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The construction of dams, like The Dalles Dam, was central to the power supply of the region
 Oregon Timeline History
1543: Spanish explorer Bartolome Ferrello traveled along Oregon and Washington coastlines
1579: Sir Francis Drake visited Oregon
1765: First use of name "Ouragon" by Maj. Robert Rogers
1778: Capt. Cook began fur trade on coast
1792: Capt. Robert Gray traveled and named Columbia River
1805: Lewis and Clark Expedition explored Snake and Columbia Rivers; established Fort Clatsop
1811: John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company established Fort Astoria, first permanent white settlement in Oregon
1818: U.S. and Great Britain agreed to Joint-Occupancy Treaty
1819: Treaty with Spain set southern boundary of Oregon
1827: Second Joint-Occupancy Treaty with Great Britain
1843: First group of 900 emigrants arrived via Oregon Trail
1847: Cayuse Indian War; Whitman massacre
1848: Oregon Territory established
1859: Oregon became 33rd state
1861: Flood in Albany, water 36 feet higher than normal
1869: Union and Central Pacific Railroads connected
1872: Modoc Indian War
1873: Great fire in Portland destroyed most of town
1877: Nez Perce Indian war
1878: Bannock-Paiute Indian war
1885: Chief Joseph's Nez Perce tribes relocated to Colville Reservation
1911: Oregon first U.S. state to hold primary elections
1933: Tillamook Burn destroyed over 240,000 acres of forest
1935: Fire destroyed state capitol building
1936: Fire in Bandon killed eleven and destroyed the town
1937: Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project on Columbia River completed
1939: Tillamook Burn destroyed 190,000 acres of forest; rebuild of state capitol completed
1942: Japanese submarine shells Fort Steves during World War II; Japanese airplane firebombed Siskiyou National Forest
1945: Tillamook Burn destroyed 180,000 acres of forest
1947: Plane crash killed Governor Snell, secretary of state, Farrell, and others
1960: Maurine Neuberger, first woman Oregon senator, elected
1964: Death penalty abolished
1966: Astoria Bridge completed linking Oregon and Washington
1978: Death penalty reinstated
1984: Voters ratified Oregon lottery
1991: Barbara Roberts elected, first woman governor
2002: Record forest fire season burned 1,000,000 acres
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