1801

March 1. George Logan carved his initials on a tree near Hanover.

1808

Williamson Dunn bought land at Hanover from the Federal Government.

1809

Williamson Dunn built the first log cabin in what was called Dunn's settlement and is now the town of Hanover. He purchased the land upon which he built his cabin on Nov. 28, 1808.

1812

Carmel United Presbyterian Church organized.

1818

First record of the existence of a "Mr. Maxwell's school at Hanover, probably conducted by Bezaleel Maxwell, father of David Maxwell, a founder of Indiana University.

1820

March 4. Hanover Presbyterian Church founded at Dunn's Settlement with the Rev. Thomas Searle as its first pastor. The church was named after Hanover, N.H., the hometown of the pastor's wife. The town and the College later adopted the name.

1821-22

Stone Meeting House, the first edifice of the Hanover Presbyterian Church called the "Old Stone Church" was erected on site of present public schoolhouse (1927). Mr. Seale died late in 1821.

1823

John Finley Crowe became pastor of Hanover Presbyterian Church. Presbytery of Salem erected by Synod of Kentucky, embracing all of Indiana, Illinois, and the states north and west.

1824

John Finley Crowe presented to Presbytery meeting at Salem the question of establishing a seminary for the education of ministers. That fall, an "Education Society" was formed.

1825

Salem Presbytery divided into three parts: Madison, Salem and Wabash. Center section of Crowe's residence built.

Committee comprising Crowe, Hamilton, Dickey and Brown appointed to induce General Assembly of Presbyterian Church to locate its proposed new theology seminary at Charlestown, Indiana. Presbytery decides to establish Presbyterian Academy at Dunn's Settlement (Hanover).

1826

Madison Presbytery requests John Finley Crowe to organize a private academy.

1827

Jan. 1. Crowe opened a school at Hanover in a 16' by 18' loom house west of the Crowe house. Six boys attend the first classes.

Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana.

1828

April. Resolution to take Dr. Crowe's school under the patronage of the Madison Presbytery passed at a meeting in the Sand Creek Church. School becomes the Hanover Academy.

1829

Two-story 25' by 40' brick building constructed for the academy and seminary, adjacent to the Hanover Presbyterian Church.

Madison Presbytery transfers management of Hanover Academy to the Synod of Indiana.

Feb. 26. State of Indiana granted a charter to the Hanover Academy.

October. Dr. John Matthews arrived in Hanover to be the first professor for a theological seminary established by the Presbyterian Synod of Indiana.

Nov. 9. Hanover Academy's Board of Trustees accepted a proposal by the Presbyterian Synod of Indiana to adopt the school provided a theological department was established.

1830

Two-story brick building constructed to house Hanover Academy and new Indiana Seminary.

Theological Professor's house burned.

Post Office established and the town is called South Hanover (later incorporated into Hanover).

Dec. 2. Academy student body divided into two parts. Class I became the Union Literary Society and Class II the Philosophronian Literary Society.

1831

New residence completed, and the "boarding house" erected.

Nov. 1. Indiana Seminary formally opened.

1832

May 8. James Blythe, former president of Transylvania University, named president of the Academy and John Finley Crowe, vice president.

December. A three-story 40' by 100' College Edifice constructed and finished. It is now the Hanover Presbyterian Church.

Manual Labor System officially begun.

Several small shops and "dormitories" are opened.

1833

Jan. 1. James Blythe inaugurated as president of Hanover College whose charter as a college became effective on this day. Blythe remained president until 1836.

Jan. 10. Charter was received by Hanover College from the Indiana State Legislature. College Edifice lit with 100 candles to celebrate event.

1834

Formation of Whig Literary Society.

Sept. 23. Trustees authorize graduation of first class. First class of seven graduated from the College; five became ministers and two, teachers.

West wing of the College edifice built.

1834-35

Hanover College Catalog first published.

Struggle between Old School and New School factions of the Synod of Indiana for control of the Theological Seminary. The Old School faction won.

Total enrollment: 220, 101 students attended Hanover College and 119 attended Preparatory School (high school). This total was not surpassed until 1910-11.

1836

March 31. Hanover College Alumni Association formed.

1837

July 5, late afternoon. Tornado hit Hanover, leaving College and village in ruins. The tornado took off top story of College Edifice and destroying east wing of academy/seminary building.

July 31. Hanover Presbyterian Church agreed to turn over to the College all materials and funds ($825.54) in its possession intended for the construction of a new church if the church would have the right to worship in the renovated College Edifice.

Sept. 27. A committee of three trustees memorialized the United States Congress for a grant of land to help atone for damage sustained by the tornado.

1838

Hanover College faculty: 7.

Hanover College student enrollment: 4 Law Students, 33 Undergraduates, and 72 Preparatory.

Tuition: $25.00 a year.

Repairs completed to college buildings. Duncan Macaulay was president of Hanover College from March 27, 1838 to July 20, 1838. Erasmus Darwin MacMaster was president of Hanover College from 1838 to 1843, served as president of Madison University in 1844, and then took the presidency of Miami University in 1845.

1840

Nov. 5. Philalathean Literary Society formed; made up of union of Whig and Philosophronian Literary Societies.

1841

Hanover College student enrollment: 33.

April 5. Indiana Theological Seminary moved to New Albany and in 1859 to Chicago where it is now the McCormick Theological Seminary.

1842

James Blythe, first president of Hanover College, dies in Hanover.

1843

Dec. 18. By an 8-6 vote the Board of Trustees dissolved Hanover College and petitioned the Indiana State Legislature for a charter to form Madison University. Later Crowe bought at auction the former Hanover College property for $10 and formed the Hanover Classical and Mathematical Academy since the former academy charter was still valid.

1844

March. Members of the Philalathean Literary Society moved back to Hanover; they were later followed by the Union Literary Society and the faculty.

Dec. 25. Indiana State legislature approved issuing another charter for Hanover College since Madison University had folded. John Finley Crowe becomes founder of Hanover College for a second time.

1846

August. Group of abolitionists met secretly at Hanover and decided to star the National Era magazine which later published Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sylvester Scovel became president of Hanover College, 1846-1849.

1848

Oct. 7. Society for Religious Inquiry founded.

1848-49

Hanover College swept by cholera epidemic.

1849

July 4. President Scovel died of cholera in Hanover.

Thomas Ebenezer Thomas, president of Hanover College, 1849-1854.

Oct. 18. Trustees purchased 200-acre farm comprising land where the College is now located.

1852

Plans for "Old" Classic Hall adopted by Trustees.

1853

Construction of new college building, later called Classic Hall, begun on the Point.

May 19. Iota of Beta Theta Pi chartered.

1855

Jonathan Edwards, president of Hanover College, 1855-1857.

1856

Professor J. Garritt became Professor of Latin, retiring in 1906. Forty-nine years he occupied the same class room.

1857

Dr. Crowe retired from the faculty.

Sept. 23. Fall term opened in the "New College", according to Ester Brandt.

Nov. 13. Literary Societies moved from College Edifice to new building "Classic Hall" on the Point.

1858-59

Assets of the College: $78,000.

James Wood, president of Hanover College, 1859-1866.

1859

The old "College Edifice" was deeded to the Hanover Presbyterian Church in satisfaction of the claims of the Church against the College.

1860

Jan. 17. Founder John Finley Crowe died.

1862

President Wood gave Hanover College "Wood Field" and adjoining lots west of Point House.

1862-4

Enrollment drops and many students withdraw to enter armies during the Civil War.

1863

July 8-13. Morgan's Raid in Indiana.

1864

Feb. 5. Tau of Phi Gamma Delta chartered.

1868

Dec. 14. Indiana Epsilon of Phi Delta Theta chartered. (A charter for the fraternity had been received on April 6, 1861, but no group was founded).

George D. Archibald, president of Hanover College, 1868-1870.

1869

Women sought admission; their initial request was ignored, but they enrolled anyway. Women given permission to enroll in classes of the academy if subject matter was not taught in their private schools.

First Panhellenic meeting at Hanover College (Phi Delta Theta and Phi Gamma Delta).

1870

Educational value of Natural Science officially recognized by Hanover College.

Trustees pass resolutions rejecting Presbyterian Church proposal to merge Hanover College with Wabash College.

George C. Heckman, president of Hanover College, 1870-1879.

May 30. Chi of Sigma Chi chartered.

Sept. 24. Society for Religious Inquiry became Y.M.C.A.

1871

June 19. First Senior Class Day. Andrew Harvey Young was master of ceremonies.

Summer. Hanover Presbyterian Church renovated. Second story removed, south facade replaced, and steeple installed.

1873

Sept. 24. Hanover College Board of Trustees rejected an offer to move to Indianapolis to become Johnson University.

1875

Nov. 3. First Hanover College periodical issued - The Gnivri.

1876

President Heckman constructed the President's House, on the present site of the new President's House. Razed in 1951.

1879

July. Board of Trustees voted to reduce faculty salaries and that of the president by 25 percent. President Heckman resigned in protest.

July 8. Board of Trustees came within one vote of dissolving the College.

Daniel Webster Fisher, president of Hanover College, 1879-1907.

1879-80

Assets of the College: $145,000.

1880

Sept. Women officially admitted to full privileges as students at Hanover College.

1881

Nov. 17. Freshman beanies first worn.

1882

First telephone installed in Hanover.

Jan 2. Nu of Kappa Alpha Theta chartered.

May. First Freshman Excursion (boat ride).

December. College Point House, a residence hall, completed.

1883

June 13. First college Y.M.C.A. building built for that purpose in the world dedicated.

June 14. First woman, Calla Harrison, graduated from Hanover College.

1884

Nov. 13. Dedication of Donnell Chapel in the College Building, later named Classic Hall.

1885

The Point House was erected.

1886

September. First sorority house in Indiana. The one-room house just east of the Hanover Presbyterian Church was occupied by Kappa Alpha Theta.

1887

Establishment of the Department of Music and Art.

Nov. 17. Hanover won state collegiate football championship by defeating Butler in final round of tournament. Other colleges competing were Franklin, Indiana University, Purdue, and Wabash.

1889

Astronomical observatory built and equipped.

Feb. Chrestomathean Literary Society formed.

1890

Sigma Chi house, later called Tower House, built. Was first Sig house in the nation and said to be the second frat house built in the United States.

1891

First college yearbook, called the Crow, published.

1896

First Gymnasium built.

1897

Jan. 22. Edward Plannette, Hanover's entrant in the Indiana State Oratorical Association's annual competition, won first place.

Old Science Hall built.

1898

May 21. Hanover's tennis doubles team (W. A. Oldfather and W.L. Whallon) won state championship. Whallon also won singles championship. It was the first of many such victories up to 1919. Winners included John Adams, A.K. Whallon, C.H. Oldfather, Harold Mann, Hursel Manaugh, Allen and Henry Montgomery.

1900

Baldridge Gate erected. It was gived by Mrs. W.H. Sutherland in memory of her father, the Rev. S.C. Baldridge, Class of 1849.

June 5. Board of Trustees named college building Classic Hall.

1901

Feb. 16. First men's varsity intercollegiate basketball game with Hanover defeating Moores Hill 28-7.

1903

Hendricks Library, a gift of Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, built. Thomas A. Hendricks, former U.S. Vice President, attended Hanover College 1837-1840.

Feb. 13. First women's varsity intercollegiate basketball game with Moores Hill defeating Hanover 21-14

1904

Men's basketball varsity record 7-1 including victories over University of Cincinnati (32-22, 29-12) and over Miami University (44-16).

1906

First issue of The Revonah, college yearbook, published.

Pure Food and Drug Act voted on by Congress, written by Harvey Washington

Wiley, Class of 1867.

1907

Hanover's first and only Rhodes Scholarship winner named, A.K. Whallon '05.

1908

William Alfred Millis becomes the 11^th President of Hanover College, 1908-1929.

College Point House became a women's dormitory.

Jan. 17. Fire destroyed gymnasium. Rebuilt by Dec. 17.

June 10. Rachel Hoffstadt graduated. First Hanover alumna to receive a doctorate.

1909

April 2. First issue of The Triangle, college newspaper.

1911

Phi Gamma Delta completed new house.

1913

Jan. 31. Rho of Phi Mu chartered.

June 2. Phi of Alpha Delta Pi chartered.

1914

Oct. 22, 3 p.m. Electricity first turned on in Hanover.

1916

Preparatory department discontinued. Hanover High School established; its classes held in Classic Hall until 1928 when new school building was completed in Hanover.

1917

Faculty declared that it was no longer compulsory for students to belong to a literary society.

1918

Hanover College entered into contract with the Federal Government to train a unit of the S.A.T.C.

Fall. Well driven near the Ohio River to supply water for the campus. College water system completed.

1919

Jan. 1. Old Science Hall burned. Rebuilt and dedicated Sept. 20, 1921.

1920

October. West wing of College Point House completed.

1922

New Gymnasium erected.

1923

Hanover College student enrollment: 500.

1924

Beta Theta Pi House built. Later occupied by Kappa Alpha Theta. Destroyed by 1974 tornado.

Oct. 11. Indiana Alpha of Theta Kappa Nu chartered; it became Theta Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha in 1939.

1925

Oct. 24. First Homecoming.

1927

Assets of College: $940,251.

Centennial year with celebration, June 5-9. During Hanover's first 100 years, 1,335 were graduated with 28% going into education, 26% into the ministry or missions, 17.5% into other learned occupations, 17.5% into business, and 11% into homemaking.

Oct. 18. Varsity "H" Club organized.

1928

January. East wing of College Point House completed.

1929

Number of Faculty: 25.

Nov. 27. Albert George Parker, Jr., president of Hanover College, 1929-1958, inaugurated.

Alpha Delta Pi House built. Now a faculty home.

Oct. 19. First night intercollegiate football game in Indiana played at Hanover.

1931

Phi Delta Theta house built. Now the Faculty Office Building.

May 1. Radio play "Finger of God" won top award for all Indiana colleges and universities.

Nov. 5. First Dad's Day.

Feb. First Co-ed Week.

1932

Oct. 11. Dedication of Ball Chapel in Classic Hall.

1934

November. Phi Mu lodge completed.

1936

William Henry Donner, who attended Hanover College for a term in 1882, gave Hanover College $2,000 if $18,000 of an old debt were secured. Then gave $10,000 for a new campus plan and $10,000 for campus improvement.

1937

Mr. Donner offered Hanover College $250,000 if friends of the College matched it.

1938

Donner Challenge met; $500,000 added to assets of College.

June 1. First Honor's Day.

1939

Donner Residence Hall and Newby Hospital completed.

1940

Mr. Donner offered Hanover $500,000 if friends of the College matched it.

1941

Second Donner Challenge met; $1,000,000 added to assets of College.

Plans for Hanover College's Frank Lloyd Wright house are completed.

Dec. 7. Attack on Pearl Harbor. America goes to war.

Dec. 14. First Candelight Christmas Concert performed by the Hanover College Choir.

Dec. 19. Fire destroyed center section of Classic Hall.

1941-42

Hanover College student enrollment drops to 164, including 140 women.

1942

Feb. 20. Board of Trustees voted 12-6 not to restore Classic Hall.

1944

Mr. Donner offered Hanover College $250,000 if friends of the College matched it.

1944-45

Hanover College student enrollment: 294.

1946

Hanover College student enrollment: 679.

Third Donner Challenge met; $500,000 added to assets of College.

1946-47

Assets of the College: $3,644,179.

1947

"New" Classic Hall completed. Goodrich Hall completed, named for P.E. Goodrich, president of the Board of Trustees, 1930-48.

Parker Auditorium completed. Named after Albert G. Parker, Jr., president of Hanover College, 1929-1958, to commemorate his 25^th year as president, 1953.

Lynn Hall completed, named after Charles J. Lynn, president of Board of Trustees, 1948-1958.

June 2. Long College for Women of Hanover College established for a 10-year period adding $750,000 to the College's assets from the estate of Henry C. Long.

1949

Crowe Residence Hall completed. Called Men's Residence Hall until 1963 when it was named after the College's Founder.

Hanover's first undefeated football team in a regular season's play, 8-0.

1950

Feb. 5. Phi of Alpha Omicron Pi chartered.

Nov. Hanover's Interfraternity Council named best of all colleges and universities in the United States. Trophy presented to Hanover College on Dec. 19 by IFC prexy John Collier. Much of winning report was written by Frank Guthrie.

1951

Ide Residence Hall built. Named after Mrs. John J. Ide, daughter of William H. Donner.

American Association of University Women recognized Hanover College.

Fall. Engineering program with Lafayette College begun.

December. Telephone dial system installed.

1952

New President's Home completed. Gift of William H. Donner.

May 27. New college library first occupied; now Old Science Hall.

1954

Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Delta Pi, and Phi Mu sorority houses completed.

1955

Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta, and Sigma Chi fraternity houses completed.

College Store completed; now the Education Building.

Junior Year Abroad program begun.

Washington Semester program with American University begun.

Indiana Intercollegiate Study Project begun by Dean E. Mowbray Tate.

1956

Brown Memorial Chapel completed. Given by J. Graham Brown, who attended Hanover College, 1898-1900, and his sister Mrs. A.L. Duggan, in memory of their parents.

Blythe Residence Hall completed. Named after James Blythe, first president of Hanover College.

1957

Long Gymnasium completed. Named after Henry C. Long, founder of Long College for Women. Agreement with Long College renewed.

Service building completed.

Hanover College varsity track team won Little State meet for the first time.

1958

February. College Point House razed.

March 22. President Parker dies, after announcing his plan to retire on Sept. 1.

John Edward Horner, president of Hanover College, 1958-1987.

Beta Theta Pi fraternity house completed.

1958-59

Assets of the College: $7,792,006.

Hanover College student enrollment: 750.

1960

March 8-11. First Hanover College Institute on "Christian Perspectives in Contemporary Culture."

1961

April 30. Hanover participation in G.E. College Bowl on T.V.

May 2. Last all-college boat ride.

$4,000,000 5-year development program announced.

1962

September. Hanover Plan initiated.

December. Madrigal Singers organized.

1963

May. Administration building completed.

June 2. First out-of-doors commencement.

Newby Hospital renovated and enlarged.

Wiley Residence Hall completed, named after alumnus Harvey W. Wiley, author of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.

Nov. 22. Hanover College Triangle, the first weekly collegiate newspaper to publish information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

1964

April 18. Hanover College Choir sang in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Received rave reviews in the New York Times.

Katherine Parker Residence Hall completed. Named after Mrs. Albert G. Parker, Jr., wife of the College's 12^th president on June 1, 1968.

Nov. 8-13. First Perspectives on America series.

Dec. 14. Alumnus J. Graham Brown gave $2 million for a campus center.

1966

May 16-17. First Theological Convocation.

Oct. 21. Development Fund completed; $5,517,000 added to assets of the College.

1967

Sept. 8-10. Dedication of J. Graham Brown Campus Center.

1968

June 2. Graduating Class: 240.

1969

Phi Delta Theta fraternity house completed.

J. Graham Brown bequeathed $2,500,000 to the College.

Dec. 18. Sigma Chi house fire; over $50,000 in damage caused.

1970

Creation of the P.E. and Ethyl Goodrich Memorial Fund of $1,500,000 by Mrs. Goodrich.

Spring. Faculty bowling team (Fox, McClew, Mullett) won intramural championship.

May 2,3. Hanover College Theatre presented "Peer Gynt" in Kennedy Theatre, Washington, D.C. as a finalist in the American College Theatre's national competition.

Nov. 10-12. Final presentation in Perspectives on America series.

1971

March 9, 10. Final Hanover College Institute.

Kappa Alpha Theta house completed.

1972

Sept. 7. Challenge for Greatness fund drive of $8,000,000 launched.

Oct. 7. Lyman S. Ayres Athletic Complex dedicated.

1973

April 28. Hanover College Theatre presented "A Man's A Man" as a finalist in the American College Theatre's national competition.

July 28. Library Moving Day.

Sept. 5. Duggan Library dedicated.

1974

April 3, 3:51 p.m. Tornado struck campus doing $10,000,000 damage.

April 22. Spring Term opened, 19 days following the tornado.

John Collier named national basketball coach of the year by N.A.I.A. His team had 29-4 record, going to quarter finals of national tourney.

Summer. Members of Hanover College Theatre toured Asia representing American College Theatre.

Renovation of campus buildings damaged by tornado completed.

1975

Football team had undefeated season, 9-0.

Cross Country team won Little State meet.

Physical Plant building completed. New Water Tower built.

1976

July 4. Bicentennial of the United States of America.

1977

Jan. 1. Sesquicentennial year of the College. Assets of the College: $30,000,000.

March 24. Ground-breaking for Fine Arts building.

December. Challenge for Greatness Development program completed; $11,015,000 added to assets of the College.

1978

Sept. 16. Lynn Center for Fine Arts completed.

Nov. 2. Long College for Woman of Hanover College merges with Hanover College.

1979

Feb. 7. John Collier named to Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

Spring Term. Hanover College Choir toured Poland.

April 23-25. Hanover College Theatre presented "And They Danced Real Slow in Jackson" as a finalist

May. Hanover wins Hoosier-Buckeye College Conference all-sports trophy for the first time.

September. Revised Hanover Plan (13-13-4) goes into effect.

1980

April 25, 26. Hanover College Theatre presented "The Diviners" as a finalist in the American College Theatre's national competition at the Kennedy Theatre in Washington, D.C.

1981

Establishment of the Richter grant of $75,000 annually to students for approved creative projects outside the classroom.

1983

March 15. Opening of the $10 million endowment drive.

April 7. Announcement of President Horner of a $5 million anonymous gift to the college, the largest single donation in Hanover College's history.

Spring Term. Hanover College Choir tours Romania and Greece.

1986

Feb. 2. Harlan Hubbard donates thirteen paintings to Hanover College.

May 17. Endowment drive concluded. $10,529,284.41 raised.

December. Gift by C. Richard Petticrew for a Computer Center in Hendricks Hall.

1987

Number of Faculty: 72.

Spring Term. Hanover College Choir sings in Avery Fisher Hall, New York City.

July 1. Hanover College endowment: $40 million.

Sept. 26. Hanover College's 14^th president, Russell Nichols was inaugurated.

1988

Jan.-Feb. Confectionary (Cooper's Corner) razed.

1992

Number of Faculty: 94.

1995

Horner Health and Recreation Center opened.

1997

Hanover College finishes the installment of a fiber optic network.

2000

Science Center dedication.

2002

Hanover College -175 Years.

Renovation of Classic Hall

Hanover College student enrollment: 1050.

2003

January. Grand Opening of the Joseph Wood Evan Memorial Special Collections and Archive Center at the Duggan Library.

Jan.-Dec. Remnant Trust Exhibit, "Wisdom Of the Ages."

2004

August. Largest incoming class in the history of Hanover College totaling 380 students.

Hanover College instituted the Academic Vision. This includes adding programs and institutions such as The Rivers Institute, The Center for Business Preparation, and The Career Connections Program.

Hanover College faculty: 97.8.

Hanover College student enrollment: 1055.

2005

October. Wayne Perry becomes the winningest coach in Indiana collegiate football history.

2007

September. Sue DeWine inaugurated as College's 15th President.