1200's: Mojave Indians inhabited the land, planted crops along river
banks
1519: Area claimed by Spain
1609: Town of Santa Fe established as Spanish-Indian trade center
1776: Spanish missionaries entered southern Nevada
1821: Mexico took control of the Nevada area
1826: Peter Skene Ogden explored the Snake River; Jedediah Smith led
expedition to Muddy River
1828: Ogden discovered Humboldt River
1830: Santa Fe merchant, Antonio Armijo, led first pack train from Santa
Fe to Los Angeles
1833: Joseph Walker led expedition along Humboldt River
1841: Earliest immigrants, the Bartleson-Bidwell party, passed through
Nevada
1842: Capt. John Fremont and party were first white men to view Lake
Tahoe
1843: Joseph Walker led first group of wagons across the Sierra
1846: Donner party became trapped in the Sierras. 47 out of 87 perished.
1848: The United States gained control of Nevada after the
Mexican-American War ended
1849: Over 60,000 settlers in covered wagons 49ers: passed through
Nevada on their way west
1851: Gold was discovered near Dalton
1859: Silver discovery brought thousands into the state; Virginia City
developed almost overnight
1860: The Nevada Territory was created
1864: Nevada became 36th state
1869: Gambling was legalized; an earthquake shook Reno; transcontinental
railroad crossed Nevada for the first time
1870: U S Mint established in Carson City; first train robbery in the
Western U S occurred
1875: Virginia City was consumed by the great fire
1888-90: Nearly 100 inches of snow fell in northern Nevada - the "White
Winter"
1890: Elizabeth Potts first woman to be executed in Nevada
1894: The Great Meteor fell
1902: Wyatt Earp arrived in Tonopah
1910: Gambling was abolished
1912: The last Indian uprising occurred; Shoshone Mike and family
members were killed
1914: Women won right to vote
1916: Last stage robbery in the country took place at Jarbidge Canyon
1918: State prohibition law went into effect
1931: State legalized six-week divorce law and gambling
1935: Hoover Dam completed; dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt
1941: Las Vegas strip was estabished
1946: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opened the Flamingo Hotel
1951: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission began testing in the newly
established Nevada Proving Grounds
1954: Ronald Reagan performed at the Last Frontier
1955: Riviera Hotel became first high-rise
1956: Nellis Air Force Base became home of Thunderbirds - Air Force
aerobatic team
1959: Wayne Newton opened at the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas
1966: Howard Hughes moved to Las Vegas; Circus Circus Casino opened
1969: MGM Grand opened
1986: Great Basin National Park became the first national park in Nevada
1990: U.S. census population figures showed Nevada was fasting growing
state
1997: First supersonic land speed record set in Black Rock Desert;
Mandalay Bay and Venetian opened in Las Vegas
1998: The Bellagio opened
2002: Fight between Hell's Angels and Mongols in Laughlin Casino
resulted in three dead and 13 wounded a; B-29 Super fortress bomber discovered in
Lake Mead
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