288            WISCONSIN     LEGISLATIVE MANUAL.

1823. Lieut. Bayfield, of the British navy, made a survey of Lake Superior.
1823. An Episcopal mission established near Green Bay.
1824. October 4. First term of United States Circuit Court held at Green
        Bay; Jas. D. Doty, Judge.
 1826. First steamboat on Lake Michigan.
 1827. A rush of speculators to the lead mines, and leases by government
to
       miners.
 1827. Difficulties with the Winnebago Indians. Troops sent to settle them.
 1827. August 11. Treaty with the Menomonee Indians at Butte des Morts.
 1828. Fort Winnebago built at "the portage."
 1828. Indian treaty at Green Bay; the lead region purchased.
 1828. Lead ore discovered at Mineral Point and Dodgeville.
 1829. A Methodist mission established at Green Bay.
 1830. May. The Sioux killed seventeen Sacs and Foxes near Prairie du
       Chien.
1832. Public lands in the lead region surveyed by Lucius Lyons and others.
1832. Black Hawk war. June 16. Battle with the Sac Indians on the Peca.
       tonica. July 21. Battle of Wisconsin Hights on the Wisconsin river.
       August. Battle at mouth of Bad Axe; Black Hawk defeated.
1832. First arrival of steamboat at Chicago.
1832. Schoolcraft discovered the true source of the Mississippi.
1833. September 26. Indian treaty at Chicago; lands south and west of-Mil-
       waukee ceded to the government.
1833. American settlement began at Milwaukee in the fall of this year.
1833. December 11. First newspaper, "Green Bay Intelligencer,"
published.
1834. Land offices established at Mineral Point and Green Bay.
1834. Population by census taken, 4,795.
1835. Public lands at Milvaukee surveyed by William A. Burt.
1836. January 9. The legislative council of so much of Michigan territory
as
       was not to be included in the new state of Michigan, met at Green
       Bay.
1836. April 30. Henry Dodge appointed Governor by President Andrew
       Jackson.
1836. July 4. Territory of Wisconsin organized.
1836. July 14. "11Milwaukee Advertiser" published at 371 Third
street.
1836. First school opened in Milwaukee, at 1No. 371 Third street.
1836. United States land office opened at Milwaukee.
1837. September 29. Sioux treaty; lands east of the Mississippi ceded.
1839. Indian (Sioux and Chippewa) battle; two hundred killed.
1846. April. A vote of the people in favor of a state government,
1846. August. Act of congress authorizing a state government.
1848. May 29. Wisconsin admitted as a state.