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| 1535 - |
JAQUES CARTIER,
a Frenchman, ascended the St. Lawrence as far as
Hochalega, a Wyandot village near Montreal. An
attempt to found a colony on the river, five years
afterwards, entirely failed and its history is lost. |
| 1539 - |
The Iroquois Confederacy formed |
| 1603 - |
Monsieur SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN
landed at Quebec, and in 1608 made a permanent
settlement there, the same year of the establishment at
Jamestown, Virginia. |
| 1615 - |
CHAMPLAIN and LE
CARON explore Lake Huron, by them
called "Mer Douce." |
| 1835 - |
The Jesuit Missionaries reached the
Sault St. Mary. |
| 1654 - |
Onondaga Salt Springs discovered by
Father SIMON LE
MOINE. |
| 1659 - |
Two French traders winter on Lake
Superior. |
| 1660 - |
The Abbe MESNARD
establishes missions at Kewenaw Bay, (St. Theresa,) and
at La Pointe, (Chegoimegon.) |
| 1661 - |
MESNARD perished
in the woods near Portage Lake, on Lake Superior. |
| 1668 - |
DABLON and MARQUETTE
founded a mission at the Sault St. Mary. |
| 1671 - |
MARQUETTE
establishes a mission at St. Ignace, on the main land,
west of Mackinaw. |
| 1673 - |
MARQUETTE reaches
the Mississippi, by way of the Fox river. |
| 1679 - |
LA SALLE
builds the schooner "Griffin" at Cayuga creek, near
Tonawanda, and sets sail August 7th, for Green Bay. |
| 1681 - |
LA SALLE
and TONTI are at Mackinaw "Old
Fort" on the main land south of the Straits. |
| 1682 - |
LA SALLE
discovered the mouth of the Mississippi river, April
7th. |
| 1686 - |
A fort built by the French and the
Iroquois, after three-quarters of a century of war,
conclude a peace, and the French occupy Lake Erie. |
| 1701 - |
Fort Ponchartrain built at Detroit |
| 1712 - |
The Tuscarowas, or Tuscororas, from
North Carolina, became a part of the Iroquois
Confederacy, from that time known as the "Six Nations." |
| 1726 - |
The "Six Nations," for the third time,
put their lands on the shores of Lake Erie, under the
protection of the English. This treaty embraces a
tract sixty miles wide from the Cuyahoga to Oswego. |
| 1744 - |
The "Six Nations" at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, deed all their lands within the Colony of
Virginia, to the King of England. |
| 1749 - |
The French take formal possession of the
country, on the waters of the Ohio. |
| 1753 - |
They erect Forts at Presque Isle, (Erie)
Pa., Le Beuf, (Waterford) and Venango (Franklin.) |
| 1755 - |
The French purpose to the English to
retire east of the Allegheny mountains, and themselves
to remain west of Ohio. |
| 1760 - |
Canada conquered by the English.
Their posts on this Lake, taken possession of in the
fall by Major ROGERS. |
| 1763 - |
First general conspiracy of the
north-western Indians, under PONTIAC,
PONTEACK, or PONDEACH. |
| 1764 - |
The expeditions of Cols. BRADSTREET
and BOQUET, against the Ohio
Indians. |
| 1765 - |
The Ohio country made part of Canada by
act of Parliament. |
| 1766 - |
JONATHAN CARVER
explores the upper Lakes and upper Mississippi |
| 1768 - |
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, (Rome, N. Y.) in
which the British covenant with the Indians not to pass
the Ohio. |
| 1770 - |
Moravian Missions founded on the Big
Beaver River, not far below New Castle. |
| 1776 - |
British Traders at Cuyahoga. |
| 1777 - |
The British and Indians hold a
conference at Oswego, New York. |
| 1778 - |
Fort Laurens built by Congress on the
Tuscarora River, near Bolivar, two miles below where FREDERICK
POST established a mission in
1761. |
| 1782 - |
The British establish a Fort at
Sandusky, Ohio. |
| 1784 - |
England refuses to deliver up the
western posts. |
| 1786 - |
Blanket and other goods obtained at
Cuyahoga, from British traders, for our troops at
Pittsburgh; and flour delivered here for the British. |
|
The Moravians establish a mission at the mouth of
Tinker's Creek, in Cuyahoga County. Soon after, a
British vessel is wrecked within the present city of
Cleveland. |
