| 1786 |
McNitt Defeat at what is now Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park. |
| 1804 |
Wilderness Road Inn was built. |
| 1825 |
Laurel County was established. |
| 1826-1827 |
First county courthouse was built. |
| 1841 to around 1910 |
The Sublimity Springs Hotel Resort was in business. |
| 1858-1954 |
Laurel Seminary held school in downtown London. |
| 1861-1865 |
African-American churches in Laurel County: 1st church in town was on West 13th Street around the Civil War, then moved to a church on Short Street adjacent to the Mill Street Baptist Church. Mill Street Baptist Church is the current location of the African-American Heritage Society. |
| 1861 |
October 21st, Battle of Camp Wildcat |
| 1862 |
August 17th - Battle of London |
| 1866 |
London became an incorporated city |
| 1873 |
October 11th - Mountain Echo Newspaper was established. |
| 1881 |
Swiss Colony Bernstadt was founded, Kentucky's largest foreign colonization. |
| 1882 |
July 17th, Laurel County's first work train pulled into London. |
| 1883 |
September 9th, Laurel County Fair was established at Camp Ground, 8 miles south of London. |
| 1885-1886 |
2nd county courthouse was built |
| 1894 |
March 11th, the first 1st Baptist Church of London was built on Long & 7th Streets. |
| 1896 |
May 11th, ground breaking for Sue Bennett Memorial School. |
| 1896 |
Parker Cemetery was established, later to be named Dyche Cemetery. |
| 1897 |
Sue Bennett Memorial School opened. |
| 1900 |
London was the state capital for a few days, with the legislature meeting in the Laurel Seminary. |
| 1902 |
Meetings were conducted for the building of the Colored Baptist College, which later became the TB Hospital. |
| 1904 |
Pennington Infirmary opened downtown London and later moved to the building that is now 1st National Bank of Manchester on Main Street. Later the hospital was built on the hill and was appropriately named Pennington Hospital after Dr. H.V. Pennington who started both the infirmary and hospital. |
| 1908 |
1st Christian Church of London was established. |
| 1909 |
December 3rd, cornerstone laid for the Federal Building. Building was completed with a cost of $82,294.00 |
| 1912 |
London National Guard was established. (Not the building) |
| 1915 |
London Christian Church women started organizing the London's first public library. |
| 1916 |
March 1st, first rural route in London. |
| 1920 |
Laurel County Library Assocation was organized. |
| 1922 |
London Fire Department was organized. |
| 1923 |
January 23rd, second 1st Baptist Church was built. |
| 1925 |
U.S. 25 was completed through Laurel County, originally known as the Dixie Highway |
| 1931 |
July 1st, Laurel County Health Dept. opened. |
| 1932 |
November 16th, Laurel County had first library building on East 4th Street. |
| 1934 |
Laurel County Homecoming was established to be the weekend of the full moon in August. |
| 1935-1937 |
12-room London School building was constructed by WPA. Currently part of the Laurel County Board of Education on North Main Street. |
| 1936-1967 |
8-room East Bernstadt School building was constructed by WPA. |
| 1936 |
WPA constructed 50,580 square feet of side walks in London, most of which we still use today. |
| 1938-1941 |
Lily High School Gym was constructed by WPA. |
| 1938-1941 |
London City Hall & Fire Station was constructed by WPA. London City Hall was in what is now the Sheriff's Office building and the Fire Station was in the basement of that building. |
| 1939-1940 |
London's Black School was constructed on Mill Street across from West 14th Street. |
| 1938-1939 |
Hazel Green Gym was constructed by WPA |
| 1948 |
Airport began operations in London |
| 1948-1949 |
State Police Post built in London at a cost of $31,893.00. |
| 1950 |
Colony and Keavy Elementary Schools were built; these were identical buildings. |
| 1951 |
January 31st, TB Hospital had their first patient. |
| 1951 |
St. Andrews Catholic School was established. |
| 1954 |
June 19th, Decision to build London Elementary School; this school was lowered in 2005 after building the current building. |
| 1954 |
"The Kentuckian" starring Burt Lancaster & Walter Matthau was filmed at Levi Jackson State Park, movie released 1955. |
| 1955 |
J.M. Feltner 4-H Camp was established with the 99-year lease given on 182 acres by Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park. |
| 1958 |
December 9th, fire destroyed the courthouse |
| 1959 |
London Country Club was established. |
| 1960 |
May, Construction of I-75 started in Kentucky |
| 1961 |
New courthouse constructed, which is the current building standing |
| 1964 |
December, Laurel River Dam construction started |
| 1970 |
June, Construction of I-75 completed in Kentucky |
| 1970-71 |
Laurel County High School - first school year (combined high schools London, Lily, Hazel Green, Bush) |
| 1974 |
Laurel River Lake Impounded (filled or dammed-up) |
| 1974 |
Opening of the Daniel Boone Parkway, which connects London to Hazard |
| 1978-79 |
Laurel County Junior High School - first school year (combined junior high schools London, Lily, Hazel Green, Bush; became South Laurel Middle School in 1988) |
| 1997 |
November, Sue Bennett College closed |
| 2003 |
Daniel Boone Parkway name was changed to Hal Rogers Parkway for the U.S. Representative of the same name. |
| 2008 |
May 22nd, Groundbreaking for the Laurel County Judicial Center, which closed off West 2nd St. from Main St. |
