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Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reaches the Arkansas on his way to the mouth of the Mississippi. He visits a Quapaw village and claims the land in the name of King Louis XIV.
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Arkansas, which has been part of Missouri Territory since 1812, is detached and made a territory.
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Congress establishes the boundary separating Arkansas from Indian Territory to the west.
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Arkansas became the 25th state on June 15, 1836, with Little Rock as its capital.
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Signing of legislation ordering all free Negroes out of Arkansas by the end of the year.
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Skirmish at Brownsville, AR and Williamsburg, KY
September 10 - Federal troops occupy Little Rock. -
Congress passes the Reconstruction Act, which voids the government of Arkansas and nine other southern states.
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Month-long "Brooks-Baxter War" between rival claimants to the governorship ends when President Ulysses S Grant orders the forces of the former to disperse.
October 13 - Ratification of a new constitution restoring the franchise to all whites and guaranteeing full civil rights for blacks ends the Reconstruction era -
Diamonds found near Murfreesboro, which becomes the site of the only diamond mine in the United States.
