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16731673During their voyage down the
Mississippi River, Father Jacques Marquette and
Louis Joliet were the first Europeans to set foot on
land that would later become Missouri.
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Approximate date of the founding of Ste.
Genevieve, the first permanent white
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17641764City of St. Louis was
founded by Pierre Laclede Liguest on
February 15.
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18031803The Louisiana Purchase was signed on April 30.
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18041804The Lewis and Clark
Expedition set out from St. Louis on May 14
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18111811The New Madrid Earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the continental United States of America, occurred on December 16.
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18171817The steamboat Zebulon M.
Pike, the first steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Ohio River reached St.
Louis on August 2.
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18201820Missouri’s first
Constitution was adopted on July 19.
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18211821Missouri was admitted as the 24th state on August
10.
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18261826Jefferson City was
designated Missouri’s permanent seat of
government.
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18371837Missouri’s first capitol in
Jefferson City was destroyed by fire on
November 15.
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18391839The University of Missouri, the first state university
west of the Mississippi River, opened April 14.
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18601860The Pony Express started its first run from
St. Joseph to Sacramento, California
on April 3.
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18651865Slavery was abolished in
Missouri by an ordinance of immediate emancipation, making Missouri the first
slave state to emancipate its slaves.
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18661866The Missouri Historical Society was organized in St. Louis on August
11.
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18731873Susan Blow opened
the first public kindergarten in the
United States in St. Louis.
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18741874The Eads Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River, was opened in St. Louis on
July 4.
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18821882Jesse James was killed
by Bob Ford in St. Joseph on April 3.
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19011901The first State Fair held at
Sedalia opened on September 9.
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19041904The 1904 World’s Fair opened in St. Louis on
April 30.
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19111911Missouri State Capitol
was completely destroyed by fire after
being struck by lightning on February 5.
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19271927Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St. Louis" in
Paris on May 21.
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19451945U.S. Vice President Harry
S. Truman, from Independence, became
President upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
on April 12.TimelineTimeline
19461946Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of England, delivered his
"Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton’s Westminster College on March 5.
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19651965The Gateway Arch was
completed.
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