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Territorial evolution of North America of non-native nation states from 1750 to 2008The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the major war known by Americans as the French and Indian War and by Canadians as the Seven Years' War / Guerre de Sept Ans, or by French-Canadians, La Guerre de la Conquête.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Montana to the Union on November 8, 1889. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The following chronology traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Montana.
The oldest dated human burial site in North America was located in 1968 near Wilsall, Montana at what is now known as the Anzick site (named for the discoverers). [1] The human remains of a male infant, found at the Anzick site along with Clovis culture artifacts, establish the earliest known human habitation in what is now Montana. In 2014 a ...
Map of territorial claims in North America by 1750, before the French and Indian War, which was part of the greater worldwide conflict known as the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763). Possessions of Britain (pink), France (blue), and Spain. (White border lines mark later Canadian Provinces and US States for reference)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
In North America, France ceded to Great Britain its claims to the Hudson's Bay Company territories in Rupert's Land, Newfoundland and Acadia. [24] France retained its other pre-war North American possessions, including Île-Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island ) as well as Île Royale (now Cape Breton Island ), on which it erected the Fortress ...
The Territory of Montana changes the name of Big Horn County [14] to Custer County in honor of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. [11] 1876: July 4: The Territory of Montana celebrates the Centennial of the United States of America while still reeling from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. June 26
Montana (/ m ɒ n ˈ t æ n ə / ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [7] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.