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Chronology

Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, expand to see all 1,473 dated entries and where they connect to the index.

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1879Reconstruction and the New South
  1. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

  2. UNC establishes its School of Medicine

    Institutional milestone · Chapel Hill

    UNC began a medical program in 1879.

    Subject: UNC School of Medicine

The other dated entries wait behind a subject, a place, an era, a month, or the All dated entries switch, and each storyline’s page carries its own component entries. Dates come from the sources named on the cards and from the index’s event pages; where sources disagree, the card follows the county records. Entries marked approximate or needing research say so on the card; the rest were checked against the source named on it. Each card’s “Correct this” link opens the contact form with the entry already named. Suggest an event →

Compiled and maintained by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library from county records, the sources named on each card, and the index’s event pages. Last updated September 14, 2026.

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Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026