Ohio History Timeline

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• 1669-07-06 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River

• 1749-11-02 English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
• 1772-06-09 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion
• 1773-07-29 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio
• 1782-03-08 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Native American
• 1788-04-07 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
• 1788-09-22 Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded by land speculators Mathias Denman and Colonel Robert Patterson, and surveyor John Filson; the first settlers arrive in December
• 1790-05-26 Territory South of River Ohio created by US Congress
• 1791-01-02 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• 1794-06-30 Seige of Fort Recovery, Ohio, Anglo American army holds off an attack on the fort by an Indian confederacy

• 1796-07-22 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland. Originally called 'Cleaveland', the public adopted the current name after a newspaper editor noticed the name was too long to fit on the page.
• 1802-11-01 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention.
• 1803-02-19 US Congress accepts Ohio's bid for statehood, but neglects to ratify their constitution; oversight no corrected until1953 [1]
• 1803-03-01 Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union
• 1804-01-05 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
• 1804-02-18 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
• 1804-02-18 Ohio legislature approves establishment of Ohio University at Athens as the 1st university in Ohio; first classes are held in 1809
• 1804-03-28 Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks
• 1811-10-29 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
• 1823-07-01 9th US Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office; appointed by President Monroe on June 26, not confirmed by US Senate until December 9)
• 1827-02-28 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
• 1828-07-04 Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
• 1829-03-16 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
• 1831-01-21 In Portsmouth, Ohio, African Americans forcibly deported

• 1833-07-23 Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio
• 1833-12-03 Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
• 1836-03-27 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)
• 1837-06-13 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
• 1837-09-06 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
• 1839-08-08 Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
• 1842-03-17 Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
• 1843-06-01 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio
• 1848-12-26 The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
• 1850-06-17 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio, 206 die

• 1852-03-29 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
• 1853-10-06 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
• 1856-02-19 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
• 1856-08-20 Wilberforce University forms in Ohio

• 1863-07-02 R Morgan's: Burksville, Kentucky to Salineville, Ohio [->JUL 26]
• 1863-07-11 Battle at Green River, Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
• 1863-07-13 Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
• 1863-07-19 Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio

• 1863-09-01 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
• 1865-05-05 1st US train robbery at North Bend, Ohio
• 1867-06-25 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio
• 1867-07-16 D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint
• 1868-05-31 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
• 1869-12-28 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
• 1872-02-22 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
• 1873-09-17 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
• 1876-12-29 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula, Ohio, 92 die
• 1878-02-22 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo, Ohio)
• 1879-11-04 James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio
• 1884-06-24 The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system
• 1894-03-25 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.
• 1894-04-20 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
• 1894-10-17 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
• 1895-02-26 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine to make glass bottles
• 1895-10-08 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
• 1898-09-01 First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate, North Carolina
• 1899-02-10 -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
• 1903-05-17 Cleveland Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
• 1903-06-20 Charlotte Maxeke (née Mannya) becomes the first native African to graduate from a US college (Wilberforce University in Ohio)
• 1904-09-29 1st monument honoring Spanish–American War erected, in Monroeville, Ohio
• 1906-03-17 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
• 1908-03-04 Fire at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio kills 172 students and 2 teachers: boiler room blaze trapped many victims in the building, prompting changes in school design and procedures nationwide [1]
• 1910-11-07 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1913-03-21 -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
• 1913-03-25 Great Dayton Flood: winter rains cause Great Miami River to flood, Ohio's greatest natural disaster
• 1913-03-26 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
• 1914-08-05 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1915-11-02 First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
• 1915-12-27 US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for an eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments

• 1920-09-17 National Football League is born in Canton, Ohio; 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association; renamed the NFL in 1922
• 1921-05-14 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death in Ohio
• 1921-08-03 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars
• 1922-02-21 WHK-AM in Cleveland, Ohio begins radio transmissions
• 1923-02-02 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
• 1923-07-11 Harry Frazee, sells the baseball team Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
• 1924-06-28 Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain, Ohio, killing 93
• 1925-09-03 The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive
• 1927-04-03 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
• 1929-05-09 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
• 1929-05-15 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
• 1930-04-21 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
• 1931-03-26 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
• 1932-01-01 Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as Mayor of Massillon, Ohio

• 1933-10-12 John Dillinger escapes from jail in Allen County, Ohio
• 1934-04-12 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
• 1934-05-23 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers
• 1934-07-21 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
• 1934-08-19 The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio

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• 1738-03-11 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
• 1774-09-26 Johnny Appleseed [John Chapman], American pioneer nurseryman (introduced apple trees to Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1845)
• 1775-07-25 Anna Symmes Harrison, 9th 1st lady (1841), born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1864)
• 1800-10-27 Benjamin Franklin Wade, American politician, US Senator from Ohio (1851-69), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1878)
• 1802-12-02 Melancthon Smith Wade, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1868)
• 1805-02-21 David Tod, US diplomat and politician (Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63), born in Youngstown, Ohio (d. 1868)
• 1807-06-11 James F. Schenck, American rear admiral (Mexican–American War), born in Franklin, Ohio (d. 1882)
• 1808-02-26 Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d. 1871)
• 1808-03-14 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1888)
• 1808-04-26 Martha Finley, American children's book author (Elsie Dinsmore series), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1909)
• 1809-10-04 Robert Cumming Schenck, American Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin, Ohio (d. 1890)
• 1811-03-15 Robert Allen, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Point, Ohio (d. 1886)
• 1811-05-24 Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1877)
• 1812-12-16 William Grose, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1900)
• 1814-04-03 Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Mantua, Ohio (d. 1901)

• 1815-02-02 Nathaniel Collins McLean, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1905)
• 1815-09-10 Eleazer Arthur Paine, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Geauga County, Ohio (d. 1882)
• 1815-10-29 Dan Emmett, American composer, born in Mount Vernon, Ohio (d. 1904)
• 1816-05-24 Robert Seaman Granger, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1894)
• 1817-07-19 Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse (union), born in Knox County, Ohio (d. 1901)
• 1818-03-23 Don Carlos Buell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Lowell, Ohio (d. 1898)
• 1818-10-15 Irvin McDowell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1885)
• 1819-09-06 William Starke Rosecrans, American inventor, politician and US Army General (Union Army), born in Delaware County, Ohio (d. 1898)
• 1819-09-07 Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (D), born in Fultonham, Ohio (d. 1885)

• 1820-02-20 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, American druggist politician and General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1895)
• 1820-04-26 Alice Cary, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)
• 1821-05-02 Abram Sanders Piatt, American farmer, publisher, poet, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1908)
• 1821-07-08 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Urbana, Ohio (d. 1862)
• 1822-03-01 Charles Champion Gilbert, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1903)

• 1823-02-27 Ferdinand Van Derveer, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Middletown, Ohio (d. 1892)
• 1823-03-14 Roswell S. Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Worthington, Ohio (d. 1887)
• 1823-04-04 Robert Byington Mitchell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1882)
• 1824-08-03 William Burnham Woods, American politician, judge, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
• 1824-08-09 Simon Goodell Griffin, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
• 1824-08-21 John Sanford Mason, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1897)
• 1824-09-04 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)
• 1825-02-28 Quincy Adams Gillmore, American civil engineer, author, and Major General (Union Army), born in Lorain County, Ohio (d. 1888)
• 1825-05-06 Joseph Bailey, American civil engineer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Morgan County, Ohio (d. 1867)
• 1825-06-12 John Cook, American bugler (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1910)
• 1825-09-03 William Wallace Burns, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Coshocton, Ohio (d. 1892)
• 1825-12-18 Charles Griffin, American Major General (Union Army), born in Granville, Ohio (d. 1867)
• 1826-02-04 Halbert Eleazer Paine, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Chardon, Ohio (d. 1905)
• 1826-10-31 Hugh Boyle Ewing, American diplomat, author, attorney, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1905)
• 1826-11-02 Robert Hopkins Hatton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1862)
• 1826-11-02 William Haines Lytle, US politician, poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1863)
• 1826-11-03 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kingsville, Ohio (d. 1867)
• 1827-02-19 Charles Robert Woods, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1855)
• 1827-05-21 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
• 1827-10-14 James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
• 1828-05-20 James William Reilly, American lawyer, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1905)
• 1828-11-14 James Birdseye MacPherson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clyde, Ohio (d. 1864)
• 1828-12-16 John Beatty, American banker, statesman, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1914)
• 1829-02-01 John Potts Slough, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1867)
• 1829-08-07 Thomas Ewing Jr, American attorney, 1st chief justice of Kansas, congressman, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1896)
• 1829-09-08 George Crook, American Major General (Union Army), born in Taylorsville, Ohio (d. 1890)
• 1830-01-07 [Samuel] Emerson Opdycke, American businessman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hubbard, Ohio (d. 1884)
• 1830-07-22 William Sooy Smith, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Tarlton, Ohio (d. 1916)
• 1831-04-22 Alexander McDowell McCook, American Major General (Union Army), born in Columbiana County, Ohio (d. 1903)
• 1831-08-28 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady of the United States (1877-81), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1889)

• 1831-12-06 Joshua Woodrow Sill, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1862)
• 1831-12-27 Lucius Fairchild, American politician, diplomat, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kent, Ohio (d. 1896)
• 1832-03-07 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, American engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Navarre, Ohio (d. 1895)
• 1832-04-19 Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States as the wife of James A. Garfield (1881), born in Garrettsville, Ohio (d. 1918)
• 1832-05-05 Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian, ethnologist (History of Pacific States), born in Granville, Ohio (d. 1918)
• 1832-08-11 Thomas Ogden Osbord, American lawyer, diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Licking County, Ohio (d. 1904)
• 1832-10-01 Caroline Harrison, 1st lady of the U.S. (1889-1892), wife of Benjamin Harrison, born in Oxford, Ohio (d. 1892)
• 1832-12-14 Daniel H. Reynolds, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Centerburg, Ohio (d. 1902)
• 1833-06-15 Edward Moody McCook, American lawyer, politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1909)
• 1833-07-22 Benjamin Hanby, American composer ("Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"), born in Rushville, Ohio (d. 1867)

• 1833-10-05 Cyrus Bussey, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hubbard, Ohio (d. 1915)
• 1834-07-22 Daniel McCook Jr, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Carrollton, Ohio (d. 1864)
• 1834-11-10 Wager Swayne, American Colonel (Union Army), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1902)
• 1835-03-06 Charles Ewing, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1883)
• 1835-08-02 Elisha Grey, American electrical engineer and inventor (Telephone), born in Barnesville, Ohio (d. 1901)
• 1835-08-08 James William Forsyth, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Maumee, Ohio (d. 1906)
• 1835-11-17 Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
• 1835-11-18 Americus Vespucius Rice, American politician, banker, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Perrysville, Ohio (d. 1904)
• 1836-01-29 Benjamin Franklin Potts, American lawyer, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Fox Township, Ohio (d. 1887)
• 1836-08-22 Archibald M Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76), born in Bedford, Ohio (d. 1918)
• 1837-07-31 William Quantrill, American guerrilla leader in the Confederate Army who led Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre, born in Canal Dover, Ohio (d. 1865)
• 1838-02-12 Charles C. Walcutt, American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1898)
• 1838-05-06 Alfred Pease, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1882)

• 1838-11-06 John Grant Mitchell, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1894)
• 1839-03-08 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (automatic dishwasher), born in Ashtabula County, Ohio (d. 1913)
• 1839-07-17 Ephraim Shay, American inventor of Shay type of geared steam locomotive, born in Huron, Ohio (d. 1916)
• 1839-09-10 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls), born in Clifton, Ohio (d. 1912)

• 1847-06-08 Ida McKinley, US First Lady (1897-1901) and wife of the 25th US President William McKinley, born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1907)
• 1847-09-16 Albert Ross Parsons, American composer, born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1933)
• 1848-03-25 William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1908)

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