
1886 –Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge opens.
1888 – Louisville Camera Club formed.^[12]
1889 –Union Station built.
1890
- Columbia Building constructed.
- Tornado.^[1]
- Population: 161,129.^[3]^[1]
1893
- Song "Good Morning to All" first published by Louisville sistersPatty andMildred J. Hill; was to become "Happy Birthday to You"
- Southern Parkway opens.
1894 –St. Peter's German Evangelical Church built.
1895 –Big Four Bridge opens.
1897 –Louisville Business Women's Club founded.^[5]
1900
- Louisville Bar Association established.^[13]
- Jennie Benedict opens catering business.^[5]
- Population: 204,731.^[3]^[1]

20th century

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1901–1959

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1902 –Louisville Public Library created.^[1]
1905
- Louisville Free Public Library, Western Colored Branch opens.
- Louisville Gardens opens.
- Jefferson School of Law opens.
- Fontaine Ferry Park (amusement park) opens.
1907 – The annualKentucky State Fair moves permanently to Louisville.
1908 –Louisville Free Public Library main branch opens.
1910
- Snead Manufacturing Building constructed.
- Waverly Hills Sanatorium opens.
- Population: 223,928.^[3]^[1]
1920 –Population: 234,891.^[3]
1921
- Bowman airfield opens
- Legal Aid Society of Louisville andUrban League branch established
- Junior League of Louisville founded
1922 – WHASradio begins broadcasting^[14]
1923
- Brown Hotel opened
- Chickasaw Park laid out (approximate date)
1925 –The Courier-Journal organizes thefirst National Spelling Bee, taking place in Washington, D.C.
1926
- Brown Hotel chef Fred Schmidt introduces theHot Brown sandwich
- Zachary Taylor National Cemetery created by the Taylor family
1929 –Louisville Municipal Bridge opens.
1930
- Masonic Temple built
- Population: 307,745^[3]
1932 –U.S. Post Office, Court House and Custom House built.
1933 – WAVEradio begins broadcasting.^[14]
1937
- Louisville Orchestra is founded.
- Ohio River flood.
1941 –Standiford Field airport built.
1946 –Jefferson County Memorial Forest inaugurated.
1947 –Standiford Field opens for commercial flights.
1948 – WAVE-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[15]
1949 –Carriage House Players active.^{[citation needed]}
1950
- Bellarmine College opens.
- WHAS-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[15]
1952 –Big Spring Country Club hosted the annualPGA Championship;Jim Turnesa won the event.
1954 – The annualWHAS Crusade for Children telethon begins.
1956
- Freedom Hall opened on the Kentucky Fairgrounds.
- Kentucky Derby Festival begins as two weeks preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby.
1957 –St. James Court Art Show held its first annual arts and craft show in theOld Louisville neighborhood.
1958 –Freedom Hall hosted the1958 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;University of Kentucky won the National Championship.
1959 –Freedom Hall hosted the1959 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;University of California-Berkeley won the National Championship.

1960–2000

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1962
- Sherman Minton Bridge opened.
- Mid-City Mall opened.
- Freedom Hall hosted the1962 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;University of Cincinnati won the National Championship.
- Southeast Christian Church, now one of the country's largest Protestant churches, holds its first services.
1963
- John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge opened.
- Freedom Hall hosted the1963 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;Loyola–Chicago won the National Championship.
1964
- Kennedy Interchange (Spaghetti Junction) opened.
- Actors Theatre of Louisville opened.
1965
- Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport Authority established as a public agency.^[16]
- RepublicanKenneth A. Schmied was elected mayor; he was the last Republican to be elected mayor.
1967
- Kentucky Colonels basketball team founded.
- Freedom Hall hosted the1967 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;UCLA won the National Championship.
1968
- The previously all-maleBellarmine College becomes coeducational when the all-female Ursuline College merges into it.
1969
- Louisville Zoo opens as "State Zoo of Kentucky".
- Freedom Hall hosted the1969 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship;UCLA won the National Championship.
- DemocratFrank W. Burke was elected mayor.
1971 –Romano Mazzoli becomesU.S. representative forKentucky's 3rd congressional district.^[17]
1973
- DemocratHarvey I. Sloane was elected mayor for the first time.
- EventualTriple Crown winnerSecretariat ran the fastest time ever at the annualKentucky Derby.
1974
- Tornado occurs in the east end of Louisville.
- Actors Theatre of Louisville opened is designated the "State Theater of Kentucky"
- TARC began operating as the city bus line in 1974.
1977
- Foreign trade zone established for the Riverport Authority.^[18]^[19]
- DemocratWilliam B. Stansbury was elected mayor.
1978 – Kentucky State Data Center headquartered in Louisville^[20]
1981 –Sewer explosions occur in the center of the city.
1982 – DemocratHarvey I. Sloane was elected mayor for the second time.
1986 – DemocratJerry Abramson was elected mayor for the first time.
1987
- Kentucky Kingdom amusement park opened at the Kentucky Exposition Center.
- The Courier-Journal was purchased by media giantGannett.
1988 –Louisville Motor Speedway opened.
1989 – Amass shooting at Standard Gravure occurs; it was the deadliest of such in Kentucky's history.
1990
- Thunder Over Louisville has its first annual event and becomes the first event of the annualKentucky Derby Festival.
- Population: 269,063.^[3]
1993 –AEGON Center is completed and becomes the tallest building in Kentucky.
1995 – Standiford Field is renamed toLouisville International Airport.
1996 –Louisville Slugger Museum opened in Downtown Louisville.
1998 – Southeast Christian Church opened a new 9,000-seat worship center on Blankenbaker Parkway in Middletown. The facility has since been joined by five satellite worship centers in the Louisville area.
1999
- Louisville Waterfront Park dedicated.
- DemocratDavid L. Armstrong was elected mayor.
2000
- Louisville Slugger Field opened for the newly renamedLouisville Bats, who became a minor league affiliate for theCincinnati Reds the same year.
- Valhalla Golf Club hosts the annualPGA Championship,Tiger Woods won the competition.
- City website online (approximate date).^[21]^[22]^{[chronology citation needed]}

21st century

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2001 –Louisville Bats win theGovernors' Cup, AAA Championship
2002
- Louisville Extreme Park opens.
- Valley Sports wins the2002 Little League World Series.
- Forecastle Festival begins its annual music festival.
2003
- City–county merger increases Louisville's total population to near one-million.
- DemocratJerry Abramson is elected mayor for the second time.
2004
- Fourth Street Live opened as entertainment complex/venue in downtown Louisville.
- Valhalla Golf Club hosted the annualSenior PGA Championship, won byHale Irwin.
2005
- Muhammad Ali Center opens as a tribute to the championboxer Muhammad Ali.
- The annualAbbey Road on the River is held in Louisville for the first time.
- TheLouisville Cardinals join theBig East Conference.
- Jim Patterson Stadium opens as the new home ofLouisville Cardinals baseball.
2006 –Churchill Downs hosted the annualBreeders' Cup.
2007
- TheLouisville Cardinals competed in their firstBCS game by defeatingWake Forest in theOrange Bowl.
- TheCardinals made theirfirst appearance in theCollege World Series, the eight-team finals of the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
- Thunder Over Louisville sets record crowd of over 800,000 people.'
- John Yarmuth becomesU.S. representative forKentucky's 3rd congressional district.^[23]
2008 –Valhalla Golf Club hosted the biennialRyder Cup, won by the United States.
2009
- McAlpine Locks and Dam are expanded.
- Widely publicized extortion trial betweenUniversity of Louisville men's basketball coachRick Pitino and Karen Sypher occurred.
- Dedication ceremony held forLincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park.
2010
- 2010 US Census Population: 602,011.
- Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom closed due to the rejection of an amended lease by the Kentucky State Fair Board.
- KFC Yum! Center opened as Louisville's new downtown multi-use arena.
- Churchill Downs hosted the annualBreeders' Cup.
2011
- DemocratGreg Fischer is elected mayor afterJerry Abramson becomesLieutenant Governor of Kentucky
- Valhalla Golf Club hosted the annualSenior PGA Championship, won byTom Watson.
- Sherman Minton Bridge temporarily closed in September after construction crews found cracks in the main load-bearing structural element.
- Churchill Downs hosts the annualBreeders Cup.
2012
- Sherman Minton Bridge reopened in February after months of repairs.
- TheKFC Yum! Center hosted second and third-round games of the2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
2013
- TheBig Four Bridge partially opened as a converted pedestrian walkway from Louisville intoJeffersonville, Indiana, although the complete crossing would not reopen until the Indiana connection was completed in May 2014.
- TheLouisville Cardinals won their third men's basketballNCAA Championship. The title would later be vacated due to NCAA rules violations (see 2015, 2017, and 2018).
- TheCardinals competed in their secondBCS game, defeatingFlorida in theSugar Bowl.
- TheCardinals also competed in theirsecond College World Series.
2014
- Kentucky Kingdom reopened as Louisville's theme park.
- Valhalla Golf Club hosted the annualPGA Championship;Rory McIlroy won the competition.
- Mayor Fischer is re-elected in November.
- Construction of theOhio River Bridges Project begins.
- TheLouisville Cardinals played in theirsecond consecutive College World Series and third overall.
- Shortly after the College World Series appearance, the Cardinals joined theAtlantic Coast Conference.
2015
- TheKFC Yum! Center hosted second and third-round games of the2015 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
- TheAbraham Lincoln Bridge (part of the Ohio River Bridges Project) opened for public use.
- Katina Powell, a self-described formermadam, published a book in which she alleged thatLouisville Cardinals men's basketball stafferAndre McGee had paid her $10,000 from 2010 to 2014 toprovide strippers and prostitutes for players and recruits. The NCAA soon launched an investigation into the Louisville program.
2016
- Speed Art Museum reopened after a3+1⁄2-year, $60 million expansion project.
- Death ofMuhammad Ali, his globally televisedfuneral procession, and privateinterment atCave Hill Cemetery.
- Lewis and Clark Bridge opens in the East End of Louisville.
- Louisville City FC began play in theUnited Soccer League.
- Louisville Cardinals quarterbackLamar Jackson became the Cardinals' firstHeisman Trophy winner as the top player in college football for2016.
2017
- TheLouisville Cardinals played in theirfourth College World Series. Additionally, Cardinals pitcher and first basemanBrendan McKay was named the consensus college baseball player of the year for2017.
- The NCAA announced sanctions against the Louisville men's basketball program stemming from the 2015 sex scandal. The most significant were scholarship restrictions, a six-game suspension for head coachRick Pitino, a 10-yearshow-cause penalty for Andre McGee (who by that time had left the program), and the vacating of 123 wins over four seasons, including the 2013 national title. The school appealed the sanctions.
- Louisville City won theUSL championship.
- U of L fired both Pitino and athletic directorTom Jurich in the wake ofan FBI investigation into "pay-for-play"college recruiting schemes that allegedly linked Pitino to illicit payments to the family of at least one U of L recruit.
2018
- The NCAA denied Louisville's appeal against the sanctions announced against the men's basketball program in 2017, officially making the Cardinals the firstDivision I school forced to vacate a men's or women's basketball championship.

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Published in 19th century

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Published in 20th century

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Published in 21st century

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John E. Kleber, ed. (2001).Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky.
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"Louisville History Resources". Louisville Free Public Library.
"Louisville Metro Archives". City of Louisville.
"Kentucky History and Genealogy Collection: Genealogy Links". Louisville Free Public Library.
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History	Timeline Historic places Founder:George Rogers Clark Corn Island Fort Nelson Bloody Monday religious riots (1855) Civil War Southern Exposition (1883–87) 1890 tornado 1937 flood 1968 riots 1973 Kentucky Derby (Secretariat) 1974 tornadoes Louisville Cardinals men's basketball Championships in1980 /1986 /2013 [vacated] 2015 scandal Standard Gravure shooting (1989) Ohio River Bridges Project (2002–16) Breonna Taylor Killing (2020) Protests 2023 bank shooting
Geography	Downtown Cityscape Climate Local landmarks Neighborhoods Parks Preservation districts (Old Louisville)
Government	Mayor (Craig Greenberg) Metro Council (President: Brent Ackerson)
Transportation	Airports Muhammad Ali International Bowman Field Clark Regional Bridges Lewis and Clark Big Four Lincoln Kennedy Clark/2nd St. 14th St. K&I Sherman Minton Louisville Bus Station McAlpine Locks and Dam Roads TARC Union Station
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Top subjects	Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Center Cave Hill Cemetery Falls of the Ohio Farmington Kentucky Derby (Festival) KFC History Colonel Sanders L&N Louisville Slugger Speed Art Museum University of Louisville (Cardinals)
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