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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
In 1800, the Indiana Territory was created, and most of the current state Michigan lay within it, with only the easternmost parts of the state remaining in the Northwest Territory. [4] In 1802, when Ohio was admitted to the Union , the whole of Michigan was attached to the Territory of Indiana, and so remained until 1805, when the Territory of ...
1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States. 1861-1865 Michigan sent 90,000 men, nearly a quarter of the state's male population, to fight in state regiments in the Civil War. 1871 Fires burned Manistee and Holland.
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Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States.It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north.
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The U.S. territory of Michigan became a U.S. state on January 26, 1837. Subcategories. This ...
15th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 7, 1850 April 2, 1850 November 1849 16th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] February 5, 1851 June 28, 1851 November 5, 1850 Michigan State Constitution of 1850 [1] 17th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 5, 1853 February 14, 1853 November 2, 1852 18th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 3, 1855