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After traveling along the Mississippi River, Euroupean voyagers (Jacques Marquette & Louis Joilliet) entered Missouri.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Jesuit missionaries established the first European settlement in a place near modern Saint Louis; at the mission of St. Francis Xavier

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Workers from the Compagnie des Indes started digging for lead and silver in a mine that was one of the first lead mines in Northern America. As a result, the next year, they brought the first group of enslaved people to Missouri to work as forced labor.

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Ste. Genevieve, was the first permanent white settlement in what is now known as modern day Missouri.

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The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a treaty that said France would ceed all the territory of colonial Louisiana, west of the Mississippi River including New Orleans over to Spain.

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St. Louis was founded by Pierre Laclede Liguest with his step son, Auguste Choteau.

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In 1769, St. Charles was established by Louis Blanchette as a trading post.

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Spain returned the Louisianna Territory to France with the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso on October 1st.

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The Treaty of St. Louis was signed on November 3rd, 1804 in Portage des Sioux by William Henry Harrison, govenor of the Indiana Territory and District of Louisiana. It said that all tribal land in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois, would be given to the United States.

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The original counties of Missouri were organized by law on December 31st by an act establishing counties and county lines.

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Missouri officially became established as a new state.