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1700s - Indian trade routes across the continent
1720s - 1800 Indian migrations
1727 - 1780s French expeditions
1742 - Verendrye explores the West to the Rocky Mountains
1763 - King George III and the frontier
1769 - Spanish establish presidio at San Diego Bay
1773 - Mackintosh reaches Mandan Villages
1776 - Dutch first to recognize the new American republic
1776 - Spanish establish presidio at San Francisco
1778 - Captain Cook drops anchor in Coos Bay
1780s-1820s - Tribal migrations
1787 - David Thompson at Mandan Villages
1797 - 1830s - Trade in Indian Counry
1797 - Cherokee land boundaries established
1797 - Thompson returns to Knife River villages
1800 - France reclaims Louisiana from Spain
1819 - Tribal Migrations
1820 - 'National Completeness'
1820 - Tribal migrations in Missouri
1821 - Opening the Santa Fe Trail
1824 - Blazing the Oregon Trail
1824 - Bridger 'discovers' the Great Salt Lake
1824 - South Pass discovered
1826 - Establishing Indian Territory
1826 - Indian land cessions
1827 - Independence, Missouri, established
1830s - Indian Territory land bridge
1831 - Alexis de Tocqueville in America
1832 - Steamboats on the Missouri
1834 - Fort William (Fort Laramie) built by Sublette
1835 - Fitzpatrick and Bridger buy Fort William
1836 - Fitzpatrick opens Oregon Trail
1836 - Whitmans establish mission in Oregon Territory
1838 - Cherokee Trail of Tears
1843 - Audubon visits Mandan Villages
1843 - Bridger builds trading post on Oregon Trail
1844 - Father DeSmet arrives in the Willamette Valley
1845 - Kearney expedition
1845 - Mandan/Hidatsa establish Like-a-Fishook Village
1846 - Dispute settled over Oregon territory
1847 - Bridger guides Mormons to Utah
1847 - Whitmans killed at mission in Walla Walla
1849 - Fort Hall founded on the Snake River
1849 - United States buys Fort Laramie
1864 - Gold discovered in Montana territory
1867 - Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek
1868 - 1876 Black Hills
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo

Events / Landmarks

1095 - Council of Clermont
1100-1150 - Mandan migration up the Missouri River
1198 - Lothario dei Conti becomes Pope Innocent III
1200-1250 Mandans settle in the upper Missouri
1243-1254 Pope Innocent IV
1430s - Portugal establishes colonies in Africa
1450 - 1500 Mandan's established on Missouri
1492 - Columbus sails to America
1493 - Pope Alexander VI grants license of conqest to Spain
1495 - Syphilis introduced into Europe
1500 - Hidatsa reach the Missouri
1500-1600 Bridging the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment
1502 - Naming America
1532 - Jacque Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence
1536 - Cabeza de Vaca treks across America
1540 - Spain claims California
1579 - Drake explores California dn Oregon coasts
1600 - Mandans, Hidatsa, thrive on the Upper Missouri
1603 - Columbia River first seen by Europeans
1604 - Treaty between Spain and England
1606 - Virginia Company established in London
1613 - Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
1632 - John Locke born
1670 - Hudson Bay Company founded
1689 - Locke publishes Second Treatise on Government
1706 - Benjamin Franklin born in Boston
1718 - Delisle publishes map of Louisiana
1727 - 1780s French expeditions
1738 - Sieur de la Verendrye first European to visit Mandan Villages
1743 - Jefferson born in Virginia
1755 - John Marshall born
1760s - Mandans at peak of power
1763 - Treaty of Paris
1774 - Juan Bautista de Anza expedition
1778 - First treaty with the Delawares
1780 - David Thompson arrives in Americas
1780 - North West Company founded in Canada
1781 - Articles of Confederation drafted
1781 - Small pox hits the Mandan Villages
1781 - Spanish found the outpost of Los Angeles
1782 - Treaty with England
1783 - Chickasaw make peace with the American at Treaty of Augusta
1784 - Jefferson In Paris
1784 - Continental Congress and Indian Treaties
1784 - Southern tribes sign treaty of alliance with Spain
1787 - Constitutional Convention convenes
1787 - James MacKay reaches Mandan Village
1789 - Washington elected first president
1789 - French Revolution begins
1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar
1790 - Congress passes Indian Non-Intercourse Act
1791 - Treaty of Holston
1792 - Gray 'discovers' mouth of the Columbia
1792 - 1812 David Thompson maps the northwest
1792 Fidler crosses the Rocky Mountains
1792 - Spanish treaties
1793 - MacKenzie Expedition reaches Pacific Ocean
1794 - Pickering Treaty
1795 - Arrowsmith map published
1795 - Treaty of Greenville
1796 - John Marshall goes to France
1796 - Washington proposes Indian trade system
1796 - George Catlin, artist, born
1796 - John Adams elected President
1798 - The Missouri Company founded
1799 - Thomas Fitzpatrick born
1800 - Nation's capitol moves to Washington D.C.
1801 - Adam's appoints John Marshall
1801 - Jean-Pierre DeSmet born
1801 - Jefferson looks west
1801 - MacKenzie journals published
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1804 - Jim Bidger born in Richmond, Virginia
1804 - Lewis and Clark meet white traders
1804 - Lewis and Clark set off from St. Louis
1804 - Lousiana Purchase ratified
1805 - Jefferson urges Chickasaws to move west
1805 - Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean
1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis in September
1806 - Zebulon Pike sets out for the Rocky Mountains
1807 - Manuel Lisa establishes new fort
1810 - Andrew Henry reaches the Snake River
1811 - Astor establishes Fort Astoria on the Columbia
1812 - The American character
1814 - Indian Treaties
1815 - Battle of New Orleans
1815 - President Madison establishes Indian peace commission
1820s - Federal trust doctrine
1821 - Vanguard of the fur trade
1823 - Father Pierre DeSmet arrives in St. Louis
1823 - Fur men winter in the Rockies
1823 - Office of Indian Affairs created
1824 - John Quincy Adams elected president
1824 - South Pass discovered
1825 - Creeks cede lands
1825 - First Green River Rendezvous
1825 - Fort Vancouver established by the Hudson's Bay Company
1828 - Andrew Jackson elected president
1830 - Fur trade nearing peak
1830s - Era of the Mountain Men
1832 - Choctaw removal begins
1832 - Congress approves small pox vaccine
1832 - Jackson re-elected
1833 - Cholera outbreak
1833 - Whooping cough at Fort Clark
1836 - Martin Van Buren elected
1836 - Silk hats come into vogue in Europe
1837 - Small Pox epidemic devastates western tribes
1837 - Small pox redux
1838 - Cherokee removal continues
1838 - Fur Trade begins to wane
1838 - Pierre DeSmet begins his work among the Indians
1839 - Treaty of Jemez ends three years of war
1840 - Harrison elected president
1840 - The last fur rendezvous
1841 - Bidwell-Bartleson party departs from Westport
1841 - DeSmet builds St. Mary's mission in Montana
1841 - Western Emigration Society formed
1842 - David Mitchell becomes Indian superitendent
1842 - Fremont Expedition
1842 - Treaty with Wyandots
1843 - Year of the Great Migration
1843-44 - Fremont's second and third expeditions
1844 - Polk elected president
1845 - 1906 Manifest Destiny
1845-49 William Medill, Indian commissioner
1846 - Peace council with Flatheads and Blackfeet
1846 - Telegraph connects Washington to St. Louis
1847 - D.D. Mitchell appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs
1847 - Fitzpatrick appointed Indian agent on the Platte
1848 - GOLD!
1849 - Cholera strikes St. Louis
1849 - Mitchell and Fitzpatrick appeal to Congress
1849 - Orlando Brown appointed Indian commissioner
1850 - First era of treaty-making ends
1850 - Luke Lea appointed Indian commissioner
1850 - Second treaty-making era begins
1850 - Treaty Council proposed
1851 - Treaty Council at Horse Creek
1851 - Treaty Council planned
1852 - U.S. Senate ratifies Horse Creek treaty
1853 - Fitzpatrick returns to tribes with amendments
1854 - Kansas/Nebraska Act passed
1854 - Fitzpatrick dies of influenza
1858 - Railroads cross the Mississippi River
1862 - Homestead Act of 1862
1862 - Pacific Railroad Act
1862 - Trouble wth the Sioux
1863 - Mangas is tricked into surrender and killed
1866 - General Sherman calls for peace
1867 - Great Peace Commission looks for war
1868 - Custer returns to cavalry
1871 - Congress ends treaty system
1873 - Pierre deSmet dies in St. Louis
1875 - Comanches surrender
1876 - America's Centennial Celebration
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok shot
1877 - Congress passes Desert Lands Act
1877 - Sioux nations surrender
1878 - John Wesley Powell reports to Congress
1878 - Kiowa leader, Satanta, dies
1879 - Carlisle Indian School founded
1879 - Edison invents the light bulb
1880 - Sitting Bull surrenders
1881 - Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor
1883 - President Arthur reverses a trend
1883 - Sitting Bull on display
1889 - Jerome Commission convenes
1890 - Sitting Bull killed
1890 - Wounded Knee
1900 - Census
1928 - Meriam Report
1934 - Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934
1944 - Third Indian Removal Era

Flashpoints

1204 - The Fourth Crusade
1400s - Discovery doctrine
1414 - Council of Constance
1492 - Columbus sails to America
1492 - Discovery Era and Spanish Inquisition
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas
1497 - Henry VII and the Pope
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1529 - Henry VIII nationalizes the church
1532 - Franciscus de Vitoria defends Indian rights
1533 - Pizarro conquers the Incas
1539 - Hernan DeSoto expedition
1541 - Coronado leads expedition into the Southwest
1550s - Sepulveda vs. Bartholomew de las Casas
1607 - Jamestown established
1610 - Spanish establish new colonial capital at Santa Fe
1618 - Powhatan dies
1636 - Pequots slaughtered
1646 - Opechancanough captured
1682 - LaSalle expedition maps the Mississippi
1705 - First lawsuit brought by an Indian tribe against colonial government
1713 - Treaty of Utrecht
1750s - Sioux arrive at Black Hills
1759 - France cedes Louisana to Spain
1763 - King George III issues proclamation
1764 - Parliment passes Sugar Act
1767 - Stamp Act repealed Townshend Acts passed
1768 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1776 - 1871 An Indian Treaty primer
1776 - 21st century - Indian Sovereignty
1776 - American colonists declare independence from the English crown
1778 - France enters war on side of colonists
1779 - Spanish seize Baton Rouge and Natchez
1780 - Indian raids on white outposts
1780 - Rogers raids the Shawnees
1781 - British Surrender at Yorktown
1781 - Spanish capture Pensacola
1781 - Virginia cedes territory north of the Ohio River
1784 - British open sea otter trade in Pacific Northwest
1787 - 1865 Federalism
1787 - Eminent domain
1789 - 1920 Gentleman farmers v. Westward expansion
1789 - Congress Passes Northwest Ordinance
1791 - Little Turtle destroys St. Clairs army
1795 - States rights vs. Federalism
1795 - Treaty with Spain
1796 - New Indian Non-Intercourse Act
1796 - Spain declares war against England
1798 - First decade of Indian policy
1800 - Presidential campaign
1800s - Federal Indian Policy developes
1800s - Usufructory rights
1802 - Jefferson and the Georgia Compact
1802 - Jefferson and the Missouri country
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1803 - Marbury v. Madison
1803 - Napoleon secretly sends emmisary to New Orleans
1804 - Sac and Fox Treaties in the Ohio
1806 - Rise of Tecumseh
1808 - Treaty of Fort Wayne
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 - Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1812 - War of 1812
1813 - Battle at Burnt Corn Creek
1813 - Tecumseh killed
1816 -Sauks and Foxes sign peace treaty
1817 - First Seminole War breaks out
1818 - Americans reclaims Fort Astoria from British
1819 - Fort Atkinson founded
1819 - William Clark and the Indians
1820 - Missouri Compomise
1820s - 1840s First Indian Removal Era
1820s - Continentalism
1823 - Johnson v McIntosh
1823 - Monroe begins treaty talks with Cherokee
1823 - Treaty of Camp Moultrie with the Florida Indians
1824 - The Creek cessions
1825 - William Clark appeals to secretary of war
1826 - Comanche increase raids in Texas and New Mexico
1829 - First Indian Removal Era gathers momentum
1829 - Gold discovered on Cherokee lands
1831 - Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
1832 - Black Hawk's War begins
1832 - Indian Non-Intercourse Act
1832 - Kearny and the Dragoons
1832 - Removal of Creeks begins
1832 - Worcester v. Georgia
1833 - Dragoons in Indian territory
1834 - Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1834
1835 - Treaty of New Echota
1836 - 1880 Oregon Trail
1836 - Second Creek War begins
1836 - Texas declares independence from Mexico
1837 - Chickasaw removal
1840-1890 Agrarian Expansion
1842 - Seneca Indians removed from homelands
1844 - A New Indian Country
1845 - Manifest Destiny
1845 - Polk takes office
1846 - Army of the West
1846 - Polk provokes war with Mexico
1847 - Congress passes new Indian Non-Intercourse Act
1847 - Harvey warns Congress of Indian wars
1847 - Indian trouble on the Santa Fe Trail
1848 - California Gold Rush
1850 - Events of the day
1850s - War with Cheyenne
1852 - 1880s Annuity system failures
1853 - George Manypenny commences 2nd Removal Era
1853 - Mormons storm Fort Bridger
1854 - 1876 War on Northern Plains
1854 - Grattan Massacre
1855 - Harney sent to make peace with Indians
1857 - War against the Cheyenne
1862 - First Homestead Act
1862 - Santee Sioux uprising
1862 - Trouble with western Sioux
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
1865 - War on the Northern Plains
1867 - Peace Commission looks for war
1867 - Railroads cross the Great Plains
1867 - Second Removal Era
1868 - Battle for the Black Hills
1868 - Black Kettle killed by Custer's troops
1868 - Sherman and Custer on the Great Plains
1868 - Sherman's war, Red Cloud's peace
1870 - Buffalo disappearing
1870 - Hundredth Meridian crossed by homesteaders
1871 - Congress terminates the treaty system
1872 - 1923: Congress denies Indians 'inalienable rights'
1874 - Presidet Grant violates establishment clause
1875 - Black Hills gold rush
1876 - June 25, Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876-1887 - The Apache Wars
1877 - Nez Perce War
1879 - Carlisle Indian School founded
1882 - Assimilation policy
1883 - Congress passes Religious Crimes Code
1885 - Congress passes Major Crimes Act
1887 - Dawes Act passed
1889 - Ghost Dance
1889-1890 - Oklahoma land rush
1890 - Wounded Knee
1903 - Plenary power
1952 - Indian Relocation
1953 - Termination Era

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