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

• 1829-1837 - Andrew Jackson is US President
• 1833 - Toledo was founded (earlier settlements in 1824)
• 1835-36 Border dispute between Ohio and Michigan
• 1837-1841 - Martin van Buren is US President
• 1841 - William Henry Harrison is US President
• 1841-1845 John Tyler is US President
• 1845-1849 - Jamers K. Polk is US President
• 1849-1850 - Zachary Taylor is US President; Millard Fillmore follows (1850-1853)
• 1853-1857 - Franklin Pierce is US President
• 1853 - Finlay Brewing founded
• 1857 - Lion Store started business
• 1857 - Toledo Brewing and Malting Company
• 1857-1861 - James Buchanan is US President
• 1861-1865 - Civil War
• 1861-1865 - Abraham Lincoln is President; assassinated on April 14, 1865
• 1865-1869 - Andrew Johnson is US President
• 1868 - Jessup W. Scott publishes "Toledo: Future Great City of the World"

1870s

• 1869-1877 - 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
• 1877-1881 - Rutherford B. Hayes is US President
• 1878 - Jacobi, Coghlin, and Company began brewing beer

1880s

• 1881 - James Garfield is US President; assassinated on July 2, 1881
• 1881-1885 - Chester A. Arthur is US President
• 1885 - Lamson Brothers (Department store) founded on Summit street
• 1885-1889 - 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
• 1889-1893 - 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.
• 1893-1897 - 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
• 1897-1901 - 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
• 1901-1909 - 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
• 1909-1913 - 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
• 1913-1921 - Woodrow Wilson is US President
• 1914-1918 - 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
• 1921-1923 - Warren G. Harding is US President; died of a heart attack in August of 1923
• 1923-1929 - Calvin Coolidge is US President
• 1923 - The Ford Model T was redesigned and became the forerunner of the Jeep
• 1929-1933 - Herbert Hoover is US president
• 1929 - October 29: The stock market crashes; Depression era begins:
  Toledo News-Bee (October 30, 1929)
• 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
• 1933-1945 - Frankin D. Roosevelt is US President
• 1933 - New Deal passes; federal initiatives such as FERA, WPA, and PWA help with finances
• 1934 - 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

• 1939-1945 - World War II
• 1945-1953 - 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
• 1953-1961 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is US President
• 1955 - Downtown Toledo Associated formed

1960s

• 1961-1963 John F. Kennedy is US President; assassinated in 1963
• 1963 - Kaiser Jeep Corporation develops the Jeep Waggoneer
• 1963-1969 - Lyndon B. Johnson is US President

1970s

• 1969-1974 - Richard M. Nixon is US President
• 1974-1977 - 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
• 1977-1981 - 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

• 1981-1989 - Ronald Reagan is US President
• 1984 - Seagate Development
• 1987 - University of Toledo plays role in the solar market
• 1989 - UT received Edison award for research on thin film solar cells

1990s

• 1989-1993 - George H. W. Bush is US President
• 1993-2001 - William J. Clinton is US President
• 1990 - Harold McMaster founded Solar Cells, Inc., which eventually became First Solar

2000s

• 2001-2009 - 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
• 2009- Barack H. Obama is US President