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Timeline of pre-statehood Montana history

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This is a timeline of pre-statehood Montana history comprising substantial events in the history of the area that would become the State of Montana prior to November 8, 1889. This area existed as Montana Territory from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana.

Pre-territorial period

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1805–1840

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Manuel Lisa

1841–1850

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1851–1860

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1861–1864

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John Bozeman

Territorial period

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1864

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Confederate Gulch ca 1870

1865

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1866

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Bozeman Mainstreet, 1875

1867

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1868

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1869

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1870

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Henry Washburn, 1869

1871

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1872

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1873

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1874

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1875

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  • July 8 – W.C. Shippen, a Methodist minister in Helena, Montana has the "Hanging Tree", a tall, dead Ponderosa Pine cut down. Ten men had been hanged on the tree which stood at the corner of Broadway and Davis streets; the last being J.L. Compton and Joseph Wilson on April 30, 1870, for robbery and murder.[61]
  • December 6 – The Federal Indian Bureau issues a proclamation that any Indians found off their respective reservations as of January 31, 1876 would be considered hostile. This set the stage for the Great Sioux War of 1876.[62]

1876

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Miles City, 1881

1877

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1878

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1879

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1880

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1881

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1882

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Plat of Livingston, MT (1883)

1883

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1884

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1885

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1886

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1887

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1888

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1889

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See also

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Notes

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