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Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
......Sept. 12, 1883 Act for admission of State of Dakota passes the United States Senate, the remainder of the Territory to be called Lincoln......1884 North Dakota University at Grand Forks, chartered in 1883, opened......1884 Majority in Territory vote for separation of South Dakota; North Dakota voting against it......November, 1887 Legislature of Dakota Territory passes a local option law......1887 Fargo College, at Fargo, chartered and opened......1887 Convention at Watertown favors the division, the northern portion to form the State of North Dakota......Dec. 5, 1888 Admission act, for a convention at Bismarck, July 4, 1889, to form a constitution and to divide with South Dakota the institutions, debts, records, etc., of the Territory, signed......Feb. 22, 1889 Seventy-five delegates elected May 14, 1889, under proclamation of the governor in April; convention meets at Bismarck July 4, adopts a constitution, provides for a division of the territorial in
Missouri (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
4° 5′ W. Area, 70,795 square miles, in thirty-nine counties. Population, 1890, 182,719; 1900, 319,146. Capital, Bismarck. French trader settles at Pembina......1780 United States government expedition under Lewis and Clarke ascend the Missouri River on their way to the Columbia River, 1804, and descend it on their return from the Pacific......1806 Scottish colony, planted under a grant from the Hudson Bay Company, settles at Pembina......1812 Maj. S. H. Long, on a United States goion, reaches Pembina, and, finding it to be within the United States, takes possession and raises the stars and stripes......Aug. 8, 1823 Yellouwstone, a side-wheel steamboat built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone......1832 Steamboat Assiniboine, built by the American Fur Company, returning to St. Louis from the Yellowstone, is burned with her cargo of furs, at the mouth of the Heart River.....
Mayville, Chautauqua County, New York (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
889 Constitution ratified by 27,441 to 8,107. The article prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors is adopted by 18,552 to 17,393, and the Republican State ticket elected......Oct. 1, 1889 President Harrison proclaims North Dakota admitted......Nov. 2, 1889 First legislative session of the State meets at Bismarck......Nov. 19, 1889 Agricultural college established at Fargo by act of legislature......1890 State normal schools established at Valley City and Mayville......1890 Acts requiring the United States flag to be displayed throughout each day on all public State institutions, and making 7 per cent. the legal rate of interest; legislature adjourns......March 18, 1890 Tatonka Otanka, Sitting Bull, born in Dakota in 1837, is killed near Grand River, 40 miles from Standing Rock agency, in an attempt by Indians to rescue him after his arrest for refusing to peaceably disperse his band and break up the ghost dances ......Dec. 15, 1890 Henry C.
Grand Forks (North Dakota, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
2 Sioux Indians make two unsuccessful assaults on Fort Abercrombie......September, 1862 First ground in Dakota broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Grand Forks......Jan. 2, 1872 Settlement begun at Bismarck......1872 Military reconnoitring expedition to the Black Hills under General Custer, accompanied by a scienct for admission of State of Dakota passes the United States Senate, the remainder of the Territory to be called Lincoln......1884 North Dakota University at Grand Forks, chartered in 1883, opened......1884 Majority in Territory vote for separation of South Dakota; North Dakota voting against it......November, 1887 Legisla the Congressional land donation; locating the blind asylum in Pembina county; and directing that the Scandinavian language be taught in the State university at Grand Forks, are passed at session......January–March, 1891 Proclamation of the President opening up 1,600,000 acres of the Indian reservation to settlers at Fort Bertho
Dakota (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone......1832 Steamboat Assiniboine, built by the American Fur Company, returning to St. Louis from the Yellowstone, is burned with her cargo of furs, at the mouth of the Heart River......1836 By the organization of Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and the State of Minnesota, May 11, 1858, the rest of the present Dakota is left without legal name or existence......May 11, 1858 Territory of Dakota, comprising the present States of North Dakota and South Dakota, organized by act of......March 2, 1861 Capital located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Indians make two unsuccessful assaults on Fort Abercrombie......September, 1862 First ground in Dakota broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Grand Forks......Jan. 2, 1872 Settlement begun at Bismarck......1872 Military reconnoitring expedition to the Black Hills under General Custer, accompanied by a scientific explorin
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
n an attempt by Indians to rescue him after his arrest for refusing to peaceably disperse his band and break up the ghost dances ......Dec. 15, 1890 Henry C. Hansborough elected United States Senator......Jan. 23, 1891 Australian ballot law; laws giving Fargo Agricultural College the Congressional land donation; locating the blind asylum in Pembina county; and directing that the Scandinavian language be taught in the State university at Grand Forks, are passed at session......January–March, 1891 Proclamation of the President opening up 1,600,000 acres of the Indian reservation to settlers at Fort Berthold......May 21, 1891 Officers of the Louisiana lottery indicted under United States laws by the grand jury in Sioux Falls......Oct. 23, 1891 The prohibitory law declared constitutional......May, 1893 Business portion of Fargo destroyed by fire; loss estimated over $3,000,000......June 8, 1893 Constitutional amendment prohibiting lotteries enacted......1893 Ohio
Standing Rock (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
te meets at Bismarck......Nov. 19, 1889 Agricultural college established at Fargo by act of legislature......1890 State normal schools established at Valley City and Mayville......1890 Acts requiring the United States flag to be displayed throughout each day on all public State institutions, and making 7 per cent. the legal rate of interest; legislature adjourns......March 18, 1890 Tatonka Otanka, Sitting Bull, born in Dakota in 1837, is killed near Grand River, 40 miles from Standing Rock agency, in an attempt by Indians to rescue him after his arrest for refusing to peaceably disperse his band and break up the ghost dances ......Dec. 15, 1890 Henry C. Hansborough elected United States Senator......Jan. 23, 1891 Australian ballot law; laws giving Fargo Agricultural College the Congressional land donation; locating the blind asylum in Pembina county; and directing that the Scandinavian language be taught in the State university at Grand Forks, are passed at session..
Nebraska (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
be within the United States, takes possession and raises the stars and stripes......Aug. 8, 1823 Yellouwstone, a side-wheel steamboat built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone......1832 Steamboat Assiniboine, built by the American Fur Company, returning to St. Louis from the Yellowstone, is burned with her cargo of furs, at the mouth of the Heart River......1836 By the organization of Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and the State of Minnesota, May 11, 1858, the rest of the present Dakota is left without legal name or existence......May 11, 1858 Territory of Dakota, comprising the present States of North Dakota and South Dakota, organized by act of......March 2, 1861 Capital located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Indians make two unsuccessful assaults on Fort Abercrombie......September, 1862 First ground in Dakota broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Grand Forks.....
Columbia River (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
9, is bounded on the north by the Canadian provinces of Assiniboia and Manitoba, east by Minnesota, south by South Dakota, and west by Montana. It is limited in lat. by 46° to 49° N., and in long. by 96° 30′ to 104° 5′ W. Area, 70,795 square miles, in thirty-nine counties. Population, 1890, 182,719; 1900, 319,146. Capital, Bismarck. French trader settles at Pembina......1780 United States government expedition under Lewis and Clarke ascend the Missouri River on their way to the Columbia River, 1804, and descend it on their return from the Pacific......1806 Scottish colony, planted under a grant from the Hudson Bay Company, settles at Pembina......1812 Maj. S. H. Long, on a United States government expedition, reaches Pembina, and, finding it to be within the United States, takes possession and raises the stars and stripes......Aug. 8, 1823 Yellouwstone, a side-wheel steamboat built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as
Fort Abercrombie (North Dakota, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-north-dakota
one, is burned with her cargo of furs, at the mouth of the Heart River......1836 By the organization of Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and the State of Minnesota, May 11, 1858, the rest of the present Dakota is left without legal name or existence......May 11, 1858 Territory of Dakota, comprising the present States of North Dakota and South Dakota, organized by act of......March 2, 1861 Capital located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Indians make two unsuccessful assaults on Fort Abercrombie......September, 1862 First ground in Dakota broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Grand Forks......Jan. 2, 1872 Settlement begun at Bismarck......1872 Military reconnoitring expedition to the Black Hills under General Custer, accompanied by a scientific exploring party, leaves Fort Abraham Lincoln......July 2, 1874 Senate bill to form Territory of Pembina from the northern part of Dakota is amended, changing the name to Huron, and passes the Senate Dec. 20, 1876. Refe
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