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Columbia River

river in North America; flows from British Columbia, through Washington, and along the Washington-Oregon border to the Pacific Ocean

7 dated entries naming Columbia River, drawn from 6 separate years between 1792 CE and 1948 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1792May 11 – Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition: Captain Robert Gray, on the Columbia Rediviva, becomes the first white man to discover the mouth of the Columbia River.source

19th century

  • 1810September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor, with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River, and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria.source
  • 1811July 14 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Columbia River, finding Fort Astoria under construction.source
  • 1811July 9 – British explorer David Thompson posts a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern-day Washington), claiming the area for the United Kingdom.source
  • 1825The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.source

20th century

  • 1942June 1 – The Grand Coulee Dam is finished on the Columbia River in the United States.source
  • 1948May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.source

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