Iowa History Timeline

  • 2017 BCE

    Hoover becomes president

    Hoover becomes president
    Herbert Hoover became the president of the united states of america
  • Norman Borlaug

    Norman Borlaug
    A noble prize winner for his farming
  • Iowa Caucus

    Iowa Caucus
    It began to choose the presidential canadites
  • Terry Branstad

    Terry Branstad
    Terry Branstad becomes governor of Iowa, the first of five terms he has served so far
  • Gateway Computers

    Gateway Computers
    Ted Waitt founds Gateway Computers in his grandmother's Iowa farmhouse.
  • Flooding in Iowa

    Flooding in Iowa
    It costs more than 2 billion dollars to fix.
  • People migrated to Iowa

    People migrated to Iowa
    People moved to Iowa from a dangorus time
  • Agriculture gets important

    Evidence of crops grown in what is now the state of Iowa
  • Glacier

    Glacier
    Ice formed long ago
  • climate in iowa

    climate in iowa
    Trees and grasses
  • lusianna purchase

    lusianna purchase
    They buy land
  • Statehood

    Statehood
    Iowa became a state
  • State capital moves

    State capital moves
    state capital moves from iowa city to des moins
  • railroad of iowa

    railroad of iowa
    the first railroad through the state of iowa is compleated
  • Free rural mail in iowa

    Free rural mail in iowa
    They would receive mail daily
  • Automobiles in iowa

    Automobiles in iowa
    Making transportation easy for people
  • Five Sullvian Brothers

    Five Sullvian Brothers
    They fought in World War ll
  • Hybrid Corn Seed Marketed

    Hybrid Corn Seed Marketed
    Pioneer international marketed Corn
  • Farm Bureau formed

    The Iowa farm supports
  • State slogan

    State slogan
    They got a state slogan