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1794 BCE
Lewis served in the army and was neighbors with Thomas Jefferson
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August 18, 1774 - Meriwether Lewis was born in Virginia
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Lewis served in the army and was neighbors with Thomas Jefferson
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March 6, 1801 - Lewis was asked by President Thomas Jefferson to be his secretary
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April 1803 - Lewis was chosen by President Jefferson as commander of an expedition, referred to as the Corps of Discovery, to explore new land purchased from the French
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Lewis asks William Clark, a military leader and explorer, to join him in the expedition and share the command, which Clark accepts
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July 4, 1803 - Public announcement of the Louisiana Purchase
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July / August - Preparations made for the expedition along with recruitment consisting of about 40 men.
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May 14, 1804 - The Expedition of the new land acquired via the Louisiana Purchase begins at the Missouri River. The land stretched from the Mississippi River all the way to the Pacific Ocean
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July 4, 1804 - The expedition marks first 4th of July west of the Mississippi by firing the keelboat's cannon, and naming Independence Creek
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April 7, 1805 - Lewis and Clark send the keelboat and 12 men back with maps, reports, Indian artefacts and other scientific specimens for President Jefferson
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March 23, 1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition begin the journey home
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1807, Jefferson appoints Lewis as governor of the Louisiana Territory and he settled in St. Louis
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illiam Clark married Julia Hancock on January 5, 1808, at Fincastle, Virginia, and they had five children
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Meriwether Lewis Died on October 11, 1809 aged 35 - his death is a mystery some say suicide, others say it was murder
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1820 - After Julia's death William Clark married his first wife's first cousin, Harriet Kennerly Radford. They had three children
