Ohio
state of the United States of America
33 dated entries naming Ohio, drawn from 28 separate years between 100 CE and 1985 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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1st century
18th century
- 1749May 19 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company 200,000 acres (312½ square miles or 810 km 2 ) of land north of the Ohio River, encompassing most of the modern U.S. state of Ohio and part of West Virginia. The grant is conditioned on the Company being able to attract 100 European families every year, for seven years, to move to the area occupied by Indian tribes, and to build a fort to protect themsource
- 1782March 8 – Gnadenhutten massacre: In Ohio, 29 Native American men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by colonial militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.source
- 1782March 8 – American Revolutionary War: In Ohio, the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women and 34 children are killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.source
- 1786March 1 – The Ohio Company of Associates is organized by five businessmen at a meeting at the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern in Boston to purchase land from the United States government to form settlements in the modern-day U.S. state of Ohio.source
- 1788April 7 – American pioneers establish the town of Marietta (in modern-day Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.source
- 1796July 22 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.source
19th century
- 1802April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets a precedent for the creation of future states from the western territories.source
- 1803February 19 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.source
- 1803March 1 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953 (see History of Ohio).source
- 1813Construction of Fort Meigs in Ohio begins under the command of Major Amos Stoddard.source
- 1818July 31 – The first newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio is issued by publisher Andrew Logan. Using the original name of the small settlement (population 172), Logan names the weekly paper The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register.source
- 1833August 20 – Future United States President Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio. From this date until the death of Former U.S. President James Madison on June 28 1836, a total of 18 Presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 future) are living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.source
- 1837September 24 – Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (died 1904)source
- 1837October 31 – In what will become the world's leading consumer goods brand, Procter & Gamble is founded in Ohio in the United States.source
- 1842September – Wesleyan University is established in Ohio.source
- 1844March 12 – The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.source
- 1853December 7 – Erie Gauge War: Citizens of the Erie, Pennsylvania, area act to stop new track being laid to resolve rail gauge differences coming from neighboring Ohio and New York.source
- 1866December 18 – The College of Wooster is founded in Ohio.source
- 1876December 29 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs in Ohio when a bridge collapses, leaving 92 dead.source
- 1883Bernard Kroger establishes the first Kroger grocery store, in Cincinnati, Ohio.source
20th century
- 1904February 15 – Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (born 1837)source
- 1908March 4 – The Collinwood school fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 175.source
- 1908March 4 – The Collinwood School Fire, near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.source
- 1913March 25 – Great Dayton Flood: Four days of rain in the Miami Valley flood the region and mark the worst natural disaster in Ohio's recorded history, killing over 360 people and destroying 20,000 homes, chiefly in Dayton.source
- 1920November 2 – 1920 United States presidential election: Republican U.S. senator Warren G. Harding defeats Democratic governor of Ohio James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.source
- 1925September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line over Ohio en route to Scottfield, St. Louis; 14 crewmen are killed.source
- 1952May 13 – John Kasich, Governor of Ohiosource
- 1952December 14 – The first successful surgical separation of conjoined twins is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.source
- 1967November 7 – Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a major United States city.source
- 1970May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen at a protest against the U.S. incursion into Cambodia.source
- 1973February 12 – Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post road distance signs in metric (see Metric system in the United States).source
- 1985May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, including a rare and powerful F5. In total, the event kills 90 people.source