History of Oregon

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Facts about the History of Oregon History

• Facts about the History of Oregon History - 1700's

  • The Native Indians of Oregon included the Ahantchuyuk, Alsea, Bannock, Calapooya, Cayuse, Chastacosta, Chetco, Hanis, Kuitsh, Miluk, Modoc, Nez Perce, Shasta, Snake, Takelma, Tillamook, Wallawalla and Yamel tribes. See Native Americans Oregon

  • 1738 - French explorer, Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye (1732-1739 ), lead the first known Euro-American expedition into Oregon
  • 1792 - Claimed by the United States after Captain Robert Gray ( 1755 - 1806 ) explored the mouth of the Columbia River on his ship "the Columbia".
  • 1756 - 1763 - The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
  • 1775 - 1783 - The American Revolution creates the United States of America. The Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes and total power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies
  • July 4, 1776 - United States Declaration of Independence
  • July 10, 1778 - France declares war against Britain and makes an alliance with the American revolutionary forces
  • September 3, 1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United States and the defeated Great Britain

• Facts about the History of Oregon History - The Early 1800's

  • 1812 - 1815 - The War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate but
    confirmed America's Independence

  • 1822-1829 - William H Ashley exploration and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific
  • 1824 - Alexander Ross was the leader of the Hudson's Bay Company's 1824 trapping expedition into Snake Country during the fur trade era in Shoshone country
  • 1828 - Peter Skene Ogden (1794-1854) working for the Hudson's Bay Company led five trapping expeditions to the "Snake Country" between 1828-1829
  • 1829 - 1830 William Lewis Sublette (1799–1845) took the first wagon trains along the route (Oregon Trail) to the Rocky Mountains
  • 1830 - John Work, a trader of the Hudson's Bay Company part of the trapping expedition to the Snake Country
  • 1832 and 1834 - Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth organized and led two expeditions to the fur country. He was accompanied by John Kirk Townsend a young ornithologist, and Thomas Nuttall, a botanist on his second expedition
  • 1842 Joseph and Louis Papin were the first white settlers in Topeka. They established
    Papin's Ferry which ferried the wagons across the Kansas River
  • 1846 - The Applegate Trail - Was blazed by brothers Lindsay, Jesse, and Charles Applegate as an alternative route to Oregon
  • 1848 Fort Kearny was established
  • 1849 - Gold discovered in California causing the Oregon Trail to be labelled the California Trail by California-bound travellers
• Facts about the History of Oregon History - The American Civil War

  • 1861 - 1865 The American Civil War. In 1859 John Brown raided Harpers Ferry and set in
    motion events that led directly to the outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a
    known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861 the South Secedes. The
    initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida,
    Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
    These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. The
    bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
    The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy

  • 1865 December 6 - The Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution is ratified, thus officially abolishing slavery
  • 1872-73 - Modoc War - Kientpoos, known to the settlers as Captain Jack, and his Modocs fled from their reservation to Tule Lake, where they held out against soldiers for six months. Captain Jack was hanged
  • 1898-1901 The Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
• Origin of the name - The name of this state is believed to come from the Spanish word "oregano" for the wild sage which grows in eastern Oregon

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