First General Land Office opens in Oregon City

Willamette Valley Treaty Commission negotiates treaties

Teamsters discover gold in Rogue River Valley

Anson Dart convenes Tansy Point Treaty Council at mouth of Columbia

First U.S. Army post, Fort Orford, built at Port Orford

U.S. Coast Survey begins charting shoreline

U.S. Army establishes Fort Dalles on Oregon Trail

Congress names Salem capital of Oregon Territory

Territorial legislature adopts Oregon law code

U.S. Army establishes Fort Lane in Rogue River Valley

Territorial legislature publishes Oregon Archives

Congress funds Scottsburg-Myrtle Creek Wagon Road

Cow Creek and Rogue River Indians negotiate treaties with U. S.

Congress carves Washington Territory out of Oregon Territory

First coal exports begin on southwest Oregon coast

Volunteers massacre Coquille Indians

Legislature prohibits sale of ardent spirits, arms and ammunition to tribes

Legislature bars testimony of "Negroes, mulattoes, and Indians, or persons one half or more of Indian blood" in proceedings involving a white person

Pacific Railroad Surveys examine potential routes

Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes sign treaties at Walla Walla Treaty Council, reserving land and rights to food resources

Warms Springs tribes sign treaty reserving land and rights to food resources

Rogue River Indian War and Yakima Indian War commence

President James Buchanan creates Siletz Reservation

Territorial capitol burns in Salem

U.S. Army establishes Forts Umpqua, Hoskins and Yamhill

President James Buchanan creates Grand Ronde Reservation

U.S. Army orders closure of settlement east of Cascades because of warfare with Indians

Constitutional Convention meets in Salem

Draft constitution bans slavery and bars African-Americans from residency

Aaron Meier founds Meier & Frank Department Store

First election selects state officials

Congress grants Oregon statehood on February 14, becoming only state admitted to Union with exclusion laws in their constitution

First bank established by Ladd & Tilton in Portland

First elected governor of state, John Whiteaker, inaugurated

Census enumerates 52,465 residents

Oregon Steam Navigation Company commences service

First daily stage operates between Portland and Sacramento

First Oregon State Fair held at Oregon City

Congress passes Homestead Act

First Oregon Cavalry raises six companies

Gold rush commences to Blue Mountains

First portage railroad completed at Cascades

Laws passed banning interracial marriages; requiring Blacks, Chinese, Hawaiians (Kanakas) and Mulattos to pay annual $5 tax, those not able to pay required to perform road maintenance

U.S. Army establishes Fort Klamath

Telegraph line connects Portland-Sacramento

U.S. Army establishes Camp Watson

Treaty creates Klamath Reservation

Popular vote approves Salem as state capital

Long Tom Rebellion confirms pro-southern sympathies

Congress authorizes Oregon Central Military Wagon Road

First lighthouse, Cape Arago, illuminates light signal

U.S. Army establishes Camp Warner

Married Women's Property Act protects women's rights

Congress authorizes Corvallis-Yaquina Bay Military Wagon Road and Willamette Valley-Cascade Mountain Military Wagon Road

U.S. Army establishes Fort Harney

Congress authorizes The Dalles-Boise Military Wagon Road

Oregon State Agricultural College opens (later becomes Oregon State University)

Direct export of wheat to Europe begins

Congress authorizes Coos Bay Military Wagon Road

U.S. Census enumerates 90,923 residents

Abigail Scott Duniway launches suffrage campaign

Despite failing in Oregon election, U.S. Constitution adds 15th Amendment granting African-American men the right to vote

Oregon & California Railroad completes line to Roseburg

Modoc Indian War commences

Oregon Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) forms chapters

Modoc Indians face trial and execution at Fort Klamath

Oregon Pioneer Association forms

Great fire destroys much of downtown Portland

First U.S. Life-Saving Service station opens near Coos Bay

University of Oregon opens

Robert D. Hume builds salmon cannery on Rogue River

Nez Perce Indian War involves Chief Joseph's band

Congress passes Desert Land Act

High schools authorized for districts with 1,000 students

Bannock-Paiute Indian War sweeps into southeastern Oregon

Women gain right to vote in school elections

BIA Indian Training School opens in Forest Grove, third boarding school of its type, designed to assimilate tribal children into white culture, teach vocational skills

Great Gale snow and wind storm devastates parts of Oregon and Washington

U.S. Census enumerates 174,768 residents

O. R. & N. Company begins railroad through Gorge

Normal schools open in Monmouth, Ashland and Drain to train teachers

O. R. & N. Company railroad reaches Umatilla providing transcontinental links

Oregon Short Line railroad extends to Huntington

BIA Indian Training School opens near Salem, is renamed Chemawa Indian School

Oregon Supreme Court admits Mary Gysin Leonard to the state bar as Oregon’s first female lawyer

Chief Joseph's Nez Perce band locates on Colville Reservation

Thugs murder ten Chinese miners in Hells Canyon

General Allotment Act assaults tribal lands on reservations

Cranberry harvests commence

First in U.S. to make Labor Day a holiday

First Agricultural Experiment Station opens at Corvallis

Congress passes Oregon Indian Depredation Claims Act

U.S. Census enumerates 313,767 residents

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association founded

Congress passes Forest Reserve Act

Congress authorizes Columbia River Lightship No. 50

Mazama Club forms to promote outdoor adventure

Workmen complete Cascade Locks

Holdup of '97 blocks state legislature

Oregon Historical Society receives charter

Workmen complete Yamhill River Locks

 U.S. Census enumerates 413,536 residents