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Timeline of important dates and major events in the history of Wisconsin. Illustrated list of events and people from our today in history archives.
Offers a chronological timeline of important dates and events in Wisconsin History. Access Wisconsin early history and history firsts.
The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin ...
6 dni temu · Early history. Paleo-Indians, the earliest ancestors of Native Americans, arrived in what is now Wisconsin during or after the retreat of the last continental glacier, about 12,000 years ago. They built effigy mounds, of which at least 20 remain in the Madison area alone. When the first European explorers reached the Wisconsin region in the ...
1836. The Territory of Wisconsin was organized April 20, by act of Congress. Henry Dodge was appointed governor and on July 4, with John S. Horner of Virginia as secretary and Charles Dunn, David Irvin, and William C. Frazier as supreme court justices.
See more images, essays, newspapers and records about 18th century Wisconsin. Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Explore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history. Learn about the history of Wisconsin between the years 1700-1749.
Wisconsin’s population had reached 305,000 by 1850. Newcomers were pri-marily migrants from New York and New England, or immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. New York’s Erie Canal gave Wisconsin a water outlet to the Atlantic Ocean and a route for new settlers.