GLCEventFirst European VisitorsټCNoteDuring 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 Missouriyhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline1.html Taken from the Internet, August 17, 2001.Iron Mining BeginsThe discovery and mining of Galena shaped the development of Missouri starting in 1701 near Potosi. 19 years later another deposit was found in the area of La Motte. The Mining of the ore brought many French to the area looking for a new home. Ore is still a major industry. ^http://www.gocampingamerica.com/missouri/facts.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001. First Permanent White Settlement*Ste. GenevieveApproximate date of the founding of Ste. Genevieve, the first permanent white settlement The city of Ste. Genevieve was incorporated June 18, 1808.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline1.html Taken from the Internet, August 17, 2001.St. Louis Founded> St. LouisEPierre Laclede Liguest and Rene August Chouteau found St. Louis. http://www.nps.gov/jeff/history.htm#earlyyears and http://www.bartleby.com/65/mi/Missouri.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Daniel Boon Comes to MissouripFemme Osage CreekDaniel Boone, having received a grant of 850 acres, and relatives move to the Femme Osage District (now St. Charles County, Missouri). In 1800, the Spanish governor appoints Boone "syndic" (judge and jury) and commandant of the Femme Osage region. lhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7109/BooneTimeline.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Lewis and Clark Expeditionw7The Lewis and Clark Expedition sets out from St. Louis.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline2.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.First Newspaper in Missourit} St. LouisOJoseph Charless founded the first newspaper in Missouri, the "Missouri Gazette"http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline2.html Taken from the Internet, August 17, 2001. and http://www.rootsweb.com/~modunkl2/mo-time/mo--time.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Missouri Fur Company Organized~ St. LouisThe abundance of animal pelts in the Mississippi Valley region played a key role in the development of the Upper Louisiana territory. Prominent members of the Company included fur trader Manuel Lisa, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, and William Clark.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline2.html Taken from the Internet, August 17, 2001.Missouri Territory Organized)]http://www.gocampingamerica.com/missouri/facts.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Becomes a State)NThe Missouri statehood controversy became a national issue as the issue of slavery was debated. The "Missouri Compromise" allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus keeping the balance of slave and free states equal in Congress. Although Missouri was allowed to enter as a slave state, the remaining portion of the Louisiana Purchase area north of the 36 30' line was to be forever free of slavery. President James Monroe admitted Missouri as the 24th state; the state capitol was located in St. Charles until a permanent location was designated.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline3.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.American Fur Company St. LouisAn alliance made in 1821 with the Chouteau interests of St. Louis gave the company a monopoly of the trade in the Missouri River regionbhttp://www.slider.com/enc/2000/American_Fur_Company.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Mormons EvictedGovernor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Extermination Order" against Mormons living in Missouri, demanding that members of the Mormon church leave the state.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline4.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Missouri University FoundedLhttp://www.bocomo.org/umcfound.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.The Legend of Jesse JamesUJesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. Within a year of the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse are believed to have pulled off the first daylight bankrobbery in peace time. They made off with $60,000 from the Liberty, Mo. bank not far from their home, and one man was killed. For the next 15 years, the James boys roamed throughout the U.S. robbing trains and banks of their gold, building a legend that was to live more than a century after Jesse's death. A $10,000 bounty on his head was too great an incentive for gang members Bob and Charlie Ford. Bob Ford shot Jesse. He and his brother attempted to claim the reward. They were later charged with murder, found guilty, and later pardoned. Vhttp://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/jesjames.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Kansas-Nebraska Act}President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the notion of "popular sovereignty" in determining if a territory would be a slave state or a free state. This act set the stage for the violent Kansas-Missouri border wars where the Missouri "Border Ruffians" and the Kansas "Jayhawkers" transformed a frontier quarrel over slaverys borders into a national issue.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline5.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Braille Introduced St. LouisVThe first American institution to adopt Braille was the Missouri School for the Blind.Phttp://www.brailler.com/braillehx.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.The Pony ExpressM St. JosephThe Pony Express began as the towns people gathered in front of the pikes peak stable at 9th and Penn street to watch the big event. It had been said that it began in the morning when actually it began in the evening at approximently 7:00p.m. It has not been proven if Johnny Fry or Billie Richardson was the first rider to leave that night. The Pony Express was the first connecting link betwwen the east and west in the U.S. \http://www.ahistoricmissouri.com/article1007.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.American Civil WarlE]eIn the beginning, Missouri voted to remain neutral. On Oct. 28, 1861 Missouris "Rebel Legislature" adopted an Act of Secession. On Jan. 11, 1865 slavery was abolished in Missouri by an ordinance of immediate emancipation, making Missouri the first slave state to emancipate its slaves before the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution . http://www.us-civilwar.com/ Taken from the Internet July 3, 2001. and http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline6.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Gateway Arch Completed St. LouisThe Gateway Arch (Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) designed by Eero Saarinen was completed. Located on the original settlement site of St. Louis, it symbolizes the role of St. Louis in the development of the western frontier.zhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline11.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Laura Ingalls Wilder}QWhile not born in Missouri, Laura Ingalls Wilder began her writing career as a resident of Rocky Ridge Farm, near Mansfield. She wrote about male unrest and female patience of pioneers in the mid-1800s and celebrated their peculiarly American spirit and independence. Little House in the Big Woods was published in 1932, when she was 65. The book was well received and she expanded it into a series. Mhttp://www.umkc.edu/imc/wilder.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.(Missouri Womans Suffrage Club Organizedl St. LouisThe Missouri Womans Suffrage Club was organized in St. Louis; the sole purpose of this organization was the political enfranchisement of women, the first such organization in the United States.yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline6.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Ragtime EmergesISedaliaRScott Joplin led in the development of a music genre now known as ragtime. In the late 1890s, Joplin worked at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, which provided the title for his best known composition, the Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899. This was followed a few years later by The Entertainer, another well known Joplin composition. Yhttp://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/45_SJoplin.htm Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001."World's First School of Journalism ColumbiaSThe University of Missouri at Columbia opens the world's first school of journalismIhttp://www.jour.missouri.edu/ Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Capital Destroyed by Fire_1911 Missouri State Capitol was completely destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning. yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline9.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Suffrage Granted to WomenbMissouri became the eleventh state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment granting suffrage to women .yhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline9.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Lloyd Gaines Case7The United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Lloyd Gaines case. The court struck a blow to Missouris "separate but equal" laws, stating that in the absence of an equal law school for black students, Gaines should be admitted to the University of Missouri law school.zhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline10.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.Desegregation of SchoolsrCourt-ordered desegregation began in Missouri, attempting to alleviate the racial isolation of black students. The court determined that the State of Missouri was required to pay half of the cost of school desegregation plans; numerous legal issues arose.zhttp://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/education/timeline/timeline11.html Taken from the Internet, August 19, 2001.