1808
Ashbil Griswold established a pewter shop in Meriden, Conn, a precursor to what will eventually become International Silver Company

1844
Asa, Simeon, and William Rogers open a workshop to manufacture coin silver silverware in Hartford, Conn.

1847
The brothers perfect the electroplating process and issue their first electroplated silverware

1847
Olive, the first fancy electroplate flatware pattern is made from start to finish in America by the Rogers Bros. Company

1852
The Meriden Britannia Company is organized

1862
Meriden Britannia Company purchases Rogers Bros. and moves the company from Hartford to Meriden

1890
Meriden establishes branches in Canada and London and sales offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco

1898
Meriden Britannia assumes a leadership role in convincing other small independent silver shops in the Connecticut area to consolidate

1898
International Silver Company is born

1900
Connecticut becomes the manufacturing center of American silverware

1940s
Production of International Silver Company patterns Joan of Arc and Prelude reaches its peak as the two patterns achieve unprecedented success

1968
International Silver Company is acquired by Insilco, itself part of a large conglomerate

1972
International Silver Company spins off its hotel division as an independent subsidiary, World Tableware International

1976
International Silver ends its production of sterling holloware

1981
Oneida purchases International Silver's plated holloware division

1983
A group of private investors acquire World Tableware and organize the American Silver Company

1986
Syratech Corporation acquires Wallace Silversmiths and International Silver Company