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The French Revolution
It led to the end of the monarchy, and to many wars. King Louis XVI was executed in 1793. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power in November 1799. -
George Washington becomes the first president
After the constitution was ratified, he unanimously won the presidential election. At the time he was elected there was no established political parties in the US. -
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president
Thomas Jefferson is elected the third president of the United States. The election constitutes the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another in the United States. -
Thomas jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from france
Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from France. -
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Dunbar and Hunter explore the Ouachita River and Hot Springs
The team consisted of thirteen enlisted soldiers, Hunter’s teenage son, two of Dunbar’s slaves, and one of his servants. The nineteen men occupied a strange-looking “Chinese-style vessel” that had been designed by Hunter in Pittsburgh several months earlier. -
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Lewis and clark explore the northern Louisiana purchase
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. -
Freeman and Custis explore the Red River
The Red River expedition of 1806 was the first major scientific probe into the American West to be led by civilian scientists and include an academically trained naturalist. As part of his master plan for the exploration of the West, President Thomas Jefferson considered the Red River expedition second in importance only to Lewis and Clark's investigation of the Missouri and Columbia rivers. -
New Madrid earthquakes
New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.5–7.9 -
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War of 1812
United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. -
Fort Smith is established
Fort Smith became part of the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Soon after, the Pike Expedition explored the Arkansas River. Fort Smith was founded in 1817 as a military post. -
Quapaw treaty
A treaty of friendship, cession, and limits signed on August 24th by, 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. -
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft explores Arkansas
From November 1818 to February 1819, Schoolcraft explored land from Potosi, Missouri, southwest to the White River, northwest to near Springfield, Missouri, then south by canoe on the White River to present-day Batesville (Independence County), and finally northeast again to Missouri. -
Thomas Nuttall explores Arkansas
In 1818 Nuttall began his exploration of Arkansas and the old southwest. In January 1819 Nuttall arrived at Arkansas Post (Arkansas County) where he sold his boat and cargo. -
Congress approves the Missouri compromise
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
The Territory of Arkansas, initially organized as the Territory of Arkansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1819 until June 15, 1836, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. -
Napoleon forces Spain to sign the secret treaty
Spain made a secret treaty with France. Spain gave Louisiana back to France.
