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The Native Indians of Vermont
included the Abnaki, Mohican, Pennacook and the
Pocomtuc tribes |
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1535 |
French explorer Jacques
Cartier (1491-1557) is first European to sight
Vermont |
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1609 |
French explorer Samuel de
Champlain (1567-1635) claimed the Vermont region for
France and discovers Lake Champlain
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1690 |
Dutch-British settlers and
British soldiers from Albany under Captain Jacobus
de Warm established the De Warm Stockade at Chimney
Point
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1724 |
British build Fort Dummer at
Dummerston |
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1724 |
Vermont's first permanent
British settlement was made at Fort Dummer, under
the command of Lieutenant Timothy Dwight , in what
is now Brattleboro
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1731 |
The French arrived, under
Seigneur Gilles Hocquart, and constructed a small
temporary wooden stockade (Fort de Pieux) on what
was Chimney Point
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1734 |
The French constructed Fort
St. Frederic which gave the French control of the
New France/Vermont border region in the Lake
Champlain Valley
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1759 |
French abandon settlement at
Chimney Point |
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1761 |
The township of Windsor,
referred to as "the birthplace of Vermont", was
established
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1774 |
The Scottish-American Land
Company brings Scottish settlers to Vermont |
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1775 |
Ethan Allen (1738-1789) leads
the settlers and the Green Mountain Boys and
captures Fort Ticonderoga
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1775 |
1775 - 1783 - The American
Revolution creates the United States of America. The
Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes
and total power to legislate any laws governing the
American colonies
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1776 |
July 4, 1776 - United States
Declaration of Independence |
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1778 |
July 10, 1778 - France
declares war against Britain and makes an alliance
with the American revolutionary forces
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1780 |
Last major Indian raid, led by
the British, in Royalton |
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1783 |
September 3, 1783 - The Treaty
of Paris is signed by the victorious United States
and the defeated Great Britain
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1791 |
Statehood - The Date that
Vermont was admitted to the Union - March 4, 1791.
Constitution - Vermont was the 14th State to be
admitted to the Union. State Motto - " Freedom and
Unity "
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1803 |
The Louisiana Purchase - In
1803, the United States bought the Louisiana
Territory from France. The U.S. Secretary of State,
James Madison paid 15 million dollars for the land
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1812 |
1812 - 1815: The War of 1812
between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate
but confirmed America's Independence
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1820 |
Maine becomes its own state |
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1859 |
John Brown raided Harpers
Ferry and set in motion events that led directly to
the outbreak of the Civil War.
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1861 |
1861 - 1865: The American
Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known
opponent of slavery, was elected president and in
1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of
South Carolina was followed by the secession of
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the
Confederate States of America. The bombardment of
Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the
American Civil War.
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1865 |
The surrender of Robert E. Lee
on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy |
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1865 |
1865 December 6 - The
Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially
abolishing slavery.
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1865 |
The surrender of Robert E. Lee
on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy |
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1898 |
1898-1901 The Spanish American
War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US
annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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