Oregon Timeline

1500 Spanish sailors returning to Mexico from the Philippines were the first white people to see the Oregon Coast.

1578 Sir Francis Drake may have touched shore looking for a route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

1792 Robert Gray sailed his ship, Columbia, up the river he named after the ship.

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1805 The Lewis and Clark expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia and wintered there.

1811 John Jacob Astor founded Astoria as a fur trading post. It was the first white settlement.

1819 Treaty between U.S. and Spain fixed the Southern Oregon border.

1846 Treaty made the 49th parallel between British and U.S. Territory.

1846 Oregon became a territory.

1850 Congress passed the Oregon Donation Law.

1859 Oregon became the 33rd State on February 14, 1859.