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1810-1826: North West Company operates a fur trading post called Spokane House.
1853: The Washington Territory is created.
1863: Idaho becomes a territory.
1871: Frederick Post begins construction of a sawmill along the Spokane River.
1873: James N. Glover purchases the Spokane Falls area for $1600.
1878: Fort Sherman is established.
1879: Francis Cook publishes area's first regular newspaper, The Spokane Times.
1880: Fort Sherman Chapel is built.
1883: Sumner Academy, which would become Whitworth University, is founded.
1883: Gold is discovered in the area around Coeur D'Alene.
1887: Gonzaga University is founded, taking its name from Jesuit Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
1889: Fire destroys seventy-five acres around the area, including downtown Spokane.
1889: Washington Territory is admitted to the Union as the 42nd state.
1890: Idaho becomes the 43rd state.
1891: Post Falls is incorporated.
1892: The Great Northern Railroad reaches Spokane.
1894: Post sells his sawmill and in doing so, he secures water right for Post Falls.
1900: Fort Sherman is abandoned, it's building sold at public auction.
1902: The city's first rail yard is completed, boosting the city's status as a transportation hub.
1906: Three-year old Bing Crosby moves with his family to Spokane.
1930: Air passenger service begins between Spokane and Seattle.
1954: The Spokane Coliseum opens.
1974: Spokane hosts the World's Fair.
1977: Runners line up for the first Bloomsday Run.
1979: Spokane City Parks propose what would eventually become, with the help of many throughout the Inland
Northwest, the Centennial Trail.
2001: Numerous earthquakes shake the Inland Northwest.
2004: Spokane is named as one of ten All-America Cities.
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