- 1872: Isaac T. Brown co-founds the weekly newspaper The Columbus Republican, published where The Crump Theatre stands today.
- 1876: The paper moves a site on what is now Fourth Street. Moving the heavy printing presses takes five days.
- 1877: The paper begins publishing six days per week.
- 1883: Name changes from The Daily Evening Republican to The Evening Republican.
- 1900: The Evening Republican is one of four daily papers published in Columbus.
- 1925: The Republic moves from Washington Street to to a new building at Fifth and Franklin streets.
- 1925: In a city of approximately 9,500 people, The Evening Republican records a circulation of 3,000 subscribers.
- 1962: The Brown family launches Home News Enterprises to spread its newspaper publishing reach in Indiana.
- 1967: The Evening Republican becomes The Republic.
- 1971: The paper moves to 333 Second St. into the architecturally significant structure designed by Chicago’s Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It became the first building built from the new, key Downtown Development Plan.
- 1985: The paper begins a Sunday edition.
- 1985: Jeff Brown joins The Republic, becoming the fifth generation of the Brown family to be a part of its operation.
- 1990: John Harmon is named editor of The Republic and becomes the paper’s longest serving leader ever in that post, working until 2008.
- 1992: The Audit Bureau of Circulation cites The Republic as Indiana’s fastest-growing Sunday newspaper.
- 1994: The paper begins publishing 365 days per year, including all holidays, for the first time.
- 1996: The paper shifts from evening publication to mornings.
- 1997: The Republic moves its printing operation to a new, $9 million facility at Woodside South Industrial Park.
- 1997: Ned Bradley, president and chief executive officer of parent company Homes News Enterprises, retires after 36 years with the company and especially strong financial leadership.
- 2004: Longtime Home News Enterprises chairman Robert N. Brown dies. Former Cummins Engine Co. Chairman J. Irwin Miller says the community “lost one of its great sons.”
- 2012: The Republic office building, 333 Second St., is named a National Historic Landmark Oct. 18, 2012.
- 2015: The Brown family sells The Republic and other Home News Enterprises newspapers to AIM Media, ending 143 years of local ownership.
- 2016: The Republic moves from Second Street to its current home at 2980 N. National Road.
- 2016: A Columbus Regional Health affiliate buys The Republic building that eventually becomes the new home of Indiana University’s J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program, a three-year master’s degree program, offered through IU’s School of Art, Architecture + Design.
- 2019: Julie McClure becomes the first female editor in the paper’s history.
