September, 1836 six other Frenchmen ascend the Missis- and the Sacs and Foxes; Indians sell to sippi from the mouth of the Illinois to United States the Keokuk reserve, 256,the falls of St. Anthony, leaving Fort 000 acres, at 75 cents per acre Crevecœur, Ill................. .. Feb. 28, 1680 Wife of Peosta, a Fox warrior, discovers lead in Iowa, on the west bank of the Mississippi.... Burlington, settled in 1833, is incorporated ....1837 ....1780 Treaty with the Sacs and Foxes extends the western boundary of the Black Hawk purchase in lat. 45° 40′ to include the principal sources of the Iowa River At a council at Prairie du Chien, Julien Dubuque, a French-Canadian trader, obtains from Indians permission to work leadmines at the place now bearing his name and a grant of 140,000 acres of land..... .1788 Land grant to Julien Dubuque by Indians is confirmed by Baron Carondelet, and a King's title issued..... ....1796 Lands on both sides of the Mississippi, including a large part of Iowa, ceded to United States by Sac and Fox Indians, by treaty at St. Louis......Nov. 3, 1804 Territory of Louisiana, including Iowa, framed by law of........March 3, 1805 Iowa included in Territory of Missouri, erected by act..... ...June 4, 1812 Fort Madison, built in 1808, on the site selected by Lieutenant Pike in 1805, is abandoned by the garrison and burned to prevent its falling into the hands of Indians and British.. ..1813 Oct. 21, 1837 Territory of Iowa erected, including all Wisconsin west of the Mississippi June 12, 1838 Territorial government inaugurated at Burlington..... .....July 4, 1838 Black Hawk, who had settled on the Des Moines River, dies.......Oct. 3, 1838 Seat of government removed to Iowa City ....1839 Boundary disputes between Missouri and Iowa cause fighting on the border; one Iowan is killed in resisting the Missouri sheriff's collection of taxes....1839 Constitution adopted by a convention which meets at Iowa City Oct. 7, 1844 Nov. 1, 1844 Enabling act for Iowa approved March 3, 1845 Boundary defined in the enabling act rejected by the people; 7,235 for, and 7,656 against.... ..1845 Mormons remove from Nauvoo, Ill., and settle at Council Bluffs... .1846 Constitution framed by a convention at Iowa City May 4-May 19, 1846, is ratified by a vote of the people, 9,492 to 9,036.... .Aug. 3, 1846 Sioux annihilate Sac and Fox tribes near Dubuque; whites occupy deserted villages, but are driven out by United States troops under Lieut. Jefferson Davis, by order of Col. Zachary Taylor....1830 David Tothers makes the first settlement in Des Moines county, 3 miles southwest from the site of Burlington....1832 Treaty at Rock Island; the Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States Iowa and a part of Wisconsin, known as the Black Hawk purchase, reserving 40 miles square to Keokuk... ..Sept. 21, 1832 Zachariah Hawkins, Berryman Jennings, and others settle a colony at Fort Madison First permanent settlement in Scott Davenport for the Mississippi and Miscounty by Antoine le Claire.. 1833 souri Railroad, now the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific......... Sept. 1, 1853 The Collegiate Institute at Mount Pleasant, chartered in 1844, becomes the Iowa Wesleyan University......... 1855 Dubuque founded..... .1832 .1833 Iowa included in Territory of Michigan, erected by act approved....June 28, 1834 Aaron Street founds Salem, first Quaker settlement in Iowa.. ..1834 Iowa included in Territory of Wisconsin, erected by act approved. April 20, 1836 Treaty at East Davenport between Governor Dodge, United States commissioner, Act of Congress, fixing boundaries for Massacre of white settlers at Spirit Lake by a predatory band of Indians under the Sioux chief Ink-pa-duta March, 1857 Constitutional convention meets at Iowa City Jan. 19, 1857, completes its labors March 6, 1857; constitution ratified by the people, 40,311 to 38,681. Aug. 3, 1857 State capital removed to Des Moines 1857 State University of Iowa at Iowa City, chartered 1847, opened, Silas Totten president .1860 State board of health organized 1880 Drake University at Des Moines opened and chartered... ..1881 Samuel J. Kirkland appointed Secretary of the Interior.. March, 1881 Prohibitory liquor law goes into effect July 4, 1884 State capitol dedicated; cost $3,000,000 1884 Frank Hatton appointed PostmasterGeneral.. ..Oct. 14, 1884 Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown opened Nov. 30, 1884 Lower house of legislature assembles, Jan. 13, 1890, having two factions, the Republicans with fifty votes, and the combined Democratic, Union Labor, and Independent with fifty votes; no organization until Jan. 27; by compromise, a Democratic temporary speaker and a Republican clerk are elected; permanent organization with a Democratic speaker and Republican clerk, minor offices divided Legislature votes a war loan of $600,000 ($300,000 negotiated). .....June, 1861 Upper Iowa University at Fayette, opened 1857, chartered..... .1862 James Harlan appointed Secretary of the Interior...... .May 15, 1865 Legislature ratifies Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution...... January, 1866 Legislature ratifies Fourteenth Amendment to Constitution...... April 3, 1868 An amendment to the State constitution, striking out the word "white" from the qualifications of electors, is adopted Horace Boies, Democrat, inaugurated by a vote of the people, 105,384 to 81,- as governor.... . Feb. 27, 1890 ..1868 Legal rate of interest reduced from 10 created to 8 per cent., and the first Monday in Sep.1869 tember (Labor Day) made a public holAmes, iday..... ...1890 119 State board of immigration by act of legislature.... .1869 Iowa Agricultural College at chartered 1857, opened... William W. Belknap appointed Secretary of War... .Oct. 25, 1869 Legislature ratifies Fifteenth Amendment to Constitution........ Feb. 3, 1870 Corner-stone of new capitol laid Nov. 22, 1871 Law passed restricting sale of liquors and limiting licensees' profit to 33 per cent...... 1872 Act passed abolishing penalty of death 1872 State convention of Patrons of Husbandry at Des Moines...... January, 1873 Governor Kirkwood, elected United States Senator, resigns, and is succeeded by Joshua G. Newbold Feb. 19, 1890 Beer sent in sealed kegs from Peoria, Ill., to Keokuk, Ia., and there sold in "original packages" by agents, being seized under the prohibitory laws of the State, the Supreme Court decides such seizure was in violation of the clause of the Constitution giving to the United States the exclusive right to regulate inter-State commerce... ..April 28, 1890 Wilson "original package bill," as amended, making all intoxicating liquors imported into a State subject to its laws, passes Congress and is approved Aug. 8, 1890 Legislature passes an Australian ballot reform act.... ...1892 Cyclone in the northwest part of the January, 1876 State, Pomeroy destroyed, 900 persons Geo. W. McCrary appointed Secretary homeless.... ..July 6, 1893 of War.. .....March 12, 1877 Medical practice act declared constiCanal around Des Moines Rapids at tutional... ...1893 Keokuk, 71⁄2 miles long, and costing Torpedo boat Ericsson launched at $4,500,000, is formally opened.. Aug., 1877 Duquesne... May 12, 1894 Bill abolishing capital punishment re- [This was the first war-ship built on .1878 inland waters.] pealed Memorial Military College at Mason Amendment for a constitutional convenCity, established.... tion defeated...... . November, 1900 Senators Allison and Dolliver re-elected Jan. 23, 1902 sion ..1900 Creation of a State library commis1900 KANSAS Kansas, Alaska excluded, is geograph- expedition to the Paduca (Comanche) ically the central State of the United States, lying between lat. 37° and 40° N., and long. 94° 38′ and 102° W. It is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Indian Territory and Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west. Area, 81,700 square miles in 105 counties. Population in 1890, 1,427,096; 1900, 1,470,495. Capital, Topeka. Indians in June, 1724, but, falling sick on the way, returns to the fort, on an island in the Missouri River, just above the mouth of the Osage. He resumed the journey in October, taking with him an escort of twelve Frenchmen, his son, a lad of ten, and twenty-seven Indians from the neighboring tribes. The expedition entered Kansas at the Kaw Indian village, then situated near the present site of Atchison, moved in a southwesterly di Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with a force of 350 Spaniards and 800 Indians, set out from Culiacan on the southeast rection across Kansas for about 230 miles shore of the Gulf of California in search to the nearest village of the Paducas, made of Quivira. He travelled northerly to the a satisfactory treaty, and returned to headwaters of the river Gila, crossed the Fort Orleans... ...Oct. 5, 1724 mountains to the headwaters of the Rio Included in the Louisiana Territory purdel Norte, and followed them to their chase of France.... . 1803 sources, then, journeying northeasterly, Congress divides Louisiana into two came into the province of Quivira (Kan- unequal parts, the one north of lat. 33° N., sas), reaching, as he said, the fortieth called the district of Louisiana, under degree of latitude. He described the earth the governor of Indiana Territory as black and well watered, the best possible for all kinds of productions of Spain, and the plains full of crooked-back oxen, but he found no gold or silver, and returned in..... .September, 1541 French explore the Missouri River as far as the mouth of the Kansas River 1705 M. Dutisne, a young French officer, sent out by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, reaches the Pawnee country in Kansas, and, erecting a cross of wood, takes formal possession in the name of the King of France.. .Sept. 27, 1719 [It is now supposed that Dutisne did not come into Kansas, but visited the Osages in Missouri and the Pawnees in the Indian Territory.] March 26, 1804 Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for the Pacific, under government authority, and find remains of an old French fort near the present site of Atchison May, 1804 District of Louisiana made the Territory of Louisiana.. ...March 3, 1805 Zebulon M. Pike, at the village of the Pawnee republic, causes the Spanish flag to be lowered and the flag of the United States to be raised (State legislature in 1901 marks the site with a granite shaft) Sept. 29, 1806 Territory of Louisiana admitted to the second grade of government as Missouri Territory.. ...June 4, 1812 First steamboat, a stern-wheeler, called the Western Engineer, passes up the Missouri River, carrying Maj. S. H. Long on an expedition up the Yellowstone....1819 Spaniards from Santa Fé, seeking to found a colony on the Missouri, are destroyed by the Missouri Indians near the present site of Fort Leavenworth, only one Section 8 of act for admission of Missettler, a Spanish priest, escaping and souri into the Union provides that in all returning to Santa Fé. ...1720 Louisiana, north of lat. 36° 30', and not M. de Bourgmont, commandant at Fort included in the State, slavery "shall be Orleans, Mo., undertakes a commercial and is hereby forever prohibited," but runaway slaves may be lawfully reclaim ed. Act passed...... .March 6, 1820 Major Sibley, appointed under act of Congress, surveys a wagon-road from Missouri through Kansas to Santa Fé..1825 By treaty with Osage Indians the tribe locate on a tract of 7,564,000 acres in south Kansas, watered by the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho rivers Dec. 30, 1825 Fort Leavenworth, called a cantonment until 1832, established and United States troops stationed there... ...1827 Treaty with the Delaware Indians, locates them in the fork of the Kansas and Missouri rivers........Sept. 24, 1829 is now Wyandotte county, in July, and remove to permanent location purchased from the Delawares in the forks of the Kansas and Missouri rivers December, 1843 Kansas Indians cede to the United States 2,000,000 acres in Kansas Jan. 14, 1846 Gen. S. W. Kearny marches from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fé...........1846 Mormon battalion leaves Fort Leavenworth in the employ of the United States for service in the Mexican War August, 1847 Military road built by the government from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny 1850 Fort Riley, near junction of Republican and Kansas rivers, established under name of Camp Centre in the fall of..1852 Baptist Shawnee mission (Rev. Johnston Lykins and wife, resident missionaries) established 4 miles west of the Missouri line under Rev. Isaac McCoy; also appointed agent by the government for Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, introduces colonizing the eastern Indians within the a bill to organize the Territory of Platte Territory.. .1831 (Kansas and Nebraska)... Dec. 13, 1852 Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, soon after incorporated as the New England Emigrant Aid Company, organized ...1831-32 in Boston.... March, 1854 Indian tribes located in Kansas, including the Shawnees, Ottawas, the Kickapoos, Kaskaskias, Peorias, Piankeshaws, and Weas.... First printing-press brought to Kansas by Rev. Jotham Meeker, set up at the Shawnee Baptist Mission in Johnson county, fall of... .1833 First stock of goods landed below Kansas City, at Francis Chouteau's log warehouse.. ...1834 Congress makes all United States territory west of the Mississippi not in the States of Missouri and Louisiana or Territory of Arkansas “Indian country دو Delawares, Shawnees, Iowas, and Kickapoos cede lands in Kansas to the United States..... ...May, 1854 Act of Congress passed organizing the Territory of Kansas, to be admitted as a State with or without slavery May 30, 1854 Thirty-two persons associate in Weston, Mo., to lay out Leavenworth, the first city in the Territory........June 13, 1854 A meeting at Weston, Mo., resolves to remove any and all emigrants coming to Kansas under the auspices of the Northern emigrant aid societies..July 20, 1854 Atchison Town Company formed in Missouri.... ..July 27, 1854 Emigrants under Charles H. Branscomb, of Massachusetts, sent out by emigrant aid company to Kansas as an anti-slavery colony, settle at Lawrence....Aug. 1, 1854 June 30, 1834 Col. Henry Dodge, U. S. A., makes an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, leaving Fort Leavenworth May 29, and returning along the line where the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad now runs 1835 Fort Scott established on the Marmaton River..... ...April 9, 1842 Lieut. John C. Frémont, in his expedition west from St. Louis, reaches site of Lawrence, June 12; Topeka, June 14; and thence travels northwest to the Blue and Platte rivers..... ......1842 Frémont passes up the Kansas River on a second expedition... ...1843 Wyandottes remove from Ohio, encamp Samuel D. Lecompte, of Maryland, comon the east bank of the Kansas, in what missioned chief-justice......Oct. 3, 1854 First newspaper in Kansas, the Leavenworth Herald, pro-slavery, printed under an elm-tree on the levee at Leavenworth..... ...Sept. 15, 1854 Atchison laid out by an association from Platte county, Mo., and first sale of lots takes place... .....Sept. 21, 1854 Andrew H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, ap- notice of his removal, and Secretary Woodpointed governor, arrives in the Territory son becomes acting governor Oct. 7, 1854 Secret societies called Blue Lodges begin in Weston, Mo., for extending slavery into Kansas... ...October, 1854 Election as territorial delegate to Congress of J. W. Whitfield, pro-slavery, by illegal votes.... .Nov. 29, 1854 .Dec. 5, 1854 Topeka founded... A free-State meeting at Lawrence Dec. 23, 1854 Wyandotte Indians cede to the United States lands purchased by them from the Delawares in Kansas in 1843 Jan. 31, 1855 First census completed: total, 8,501; voters, 2,905; slaves, 192.... Feb. 28, 1855 Five sons of old John Brown settle on the Pottawattomie, near Osawatomie February, 1855 About 1,000 Missourians enter Lawrence with arms, and vote for members of the legislature.. ...March 30, 1855 Manhattan located. .. April 4, 1855 Cole McCrea, a free-State man, kills Malcom Clark, pro-slavery, at Leavenworth..... ..April 30, 1855 William Phillips, of Leavenworth, protesting against election frauds, is taken to Weston, Mo., tarred and feathered, and ridden on a rail. The outrage approved by the pro-slavery party.....May 17, 1855 At a free-State convention at Lawrence it was Resolved, that in reply to the threats of war so frequently made in our neighboring State, our answer is, 'We are ready ..June 8, 1855 Convention of National Democracy at Lawrence. .June 27, 1855 State legislature meets at Pawnee, and at once drives out the free-State members.... ..July 2, 1855 Legislature, overriding Governor Reeder's veto, removes the seat of government to the Shawnee Manual Labor School July 6, 1855 Governor Reeder, charged with irregularities in the purchase of Indian lands by W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State, June 11, is removed, and John L. Dawson appointed, who declines to serve Aug. 10, 1855 Rev. Pardee Butler, free-State man, set adrift on a raft in the Missouri River at Atchison for preaching anti-slavery doctrine (on his return the following April he was stripped, tarred, and covered with cotton)..... ....Aug. 16, 1855 Delegates elected by a free-State convention at Lawrence, Aug. 14, which repudiated the acts of the State legislature, assemble at Big Springs, and appoint delegates to a convention at Topeka, Sept. 19, to draw up a State constitution and seek admission to the Union Sept. 5, 1855 Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, takes oath of office as governor.... .Sept. 7, 1855 Convention at Topeka to take measures to form a free-State constitution and government... .Sept. 19, 1855 Free-State men take no part in the election of Gen. J. W. Whitfield, delegate to Congress.. ...Oct. 1, 1855 Pro-slavery party meet at Leavenworth, ask the "lovers of law and order" to obey the laws of the first legislature, and declare it treason to oppose them Oct. 3, 1855 Free-State party elect A. H. Reeder delegate to Congress... .Oct. 9, 1855 Free-State constitutional convention meets at Topeka, James H. Lane president..... ...Oct. 23, 1855 Charles W. Dow is killed by Franklin N. Coleman, pro-slavery man, near Lawrence, on the 21st. Free-State men meet at the scene on the 22d, and Sheriff Samuel J. Jones arrests Jacob Branson, with whom Dow had lived, for taking part. At Blanton, Branson is released by free-State men. A meeting is held at Lawrence, and Branson addresses the people. Fearing a mob from Missouri, citizens are armed November, 1855 Governor Shannon orders Maj.-Gen. William P. Richardson of the territorial militia to collect as large a force as possible and report to Sheriff Jones Nov. 27, 1855 About 800 free-State men enlist at Law. July 31, 1855 rence, among them John Brown and four Legislature selects Lecompton as per- sons, and about 1,500 Missourians gather manent capitol... ..Aug. 8, 1855 at Franklin, near the mouth of the WakaGovernor Reeder announces receipt of rusa... ...Nov. 29, 1855 |