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The Paleo-Indians were the earliest human inhabitants of America. They lived in caves and were Nomadic hunters.
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The Eastern Woodland Culture were Fish Hunters.
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People built shelters and made stone weapons and tools.
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The Adena people become Ohio's first farmers. They grow plants including squash and sunflowers. The Adena people create the Serpent Mound in present day Adams County.
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The Woodland Period including the Hopewell cultures lived near the Northeastern and Midwestern rivers in the US.
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An explorer from France named Rene-Robert Cavelier explores and claims the Ohio region.
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The French and Indian Wars between France and Great Britain fought over land in North America. Iroquois Indians allied with the French and the Algoquian allied with the British. There were many battles that involved the Indians, French, and the British.
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The Ohio Company of Virginia claims the Ohio region for England.
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Ohio was originally colonized by French fur traders. Britain took colonial possession after the French and Indian War in 1754.
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Pontiac's Rebellion broke out in the Ohio River Valley. The British treated the former Indian allies like conquered people. This prompted Ottawa Chief Pontiac to lead a rebellion against the British.
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This war took place in Indiana and Ohio. This war is also know as Little Turtle's war. The American Native Indians won two battles and were defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
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Ohio's first permanent settlement, Marietta, was founded. The town was named in honor of Marie Antoinette.
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General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats the Native American Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
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The Treaty of Greenville is signed and effectively ends the Indian Wars in Ohio.
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The Division Act creates the Indian Territory
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The British ceded Ohio at the end of the American Revolution. Ohio was incorporated into the Northwest Territory. Ohio became the 17th state in the United States of America. Originally, Chillicothe was Ohio's first state capital.
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Ohio University, founded in 1804 in Athens, was the first university in Ohio and the Northwest Territory.
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Tecumseh defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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Columbus named state capitol.
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Construction on the Miami and Erie canals begins.
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Ohio and Erie canals are completed.
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The Indian Removal Act was created.
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The nation's first interracial, coeducational college, Oberlin College, was founded in Oberlin in 1833.
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William Henry Harrison, from North Bend, elected president.
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The Wyandottes, Ohio's last Indian tribe, leave Ohio
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The last Indian tribe in Ohio, the Wyandots, leave.
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The second US Women's Rights Convention is held in Salem.
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The second US Women's Rights Convention is held in Salem.
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John Brown, an abolitionist from Akron, leads raid on Harper's Ferry, VA.
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Ohio fought for the Union but the state showed mixed feelings toward slavery.
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Congress passes the Homestead Act which opens the Great Plains to settlers.
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The Battle of Buffington Island becomes the only Civil War battle in Ohio.
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Ulysses S. Grant, from Point Pleasant, is elected president.
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Rutherford B. Hayes, from Delaware, is elected president.
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James Garfield, from Orange, is elected president.
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The Dawes General Allotment Act was passed by Congress. This allows the US to break up the large Indian Reservations. White settlers purchased Indian lands.
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Benjamin Harrison, from North Bend, is elected president.
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William Howard Taft, from Cincinnati, is elected president.
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US enters World War I. About 6,800 Ohio soldiers will be killed.
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Warren G. Harding, from Corsica, is elected president.
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Steel becomes Ohio's number one industry.
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Great Depression hit the nation
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US enters World War II; about 20,000 Ohio servicemen will be killed.
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In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower officially signed the documents to make Ohio a state.
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All Indians declared citizens of U.S.
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American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed
