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French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette draw the first map of Kansas.
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Fort de Cavagnial becomes the first European settlement in Kansas.
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William Becknell opens the Santa Fe Trail.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allows Kansas's voters to decide about slavery.
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Kansas becomes the 34th state.
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Union forces win the battle of Mine Creek, the only Civil War to take place in Kansas.
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Women in Kansas gain the right to vote in all elections.
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Flooding in eastern Kansas forces nearly 400,000 people from their homes.
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The U.S. Surpreme Cort rules that school Segregation is illegal in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Time Magazine names Kathleen Sebelius one of the Nations five best governers.
