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 Colorado Timeline History
1682: Explorer La Salle appropriated the area east of the Rocky Mountains, now known as Colorado, for France
1765: Juan Maria Rivera led a Spanish expedition into the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo Mountains in search of gold and silver
1803: The U. S. acquired eastern Colorado from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase
1806: Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike and small party of U.S. soldiers discovered peak that bears his name
1848: Mexico ceded western Colorado to United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1851: First permanent settlement founded at San Luis
1854: Ute indians killed fifteen inhabitants of Fort Pueblo on Christmas Day
1858: Gold discovered in Denver
1859: The first stagecoach with mail for Cherry Creek settlements left Leavenworth, Kansas; the first newspaper in the region, the Rocky Mountain News, was published; more gold was discovered at North Clear Creek and the Blue River; oil was discovered
1861: Congress established the Colorado territory
1862: First oil well drilled
1863: Denver linked to the east coast by telegraph
1864 Sand Creek Massacre kills 163 Indians, mostly women and children; Denver hit by a devastating flood
1867: Denver is permanent seat of the government
1870: Railroad connections established with the East
1876: Colorado became the 38th state
1878: Telephones were installed in Denver
1881: Ute tribes moved onto reservations
1883: Electric lights installed in Denver
1886: The last public hanging in Denver occurred
1894: State Capitol completed at a cost of $2,500,000; Colorado was the second state to extend suffrage to women
1905: Colorado had three governors in one day due to a political squabble
1906: United States Mint in Denver issued its first coins.
1908: Denver Municipal Auditorium completed in time for the Democratic National Convention
1913: The "Big Snow of 1913" covered Colorado with 3 - 5 feet; licensing of automobiles began; Helen Robinson was first elected woman to serve in state Senate
1916: Colorado adopted prohibition
1922: First commerical radio license in state issued
1925: Federal Reserve Bank established in Denver
1942: Federal government established Amache, a camp for Japanese-Americans who were relocated from their homes on the West Coast
1958: Air Force Academy built near Colorado Springs; state suffered from grasshopper plague
1960: Denver Broncos professional football team established
1967: Denver Rockets became Colorado's professional American Basketball Association team
1974: Desegregation of schools in Denver began; Denver Rockets were renamed the Denver Nuggets
1976: A cloudburst on the Big Thompson River resulted in a massive flood in Larimer County, killing more than 145 people
1993: Colorado Rockies became first regional major league baseball team
1995: Quebec Nordiques National Hockey League team moved to Colorado and became the Colorado Avalanche; Denver International Airport opened; Denver landed a National Hockey League franchise; the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup; careless campers ignited the Buffalo Creek fire, which scorched 12,000 acres and destroyed nine homes; lightning struck in Mesa Verde National Park that resulted in fires that burned 4600 acres
1997: Oklahoma City bombing trials held in Denver
1998: Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl
1999: Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl again; Bill Owens elected governor the first Republican governor of the state in 24 years:; 12 students and one teacher murdered and 23 other students wounded at Columbine High School in Denver
2000: The Hi Meadow fire ravaged 10,800 acres and destroyed 51 homes; the Bobcat fire burned 10,600 acres and destroyed 22 structures; the Bircher fire raged across 23,000 acres in Mesa Verde National Park
2005: Referendum C, a five year tax package which modified the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, passed by voters
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