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TIMELINE

The Wholly Toledo exhibition spans amost 140 years (1868 to 2007), and Toledo's history is still in the making. Use this timeline to explore the main events.

1800-60s

  • - Andrew Jackson is US President
  • - Toledo was founded (earlier settlements in 1824)
  • Border dispute between Ohio and Michigan
  • - Martin van Buren is US President
  • - William Henry Harrison is US President
  • John Tyler is US President
  • - Jamers K. Polk is US President
  • - Zachary Taylor is US President; Millard Fillmore follows (1850-1853)
  • - Franklin Pierce is US President
  • 1853 - Finlay Brewing founded
  • 1857 - Lion Store started business
  • 1857 - Toledo Brewing and Malting Company
  • - James Buchanan is US President
  • - Civil War
  • - Abraham Lincoln is President; assassinated on April 14, 1865
  • - Andrew Johnson is US President
  • 1868 - Jessup W. Scott publishes "Toledo: Future Great City of the World"

1870s

  • - Ulysses S. Grant is U.S. President
  • 1872 - Toledo University/Toledo Manual Training School founded
  • 1873 - Milburn Wagon Company moved to Toledo, and started producing in 1875
  • 1877 - Gendron Wheel Co. founded by Pierre Gendron
  • - Rutherford B. Hayes is US President
  • 1878 - Jacobi, Coghlin, and Company began brewing beer

1880s

  • - James Garfield is US President; assassinated on July 2, 1881
  • - Chester A. Arthur is US President
  • 1885 - Lamson Brothers (Department store) founded on Summit street
  • - Grover Cleveland is US President
  • 1887 - Toledo Business Men's Committee formed
  • 1887 - Allen DeVilbiss moves to Toledo and invents the atomizer for medical treatment
  • 1888 - Libbey moved to Toledo
  • - Benjamin Harrison is US President

1890s

  • 1890s - Toledo earns first place nationwide for bicycle manufacturing
  • 1892 - World Columbian Exposition - Chicago; Libbey becomes a national brand
  • 1893 - The first Tiedtke store opens on the corner Summit and Monroe Streets.
  • - Grover Cleveland is US President (second term)
  • 1895 - Edward D. Libbey and Michael J. Owens form Toledo Glass Company
  • 1896 - Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company
  • 1897 - Pope Manufacturing created an electric car
  • - William McKinley is US President
  • 1898 - Edward Ford Plate Glass Company operates in Rossford
  • 1898 - LaSalle and Koch founded on Summit street

1900s

  • 1900 - American Bicycle Company moving towards motorized transportation
  • 1900 - Lion Store becomes Lion Dry Goods Company
  • - Theodore Roosevelt is US President
  • 1901 - Henry Theobald forms Toledo Scale and Cash Register Company
  • 1901 - American creates steam-powered vehicles, the "Toledo" and "Winchester"
  • 1902 - Pope switches to making gas-powered vehicles
  • 1903 - Toledo Glass Company spun off Owens Bottle Machine Company
  • 1903 - Lozier Manufacturing Company (part of Pope Mfg.) produces its first car, the Pope Toledo
  • 1904 - St. Louis's World Fair
  • 1904 - Toledo Federation of Charities founded
  • 1905 - The DeVilbiss Company forms
  • 1906 - Babcock Dairy forms to deliver safe milk after pasteurization began
  • 1908 - Wyllis-Overland Company started operating after acquiring the Pope Manufacturing plant
  • 1909 - Ohio Electric Company began producing electric cars
  • - William Howard Taft is US President

1910s

  • 1910 - Tiedtke's Department store opens on the corner of Summit and Adams Streets
  • 1912 - Toledo Scale and Cash Register Company becomes Toledo Scale Company
  • 1912 - The Toledo chapter of the Rotary Club was organized
  • - Woodrow Wilson is US President
  • - World War I.
  • 1914 - Milburn Wagon Co. produces its first car, the Milburn Electric
  • 1916 - Kiwanis Club of Toledo chartered
  • 1919 - The era of electric vehicles came to an end, yielding to gas-powered transportation

1920s

  • 1920 - Toledo Community Chest founded by the Toledo business community
  • 1920 - Business and Professional Women's Club founded
  • - Warren G. Harding is US President; died of a heart attack in August of 1923
  • - Calvin Coolidge is US President
  • 1923 - The Ford Model T was redesigned and became the forerunner of the Jeep
  • - Herbert Hoover is US president
  • - October 29: The stock market crashes; Depression era begins:
  • 1929 - Libbey-Owens-Ford Company and Owens-Illinois form following mergers
  • 1929 - Spicer Manufactoring Company, headed by Charles Dana, moves form Detroit to Toledo

1930s

  • 1931 - The Toledo chapter of Quota International was founded
  • - Frankin D. Roosevelt is US President
  • - New Deal passes; federal initiatives such as FERA, WPA, and PWA help with finances
  • - Toledo University moves to its current Main Campus location
  • 1934 - Electric Auto-Lite Strike; UAW formed
  • 1937 - Harold Anderson forms Andeson Elevator Company in Maumee, Ohio.
  • 1938 - Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation forms after a merger of Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass
  • 1939 - Toledo becomes the Glass Capital of the World
  • 1939 - New York World's Fair

1940s

  • - World War II
  • - Harry S. Truman is US President
  • 1945 - Norman Bel Geddes presents vision for "Toledo Tomorrow"
  • 1946 - Spicer Manufacturing Company becomes Dana Corporation
  • 1949 - Libbey-Owens-Ford begins to market "solar homes"

1950s

  • 1950 - Ward M. Canaday becomes president of Willys-Overland Motors
  • 1951 - Toledo Master Plan presented
  • 1953 - Kaiser Motors acquire Willys-Overland
  • - Dwight D. Eisenhower is US President
  • 1955 - Downtown Toledo Associated formed

1960s

  • John F. Kennedy is US President; assassinated in 1963
  • 1963 - Kaiser Jeep Corporation develops the Jeep Waggoneer
  • - Lyndon B. Johnson is US President

1970s

  • - Richard M. Nixon is US President
  • - Gerald Ford is US President
  • 1970s - Energy crisis prompts Americans to think about dependence on foreign oil
  • 1977 - Libbey-Owens-Ford instroduces the Solar Panel sun collectors
  • - James Carter is US President
  • 1978-1979 Greater Toledo Corporation and Toledo Development Corporation created
  • 1979 - Downtown redevelopment begins with support from Owens-Illinois

1980s

  • - Ronald Reagan is US President
  • 1984 - Seagate Development
  • 1987 - ÒùÆÞÉç plays role in the solar market
  • 1989 - UT received Edison award for research on thin film solar cells

1990s

  • - George H. W. Bush is US President
  • - William J. Clinton is US President
  • 1990 - Harold McMaster founded Solar Cells, Inc., which eventually became First Solar

2000s

  • - George W. Bush is US President
  • 2002 - Ohio Third Frontier established
  • 2002 - Innovative Thin Films is founded to increase efficiency in solar panels
  • 2002 - Xunlight is co-founded by UT Professor Xunming Deng, using glass for solar panels
  • 2005 - UT establishes business incubators for alternative energy
  • 2006 - Wright Center for Photovoltaics established
  • 2006 - UT begins creating a School for Solar and Advanced Renewable Energy at Scott Park
  • 2007 - Willard and Kelsey manufactures thin-films solar panels and developed new technologies for produing solar cells at a lower cost
  • Barack H. Obama is US President