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Timeline of Oregon history

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The following is a timeline of the history of Oregon in the United States of America.

Pre-European

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16th to 18th Centuries

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  • 1542: A Spanish expedition led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explores north along the West Coast of North America, possibly reaching present-day Oregon before turning back.[6]
  • 1565-1700s: Spanish explorers originating from the Philippines reach the West Coast of North America. Most landed in California, but some shipwrecked along the Oregon Coast.[7]
  • 1579 - June 5: Francis Drake exploring for Britain lands near Coos Bay.[8]
Columbia Rediviva captained by Robert Gray, the namesake of the Columbia River.

19th Century

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1800 to 1849

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Corps of Discovery meet Chinooks on the Lower Columbia, October 1805 (Charles Marion Russel, c. 1905)
Oregon Trail, painting by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1863
  • 1830s: Pioneers from the United States begin coming to Oregon via the Oregon Trail. Transportation improvements brought declines in wagon traffic on the trail in the 1850s and 1860s, but the trail continued to be in use as late as the 1890s.
  • 1843
  • 1844 - June 24: A law is enacted to limit settlement of African Americans in Oregon Country including them being lashed every six months. Portions of this law were repealed that December.[14]
  • 1845: Portland is founded. It would later become the state's largest city.
  • 1846 - June 15: The Oregon Treaty between the United Kingdom and United States is signed, setting the boundary between the two nations occupying Oregon Country at the 49th parallel and placing present day Washington in Oregon Territory.
  • 1847 - November 29: The Whitman massacre occurs near present-day Walla Walla, Washington, starting the initial phase of the Cayuse War which took place throughout the Northwest and lasted until 1853.

1850 to 1899

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Great Fire of 1873, Portland, Oregon

20th Century

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1900 to 1949

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Interstate Bridge looking north from Oregon, 1917
Aerial view of the Vanport flood, looking west from North Denver Avenue on June 15, 1948

1950 to 1999

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  • 1962: The remnants of Typhoon Freda strike the Pacific Northwest, causing a total of 46 deaths and $230 million (1962 USD) in damage.
  • 1964-1965: Widespread flooding in December and January, including the Willamette River which inundated over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha).[26]
  • 1967 - July 6: Governor Tom McCall signs a bill establishing Oregon beaches as public land.[27]
  • 1970
  • 1972: A law goes into effect charging customers who purchase certain bottled products with the fee being refunded when the bottle is recycled.
  • 1984 - August to October: Followers of Rajneesh who settled in Wasco County infect 751 people after contaminating salad bars in The Dalles with Salmonella in an attempt to limit the number of people who vote in that year's election thus giving their candidates a better chance of winning. This was the first and remains the largest act of bioterrorism in the United States.
  • 1985 - April: The Oregon Lottery begins operation.
  • 1996 - February: Heavy rain on existing snowpack caused regional flooding that produced $700-800 million (1996 USD) worth of damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.[28]
  • 1998 - November 3: Oregon voters pass a measure to expand the vote by mail system to have it used in all elections.

21st Century

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Notice posted at Providence Park indicating the stadium's closure to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Robbins, William G. (2005). Oregon: This Storied Land. Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87595-286-4.
  2. ^ "Oregon History: Great Basin". Oregon Blue Book. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  3. ^ "Oregon History: Northwest Coast". Oregon Blue Book. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  4. ^ "Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde: Culture". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  5. ^ "Oregon History: Columbia Plateau". Oregon Blue Book. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  6. ^ "Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - Cabrillo National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". National Park Service. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Oregon Secretary of State: Cultural Resources". bluebook.state.or.us.
  8. ^ Von der Porten, Edward (January 1975). "Drake's First Landfall". Pacific Discovery, California Academy of Sciences. 28: 28–30.
  9. ^ "Great Cascadia Earthquake Penrose Conference". Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  10. ^ Satake, K.; Wang, K.; Atwater, B. F. (2003), "Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions", Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (B11): 2535, Bibcode:2003JGRB..108.2535S, doi:10.1029/2003JB002521
  11. ^ a b Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest: Maps of exploration and Discovery. Sasquatch Books. 1999. ISBN 1-57061-215-3. pp. 38-39.
  12. ^ Crooks, Ramsay (March–December 1916). "Who Discovered the South Pass?". In Young, Frederic George (ed.). Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society. Vol. XVII. Portland, Oregon: Ivy Press.
  13. ^ Jessett, Thomas E. (1953). "The Church of England in the Old Oregon Country". Church History. 22 (3): 219–226. doi:10.2307/3161862. JSTOR 3161862. S2CID 162883065.
  14. ^ Mcclintock, Thomas C. (1995). "James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 86 (3): 121–130. JSTOR 40491550.
  15. ^ Horner, John B. (1919). Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature. The J.K. Gill Co.: Portland. p. 83
  16. ^ Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.
  17. ^ Deumling, Dietrich (May 1972). The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley (masters thesis). Flagstaff, Arizona: Northern Arizona University. OCLC 4383986.
  18. ^ "To-Day at Noon: This is the Time Set for Opening the Bridge". The Morning Oregonian. April 9, 1887. p. 5.
  19. ^ "History [of Oregon Zoo]". Oregon Zoo. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  20. ^ Oregon State Highway Commission, Proposed State Highway System, November 27, 1917
  21. ^ Wood, Sharon (2001). The Portland Bridge Book (2nd ed.). Oregon Historical Society. pp. 73–78. ISBN 0-87595-211-9.
  22. ^ "Walla Walla Valley Hit by Quakes". Spokane, Washington: Spokane Daily Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  23. ^ "On This Day: Japanese WWII Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon". Finding Dulcinea. May 5, 2011. Archived from the original on April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  24. ^ "Mitchell Monument Historic Site". US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Archived from the original on May 25, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  25. ^ Geiling, Natasha (February 18, 2015). "How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  26. ^ "Oregon's Top 10 Weather Events of 1900s: Floods of December 1964 to January 1965". Portland, Oregon: National Weather Service Forecast Office. Retrieved December 31, 2010. Note: Surpassed only by the Heppner Flood of 1903, the Vanport Flood of 1948, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, and the Tillamook Burn of 1933, 1939, 1945, and 1951.
  27. ^ Camhi, Tiffany (3 July 2020). "How Oregonians came to own the state's beaches". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  28. ^ McAllister, Bill (February 15, 1996). "Clinton views flood damage in Northwest". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2022.