FULL NAME State of Idaho

of Lake Pend Oreille.

1810 Andrew Henry of the Missouri Fur Company establishes a camp on the fork of the Snake River but abandons it the following year.

1818 The United States and Great Britain agree on joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest, including what is now Idaho.

1834 Fort Hall and Fort Boise are constructed to aid fur traders; these posts become stops on the Oregon Trail, which by 1845 is a well-traveled road.

1836 Henry Spalding establishes a mission to the Nez Perce Indians at Lapwai.

1846 June 15. A treaty with Great Britain establishes the Pacific Northwest below the 49th parallel as U.S. territory.

1848 August 14. Oregon Territory is created, including present-day Idaho.

1855 A treaty with the Koutenai, Pend Oreille, and Flathead Indians creates reserva¬tions for them in what is now Idaho and Montana. A treaty with the Nez Perce establishes for them a reserve in what is now Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

I860 June 15. First permanent settlement in Idaho, at Franklin, by Mormons from Utah. In 1911 this day is proclaimed Pioneer Day.

1862 The Golden Age is Idaho's first newspaper and is published in Lewiston.

1863 March 4. Creation of Idaho Territory.

Some Nez Perce accept a smaller reservation replacing the 1855 area, overrun by

gold prospectors. Chinese violence in 1866-1867 that leaves over a hundred dead. 1874 The Utah Northern Railroad reaches Franklin from Ogden, Utah.

1877 Nontreaty Nez Perce led by Chief Joseph, expelled from northeastern Oregon, are pursued

through Idaho by federal troops before surrendering in Montana

1878 Forty whites and 78 Indians die in an uprising by Paiutes and Bannocks. Indian

warfare in Idaho ends the following year. 1880 Silver is found in the Wood River region. 1882 The Northern Pacific Railroad links northern Idaho to the east and the PacificNorthwest seaports. .

1884 Completion of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Wyoming through southern

Idaho to Oregon.

1885 Noah S. Kellogg finds silver in the Coeur d Alene area. 1 he Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines become the biggest in the chief lead-silver district in the U.S., which has yielded about $2 billion. . . Test Oath Act bars Mormons from voting, holding office, or serving on Juries These disabilities become part of the state constitution and remain in force until 1890 when Mormons renounce polygamy as an act of faith.

1892 Martial law is declared in northern Idaho mining towns, where the dispatch ot federal troops helps break a miners' strike. More than 600 union leaders and sympathizers are arrested.

1896-1902 Democrats, allied with Populists, control state politics. They also receive support from dissident Republicans who join in seeking the remonetization of silver.

1899 Dynamiting of Bunker Hill concentrator results in the reimposition of martial law and dispatch of U.S. troops. The Western Federation of Miners is suppressed, and hundreds of miners are imprisoned for six months.

1905 Women receive the right to vote.

December W. Former governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated.