What historical events took place in oklahoma?
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What historical events took place in oklahoma?eventsOklahoma Historical Events
about 15,000 bc The first human inhabitants in the area of present-day Oklahoma appear.
500 bc-ad 1300 Mound Builder culture thrives.
1200-1500 The Wichita, Caddo, Quapaw, and Kiowa-Apache arrive.
1541 An expedition under Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reaches western Oklahoma.
1601 Juan de O?ate leads an expedition into western Oklahoma.
1682 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, claims for France the lands drained by the Mississippi, known as Louisiana.
1803 Louisiana is purchased by the United States.
1834 The Indian Territory is created.
1830s and 1840s Native Americans are forcibly removed to Indian Territory.
1866 The so-called Five Civilized Tribes cede half of their land to the federal government. This land is later assigned to Native Americans from other states.
1868 George Armstrong Custer attacks a Cheyenne camp at Washita River.
1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes issues proclamations forbidding settlement in the Indian Territory.
1889 The Unassigned Lands in central Oklahoma are opened to white settlers, beginning the first of several land runs.
1893 The Dawes Commission is formed to allot the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes.
1907 Oklahoma is admitted to the Union as the 46th state (November 16).
1910 Blacks in Oklahoma are disfranchised.
1921 Blacks rally in Tulsa to prevent lynching; riots follow.
1962 Oklahoma's first Republican governor, Henry Bellmon, is elected.
1977-1987 Two hundred forty-six public officials are convicted of federal crimes.
1995 A bomb at the federal building in Oklahoma City kills 167 people.
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