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The Detroit convention kicked off Reagan's campaign to a landslide election. Population: 1,203,339. [12] 1984 - The Detroit Tigers won the 1984 World Series, defeating the San Diego Padres in five games. 1987 August 16: Airplane crash occurs near city. [5] Pope John Paul II visits Detroit. Detroit People Mover operations started. It was the ...
1941-1945 During World War II, Detroit was called the "Arsenal of Democracy" for its wartime industry; Fort Wayne was the largest motor vehicle and parts depot in the world. 1943 A riot broke out, pitting whites against blacks during wartime. 1950 Detroit was the 4th largest city in the U.S., with 1.8 million people.
New France was renamed Quebec and the settlement became Detroit. Grants of free land attracted families to Detroit, which grew to 800 people in 1765. Demonstrating their independent power, several tribes in the region collaborated in Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763; they overran many smaller forts but could not subdue Detroit.
During the French and Indian War (1754–1763) many of these settlements became occupied by the British. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400. [29] At the end of the War for Independence in 1783, the region south of the Great Lakes formally became part of the United States.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
Zimmermann's 1783 map of the world showing the distribution of mammals Zimmermann's Die Küsten Länder von Ober- u. Nieder-Guinea, 1802. Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist.
News of the peace treaty between Britain and the United States arrived in Detroit on May 6, 1783. DePeyster, who had recently been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, notified the various Indigenous tribes that Fort Detroit had supported, and began attempts to ransom captives still held by them. 492 American prisoners held by the British at Detroit ...
1783 – By terms of the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain cedes territory south of the Great Lakes to the United States, although the British retain practical control of the Detroit area and several other settlements until 1797.