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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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