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The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, [1] until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan.
The Indiana Territory, officially the Territory of Indiana, was created by an organic act that President John Adams signed into law on May 7, 1800, [1] to form an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1800, to December 11, 1816, when the remaining southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Indiana. [2]
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 Michigan was established. [5] Michigan was made the twenty-sixth state of the United States on January 26.
This territory, which initially included land bounded by the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River, was subsequently partitioned into the Indiana Territory (1800), Michigan Territory (1805), and the Illinois Territory (1809), and later became the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin ...
May 7, 1800 – Indiana Territory, created out of part of Northwest Territory, although the eastern half of Michigan including the Dearborn area, was not attached to Indiana Territory until Ohio was admitted as a state in 1803. January 11, 1805 – Michigan Territory officially created out of a part of the Indiana Territory.
The Indiana Territory shown between 1800 and 1819. The Indiana Territory's at-large congressional district encompassed the entire area of the Indiana Territory. A delegate to the United States Congress was elected from this district. The territory was created from portions of the Northwest Territory leading up to the State of Ohio achieving ...
Since its creation from part of Indiana Territory in 1805, the government of Michigan Territory had consisted of a governor, a secretary, and three judges. [3] In this "first stage" government outlined by the Northwest Ordinance, the governor—or the secretary, in his absence—exercised executive power, with the judges forming the judicial branch of government, and all of them were appointed ...
1805 in Georgia (U.S. state) ... 1805 in Indiana Territory (2 C) K. 1805 in Kentucky (3 C) M. 1805 in Maryland (1 C, 1 P) 1805 in Massachusetts (2 C, 3 P) 1805 in ...