Grouseland

The Ohio Territory

  • 1763

    The French and Indian War ends
  • 1787

    1787
    Ohio becomes part of the Northwest Territory
  • 1788

    Marietta, the first settlement in the Ohio Territory, is founded
  • 1669

    1669
    Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, explores the Ohio region for France
  • 1794

    United States Army defeats Native American forces at the battle of Fallen Timbers
  • 1795

    1795
    The Treaty of Greenville gives the United States claim to most Native American lands in the Northwest Territory
  • The Ohio Territory