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Loggers at Russell Camp, Aroostook County, ca. 1900
 Maine Timeline History
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1000 A.D.: Viking Norse: explorers are thought to have landed on the coast
1498: John Cabot explorers the coast of Maine
1604: Pierre du Guast of France lands at Dochet Island, and founded St. Croix settlement; later moving on to Nova Scotia due to a harsh winter
1607: Popham Colony, an English settlement, is built. It lasts less than six months after a difficult winter
1614: British Captain John Smith visits the area
1622: Monhegan, Maine's first permanent European settlement, is established. The entire territory is granted to John Mason and others
1652: Maine comes under the control of Massachusetts
1760: After many years of battles during French and Indian War, a treaty with the Indians is finally reached
1775: Residents attack and capture a British ship, and it's now called the "First Naval Battle of the American Revolution."
1812: Bangor captured and significant parts of Maine seized by the British
1820: Maine becomes the 23rd state
1842: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty successfully decides the official border between the state, and the neighboring country of Canada
1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswich. State takes an active anti-slavery stand.
1866: Devastating fire in Portland.
1941: President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, visit Rockland
1948: Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first Republican woman elected to the U.S. Senate
1961: The USS Abraham Lincoln, the first Polaris submarine, is launched at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
1979: State Senator, Edmund Muskie, becomes U.S. Secretary of State
1980: To settle the long dispute over land, the U.S. pays over 80 million dollars to the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians
1997: State Senator, William Cohen, becomes U.S. Secretary of Defense
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