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In 1541 June 18 Hernando de Soto of Spain was the first European to discover Arkansas.
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In 1541, June 18 Hernando de Soto of Spain was the very fist European to explore Arkansas.
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French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette descended to the mouth of Arkansas river. They were warned of hostile tribes to the south by the Quapaw Indians.
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Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reached Arkansas on his way to the mouth of the Mississippi on his way there he visited a Quapaw village and claimed it for King Louis XIV.
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In 1686 Henri de Tonti founded Arkansas Post, this was the first settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
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In 1721 A group of 1300 half-starved colonist-whites and black slaves abandons Arkansas post after John laws scheme to developed the Mississippi valley collapsed.
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In 1762 France cedes the Louisiana Territory including, Arkansas, to Spain, but french soldiers continue to man Arkansas post.
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In 1803 the United States purchased the Louisiana territory from France which had retaken it from Spain as part of the treaty of San Ildefonso.
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Arkansas has been part of the Missouri territory since 1812 but it has finally detached and made a territory in 1819.
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Congress established a boundary separating Arkansas Territory from Indian Territory to the west.