missouri history timeline 1673-1965
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Missouri History Timeline 1673-1965. 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. Timeline. 1750. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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16731673During 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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17501750Approximate date of the
founding of Ste. Genevieve, the first
permanent white settlement.
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17641764City of St. Louis was
founded by Pierre Laclede Liguest on
February 15.
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18031803The Louisiana Purchase was signed on April 30.
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18041804The Lewis and Clark
Expedition set out from St. Louis on May 14
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18111811The New Madrid Earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the continental United States of America, occurred on December 16.
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18171817The 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.Timeline
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18201820Missouri’s first
Constitution was adopted on July 19.
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18211821Missouri was admitted as the 24th state on August
10.
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18261826Jefferson City was
designated Missouri’s permanent seat of
government.
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18371837Missouri’s first capitol in
Jefferson City was destroyed by fire on
November 15.
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18391839The University of Missouri, the first state university
west of the Mississippi River, opened April 14.
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18601860The Pony Express started its first run from
St. Joseph to Sacramento, California
on April 3.Timeline
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18651865Slavery was abolished in
Missouri by an ordinance of immediate emancipation, making Missouri the first
slave state to emancipate its slaves.
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18661866The Missouri Historical Society was organized in St. Louis on August
11.
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18731873Susan Blow opened
the first public kindergarten in the
United States in St. Louis.Timeline
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18741874The Eads Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River, was opened in St. Louis on
July 4.
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18821882Jesse James was killed
by Bob Ford in St. Joseph on April 3.
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19011901The first State Fair held at
Sedalia opened on September 9.
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19041904The 1904 World’s Fair opened in St. Louis on
April 30.
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19111911Missouri State Capitol
was completely destroyed by fire after
being struck by lightning on February 5.
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19271927Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St. Louis" in
Paris on May 21.
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19451945U.S. Vice President Harry
S. Truman, from Independence, became
President upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
on April 12.Timeline
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19461946Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of England, delivered his
"Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton’s Westminster College on March 5.
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19651965The Gateway Arch was
completed.
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