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(1543) Spanish explorer Bartolome Ferrello traveled along Oregon and Washington coastlines
(1579) Sir Francis Drake visited Oregon
(1765) First use of name "Ouragon" by Maj. Robert Rogers
(1778) Capt. Cook began fur trade on coast
(1792) Capt. Robert Gray traveled and named Columbia River
(1805) Lewis and Clark Expedition explored Snake and Columbia Rivers; established Fort Clatsop
(1811) John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company established Fort Astoria, first permanent white settlement in Oregon
(1818) U.S. and Great Britian agreed to Joint-Occupancy Treaty
(1819) Treaty with Spain set southern bounday of Oregon
(1827) Second Joint-Occupancy Treaty with Great Britian
(1843) First group of 900 emigrants arrived via Oregon Trail
(1847) Cayuse Indian War; Whitman massacre
(1848) Oregon Territory established
(1859) Oregon became 33rd state
(1861) Flood in Albany, water 36 feet higher than normal
(1869) Union and Central Pacific Railroads connected
(1872) Modoc Indian War
(1873) Great fire in Portland destroyed most of town
(1877) Nez Perce Indian war
(1878) Bannock-Paiute Indian war
(1885) Chief Joseph's Nez Perce tribes relocated to Colville Reservation
(1911) Oregon first U.S. state to hold primary elections
(1933) Tillamook Burn destroyed over 240,000 acres of forest
(1935) Fire destroyed state capitol building
(1936) Fire in Bandon killed eleven and destroyed the town
(1937) Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project on Columbia River completed
(1939) Tillamook Burn destroyed 190,000 acres of forest; rebuild of state capitol completed
(1942) Japanese submarine shells Fort Steves during World War II; Japanese airplane firebombed Siskiyou National Forest
(1945) Tillamook Burn destroyed 180,000 acres of forest
(1947) Plane crash killed Governor Snell, secretary of state, Farrell, and others
(1960) Maurine Neuberger, first woman Oregon senator, elected
(1964) Death penalty abolished
(1966) Astoria Bridge completed linking Oregon and Washington
(1978) Death penalty reinstated
(1984) Voters ratified Oregon lottery
(1991) Barbara Roberts elected, first woman governor
(2002) Record forest fire season burned 1,000,000 acres
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