1535
Angela Merici founds Company of Saint Ursula in Brescia, Italy.

1691
Ursuline Convent in Straubing, Bavaria opens.

Oct. 31, 1858
The Ursulines of the Immaculate Conception of Louisville, Kentucky, were founded as an independent monastery from the Ursuline Motherhouse in Straubing, Bavaria. Bishop Martin J. Spalding of Louisville sent Father Leander Streber, OFM, pastor of St. Martin Church, to Bavaria to seek sisters to teach German children in his parish and other parishes in the diocese.

Three Ursuline Sisters: Mother Salesia Reitmeier, Mother Mary Pia Schoenhofer and Sister Mary Maximilian Zwinger arrive in Louisville, Kentucky from Straubing, Bavaria. The Sisters immediately begin teaching at St. Martin School at Shelby and Gray Streets.

1859
Sisters open Ursuline Academy, a school for girls (closed in 1972).

1861
Sisters begin teaching at other parish schools in Louisville.

1864
Ursuline Sisters receive "incorporation in perpetuity" as Ursuline Society and Academy of Education from the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

June 25, 1868
Mother Salesia Reitmeier, the founder and first superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, dies at age 36.

1868
Sisters begin staffing schools in Indiana.

1870
Sisters begin staffing schools in Western Maryland.

1874
Five Sisters answer request to staff Mt. St. Joseph Academy in Daviess County, Kentucky.

1877
Sacred Heart Academy opens on Workhouse Road (now Lexington Road).

1895
Thirteen Sisters establish an independent Ursuline Foundation
in Paola, Kansas.

1912
Sisters in Daviess County become an independent congregation; known as the Mt. St. Joseph Ursulines.

1915
Sisters begin staffing schools in Ohio and West Virginia.

1916
Sisters begin staffing schools in Western Nebraska.

1917
Dedication of new Motherhouse on Cherokee Drive (now Lexington Road).

1918-1919
Sisters help take care of the soldiers at Camp Taylor during the flu epidemic.

1921
Sacred Heart Junior College opens on Lexington Road.

1937
On the Lexington Road campus, Sisters house refugees from the January flood.

1938
Ursuline Sisters of Columbia, South Carolina join the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.

Sacred Heart Junior College expands to a four-year college for women; renamed Ursuline College.

1956
Ursuline Speech Clinic opens (closed in 1996).

1958
Ursuline Sisters of Pittsburgh join Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.

1959
Angela Merici High School for girls opens.

1964
First Louisville Ursuline missionaries arrive in Peru, South America.

1967
Ursuline Montessori Pre-School opens.

1968
Ursuline College merges with Bellarmine College.

1970
Ursuline School of Music and Drama opens.

1977
Marian Home opens.

1980
Associate Program begins.

1984
Angela Merici High School and Bishop David High School consolidate to become Holy Cross High School.

1986
Ursuline Child Development Center opens.

1990
Ursuline Sisters enter into sponsorship of the five units on the Ursuline Campus which are separately incorporated as Ursuline Campus Schools.

1997
Angela Merici Center opens.