VERMONT TIMELINE

8500 - 7000 B.C. - Glacial activity creates Champlain Sea; Paleo-Indians explore and hunt in Vermont
7000 - 1000 B.C. - Archaic Period; Native Americans move seasonally around Vermont to live, hunt, gather, and fish
1000 B.C. - 1600 A.D. - Woodland Period; Native Americans establish villages and develop trade networks, and ceramic and bow and arrow technology

1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier is first European to see what is now Vermont

1609 - Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Champlain
1666 - Fort Ste. Anne constructed on Isle LaMotte, site of first white settlement and first Catholic Mass
1690 - Small British fort built at Chimney Point

1724 - British build Fort Dummer at Dummerston
1731 - French build fort and begin settlement, under Seigneur Gilles Hocquart, at Chimney Point
1749 - Gov. Benning Wentworth makes first New Hampshire grant-for town of Bennington
1759 - French abandon settlement at Chimney Point
1760 - Crown Point Military Road, from Springfield, VT to Chimney Point, VT, completed east-west across Vermont
1761 - Gov. Wentworth resumes New Hampshire Grants
1770 - Green Mountain Boys organized to protect New Hampshire Grants
1774 - The Scottish-American Land Company brings Scottish settlers to Ryegate & Barnet
1775 - Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga
1776 - Construction of American fort, Mount Independence in Orwell
1777 - Vermont declares itself a republic in Windsor—adopts 1st constitution with universal male suffrage, public schools, abolishing slavery; battles of Hubbardton & Bennington
1779 - Bayley-Hazen Military Road blazed from Peacham to Lowell; VT establishes property rights for women
1780 - Last major Indian raid, led by the British, in Royalton
1783 - Hyde Log Cabin constructed in Grand Isle
1785 - Eureka Schoolhouse constructed in Springfield; first marble quarry opened in Dorset;
1787 - Castleton, Vermont's first college, established and chartered by the VT General Assembly;
1791 - Vermont becomes 14th state; University of Vermont chartered; Thomas Jefferson and James Madison visit Vermont; 85,341 people in Vermont

1801 - Brigham Young born in Whitingham, later led the Mormons from Illinois to Utah & founded Salt Lake City; George Perkins Marsh, America's first conservationist, born in Woodstock
1805 - Montpelier chosen as capital; Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, born in Royalton
1810 - Justin Smith Morrill of Strafford born; 217,895 people in Vermont
1823 - Alexander Twilight first African American to earn college degree in US at Middlebury
1826 - Martin Henry Freeman, born in Rutland, becomes, in 1856, first black college president in the U.S.; Horace Greeley of West Haven begins first newspaper apprenticeship at Northern Spectator in Poultney
1829 - Chester Alan Arthur born in Fairfield
1837 - John Deere patents steel plow; Thomas Davenport patents first electric motor
1855 - First Republican governor elected; Republicans control that office until 1962
1859 - John Dewey, philosopher and pioneer in modern education born in Burlington; present State House constructed
1864 - St. Albans Raid, northern most Civil War 1865 - State Agricultural College set up at the University of Vermont as a Land Grant College
1872 - Calvin Coolidge born on the Fourth of July in Plymouth Notch
1881 - Chester A. Arthur of Fairfield becomes U.S. President
1891 - Bennington Battle Monument completed in Old Bennington

1900 - 343,641 people in Vermont
1918 - Women vote in town elections
1919 - Poet Robert Frost moves to Vermont
1920 - Vermont Cooperative Creameries, Inc., organized; 352,428 people in Vermont
1921 - Women's Suffrage adopted
1922 - Grandstand constructed at UVM's ballpark, Centennial Field (one of the oldest still in use)
1923 - Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth becomes U.S. President; gasoline tax adopted; airplanes regulated
1930 - Cattle in state outnumber people; 359,611 people in Vermont
1950 - Marlboro Music Festival established; 377,747 people in Vermont; Pearl Buck moves to Winhall, VT
1953 - S.S. Ticonderoga makes last steamboat trip on Lake Champlain
1954 - Consuelo Northrup Bailey elected first woman lieutenant governor in U.S.
1962 - First Democratic governor in over 100 years elected
1964 - Victory, Granby, & Jamaica last towns in VT to receive electricity
1968 - Billboards banned
2000 - 608,827 people in Vermont

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Source www.historicvermont.org