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'''2000 Years Ago'''
 
As many as 37 burial Mounds were constructed by the Hopewell culture, one of several Native American Mound builders approximately 2000 years ago. The dead were buried with artifacts, indicating a religious tradition. The mounds built by the Hopewell culture were built in a distinctive fashion, burying the deceased's ashes; the Dakota Indians later used the same site to bury their dead, wrapping the bodies in animal skins.<br>
 
  
'''1600 - 1837'''
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<span style="color:brown">'''1600'''
Dakota peoples lived near the site of the Mounds. Just below the mounds was a large cave at the base of the bluff. Called Carver's Cave by the white settlers, the location was known as "Wakân Teepee" - sacred lodge, or dwelling of the Great Spirit - by the Dakota. The cave was eventually destroyed by the railroad passing through the area along the river's edge.
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Dakota peoples live near the site of burial Mounds constructed by the Hopewell culture approximately 2000 years ago.<br>
  
'''1805'''
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<span style="color:brown">'''1805'''
Unratified treaty by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for possession of land in the land in the region.<br>
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Unratified treaty by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for possession of land in the region.<br>
  
'''1825'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1825'''   
Fort Snelling military fortification completed.<br>
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Fort Snelling military fortification completed on the land possessed by Pike.<br>
  
'''1838'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1838'''   
 
French fur trader Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant set up a tavern named the Pig’s Eye. The community that sprung up around the tavern had become important as a trading center and a destination for settlers heading west. Locals called the area Pig’s Eye or Pig’s Eye Landing after Parrant’s popular tavern.<br>
 
French fur trader Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant set up a tavern named the Pig’s Eye. The community that sprung up around the tavern had become important as a trading center and a destination for settlers heading west. Locals called the area Pig’s Eye or Pig’s Eye Landing after Parrant’s popular tavern.<br>
  
'''1841'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1841'''   
 
Father Lucien Galtier was sent to minister to the Catholic French Canadians and established a chapel on the bluffs above Pig's Eye Landing named for his favorite saint, Paul the Apostle. The settlement's name was changed to Saint Paul in honor of the chapel.<br>
 
Father Lucien Galtier was sent to minister to the Catholic French Canadians and established a chapel on the bluffs above Pig's Eye Landing named for his favorite saint, Paul the Apostle. The settlement's name was changed to Saint Paul in honor of the chapel.<br>
  
'''1849'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1849'''   
''St. Paul:'' Capital of Minnesota Territory.  Squatters occupied military-reservation land on the west side of river (Minneapolis side) near St. Anthony Falls.<br>
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''St. Paul:'' Capital of Minnesota Territory.  Squatters occupied military-reservation land on the west side of river (Minneapolis side) near St. Anthony Falls.  James Madison Goodhue begins publishing Minnesota's first newspaper, the Minnesota Pioneer.<br>
  
'''1850'''  
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<span style="color:brown">'''1850'''  
 
Squatters given land and Minneapolis founded.<br>
 
Squatters given land and Minneapolis founded.<br>
  
'''1851'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1851'''   
 
''Minneapolis:'' University of Minnesota founded.<br>
 
''Minneapolis:'' University of Minnesota founded.<br>
  
'''1858'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1858'''   
 
''St. Paul:'' State Capitol when Minnesota admitted to Union.<br>
 
''St. Paul:'' State Capitol when Minnesota admitted to Union.<br>
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''St. Paul:''  Henry Sibley instated as first governor of Minnesota.
  
'''1862'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''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.<br>
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Dakota War - Conflict broke out between the United States and several bands of Dakota peoples. By the end of the war, 358 settlers, 77 soldiers, 29 volunteers and an unknown number of Dakota were killed, including 303 Dakota sentenced to death.<br>
 
''St. Paul:''  Northern Pacific Railway train departed on first trek.<br>
 
''St. Paul:''  Northern Pacific Railway train departed on first trek.<br>
  
'''1863'''
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<span style="color:brown">'''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.
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In May, 1863, the Dakota survivors from a prison camp at Fort Snelling were crowded aboard steamboats and taken to Crow Creek in southeastern South Dakota.<br>
  
'''1870'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1870'''   
 
''Minneapolis:'' Flour Milling Capital of World.<br>
 
''Minneapolis:'' Flour Milling Capital of World.<br>
  
'''1886'''  
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<span style="color:brown">'''1878'''
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''Minneapolis:''  A massive explosion in a Minneapolis flour mill kills 18.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1886'''  
 
''St Paul:''  St. Paul Union Stockyard established.<br>
 
''St Paul:''  St. Paul Union Stockyard established.<br>
  
'''1904'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1893'''
''St. Paul:''  12 people died, and there were injuries to many others, along with destruction of property, both private and public, estimated, in round numbers, at $1,000,000 resulted from a furious gale which tore down the valley of the Mississippi at about 9 o'clock last night from a point somewhere near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, near Fort Snelling. At about that point the fury of the elements seemingly divided and with a roar descended on the twin cities and their environs.<br>
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The Minnesota state flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis, is accepted by the Minnesota Legislature.
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<span style="color:brown">'''1902'''
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''Minneapolis:''  Approximately twelve automobiles appear in Minneapolis.
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<span style="color:brown">'''1904'''   
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''St. Paul:''  On August 20, 1904, Saint Paul and much of the Twin Cities area was struck by damaging thunderstorms and tornadoes causing over $1.78 million in damages. The A section of the 180-foot High Bridge over the Mississippi River was destroyed, killing three people were killed and injuring more than 50 in the downtown area.<br>
  
'''1914'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1906'''
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''St. Paul:''  William Williams is hanged in the county jail on February 13, ending capital punishment in Minnesota.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1914'''   
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''Minneapolis:'' World War I begins. Minneapolis becomes the home of the Federal Reserve Bank.<br>
 
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport opens on Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory.<br>
 
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport opens on Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory.<br>
  
'''1950'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1920'''
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''St. Paul:'' St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald receives much acclaim for his book This Side of Paradise.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1927'''
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Charles Lindbergh, a native of Minnesota, flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1934'''
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''St. Paul:''  "Public Enemy Number 1" John Dillinger has a gun battle with FBI agents in St. Paul on March 11 and escapes.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1948'''
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''St. Paul:'' Minnesota's first television station, KSTP, goes on the air.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1950'''   
 
''St. Paul:''  Charles M. Schulz published 1st Charlie Brown strip.<br>
 
''St. Paul:''  Charles M. Schulz published 1st Charlie Brown strip.<br>
  
'''1965'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''1958'''
''St. Paul:'' Beatlemania!<br>
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''Minneapolis:''  Prince Rogers Nelson (the artist formerly known as Prince) born in Minneapolis.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1965'''   
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''St. Paul:'' Beatlemania came to Metropolitan Stadium with over 25,000 excited fans in the stadium.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1985'''
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''St. Paul''  The Metropolitan Stadium was demolished and six years later construction of Mall of America began.
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<span style="color:brown">'''1987'''
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The Minnesota Twins win the World Series.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1994'''
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''Minneapolis:''  Mall of America opened on the former site of Metropolitan Stadium.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''1999'''
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Jesse Ventura, original name James George Janos, a native of Minneapolis and WWE wrestler becomes governor of Minnesota.<br>
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<span style="color:brown">'''2004'''
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Minnesota produced 75% of country's usable iron ore.<br>  
  
'''2004'''   
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<span style="color:brown">'''2007'''   
''Minneapolis:''  Mall of America opened.<br>
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''Minneapolis:''  On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, with rush hour bridge traffic moving slowly through the limited number of lanes, the central span of the bridge suddenly gave way, followed by the adjoining spans. A total of 111 vehicles, their occupants and 18 construction workers plummeted 115 feet into the river or its banks with 13 fatalities.<br>
  
'''2007'''
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<span style="color:brown">'''2011'''
''Minneapolis:''  Interstate 35W Bridge collapsed, 13 fatalities.<br>
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''Minneapolis:''  Omer Abdi Mohamed of Minneapolis, 26 years old, admitted helping with Somalia terror plot.

Latest revision as of 15:21, 17 December 2021

1600 Dakota peoples live near the site of burial Mounds constructed by the Hopewell culture approximately 2000 years ago.

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

1825 Fort Snelling military fortification completed on the land possessed by Pike.

1838 French fur trader Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant set up a tavern named the Pig’s Eye. The community that sprung up around the tavern had become important as a trading center and a destination for settlers heading west. Locals called the area Pig’s Eye or Pig’s Eye Landing after Parrant’s popular tavern.

1841 Father Lucien Galtier was sent to minister to the Catholic French Canadians and established a chapel on the bluffs above Pig's Eye Landing named for his favorite saint, Paul the Apostle. The settlement's name was changed to Saint Paul in honor of the chapel.

1849 St. Paul: Capital of Minnesota Territory. Squatters occupied military-reservation land on the west side of river (Minneapolis side) near St. Anthony Falls. James Madison Goodhue begins publishing Minnesota's first newspaper, the Minnesota Pioneer.

1850 Squatters given land and Minneapolis founded.

1851 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota founded.

1858 St. Paul: State Capitol when Minnesota admitted to Union.
St. Paul: Henry Sibley instated as first governor of Minnesota.

1862 Dakota War - Conflict broke out between the United States and several bands of Dakota peoples. By the end of the war, 358 settlers, 77 soldiers, 29 volunteers and an unknown number of Dakota were killed, including 303 Dakota sentenced to death.
St. Paul: Northern Pacific Railway train departed on first trek.

1863 In May, 1863, the Dakota survivors from a prison camp at Fort Snelling were crowded aboard steamboats and taken to Crow Creek in southeastern South Dakota.

1870 Minneapolis: Flour Milling Capital of World.

1878 Minneapolis: A massive explosion in a Minneapolis flour mill kills 18.

1886 St Paul: St. Paul Union Stockyard established.

1893 The Minnesota state flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis, is accepted by the Minnesota Legislature.

1902 Minneapolis: Approximately twelve automobiles appear in Minneapolis.

1904 St. Paul: On August 20, 1904, Saint Paul and much of the Twin Cities area was struck by damaging thunderstorms and tornadoes causing over $1.78 million in damages. The A section of the 180-foot High Bridge over the Mississippi River was destroyed, killing three people were killed and injuring more than 50 in the downtown area.

1906 St. Paul: William Williams is hanged in the county jail on February 13, ending capital punishment in Minnesota.

1914 Minneapolis: World War I begins. Minneapolis becomes the home of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport opens on Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory.

1920 St. Paul: St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald receives much acclaim for his book This Side of Paradise.

1927 Charles Lindbergh, a native of Minnesota, flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.

1934 St. Paul: "Public Enemy Number 1" John Dillinger has a gun battle with FBI agents in St. Paul on March 11 and escapes.

1948 St. Paul: Minnesota's first television station, KSTP, goes on the air.

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

1958 Minneapolis: Prince Rogers Nelson (the artist formerly known as Prince) born in Minneapolis.

1965 St. Paul: Beatlemania came to Metropolitan Stadium with over 25,000 excited fans in the stadium.

1985 St. Paul The Metropolitan Stadium was demolished and six years later construction of Mall of America began.

1987 The Minnesota Twins win the World Series.

1994 Minneapolis: Mall of America opened on the former site of Metropolitan Stadium.

1999 Jesse Ventura, original name James George Janos, a native of Minneapolis and WWE wrestler becomes governor of Minnesota.

2004 Minnesota produced 75% of country's usable iron ore.

2007 Minneapolis: On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, with rush hour bridge traffic moving slowly through the limited number of lanes, the central span of the bridge suddenly gave way, followed by the adjoining spans. A total of 111 vehicles, their occupants and 18 construction workers plummeted 115 feet into the river or its banks with 13 fatalities.

2011 Minneapolis: Omer Abdi Mohamed of Minneapolis, 26 years old, admitted helping with Somalia terror plot.