Mortal/History

1805 Unratified treaty by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for possession of land in the land in the region.

1825 Fort Snelling military fortification completed.

1838 Pig’s Eye Landing settlement began.

1841 Chapel of Saint Paul build in Pig’s Eye settlement. Settlement renamed to St. Paul.

1849 St. Paul: Capital of Minnesota Territory. Squatters occupied military-reservation land on the west side of river (Minneapolis side) near St. Anthony Falls.

1850 Squatters given land and Minneapolis founded.

1851 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota founded.

1858 St. Paul: State Capitol when Minnesota admitted to Union.

1862 Dakota War - Conflict broke out between the United States and several bands of Dakota peoples. It began on August 18, 1862, at the Lower Sioux Agency along the Minnesota River. By September, 358 settlers had been killed, in addition to 77 soldiers and 29 volunteers. The total number of Dakota casualties is unknown. After nearly 400 trials by a military commission completed in less than six weeks, 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death and 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota. This was the largest one-day mass execution in American history. 1600 Dakota people, many of them women and children, who were imprisoned at Fort Snelling in the aftermath of the conflict. At least 130 died during the cold winter months of captivity.
St. Paul: Northern Pacific Railway train departed on first trek.

1863 In May, 1863, the Dakota survivors from the camp at Fort Snelling were crowded aboard steamboats and taken to Crow Creek in southeastern South Dakota. Those who survived Crow Creek were moved again three years later to the Santee Reservation in Nebraska.

1870 Minneapolis: Flour Milling Capital of World.

1886 St Paul: St. Paul Union Stockyard established.

1904 St. Paul: Devastating tornadoes and storms.

1914 Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport opens on Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory.

1950 St. Paul: Charles M. Schulz published 1st Charlie Brown strip.

1965 St. Paul: Beatlemania!

2004 Minneapolis: Mall of America opened.

2007 Minneapolis: Interstate 35W Bridge collapsed, 13 fatalities.