Arkansas History Timeline
History Timeline of the Native Indians of Arkansas
10,000BCThe first indigenous people were of the Paleo-Indian culture who
lived in caves or were Nomadic Hunters
10,000BCThe Ice Age - The Clovis people populated the area of Arizona
7000 BC Archaic Period in which people built basic shelters and
made stone weapons and stone tools
2500 BC Gulf Formational Period of the Southeast culture group with
development of ceramics and pottery
1000 AD Woodland period with permanent houses and farming
1300
Mississippian culture period of Mound builders
1541
Hernando de Soto of Spain explores Arkansas
1673
1763
Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette explore Arkansas
River. They were warned of hostile tribes farther south by the
Quapaw Indians and ended their explorations
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claims Arkansas in the
name of the French King Louis XIV.
France cedes the Louisiana Territory, including Arkansas, to
Spain.
Treaty of Paris
1775
1775 - 1783 - The American Revolution.
1776
July 4, 1776 - United States Declaration of Independence
1800
Arkansas is taken back from the Spanish by the French as part of
the Treaty of San Ildefonso
The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for
15 million dollars for the land
1812 - 1815: The War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain,
ended in a stalemate but confirmed America's Independence
The Quapaw tribe cede their lands between the Red and
Arkansas rivers
Arkansas is made a territory
1682
1762
1803
1812
1818
1819
1830
Indian Removal Act
1832
1832-1839: Removal of the Cherokee Indians, one of the "Five
Civilized Tribes", to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears
1832
Department of Indian Affairs established
1860
Kiowa and Comanche expedition, Indian Territory. To remove the
Kiowa and Comanche from the area of the Arkansas River.
1861 - 1865: The American Civil War.
1861
1862
1969
U.S. Congress passes Homestead Act opening the Great Plains
to settlers
The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end
of the Confederacy
Dawes General Allotment Act passed by Congress leads to the
break up of the large Indian Reservations and the sale of Indian
lands to white settlers
All Indians declared citizens of U.S.
1979
American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed
1865
1887
History Timeline of the Native Indians of Arkansas
State of Arkansas History Timeline