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1761. Capt. Balfour and Lieut. Gorrell, with English troops, took possession
       of Green Bay.
1763. The English, under Lieut. Gorrell, abandoned Green Bay in conse-
       quence of the Indian war under Pontiac.
1763. Treaty of Paris, by which ll the territory of New France, including.
       Wisconsin, was surrendered to the English.
1763. About this date the Canadian French trading establishment at Green
       Bay ripened into a permanent settlement, the first upon any portion
       of the territory now forming the state of Wisconsin.
1774. A civil government was established over Canada and the Northwest,
       by the celebrated "Quebec Act."
1777. Indians from Wisconsin join the British against the Americans.
1781. Lieut. Gov. Patrick St. Clair, of Canada, purchased Green Bay, Prairie
       du Chien, etc, from the Indians, which purchase was not confirmed.
1783. The ='cttlement of Prairie du Chien was commenced by Bazil Giard,
       Pierre Autaya, Pierre La Pointe, Julian Dubuque, and others.
r17S6. Julian Dubuque explored the lead region of the Upper Mississippi.
1788. There was an indian council at Green Bay. Permission to work the
       lead mines was given to Dubuque.
1793. Lawrence Barth built a cabin at the portage of the Fox and Wisconsin
       rivers, and engaged in the carrying trade.
1795. French settlement commenced at Milwaukee.
1796. The western posts were surrendered by the English to the United
       States, and the ordinance of 1787 extended over the Northwest.
1800. Indiana territory organized, including Wisconsin.
1803. Antoine Barth settled at the portage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.
1804. Indian treaty at St. Louis; Southern Wisconsin purchased.
1805. Michigan territory organized.
1809. Thomas Nuttall, the botanist, explored Wisconsin.
1809. Illinois territory was organized, including nearly all the present
state
        of Wisconsin.
 1S12. Indians as-emnhled at Green Bay to join the English.
 1814. Gov. Clark took iosse--ion of Prairie da Chien.
 1814. Prairie du Chicn surrendered to the British.
 1815. United States tradiig post established at Green Bay.
 1816. Indian treaty confirming that of 1804.
 1816. United States troops took possession of Prairie dn Chien, and com-
        menced the erection of Fort Crawford.
 1816. Col. Miller commenced the erection of Fort Howard, at Green Bay.
 .1818. State of Illinois was organized; Wisconsin attached to Michigan.
 1818. Brown, Crawlord and Michillimackinac cofunties were organized by the
        territory of Michigan, which embraced in their boundaries, besides
        other territory, the whole of the present state of Wise ,nsin.
 1820, United States commissioners adjusted land claims at Green Bay.
 1822. The.New York Indians purchase lands east of Lake Winnebago
 1822. James Johnson obtained from the Indians the right to dig fbr lead
by
        Negro slaves from Kentucky.
 1823. January. Counties of Brown, Crawford and Michillimackinac made a
        separate judicial district by congress.
 1823. First steamboat on the Upper Mississippi, with Major Taliafero and
        Count Beltrami.