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(1541) Explorers, searching for gold, claimed Kansas for Spain
(1682) French explorer LaSalle claimed all of the Kansas territory for France
(1803) U.S. acquired most of Kansas from France in the Louisiana Purchase
(1822) Captain W. H. Becknell pioneered the Santa Fe Trail
(1827) Fort Leavenworth established
(1830s) Settlers arrived by the thousands
(1854) Kansas Territory was organized
(1855-1859) The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused bloody fighting over slavery; Kansas was called "Bloody Kansas."
(1860) First railroad reached Kansas
(1862) Kansas became a state
(1867) The railroad arrived in Abilene, and the first cattle were driven up the Chisholm Trail
(1887) Susanna Salter elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas; became the first woman mayor in the country
(1894-1895) The state's oil and gas fields went into production
(1930s) Severe dust storms destroyed acres and acres of crops
(1951) Floods struck the state causing wide-spread damage
(1952) Dwight David Eisenhower, Kansas' adopted favorite son, became U.S. President
(1952) U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation in public school illegal, in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case of Topeka
(1961) The world's largest wheat elevator was built in Hutchinson
(1969) President Dwight David Eisenhower died
(1976) Famed Kansas politician Bob Dole ran for Vice President
(1978) Nancy Landon Kassebaum became the first women from Kansas elected U.S. Senator
(1988) Kansas Jayhawks won the NCAA Tourney
(1996) Bob Dole (Russell, Kansas) ran for President
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