The following timeline is a listing of events deemed important and/or interesting in the eyes of the authors.  Local events occurred in Princeton (the Borough, Township, or University).  The global events also show special connections between Princeton, California, and Nebraska.
 

Date	Princeton Event (local)	World Event (global)
1683	First settler -- Dr. Henry Greenland.
1684		Newton publishes theories of motion and gravitation.
1696	Town of "Princeton" settled.
1724	Borough of Princeton named.
1752		Benjamin Franklin experiments with kite and lightening rod.
1753	College of New Jersey decides to move to Princeton.
1754		French and Indian war begins.
1771	James Madison graduates from Princeton University
1776	John Witherspoon, college president &       Richard Stockton, physician,       sign the Declaration of Independence.
1783	Continental Congress meets in Nassau Hall which serves as the capitol of the United States from June - November.
1813	Borough of Princeton Incorporated.
1838	Princeton Township formed with the creation of Mercer County.
1840's		The Platte River Valley (Nebraska) becomes the highway for millions of settlers moving west.
1847		Commoder Robert Stockton, son of Dr. Richard Stockton, founded Stockton, California -- home of Dick Filson & Carol Zucca.
1850		California enters the statehood.
1859		First aerial photographer, Gaspard Felix Tournachon (French).  Took pictures from hot air balloons.
1867		Nebraska enters the statehood.
1878	Sidewalks paved in center of town.
1879	Woodrow Wilson graduates from Princeton University.
1880-       1890		Development of the automobile.
1896	College name changed to Princeton University.
1898		Madame Curie discovers radium & United States annexes Hawaii.
1903		The Bavarian Pigeon Corps is founded.  Lightweight cameras are attached to pigeons to obtain aerial photographs.
1906	Carnegie lake created by Andrew Carnegie.	San Francisco earthquake.
1908		First aerial photography from an aircraft.  Wilbur Wright's passenger, L. P. Bonvillain, took photographs on a demonstration flight in France.
1909		Adm. Perry reaches the North Pole.
1912		Titanic sinks.
1919	Pete's house is built.
1921	Pete Sannino born at 16 Oakland St.  A part of Princeton called "Little Italy."
1933	Albert Einstein becomes a life member of the Institute for Advanced Study with an office on the Princeton campus.
1962		Remotely sensed imagery from satellites proved Cuba did indeed have nuclear missiles (Cuban missile crisis).
1969	Princeton University accepts its first female students.	Images from Apollo 9's multi-spectral 4-lens camera were digitized and used to develop techniques for processing Landsat data (which is still 4 years away).
1972		ERST-1 launched.  (Earth Resources Technology Satellite)
1987		Ed Brogie, Nebraska, attends WW Chemistry Institute.
1995		Dick Filson, California, attends WW Biology Institute.
1996	Princeton University celebrates its 250 year anniversary.
1997	May, NSF approves 5 year environmental science grant to WWFNTLP	Dick Filson & Carol Zucca, California, attend WW Environmental Science Institute.
1997	July, Woodrow Wilson Foundation publishes first ever institute module live on the Web.	Ed Brogie & Lee Peterson, Nebraska, attend WW Environmental Science Institute.

 
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