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Wisconsin Important Dates
Important Dates in Wisconsin History
1763 The British took possession of the area from the French, but discouraged new settlers.
1787 Wisconsin officially became part of the U.S. Northwest Territory, but British fur traders effectively controlled the region until 1816.
1818 The Wisconsin area was included in the Michigan Territory. The territorial governor of Michigan created the first two Wisconsin counties, Brown and Crawford.
1820's High prices for lead attracted settlers to the mines of southern Wisconsin.
1830's Heavy settlement began along the Lake Michigan shore at the sites of present-day Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha.
1832 The Black Hawk War ended the last serious Indian threat to white settlement.
1836 Congress created the Wisconsin Territory, which included lands west of the Mississippi River to the Missouri River. Much of the western portion was later transferred to the Iowa Territory, created in 1838.
1840's Many families arrived from Germany and New York.
1848 Wisconsin, with its present boundaries, became a state.
1861 - 1865 Over 90,000 men from Wisconsin served in the Union armed forces during the Civil War.
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