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Alta California was explored and claimed for Spain in 1542 by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
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Town of Santa Fe established as Spanish-Indian trade centre
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The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
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The French and Indian War is over.
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United States Declaration of Independence
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United States and the defeated Great Britain
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Jedediah Smith leads expedition to Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada
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On March 2, 1861, the Nevada Territory separated from the Utah Territory and adopted its current name, shortened from Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy range"). Eight days prior to the presidential election of 1864, Nevada became the 36th state in the union.
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Legislature passed an act allowing construction of a railroad across Nevada from west to east, to encourage the building of transcontientiental railroad.
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In 1883 Sarah Winnemucca writes the book "Life among the Piutes" and establish Nevada's first school for Native Americans
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On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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On february 26, 1911 a desperate battle raged between a posse of the Nevada State Police and a nomadic band of Indians lead by a chief later known as "Shoshone Mike"
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A remote site that is buffered for public access by vast, fedrally owned land 1,375 square miles that serves as a millittary gunnery range and protected wildlife refuge.
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Nevada became the US cold war continental nuclear proving ground when a one-liloton nuclear device was detonated over Frechman Flat.
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Apple II shot on May 5, 1955 which was part of operation Teapot conducted at the Nevada Test Site. For Los Alamos scientist the primary task of the Teapot series was to work on miniaturizing nuclear warheads while simultaneously enhancing the explosive yield to extract more destructive energy from a smaller machine.
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Nuclear explosion "Priscilla" with a yield of about 37 kilotons, detonated from a balloon on June 24, 1957, at the Nevada test site.
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Atmospheric testing comes to a close.
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The US resumed underground nuclear testing. Operation Nougat began a series of 45 nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
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President Kennedy leaving the Rocket Devlopment Staion at the Nevada Test Site after viewing a full-scale mock-up of a NERVA engine (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application.)
