Historical Time Line
1832 - Black Hawk and his followers go on the warpath. (Northern Iowa, Western Illinois Territories)
1832 - Schoolcraft travels to the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
1836 - Texas war for Independence from Mexico. (Remember the Alamo!)
1839 - Daguerreotype’s (early photographs) were invented.
1840 - William Henry Harrison is elected President of the United States.
1841 - President William Henry Harrison dies and is succeeded by John Tyler.
1843 - Wagon trains began moving west over the "Oregon Trail".
1844 - Samuel F. B. Morse sends the first successful telegraph message between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
1844 - James Knox Polk is elected President of the United States.
1846 - Mexican-American war kicks off. (From the Halls of Montezuma) ends in 1848.
1846 - Elias Howe patents The Sewing machine.
1847 - Gold discovered in California.
1848 - Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States.
1849 - The sewing machine is perfected.
1849 - Minnesota Territory is created. Alexander Ramsey is selected as the first territorial governor.
1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes President.
1850 - Compromise of 1850 calms slavery controversy by permitting California to enter union as a non-slave state, opening Utah and New Mexico Territories to slavery at statehood, prohibiting slave trade in District of Columbia and increasing power of slave owners to retrieve runaway slaves.
1850 - The Beaver hat is now out of style in Europe, effectively ending the Fur Trade era.
1850 - Levi Strauss "bib-less overalls" are introduced in San Francisco.
1850 - The first U.S. Census shows Minnesota "non-Indian" population of 6,077.
1851 - At the treaties of Mendota and Traverse des Sioux, the Dakota cede their land west of the Mississippi River (Southern & Western Minnesota) to the United States.
1852 - Franklin Pierce is elected President of the United States.
1852 - Harvest and trading time at Peddlers Grove, Minnesota Territory.
1854 - Republican Party is organized by former Whigs and disaffected Democrats.
1858 - Minnesota admitted as the 32nd State of the Union.
Most Read Books In The Early 1850’s
1851 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Published in serial installments)
1851 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
1851 - New York Times begins publication.
1854 - Hard Times by Charles Dickens.
1854 - Walden, or life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
