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1610 - Henry Hudson claimed the Hudson Bay watershed, which included much of eastern North Dakota for England.
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1713 - England gets the northern part of North Dakota from France
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1800 -
Alexander Henry Jr. established a fur post at Park River. He moved his establishment to Pembina in 1801, and it became the beggining for the first white settlement in what is now North Dakota. -
1802 - On March 12, the first non-Indian child was born in what is now North Dakota to Pierre Bonza and his wife, Black slaves of Alexander Henry, Jr.
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November 2, 1889,
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An Influenza epidemic swept the state killing 2,700 North Dakotans.
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A blizzard hit North Dakota and Minnesota. The 10 inches of snow broke a 1926 Grand Forks record. The blizzard killed 6 people in the Midwest with 4 dead in North Dakota car crashes.
