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Timeline Of Montana Events:
The timeline
below includes significant events in the history of the
state of Montana.
17th
century:
1680 - Montana natives acquire the horse.
18th
century:
1720 - Montana natives acquire the gun.
19th
century:
1803 - United States acquires most of Montana in the
Louisiana Purchase.
1805-1806 - Lewis and Clark Expedition crosses and re-crosses
Montana.
1807 - Manuel Lisa builds first fur fort in Montana on the
Yellowstone River.
1828 - Fort Union, an American Fur Company post, is built at
the mouth of the Yellowstone River.
1841 - Father Pierre Jean de Smer establishes St. Mary's
Mission in the Bitterroot Valley.
1846 - The Oregon Treaty gives the rest of Montana to the
U.S.
1847 - Fort Benton founded on Missouri River as military and
trading post; soon becoming world-renown "Head of
Navigation" to the west, and world's furthest inland port.
Steamboats brought gold seekers, fur traders, settlers and
supplies, making Fort Benton the "Birthplace of Montana."
1853 - Johnny Grant starts the first beef herd in the Deer
Lodge Valley.
1857 - First sheep ranching begins in the Bitterroot Valley.
1860 - First steamboat reaches Fort Benton.
1862 -
Placer miners rush to gold strike on Grasshopper Creek (Bannack)
on July 14. James Stuart becomes first lawman in Montana
History, elected sheriff of Gold Creek with jurisdiction
covering most of Western Montana. He served until April 1863.
1863 -
In May, Crawford resigns and returns home to an eastern state.
Outlaw gang leader Henry Plummer elected sheriff of Bannack
and all gold camps southeast of the Bitterroot.
On June 29 Chief Deputy Donald H, Dillingham of Virginia City
becomes the first lawman killed in the Line of Duty -
assassinated in broad-daylight on Virginia City's Main
Street by two of Plummer's deputies.
In December, at least 102 were killed and over a quarter million
dollars in gold (at 1863 prices) stolen by Plummer's "Road
Agents" gang. Outraged citizens form Vigilante Committee,
and within five weeks 21 gang members were hung, countless others
banished from Territory.
1864 -
Vigilantes hang Henry Plummer and other "Innocents";
On May 26 the Montana Territory was officially created by act of
President Abraham Lincoln. Bannack was chosen as the first
Territorial Capitol.
First newspaper, the Montana Post, published in Virginia
City.
1865 - Montana's first U.S. Marshal appointed by President
Lincoln: George M. Pinney, serving from 1865 to 1867. Pinney
first sets up his office in Butte, later moving to Helena.
1866 - U.S. Military Post, Camp Cooke, created on the Judith
River.
1870 - Open-range cattle industry begins on Montana Prairies.
1872 - Congress creates Yellowstone National Park.
1873 - Beginning of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to
"destroy illegal whiskey trade and lawlessness" caused by
the "Whoop-Up Trail" operation from Fort Benton into
Canadian Northwest Territories, the "Trail" having been
created by Fort Benton's first sheriff, and subsequently
participated in and protected by five of his successors.
1876 -
On June 24, Sioux Indians defeat Col. George Custer and
7th Cavalry at Battle of Little Big Horn River.
Following, Nez Pierce Indian Chief Joseph leads his people
out of Oregon into Montana, outwitting superior U.S. Army
forces, until surrender in 1877 near Bear's Paw Mountains in
northern Montana.
1877 -
Significant copper mining begins in Butte;
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce retreat across Montana.
1880 - Utah and Northern Railroad enters Montana.
1883 -
Northern Pacific Railroad is completed through Montana;
Marcus Daly establishes the town of Anaconda and its
smelting works.
1885 - Montana Territorial Government creates first "state"
law enforcement agency: Montana Department of Livestock.
1889 - On November 8, Montana becomes 41st state of United
States under President Benjamin Harrison's administration,
16 original counties established, and 16 sheriffs appointed
by new state government.
1890 - First hydroelectric dam is built at Great Falls.
20th
century:
1902 - Montana Capitol Building is completed.
1903 - Amalgamated Copper Company paralyzes the state's
economy with the shut-down to force legislative relief.
1909 -Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
("Milwaukee Road") is completed through Montana.
1910 -
Congress establishes Glacier National Park;
forest fires devastate western Montana.
1910-1918 - Homesteading boom peaks on Montana's plains.
1911-1925 - "County-busting" craze creates 25 new Montana
counties.
1914 - Montana women receive the franchise (right to vote).
1916 - Jeanette Rankin elected the first woman in the U.S.
Congress.
1917 -
Rankin votes against U.S. entry into World War I;
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer Frank Little
is lynched in Butte.
1918 - February, Mrs Leo Hunter, Rosebud County Sheriff's
Office, appointed first female law officer in state.
1919 - First of severe agricultural depressions (extending
into the early 1940s) begins in Montana; oil is discovered
in the Cat Creek field.
1921 - Wave of bank failures begins in Montana.
1922 - KDYS (Great Falls), Montana's first licensed radio
station, broadcasts.
1923 - Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons world heavyweight
championship fight is staged in Shelby.
1926 - Montana artist Charlie Russell dies in Great Falls.
1930 - Significant tourist industry begins in Montana.
1933 -Construction of Fort Peck Dam begins; scores of
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps are established across Montana.
1935 -Works Progress Administration (WPA) begins projects in
Montana;
Series of severe earthquakes hits central Montana.
1936 - Rural Electrification Administration (REA) begins
work in Montana.
1941 - Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin votes against U.S.
entry into World War II.
1943 - Smith Mine disaster kills 70 coal miners.
1950 - Great Falls replaces Butte as Montana's largest city.
1951 - Petroleum boom begins in eastern Montana.
1952 - Mike Mansfield is first elected to the U.S. Senate.
1953 - KOOK-TV (Billings), Montana's first licensed
television state, broadcasts.
1955 -
Aluminum plant begins processing in Columbia Falls;
Berkeley Pit copper operation starts in Butte.
1956 - Construction of the federal interstate-highway system
begins in Montana.
1959 - Severe earthquakes hit upper Madison Valley.
1961 - Malmstrom Air Force Base (Great Falls) becomes site
of the nation's first ICBM missile command.
1964 - Congress passes federal Wilderness Act.
1967 -
Bell Creek petroleum field is discovered and developed;
Longest and costliest strike in Montana history runs in
Butte.
1968 - Yellowtail Dam is completed; Work begins on Libby Dam.
1969 - Large-scale strip mining of coal begins at Colstrip.
1970 - Consolidation creates the Burlington Northern
Railroad.
1972 - Montana's electorate approves new constitution.
1975 - Underground mining ceases in Butte.
1976 - Mike Mansfield retires from U.S. Senate; becomes U.S.
ambassador to Japan.
1980 -
Anaconda Company announces the closing of its Montana
operations;
Billings replaces Great Falls as Montana's largest city;
Fallout from Mount St. Helena volcanic eruption blankets
Montana.
1981 - Milwaukee Road declares bankruptcy.
1982 - Copper-mining operations cease at Butte's Berkeley
Pit.
1986 -
Limited underground mining resumes in Butte;
Some high-tech gold mining reopens in Montana mountains.
1987 -
Burlington Northern sells a major portion of its Montana
trackage to Montana Rail Link;
Last gaps in federal interstate-highway system are completed
in Montana.
1988 -
U.S. and Canada initiate a Free-Trade Agreement, directly
affecting Montana's economy;
Large forest fires sweep areas of a drought-stricken Montana
and Yellowstone National Park.
1989 - Montana celebrates its statehood centennial.
1990 - Montana's timber-industry income declines, while
gains occur in tourism and specialized mining.
1991 - Riot at State Prison in Deer Lodge results in five
deaths.
1992 -
As a result of the 1990 federal census, Montana loses one of
its two representatives in Congress; two incumbents oppose
each other for the remaining seat;
Attorney General Marc Racicot (R) defeats legislator Dorothy
Bradley (D) for governor's seat.
1993 -
Robert Redford's film, "A River Runs Through It," sparks
increased tourism and immigration to Montana;
a generally wet summer produces record agricultural
harvests.
1994 - 4,500 wildfires rage across Montana, burning 286,000
acres.
1995 - Wolves are returned to Yellowstone National Park,
where they thrive.
1996 -
Montana Freeman and federal agents involved in a standoff in
eastern Montana;
"Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski captured near Lincoln.
1997 - A prison-population overflow creates a housing crisis
for inmates, some sent out-of-state.
1998 - The Montana Power Company sells its electric
generating facilities to Pacific Power and Light, Global,
Inc.
1999 - As highway deaths rise, Montana reinstitutes a
daylight speed limit of 70 mph on 2-lane paved roads.
21st
century:
2000 -
Summer wildfires scorch nearly 1,000,000 acres and destroy 320
homes, mostly in the Bitterroot Valley;
19,600,000 acres of state and federal land are closed due to
fire hazard.
2001 -
The Montana Legislature deregulates the electric industry in
the state;
wildfires again dominate Montana's drought-beset summer. |
