GLCEventFirst Permanent SettlementSault Ste. MarieCNote)Father Jacques Marquette was the founder.phttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/FrenchEra2.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Detroit Founded by the FrenchAntoine de la Mothe Cadillac establishes a French settlement. Cadillac has convinced King Louis XIV's chief minister, Count Pontchartrain, that a permanent community at present-day Detroit will strengthen French control over the upper Great Lakes and repel British advances.jhttp://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michinfo/briefhis/index.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.Control Passes to the British9DetroitAt the end of the French and Indian War, the French formally surrendered Detroit to British Major Robert Rogers, thus ending almost a century and a half of French rule in Michigan.phttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/FrenchEra2.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Pontiac's Rebellion@="Encouraged by the French who remained in the region, Pontiac and leaders of other tribes across the interior devised a plan to oust the British. Pontiac was the architect of the plan in Michigan." Detroit, Pitt and Niagra survived the attacks.nhttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/BritEra3.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.American RevolutionO ZThe 1783 Treaty of Paris signified the end of the American Revolution and stipulated an international boundary for the United States that included Michigan. However, it would be thirteen years before the British would relinquish their control of the area. http://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/BritEra3.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001 and http://webpages.homestead.com/revwar/files/INDEX.HTM Taken from the Internet, July 3, 2001The Northwest Ordinance~_zThis ordinance defines the procedure for obtaining statehood in the Northwest Territory, of which Michigan is a part. ehttp://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/publications/miinbrief.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.First Permanent Trading PostwAdaeThe trading post is founded near present-day Ada by Madeline LaFramboise and her husband Joseph. Yhttp://leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwchron.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Michigan Becomes a TerritoryxNThe structure of government was determined by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.rhttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/asterritory4.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001. War of 1812)The British quickly took control of Michigan. However, American victories on Lake Erie and on the Thames River led to the British abandonment of Detroit for the final time in September 1813. After the war, federal surveyors commissioned to survey the interior of Michigan and secure lands to compensate those who had fought in the war effectively dismissed Michigan as uninhabitable because of swamplands.rhttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/asterritory4.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Treaty of Saginaw%The Treaty of Saginaw cedes nearly 6 million acres of Indian lands to Michigan settlers. Land cecessation contimue until by 1842, Indian title to all lands within the state's boundaries had been relinquished.http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/publications/miinbrief.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001 and Catton, Bruce. Michigan: A Bicentennial History. New York: WW Norton, 1976. p. 69.!Logan Female Anti-Slavery SocietyLenawee CountyLaura Smith Haviland and Elizabeth Margaret Chandler found the first women's anti-slavery society in the Michigan territory, leading to one of the first Michigan stations of the Underground Railroad to Canada. Yhttp://leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwchron.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001. Toledo WarThe dispute over the Michigan-Ohio boundary slowed Michigan's entry into the Union. At stake was a 468-square-mile strip of land acknowledged to be Michigans. People living in the area voted in Michigan elections and were governed by Michigan laws. The admission of Ohio as a state in 1803 enabled Ohio to exercise authority over the disputed territory and have a stronger voice through the Ohio congressional delegation. Eventually, Congress proposed the compromise that gave the Toledo Strip to Ohio and the western four-fifths of the Upper Peninsula to Michigan. Once this was finally settled, Michigan was able to proceed toward statehood.ohttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/statehood5.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Becomes a State9+Michigan became the twenty-sixth state. phttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/statehood5.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Capital Punishment AbolishedCapital punishment was abolished in the wake of a highly publicized hanging in neighboring Ontario in which, it was later proved, an innocent man had been executed. Michigan became the first English-speaking jurisdiction to outlaw capital punishment.vhttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/refpol&civilwar6.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Great Railroad ConspiracyͺAs railroads moved into rural areas of Michigan, farmers grew concerned about live stock, which were often killed. During this "conspiracy", farmers stopped and derailed trains.phttp://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/buildecon7.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Sault Ste. Marie LockszThe passage of the steamer, Illinois, through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie marks the opening of unobstructed shipping between Lakes Superior and Huron. The Sault locks provide new impetus to Michigan's fledgling mining industry.jhttp://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michinfo/briefhis/index.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.American Civil WarljOn May 16, 1861, the First Michigan Infantry arrived in Washington, the first regiment from the western states to heed President Lincolns call for troops. A tearful Lincoln was reported to have exclaimed upon the arrival of the Michigan troops, "Thank God for Michigan." Michigan men fought in virtually all of the major campaigns and battles of the Civil War.http://documents.michiganlegislature.org/manual/Chap1/refpol&civilwar6.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001 and http://www.us-civilwar.com/ Taken from the Internet July 3, 2001.)Women Taxpayers get Limited Voting RightsThe Michigan Legislature grants women taxpayers the right to vote for school trustees but rejects total woman suffrage. In 1868, 120 women vote unchallenged in the Sturgis school elections. Yhttp://leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwchron.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.,University of Michigan First to Accept WomenMadelon Louisa Stockwell of Albion is the first woman admitted to the University of Michigan, the first university to admit women. The University of Michigan medical school also accepts its first women students. Yhttp://leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwchron.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.The Real McCoy2Elijah J. McCoy, a black inventor raised in Ypsilanti, patented the first automatic lubrication system for locomotives and other machinery. The device was so effective it was difficult to sell imitations that were not "the real McCoy"; McCoy's name became synonymous with anything genuine or authentic. \http://www.sos.state.mi.us/miweek/michfirsts.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.Women Can VotedbMichigan male voters approve a state constitutional amendment granting suffrage to Michigan women.Yhttp://leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwchron.html Taken from the Internet, August 26, 2001.Sit-Down Strike4FlintuThe strike is a reaction to worsening unemployment and working conditions in the early 1930s, as well as a result of autoworkers' increased interest in union representation. "Despite charges of low wages and degrading working conditions, GMC has refused to recognize a single union as the worker's sole representative. The Flint sit-down strike ends in early February when GMC agrees to recognition and other demands. Other auto manufacturers soon recognize the UAW, but the Ford Motor Company will hold out until May 1941. Nevertheless, the Flint sit-down strike makes Michigan one of the nation's most powerful union states." jhttp://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michinfo/briefhis/index.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.B-24 Bombers for WW II< YpsilantiThe first B-24 bomber rolls off the assembly line at the Willow Run Bomber Plant near Ypsilanti. By early 1944 bombers will come off Willow Run's mile-long assembly line at the rate of one an hour.jhttp://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michinfo/briefhis/index.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.Mackinac Bridge OpensRThe Mackinac Bridge, connecting Michigan's two peninsulas, opens. The project began in May 1954. The bridge's central span, 3,800 feet between the towers, is the third largest such span in the world. The length between anchorages is 8,614 feet, making it the world's longest suspension bridge at this time. By 1989, two million vehicles annually will cross the bridge, and every Labor Day thousands of people will walk across the 26,444-foot-long structure. jhttp://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michinfo/briefhis/index.html Taken from the Internet, August 27, 2001.