|
|
|
Description
Fast Facts
Famous Natives
Flag
Land Statistics
Landforms
Lat/Long
Links
Maps
Symbols
Time
Timeline
Travel Info
Weather
USA PAGE MISSOURI PAGE
PRINT THIS MAP
PRINT THIS MAP  
|
|
Timeline
(1682) Explorer, Sieur de La Salle, Robert Cavalier, traveled the Mississippi River, claiming the valley for France. He named the region "Louisiana" in honor of King Louis XIV
(1700) Jesuit missionaries established the first white settlement. The Mission of St. Francis Xavier erected near the site where St. Louis would eventually be built
(1724) Fort Orleans built on the north bank of the Missouri River
(1762) Spain gained control of the Louisiana Territory in the Treaty of Fontainebleau
(1764) City of St. Louis founded by Pierre Laclede Liguest and Rene Auguste Chouteau
(1769) City of St. Charles established by Louis Blanchette as a trading post
(1770) The Spanish government officially assumed control of the Territory of Louisiana
(1793) Louis Lorimer received trading privileges and the authority to establish a post at Cape Girardeau
(1796) Daniel Morgan Boone moved to Missouri and built a cabin at Femme Osage Creek
(1800 Napoleon Bonaparte forced Spain to return the territory west of the Mississippi to France
(1803) Louisiana Purchase occurs
(1804) The Lewis and Clark Expedition started out from St. Louis
(1805) The Territory of Louisiana established with its seat of government in St. Louis
(1808) The first newspaper, the Missouri Gazette, began publication in St. Louis
(1808) Fort Osage established on the Missouri River
(1811) The New Madrid earthquake occurred, the worst in US history
(1812) A portion of the Territory of Louisiana became the Territory of Missouri; the first general assembly of the Territory of Missouri met and the five original counties were organized: Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, St. Charles, St. Louis, and Ste. Genevieve
(1817) The steamboat Zebulon M. Pike reached St. Louis; the first steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Ohio River
(1818) The U.S. House of Representatives presented the first petition to Congress requesting statehood
(1820) Missouri's first Constitution adopted; first state elections held and Alexander McNair was elected the first governor and the first General Assembly met in St. Louis
(1821) President James Monroe admitted Missouri as the 24th state; the state capitol was temporarily located in St. Charles
(1826) Jefferson City designated Missouri's state capitol
(1835) Writer Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) born in Florida, Missouri
(1837) President Martin Van Buren issued a proclamation which completed the annexation of the Platte Purchase area to Missouri
(1837) Missouri's first capitol in Jefferson City destroyed by fire
(1838) Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Extermination Order" against Mormons living in Missouri, demanding that members of the Mormon church leave the state
(1839) The University of Missouri founded
(1847) St. Louis connected to the East by telegraph
(1849) A cholera epidemic struck St. Louis - over 4000 people died
(1854) President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the notion of "popular sovereignty" in determining if a territory would be a slave state or a free state
(1857) The Dred Scott decision handed down by U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; the case originated in St. Louis. Scott was allowed to sue for his freedom from slavery based on the fact that he had previously lived in a free territory
(1860) The Pony Express started its first run from St. Joseph to Sacramento, California
(1861) The Battle of Wilson's Creek resulted in a Union retreat and southwestern Missouri was left in Confederate hands; President Abraham Lincoln revoked John Fremont's emancipation proclamation for Missouri
(1862) A three day battle at Pea Ridge ended the Confederate military control in Missouri
(1865) Slavery abolished
(1873) Susan Blow opened the first public kindergarten in the United States in St. Louis
(1875) A grasshopper plague in Missouri caused an estimated $15 million worth of damages
(1882) Jesse James killed by Bob Ford in St. Joseph
(1901) First State Fair opened at Sedalia
(1911) State Capitol building completely destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning
(1919) Missouri became the eleventh state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment granting suffrage to women
(1920) Marie Byrum became the first woman to vote in Missouri history
(1922) Mellcene T. Smith and Sarah Lucille Turner became the first women elected to the Missouri state legislature
(1927) Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris
(1931) Bagnell Dam completed, forming the Lake of the Ozarks
(1945) U.S. Vice President Harry S. Truman became President upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1946) Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech on the Westminster College campus in Fulton
(1948) Harry S. Truman elected U.S. President
(1965) The Gateway Arch (Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) was completed in St. Louis
(1968) Race riots occurred in Kansas City after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1992) Missouri voters approved riverboat gambling on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
(1993) The Great Flood of 1993 devastated parts of Missouri and the Midwest
(1995) Scientists, archeologists and descendants gathered in Kearney to dig up Jesse James' grave.
(1996) Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivered a major address at Westminster College in Fulton
(2000) Governor Mel Carnahan, his son and a campaign advisor died in a airplane crash just outside of St. Louis
(2001) John Ashcroft became U.S. Attorney General
 Contact Us | Privacy Statement Copyrighted by Graphic Maps All rights reserved! All maps, graphics, flags and original descriptions created by Graphic Maps, a d/b/a of the Woolwine-Moen Group, unless otherwise noted and/or directly linked to the source, and use of same for any application whatsoever (with the exception of outline maps) requires written permission.
We make no copyright claim on any statistical data on this page, nor on any non-original graphics, and/or pictures not produced by us. Certain statistical data is gathered from the CIA World Factbook, as well as numerous public domain reference materials.
Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible when disseminating information on any worldwide destination. We are not responsible for unintentional data entry errors or omissions. If you would like to submit an addition, change or correction, or suggest a new link, please forward it to our map department and we will give it our immediate attention.
|
|
|
