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Thomas Nuttall explores Arkansas
English botanist Thomas Nuttall explored the Oklahoma wilderness during spring and summer 1819. Nuttall, born in Yorkshire, England, on January 5, 1786, traveled to America in 1808 to study botany. -
The french revolution
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. -
George Washington becomes the first president
He was a general and commander in chief in the army, and later became the first president in the united states, 1789 to 1797 -
Napoleon forces Spain to sign the secret treaty
By the Treaty of San Ildefonso (not to be confused with the earlier Treaty of San Ildefonso of 19 August 1796 which formed an alliance between France and Spain against the British) and the Treaty of Madrid, 21 March 1801, Spain returned to France the territory of Louisiana which France had ceded to Spain in 1763. -
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president
In our national elections, electoral voters decide separately to fill the position of president and vice president, but that wasn't always the case. On February 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected president of the United States, but there was more to it than beating his opponent. -
Thomas jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from france
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804-06), led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, among other objectives. In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France. -
Fort Smith is established
The site that would later become Fort Smith became part of the United States in the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Soon after, the Pike Expedition (1806) explored the Arkansas River. Fort Smith was founded in 1817 as a military post. -
Dunbar and Hunter explore the Ouachita River and Hot Springs
The expedition left Dunbar’s plantation in the middle of October 1804, reached the vicinity of the hot springs on December 7, remained there for a month, and then made a much faster down-river trip home, arriving at the end of January. -
Freeman and Custis explore the Red River
The party was conveyed on two flat-bottomed barges and a pirogue, departing on April 19, 1806, from Fort Adams in Mississippi Territory (thirty-eight miles south of Natchez), at what had been until then the southwest corner of entry into the United States. Entering the Red River on May 2, they reached Natchitoches on May 19, where they took on additional equipment, soldiers, five boats, and French guides, now reaching a contingency of fifty. -
Lewis and clark explore the northern Louisiana purchase
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It comprised a selected group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark. Their perilous journey lasted from May 1804 to September 1806. -
New Madrid earthquakes
The first principal earthquake, M7.5, occurred at about 2:15 am (local time) in northeast Arkansas on December 16, 1811. The second principal shock, M7.3, occurred in Missouri on January 23, 1812, and the third, M7.5, on February 7, 1812, along the Reelfoot fault in Missouri and Tennessee. -
War of 1812.
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
Quapaw Treaty
A treaty of friendship, cession, and limits, made and entered into, this twenty-fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and eighteen, by, and between, William Clark and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners on the part and behalf of the United States, of the one part, and the undersigned, chiefs and warriors of the Quapaw tribe or nation, on the part and behalf of their said tribe or nation, of the other part. -
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft explores Arkansas
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft published the first written description of the Arkansas Ozarks’ geography, vegetation, wildlife, and inhabitants. His Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw, published in London, England, in 1821, is an account of a three-month exploration by Schoolcraft and one companion, Levi Pettibone. From November 1818 to February 1819, Schoolcraft explored land. -
Congress approves the Missouri compromise
Finally, a compromise was reached. On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. -
The Territory of Arkansas is established
Arkansas is a southern U.S. state bordering the Mississippi River. It's known for its abundant park and wilderness areas, with terrain encompassing mountains, caves, rivers and hot springs. The rugged Ozarks region in its northwest has hiking trails and limestone caves such as Blanchard Springs Caverns. Its capital, Little Rock, hosts the Clinton Presidential Center, housing Bill Clinton’s presidential archives.
