*1859-1860: Peak years of the gold seekers and the "Rush to the Rockies"
*October 30, 1858: Town of Auraria founded
*November 16, 1858: William Larimer "jumps" St. Charles town site and founds Denver City.
*October 19, 1859: William P. McClure and Richard Whitsitt engage in duel on bank of Cherry Creek.
*March 7, 1860: Dr. J.S. Stone, judge of the Miner's Court in Mountain City, and Lucien Bliss, acting governor of Jefferson Territory, face off in duel on bank of Platte River.
*June 1860: City Hospital established at intersection of Wazee and 16th streets.
*October 11, 1860: Dr. J.S. Stone dies in City Hospital.
*November 1860: Dr. John Hamilton elected City Physician without pay.
*November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected President.
*November 27, 1860: City Hospital reopens as Hotel for Invalids and is believed to be the first tuberculosis sanitarium in Denver
*1861: Territory of Colorado established. President Lincoln selects William Gilpin as the new governor
*April 12, 1861: Civil War begins.
*1862: On Ferry Street, between Third and Fourth (now 11th Street between Wazee and Market Streets) a one-and-a-half story frame house was used as a poorhouse for city and county patients. Mrs. E. Smith was in charge.
*May 1866: Dr. Frederick Bancroft arrives by stagecoach.
*June 1866: Dr. John Elsner pulls into Denver.
*1869: Dr. John Elsner and Sister Eliza open tent hospital.
*1870: Dr. John Elsner named county physician and establishes small county hospital at the corner of Ninth and Champa
*September 1873: A new county hospital opens near the intersection of Sixth and Cherokee. This is the precursor of today's Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
*November 1874: The Arapahoe County Hospital, also called the County Poor House and Almshousem received and treated 189 patients. Institutional costs were $2,176.
*1876: Colorado becomes a state.
*1876-1881: Dr. Harrison Lemen is county physician and oversees the County Hospital.
*1879-1880: First typhoid epidemic strikes Denver.
*1881: Fight between homeopaths and allopaths over control of Arapahoe County Hospital.
*1884: The county's first Poor Farm, consisting of 220 acres, opens near the Globe Smelting Company.
*1887: Dr. Herbert McLauthlin elected county physician at a salary of $2,400 per year. Later he was made head of the city's Department of Health.
*1887: The Colorado Training School for Nurses opens.
*1888: Augusta Erickson is the first graduate of The Colorado Training School for Nurses.
*1889: A new Nurse's Home is built. Costing roughly $30,000, it's a three-story brick structure with a long sun porch.
*1889: Patient census is 91
*1891: William Clark, hospital superintendent, asks Arapahoe County Commission to purchase ambulance.
*1891: Bed capacity of 150. Services include surgery, medicine, nervous and mental diseases, obstetrics, gynecology, genito-urinary, pediatrics, dentistry, eye, nose and throat.
*1892: New ward building and sunnery built just east of the original hospital building. Service building with smokestack also built at the same time.
*1892: The original hospital has a capacity for 72 patients and houses the insane, pre- and post-operative patients, children, expectant mothers, and TB patients.
*1892: Dr. Henry King Steele establishes infectious disease hospital for patients suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, whooping cough. Facillity located north of the main hospital complex on Seventh Avenue and called the Steele Memorial Hospital. The hospital consisted of four small cottages and a small operating room for emergency patients. Funds for two more cottages were later donated by Mrs. Steele.
*1893: Congress repeals Sherman Act. Local economy collapses and Arapahoe County commissioners put plans on hold for a grand Romanesque-style hospital.
*1893: An electric light plan for hospital is formulated.
*August 1893: Ada C. Stotz contracts typhoid and dies. She is the first death of an undergraduate since Colorado Training School for Nurses opened.
*1896: Typhoid epidemic engulfs hospital. Dr. Gardner, who is the inhouse physician, and Miss Kloth, the chief nurse, die. Two interns, 11 nurses, three orderlies, three laundry women, and two members of superintendent's family contract disease.
*1898: Arapahoe County Commission purchases 300 or so acres for a new Poor Farm about 15 miles north of the city. Located near the intersection of 124th Avenue and the Henderson Road, it's the site of present-day Adams County Fairgrounds.
*October 1899: Jacob Uhl is deemed insane and forcibly incarcerated in the basement of the original Arapahoe County Hospital. He dies a few days later, his body is covered with bruises and swelling.
*1899-1901: Arapahoe County Hospital is the subject of numerous investigations.
*1900: Dr. George Stover goes to Sand Creek Quarantine Hospital to attend his brother. He contracts a mile form of smallpox.