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The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States.
Offers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in Ohio history. Around 13,000 BCE, the early hunting and gathering people live in the area now known as Ohio in the last centuries of the Ice Age, hunting now-extinct species such as mammoth and mastodon.
Explore major events, battles and turning points of the War of 1812, a conflict between the United States and Great Britain that had a lasting impact on Ohio. Have a site or location that you’d like to see included in our Then and Now maps, or an idea for a Timeline topic for us to illustrate?
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history of Ohio. Illustrated list of events and people from our today in history archives.
Known for its diverse geography, from flat plains to rolling hills, Ohio was a crucial battleground during the War of 1812. It later became a key state in helping enslaved people escape to...
1492: Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies and began the Age of Exploration in the New World. 1607: The first permanent English colony, Jamestown, is established. 1670: Robert de La Salle, a French explorer and the first European in the Ohio Country, discovered the Ohio River.
Present-day Ohio was largely unoccupied when the first Europeans arrived in the 17th century. Villages of indigenous peoples—the Miami, Huron (Wyandot), Shawnee, Delaware, Iroquois (Mingo), and Ottawa—appeared in the 18th century.
Here we will take a brief look at Early Ohio History, how Ohio became a state, and what all was going on before then.
The first state to be carved from the Northwest Territory, Ohio became the 17th member of the union on March 1, 1803. In many respects, Ohio has come to reflect the urbanized, industrialized, and ethnically mixed United States that developed from an earlier agrarian period.
More than 200 years ago a series of events and actions began to shape the state of Ohio we see today—its government, its economy, and its people. Empires clashed and diverse peoples mingled.