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West Virginia

state of the United States of America

6 dated entries naming West Virginia, drawn from 6 separate years between 1749 CE and 1950 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

  • 1749May 19 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company 200000 acre (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
  • 1768October 17 – Representatives of the Cherokee nation sign the Treaty of Hard Labour with British representative John Stuart and relinquish all claims to the land between the Ohio River and the Allegheny Mountains, now the United States state of West Virginia.source

19th century

  • 1862U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia into two.source
  • 1863June 20 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.source
  • 1900March 6 – A coal mine explosion in West Virginia, United States, kills 50 miners.source

20th century

  • 1950February 6 – In West Virginia, 372,000 coal miners strike (they remain out until March 3).source

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