Missouri History Timeline 1673-1965

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Missouri History Timeline 1673-1965
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1673

• During their voyage down the Mississippi River,
  Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet were
  the first Europeans to set foot on land that
  would later become Missouri.

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1750

• Approximate date of the founding of Ste.
  Genevieve, the first permanent white settlement.

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1764

• City of St. Louis was founded by Pierre Laclede
  Liguest on February 15.

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1803

• The Louisiana Purchase was signed on April 30.

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1804

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from
  St. Louis on May 14

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1811

• The New Madrid Earthquake, the largest earthquake
  ever recorded in the continental United States of
  America, occurred on December 16.

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1817

• The steamboat Zebulon M. Pike, the first
  steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River above
  the mouth of the Ohio River reached St. Louis on
  August 2.

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1820

• Missouris first Constitution was adopted on July
  19.

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1821

• Missouri was admitted as the 24th state on August
  10.

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1826

• Jefferson City was designated Missouris
  permanent seat of government.

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1837

• Missouris first capitol in Jefferson City was
  destroyed by fire on November 15.

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1839

• The University of Missouri, the first state
  university west of the Mississippi River, opened
  April 14.

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1860

• The Pony Express started its first run
  from St. Joseph to Sacramento, California on
  April 3.

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1865

• Slavery was abolished in Missouri by an ordinance
  of immediate emancipation, making Missouri the
  first slave state to emancipate its slaves.

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1866

• The Missouri Historical Society was organized in
  St. Louis on August 11.

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1873

• Susan Blow opened the first public
  kindergarten in the United States in St.
  Louis.

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1874

• The Eads Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River,
  was opened in St. Louis on July 4.

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1882

• Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford in St. Joseph
  on April 3.

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1901

• The first State Fair held at Sedalia opened on
  September 9.

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1904

• The 1904 Worlds Fair opened in St. Louis on
  April 30.

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1911

• Missouri State Capitol was completely
  destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning
  on February 5.

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1927

• Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St.
  Louis" in Paris on May 21.

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1945

• U.S. Vice President Harry S. Truman, from
  Independence, became President upon the death of
  Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12.

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1946

• Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister
  of England, delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech
  at Fultons Westminster College on March 5.

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1965

• The Gateway Arch was completed.

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