1794. Fort built at Le Boeuf (Waterford,) by Major Denny.

Whisky riots re-commence.

Lord Dorchester's speech to Indians.
The Mingo Creek Association formed.
Wayne prepares for his campaign.

Governor Simcoe builds a fort on Maumee.
Democratic Society formed at Pittsburgh.
Spaniards offer help to Indians.

French emissaries forced to leave the West.

Contest respecting Presqu' Isle.

Indians attack Fort Recovery.

Suits commenced against whisky rioters.

Gathering about Neville's house.

Neville's house burnt.

Meeting at Mingo Creek.

Mail robbed by Bradford.

Charles Scott, with fifteen hundred men, joins Wayne.

Great gathering at Braddock's field.

Washington issues proclamation against insurgents.

Wayne marches toward Maumee.

Wayne sends his last message to Indians.

Wayne commences building Fort Defiance.

Wayne builds Fort Deposit.

Wayne meets and conquers Indians.

Wayne's correspondence with Col. Campbell.

Wayne threatens Fort Miami.

Wayne returns to Fort Defiance and finishes it.

Wayne marches to head of Maumee.

Fort Wayne built at head of Maumee.

Commissioners of government meet whisky insurgents.

British try to prevent Indians making peace.

Vote taken upon obedience to the law in Pennsylvania.
Vote not satisfactory to the government.

Washington calls out militia of four States.

Gen. Lee marches, with militia, against insurgents.
The most guilty malcontents escape by flight.

The less guilty surrender without resistance.

Indians ask for peace of Col. Hamtramck.

Last depredation by Indians in Western Virginia.
Sandy Lake Fort, Minnesota, erected.

1795. Block-house built at Presqu' Isle (Erie,) by Gen. Irvine.

Indians sign preliminaries of a treaty.

Prisoners are interchanged.

Connecticut prepares to sell her reserve.

Council of Greenville opens.

The Baron de Carondelet writes to Sebastian.

Jay's protracted treaty finished.

Treaty of Greenville signed.

Council with Indians at Greenville closed.

Grant by Congress to Gallipolis settlers.

Connecticut sells Western Reserve to land company.

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1795. Pinckney concludes a treaty with Spain. Dayton, Ohio, laid out by Ludlow.

1796. Chillicothe, Ohio, laid off and settled. Sebastian visits the South-West.

Cleveland, Ohio, laid out and named.

British surrender posts in the North-West.
Difficulties with Spain recommence.
Gen. Wayne died at Presqu' Isle, (Erie.)
First paper manufactory in the West.
Dayton, Ohio, first populated.

Congress donates land to Ebenezer Zane.

Fort Malden, Canada West, building commenced.
Tract of land granted to the Zanes.

1797. Power visits Kentucky and writes to Sebastian. Daniel Boone moves west of Mississippi.

Occupying claimant law of Kentucky passed.

Cleveland, Ohio, first populated.

Brooke county, Virginia, erected.

British subjects from Detroit settle near Fort Malden.

1798. William Henry Harrison made Secretary of North-West Territory.

Alien and sedition laws passed.

Nullifying resolutions in Kentucky.

Representatives for North-Western Territory first chosen.

Washington appointed (a second time,) commander-in-chief of American army.

Steubenville, Ohio, founded-streets surveyed at right angles.

Transylvania University established at Lexington, Kentucky.

Amhertsburg, adjacent to Fort Malden, settled by Britons from Detroit.

1799. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, incorporated a borough.

Representatives of North-Western Territory meet.
Representatives nominate candidates for Council.

Assembly of North-Western Territory organize at Cincinnati.

W. H. Harrison appointed delegate in Congress from North-West Territory.
Zanesville laid out and settled on Zane's tract.

1800. Great increase of products sent from Ohio river.

Indiana Territory formed.

Connecticut yields jurisdiction of her reserve.

United States gives Connecticut patents for the soil.

Treaty of St. Ildefonso.

Assembly of North-West Territory meets at Chillicothe.

First missionary in Connecticut Reserve.

Lancaster, Ohio, surveyed and settled.

Congress authorizes the President to make inquiry for copper-mines in North

West.

President, John Adams, appoints an agent to examine the south side of Lake
Superior.

A number of new counties made in Western Pennsylvania.

1801. W. H. Harrison appointed Governor of Indiana Territory.
St. Clair re-appointed Governor of North-West Territory.
Legislature of North-West Territory again at Cincinnati.
Worthington made agent to procure a State Government for Ohio.
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, incorporated a borough.
Beaver, Pennsylvania, incorporated a borough.
Louisiana ceded by Spain to France.

1802. University at Athens, Ohio, established. First bank in Kentucky.

Congress agree that Ohio may become a State.

The Spanish Intendant forbids the use of N. Orleans by Americans.
Convention meets and forms a constitution for Ohio.

Constitution for Ohio finished.

Cincinnati incorporated a borough.

Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, chartered and organized.
Convention at Pittsburgh to form an exporting company.
Advent of French Swiss to Indiana.

1803. Congress approbates the constitution, and declares Ohio a State. New Orleans made free for American shipping.

Livingston and Monroe in France; purchase Louisiana.
Lands located for Miami University.

Miami Exporting Company at Cincinnati chartered.
United States Senate ratify the purchase of Louisiana.
Louisiana given up to the Americans.

Xenia, Ohio, town plat surveyed.

Col. Hamtramck died at Detroit.

D. Goforth discovered mammoth skeleton at Big Bone Lick, Ky.

1804. Fort Dearborn built at Chicago.

Territory of Orleans and district of Upper Louisiana organized.
Lewis and Clark start on their expedition.

Immense quantity of land purchased from Sac and Fox Indians.

Ohio University chartered by State legislature.

First inhabitants in Xenia, Ohio.

Harmonie Society settle in Butler county, Pennsylvania.

Kittanning, Pennsylvania, surveyed and settled.

1805. Michigan Territory formed.

Detroit, (old town,) burnt to the ground.

Burr's first visit to the West.

General Assembly meet in Indiana Territory.

Tecumthe and the Prophet begin to influence the Indians.

Indians sell all their land in North-Eastern Ohio.

Pike ascends and explores the Mississippi above St. Anthony's.
Pike purchases land for military stations on Upper Mississippi.
Steubenville, Ohio, incorporated a borough.

1806. Great eclipse of the sun, June 16th.

Burr again active; writes to Wilkinson.
Spaniards cross the Sabine river.

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1806. Burr again goes West; is at Pittsburgh. Lewis and Clark return from Oregon.

Daviess tries to arrest Burr.

Sebastian found guilty by Kentucky Legislature.
Burr's men descend the Ohio river.

Burr's boats and stores arrested.

Burr meets his men at the mouth of Cumberland.
Pike's expedition to heads of Arkansas.

Washington College, Pennsylvania, incorporated.

1807. Burr yields to civil authority of Mississippi. Burr escapes and is seized.

Burr's trial at Richmond.

Petition for slavery in Indiana territory.

Bank of Kentucky chartered.

Brant, the celebrated king of Mohawk Indians, died.

Merriweather Lewis appointed governor of Upper Louisiana.

G. C. Moreau arrived at Pittsburgh.

1808. Bank of Marietta, Ohio, chartered.

Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio, chartered.

Tecumthe and the Prophet remove to Tippecanoe.

Madison, Indiana, settled.

Rev. David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary, died, aged eighty-seven.
Harrison's first interview with Tecumthe.

1809. Vincennes is four weeks without a mail.

Illinois Territory formed.

Miami University chartered.

Settlement made at Boone's Lick, Missouri.

Missouri Fur Company formed at St. Louis.

Governor Lewis, of Missouri, alarmed at Indians; calls out militia.

1810. Second interview of Harrison with Tecumthe.

A trapper and hunter, named Colter, descended Missouri via Jefferson river, three thousand miles, alone.

Monks of La Trappe locate at the Great Mound on American Bottom, Illinois.

1811. Pittsburgh Magazine Almanac published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum. Company of rangers organized in Illinois.

Mammoth Cave discovered in Kentucky.

Tecumthe goes to the South.

Harrison proposes to visit Indians.

Harrison marches toward Tippecanoe.

First steamboat (named New Orleans) leaves Pittsburgh.

Battle of Tippecanoe.

Great earthquakes begin.

Western people generally in consternation.

Hudson's Bay Company's grant to Lord Selkirk.

Meadville Academy incorporated by act of Assembly, March 20.

1812. Governor Meigs, of Ohio, calls for 1200 volunteers or militia. General Hull marches from Dayton, Ohio.

1812. Declaration of war against England.

British at Malden informed of the declaration of war.

Hull encounters a tedious and tiresome march through the forest.

Hull arrives at Maumee, near the head of Lake Erie.

Hull sends men and goods by water to Detroit.

Hull first informed of declaration of war.

Americans cross to Sandwich, Canada.

Mackinac surprised and taken by the British.

American army returns to Detroit.

Brock reaches Malden, and advances to Sandwich.
Brock crosses to Detroit; Hull surrenders.

A detachment of Hull's army defeated at Brownstown.
Massacre of troops and families near Chicago.

Fort Harrison attacked by Indians.

W. H. Harrison appointed commander in North-West.

Governor Edwards and General Hopkins' plan to conquer Indians.
General Hopkins with a large force at Vincennes.

Hopkins marches up Wabash and crosses at Fort Harrison.

Hopkins enters the prairies, and marches to meet Edwards.

Hopkins' officers are disobedient, revolt and return to Kentucky.

Edwards attacks the Indians on Illinois river.

Hopkins makes an expedition to Upper Wabash.

Lord Selkirk plants colony on Red river.

Hopkins attacks Indians on Ponce Passu (Wild Cat) river.

Generals Winchester and Harrison meet at Fort Wayne.

Winchester marches to Fort Defiance.

Harrison makes head-quarters at Franklinton, Ohio.

Col. Campbell attacks Indians on Mississinewa.

Inhabitants at river Raisin importune Winchester for aid.

Massacre of families at Pigeon creek, Scott county, Indiana, by Indians.

Ohio Legislature selects "High Bank" of Scioto river for capital.

Little Turtle, the famous Miami Indian war chief, died.

Name of Upper Louisiana changed to Missouri Territory.

1813. Winchester marches down Maumee to the Rapids.

Winchester again importuned for help; sends troops to Frenchtown.
British at Frenchtown first defeated.

Americans defeated at Frenchtown with great loss.

Massacre of the wounded at Frenchtown.

Harrison retreats to Portage river.

Harrison returns to Maumee and builds Fort Meigs.

Fort Meigs besieged.

General Clay reaches Fort Meigs; Dudley's party lost.

British return to Malden.

British fleet prepare to attack Erie.

Fort Stephenson besieged.

Siege of Fort Stephenson raised.

Perry's vessels first leave Erie harbor.

Victory by Perry on Lake Erie.

British troops evacuate Malden; Citizens remain at Amhertsburg.

Americans take possession of Amhertsburg and make it head-quarters.
American Government re-established in Lower Michigan.