| 1694: | Industries already existent included brickyards, a tannery, sawmills, the first pottery in the country, and flourishing shipyards in or near Burlington; and Thomas Ollive’s gristmill at "Willingborough." |
| 1696: | The first lawyer of record in the County, George Deacon, was named "King’s Attorney." |
| 1701: | William Penn visited the County for the last time. |
| 1708: | Samuel Jennings died. The first Deputy Governor and the owner of "Green Hill" plantation near Burlington, he was known as "the tribune of the people" for his forthright negotiation with principal figures in England. |
| 1723: | To the original eight Townships Chesterfield, Mansfield, Chester, Springfield, Willingboro, Northampton, Evesham and Nottingham was added New Hanover, set off from Chesterfield and Springfield. |
| 1728: | Thomas Eves died. An early emigrant from London on the Kent, he and his sons were largely responsible for settlement of Evesham Township, and built a mill on the road to "Upper Evesham" (later Medford). |
| 1742: | A mission building on Pine Street in Mount Holly was the predecessor of St. Andrew’s Church, chartered in 1765. By this time numerous Friends Meetings were in existence across the County. |
| 1752: | Relief Fire Company, oldest in the country, was organized at Mount Holly. The first Baptist Church building in the County was erected at New Mills (Pemberton). |
| 1757: | The Burlington Library Company was instituted, and chartered by King George II in 1758. A military draft was organized, to relieve Fort William Henry. Indian uprisings were now frequent along the Delaware. |
| 1770: | A Methodist Class was formed at Burlington, to be followed by Church buildings at New Mills in 1775 and Burlington in 1788. Pioneering Bishop Francis Asbury was a frequent visitor. |
| 1776: | William Livingston was named the new State’s first Governor by the Congress of New Jersey, meeting at Burlington. |
| 1796: | Work was started on the Court House at Mount Holly, modeled after Congress Hall in Philadelphia, following election of Mount Holly as the County Seat in 1 |
| 1795. | The two wing buildings were added in 1807 to create a "little Independence row." |
| 1799: | The Board of Freeholders established a County Farm on 472 acres purchased in New Hanover Township from Josiah Gaskill, and built the first "Almshouse" in 1801. This came under State legislation making care of the indigent a County as well as Township responsibility. |
| 1810: | Robert Mills, student of U.S. Capitol architect and sometime Mount Holly resident Benjamin Latrobe, designed the "new" County Jail. |
| 1813: | Captain James Lawrence of Burlington died following naval battle off Boston Harbor, his dying words the immortal "Don’t give up the ship!" |
| 1824: | Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, visited points in the County during a return tour of the U.S. |
| 1828: | Jonathan and Samuel Shreve built a weaving industry at the site of the Jacob Parker dam of 1790 on the Rancocas. Bringing master-weaver Samuel Semple from Scotland in 1846, they developed the first spool cotton in the U.S. at "Shreveville" which later became Smithville, in 1865, when Hezekiah B. Smith bought the plant and the Shreve mansion to build a colorful career around his unique ideas and some forty inventions. |
| 1832: | An iron bridge was completed across the Roncocas, ot Centerton. |
| 1834: | First steam railroad began operation, signalling development over the next twenty years of such riverfront towns as Florence, Delanco, Riverside, Riverton, and Palmyra, and bringing enlargement to earlier towns. Spread of railroads during the next half-century brought general increase in County population. |
| 1840: | Across the County by this time were some seventy taverns, many of them extremely historic. Their role as staging stops, town meeting places, and election centers was of importance to County development. |
| 1843: | Sailing ships from Ireland brought numerous Roman Catholics to the County, joining small contingents of much earlier date, to erect St. Paul’s Church on the site of the old Burlington barracks in 1849 and the first Roman Catholic Church at Mount Holly in 1852. |
| 1850: | The bog iron industry gave way in competition with Pennsylvania ores, and pineland bogs were adapted to cranberry growing. County sand came into enlarged use in glass manufacture. |
| 1855: | German emigrant Charles Taubel established a shoemaker’s shop, and thirty years later his sons William, Henry, and Lewis developed hosiery dyes and built mills at Riverside for long-term industry. |
| 1861: | Young volunteers, and later draftees, were called to the Union Army. Beverly became a mustering-in center, and four years later the site of a National Cemetery. In 1862, County-born Isaac Newton was named first Commissioner of U.S. Agriculture by President Lincoln. In 1863, General U.S. Grant moved his family to the house at 309 Wood Street, Burlington. |
| 1870: | Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia began acquisition of large parcels of County land, to make up the Wharton Tract. |
| 1872: | A large tract of land at Jobstown became a breeding and stock farm. |
| 1877: | A young man from Switzerland, Theophilus Zurbrugg, arrived at Mount Holly; and moved on to Philadelphia in 1880 to succeed largely in watch-case manufacturing - transferring to Riverside in 1892 to build the Keystone Watch Case Company at age 31. His legacy of the year 1912 led the way to plans for Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital. |
| 1890: | Electric lights and telephones made appearance in the County. |
| 1904: | Charles G. and Ferdinand Roebling extended the John A. Roebling Sons business to a new town in Burlington County, where the Company made open-hearth steel and developed new products for a new age of electricity, automotive vehicles, and aircraft. |
| 1906: | High Schools in the County, heretofore one to three year schools, began expansion from makeshift quarters to separate buildings and four year programs. |
| 1907: | Temple B’nai Israel organized in Burlington. |
| 1917: | World War brought allocation of large tract for Camp Dix (later Fort Dix). |
| 1920: | The original eight Townships had by this time subdivided into thirty-six Townships, Cities, and Boroughs. |
| 1928: | Eldridge R. Johnson of Moorestown sold his Victor-Camden facilities to Radio Corporation of America; and RCA-Victor became a factor in the development of Television in the period 1932 to 1939, and in advance programming toward the subsequent age of Space. Other incoming industries brought wide County growth. |
| 1945: | McGuire Air Force Base was dedicated at close of World War II. |
| 1959: | County Office Building opened, including new Court facilities. |
| l963: | Moorestown Mall opened. |
| 1969: | First classes began at new Burlington County College. Five earlier High Schools had multiplied to fifteen, including County Vocational-Technical High School. |
| 1971: | New County Library opened, on Woodlane Rood. |
| 1973: | County Prisoners of War returned after cease-fire in Viet Nam. |
