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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
..1775 Captain Robert Gray enters the Columbia River in the American ship Columbia from Boston......May 7, 1792 Lieutenant Broughton, of the British navy, ascends the Columbia River about 100 miles to the region of the cascades......October–November, 1792 By purchase, the United States acquires the claims of France to Oregon......April 30, 1803 Lewis and Clarke United States government expedition descends the Columbia to its mouth, where it arrives......Nov. 5, 1805 Captain Nathaniel Winship, a New-Englander, builds the first house in Oregon, at Oak Point, on the Columbia......June 4, 1810 Pacific Fur Company, of which John Jacob Astor was a leading member, establishes a trading-post at the mouth of the Columbia River, which it calls Astoria......1811 D. McKenzie explores the Willamette River......1812 Convention between the United States and Great Britain for joint occupation of Oregon concluded in London, Oct. 20, 1818, ratified......Jan. 19, 1819 Conve