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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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17501750Approximate date of the

founding of Ste. Genevieve, the first

permanent white settlement.

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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.Timeline

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

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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.Timeline

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.Timeline

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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