July 21,

July 31,

Aug. 16,

Oct. 7,

Oct. 13,

Oct. 24,

Oct. 17,

Commissioners at Elliott's house, mouth of Detroit river.
Commissioners meet Indian delegates.

Final action of the Commissioners and Indians.

Wayne leaves Cincinnati with his legion.

Wayne encamps at Greenville.

Wayne is joined by Kentuckians under Scott.
Lowry and Boyd attacked.

November, French emissaries sent west.

Dec. 25,

Dec. 25,

Field of St. Clair's defeat taken possession of by Wayne's

troops.

Dissatisfaction in the west.

Whisky riots recommence.

Lord Dorchester's speech to Indians.

Wayne prepares for his campaign.

General Simcoe builds a Fort on the Maumee.

Democratic society formed at Pittsburgh.

Spaniards offer help to Indians.

French emissaries forced to leave west.

Contest respecting Presqu'isle.

Indians attacked Fort Recovery.

Suits commenced against whisky rioters.

First gathering about Neville's house; burnt 17th.
Meeting at Mingo Creek.

July 26,

Mail robbed by Bradford.

July 26,

Scott, with 1600 men, joins Wayne.

Aug. 21,

September,

Sept. 11,
Sept. 25,

Sept. & Oct.
Dec. 28,

Commissioners of government meet committee of rioters.
British try to prevent Indians making peace.

Vote taken upon obedience to the law in Pennsylvania.
Washington calls out militia.

Fort Wayne built.

Indians ask for peace of Colonel Hamtramck.

Indians sign preliminaries of a treaty.

Prisoners are interchanged.

Connecticut prepares to sell her reserve.

Council of Greenville opens.

The Baron de Carondelet writes Sebastian.
Jay's treaty formed.

Treaty of Greenville signed.

1795. August, Sept. 5 or 9,

Oct. 27,
Nov. 4,

1796.

Sept.

Grant by Congress to Gallipolis settlers.

Connecticut sells Western Reserve to Land Company.
Pinckney concludes treaty with Spain.

Dayton laid out.

Chillicothe founded.

M. Adet, French Minister, sends emissaries to disaffect the

west to the Union.

Sebastian visits the south-west.

Cleveland laid out and named.
British give up posts in north-west.
Difficulties with Spain begin.

July,

August,

August,

General Wayne died.

1797.

Oct.

Oct.

1798.

Dec. 1799. Feb. 4,

Feb.
Sept. 24,
Oct. 6,

1800. May 7,

May 30,

Oct. 1,
Nov. 3,
Nov. 3,

1801.

Dec.

1802 January,

January,
April 30,

Oct. 16,

Nov. 1,

Power visits Kentucky, and writes to Sebastian.
Daniel Boone moves west of Mississippi.

Occupying claimant law of Kentucky passed.

W. H. Harrison appointed Secretary of North-west territory.
Alien and sedition laws passed.

Nullifying resolutions in Kentucky.

Death abolished in Kentucky, except for murder.

Representatives for north-west territory first chosen.

Representatives of north-west territory meet to nominate candidates for Council.

Kentucky Constitution amended.

Assembly of north-west territory organizes at Cincinnati.
W. H. Harrison appointed Delegate in Congress for north-
west territory.

Indiana territory formed.

Connecticut yields jurisdiction of her reserve to the U. States,
and United States gives her patents for the soil.
Treaty of St. Ildefonso.

Assembly of north-west territory meets at Chillicothe.
First missionary in Connecticat Reserve.

W. H. Harrison appointed Governor of Indiana territory.
St. Clair re-appointed Governor of north-west territory.
Cincinnati, in place of Chillicothe, again made seat of govern-
ment for north-west territory.

Thomas Worthington goes to Washington to procure the erec-
tion of Ohio into a State.

University at Athens, Ohio, established.

First Bank in Kentucky.

Congress agree that Ohio may become a State.

The Spanish Intendant forbids the use of New Orleans by the

Americans.

Convention meets to form a Constitution for Ohio.

Constitution formed.

New Orleans opened to Americans again.

Livingston and Monroe in France-purchase Louisiana.

Nov. 29,

1803. April,

April,

April,

April,

Oct. 21,

The Senate ratify the purchase of Louisiana.

Lands locatedd for Miami University.

Miami Exporting Company chartered.

1803. Dec. 20,

1804. March 26, May 14,

1805. Jan. 11,

June 11,

June,

June,

June,

June,

1806. July 29, Aug.

Aug. 21,

Sept.

Nov.

Dec. 6,

Dec. 10,

Dec. 14,

26,

1807. Jan. 17, Jan. May,

1808.

June,

1809.

Feb. 17,

1810.

July,
August,

1811.

July,

August,

Oct.

Louisiana given up to the Americans.

Territory of Orleans, & District of Upper Louisiana organized.
Lewis and Clark start on their expedition.

Michigan territory formed.

Detroit burned to the ground.

Burr visits the west.

General Assembly meet in Indiana territory.

Tecumthe and the Prophet begin to influence the Indians.
Steps taken to make National road.

Burr's letter to Wilkinson.

Spaniards cross the Sabine.

Burr goes west; is at Pittsburgh.

Lewis and Clark return from Oregon.

Davies tries to arrest Burr.

Sebastian found guilty by Kentucky House of Representatives.
Burr's men go down the Ohio.

Burr's boats and stores arrested.

Burr meets his men at the mouth of the Cumberland.
Burr yields to civil authority of Mississippi.

Burr escapes, is seized, and tried at Richmond in May.
Petition for slavery in Indiana.

Bank of Marietta chartered.

Bank of Chillicothe chartered.

Tecumthe and the Prophet remove to Tippecanoe.
Illinois territory formed.

Miami University chartered.

Boone's Lick settled.

C. Cole and others killed by Indians in Missouri.
Meeting of Tecumthe and Harrison at Vincennes.

Company of rangers raised in Illinois.

Tecum he goes to the south.

Harrison proposes to visit Indians.

Harrison marches toward Tippecanoe.

First steamer (New Orleans) leaves Pittsburgh for Natchez

General Hopkins attacks the Indians on the Wabash.
Governor Edwards attacks the Indians on the Illinois.

Colonel Campbell attacks the Indians on the Mississinneway.
Winchester reaches the rapids of Maumee.

Sends troops to Frenchtown.

British at Frenchtown defeated.

Americans defeated at Frenchtown, with great loss.

Massacre of the wounded.

Harrison retreats to Portage river.

Victory by Perry, on Lake Erie.

Sept. 27,

Sept. 29,

Oct. 5.

March,

Dec.
Dec.

Dec. 11,

1817.

Harrison advances to Maumee, and builds Fort Meigs.

Fort Meigs besieged.

General Green Clay reaches Fort Meigs; Dudley's party lost.
British return to Malden.

British fleet prepare to attack Erie.

Fort Stephenson besieged, and bravely defended.
Perry's vessels leave Erie.

American army at Malden.

American army at Sandwich.

Battle of the Thames, and Tecumthe killed.
Holmes's expedition into Canada.

J. C. Symmes died.

Expedition under Croghan against Mackinac.

Fort Shelby, at Prairie du Chien, taken by the British.
Treaty with Indians at Greenville.

McArthur's expedition into Canada.

Treaty of Ghent.

Various treaties with Indians.

Ohio taxes the Banks.

Pittsburgh incorporated.

Columbus made capitol of Ohio.

Bank of Shawneetown chartered.

General Banking Law of Ohio, passed.
Indiana admitted to the Union.

First steamboat at St. Louis.

September, North-west of Ohio bought of Indians.

Jan. & Oct., U. States Bank opens branches in Cincinnati and Chillicothe. 1818. Aug. 26,

1819.

September,

1820. December,

Sept.
May,

1821. Aug. 12,

1822. Jan. 31, Jan. 31, 1823. Feb. 14,

1824.

Illinois becomes a State.

First steamboats on the Missouri.

Military Post established at Council Bluffs.
Expodition to the Yellow Stone.

The first steamer on Lake Erie.

Contest of Ohio and the United States Bank.
Nullification resolutions of Ohio.

Missouri forms a Constitution.

Cass visits Lake Superior, &c.

Missouri received into the Union by proclamation of President.
Ohio moves in relation to canals.

Ohio moves in relation to schools.
Illinois moves in relation to canals.
Slavery contest in Illinois.

1825. Feb. 4 & 5, Ohio passes canal and school laws.

Cholera at Cincinnati and along the Ohio.
First farming settlements in Iowa.

Governor Edwards died at Belleville, Illinois.

Cholera at St. Louis and throughout the Mississippi Valley.
Mormon difficulties in Jackson county, Missouri.

Indian treaty at Chicago.

Gazetteer of Illinois published at Jacksonville.

Termination of various bank charters in Ohio.

Michigan forms a Constitution and makes application to join the Union.

Congress proposes conditions.

State Bank of Illinois chartered.
Michigan rejects the conditions.

Adopted in a second Convention.

Territory of Wisconsin (including Iowa) organized.
Illinois and Michigan canal commenced.

Michigan received into the Union.

Internal Improvement System adopted in Illinois.

Riots at Alton, Ill., and Lovejoy killed.

State House of Missouri, at Jefferson City, burned.
Territory of Iowa organized.

Mormon war in Missouri.

Death of Governor William Clark.

Bank Commissioners appointed in Ohio.

Mormons retreat to Illinois, locate at Commerce, and call it

Nauvoo.

Iowa City located and made the seat of government.

Great political excitement in the presidential canvas.

Death of W. H. Harrison, President of the United States, at
Washington City.

Canal, Internal Improvement System, and Banks in Illinois
stopped.

Great depression in financial affairs throughout the west.
Cincinnati Astronomical society founded.

Death of General Henry Atkinson at Jefferson Barracks, Mis-
souri.

Death of Hon. Mary P. Leduc, first Secretary of Upper Louisiana, and an old citizen of St. Louis.

Death of Hon. A. W. Snyder, Belleville, Ill.

Death of Hon. J. B. C. Lucas, at St. Louis, aged 80.

Illinois Banks accept of an act by the Legislature and close
their business.

Corner stone of Cincinnati Observatory laid in November.
Mormon troubles in Illinois.

Great flood on the Mississippi-American Bottom submerged.
Steamboats went from St Louis to the Illinois bluffs.
Mormon war in Illinois; Joseph Smith, the leader, and others
killed.

State Constitution formed in Iowa; boundaries not approved by
Congress.

Banking law of Ohio creating a State Bank and branches, and
independent Banks passed.

Illinois negotiates with bond-holders to finish canal.

Work on the Illinois canal resumed..

Convention in Wisconsin form a State Constitution; rejected

by the people.

Convention in Illinois form a new Constitution.

Constitution of Illinois adopted by the people, and went into operation.

Wisconsin forms a new Constitution; approved by the people,
and accepted by Congress.

Cholera on the western rivers, and in many cities and towns.
Deaths from all diseases in St. Louis, 8,603; cholera, 4,300.
Great fire: 23 steamboats, 400 buildings, and $2,750,000 worth
of property burnt.

Great Convention in St. Louis on Rail-road to the Pacific.