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1812. January 22-23-24. Several earthquake shocks were felt in this city,-the severest of which was on the 24th, at about seven o'clock in the even- ing.
February 7. Another earthquake shock startled the citizens of Detroit.
May 14. Parade of militia in the evening.
June 18. War declared against Great Britain.
July 5. General Hull with army from Ohio ar- rived.
July 12. General Hull crossed to Sandwich and issued a proclamation to the people inviting them to join his standard.
July 29. Lieutenant Hanks and officers paroled from Fort Mackinaw arrived.
August 7. General Hull returned to Detroit.
August 16. General Hull surrenders to the Eng- lish.
1813. February 1. Colonel Proctor orders prom- inent Americans to leave Detroit.
September 10. Perry defeats the English on Lake Erie.
September 28. Fort Detroit evacuated by the English.
September 29. General Duncan McArthur takes possession of Detroit ; Perry's fleet arrives ; General Harrison issues proclamation restoring citizens and military officers to the civil and military status they possessed before Hull's surrender.
October 2. General Harrison, with 3,500 men, leaves in pursuit of Proctor.
October 5. Battle of the Thames; Proctor de- feated ; Tecumseh killed.
October 6. General Harrison arrives after battle of the Thames.
October 7. Commodore O. H. Perry returns to Detroit.
In the fall of this year there was great distress among the citizens of Detroit and vicinity from want of provisions. During the following winter 700 of General Harrison's soldiers died of disease.
1814. October 9. General McArthur and 700 mounted riflemen arrive for the defense of Detroit.
1815. Governor Cass brings the first carriage to Detroit.
March 30. Pacification Ball at Woodworth's Hotel in honor of peace between Great Britain and United States.
August 9. Major Wm. H. Puthuff, of Second United States Rifle Regiment, in command at De- troit, retires from the army, and is presented by citizens with a complimentary address.
September I. Major-Generals Brown and Smith left in the brig Niagara for Buffalo.
September 8. General Harrison concluded a treaty with Indians.
October 24. New city charter granted. City limits extended to include the Cass Farm.
1816. April. Part of Michigan Territory given to State of Indiana.
April 18. Indian Council of 110 Indians at Coun- cil House. "The Prophet," a brother of Tecumseh, among them. They conclude a treaty of peace.
June 30. Rev. John Monteith, missionary of the American Board, preached his first sermon in De- troit.
July 4. Celebration. Dinner at Whipple's Tavern. November. Territorial Bible Society organized.
1817. July 25. The Detroit Gazette, a weekly, first issued.
August 13. President Monroe arrives.
August 14. City authorities present President Monroe with an address.
August 15. Ball at Woodworth's Hotel in honor of the President.
August 18. President Monroe leaves the city.
August 26. City Library incorporated.
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September 15. First Evangelistic Society of Detroit organized.
September 24. Corner-stone of University Build- ing laid.
October 25. Arrival of mail indicated by the blowing of a horn.
December 29. Moral and Humane Society or- ganized.
1818. January 14. Lyceum of the city of Detroit organized.
March 31. First church for white inhabitants in Michigan erected on the Rouge.
June I. Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget visits Detroit.
June 2. Bank of Michigan organized.
June 9. Corner-stone of St. Anne's Church laid.
June 22. Meeting of citizens at Council House to take measures to collect remains of American officers and soldiers massacred at the battle of the Raisin. Committee appointed to remove them to Detroit.
June 26. The Detroit Gazette says : " The follow- ing very odd circular directed 'To the Town of De- troit, as a body corporate,' arrived by the last mail:"
LIGHT GIVES LIGHT TO LIGHT DISCOVER AD INFINITUM.
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI TERRITORY, NORTH AMERICA, April 10, A. D. 1818.
To All the World !
I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable within, containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees! I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.
JNO. CLEVES SYMMES, Of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry.
N. B. I have ready for the press, a Treatise on the principles of matter, wherein I show proofs of the above positions, account for various phenomena, and disclose Doctor Darwin's Golden Secret. My terms are the patronage of this and the new worlds. I dedicate to my wife and her ten children. I select Dr. S. L. Mitchell, Sir H. Davy, and Baron Alex. de Humboldt, as my protectors. I ask one hundred brave companions, well equipped, to start from Siberia in the fall season, with reindeer and slays, on the ice of the frozen sea; I engage we find warm and rich land, stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals, if not men, on reaching one degree northward of latitude 82°; we will return in the succeeding spring.
July 4. The day was celebrated in a field in the rear of the residence of Governor Cass by a large collection of gentlemen and officers of the army.
July 6. First auction sale of public lands in Michigan.
July 20. Detroit Mechanics' Society organized.
July 27. A law was passed providing for the whipping or hiring out of disorderly persons, drunk- ards, and others.
August 8. Interment in Protestant burying ground of remains of soldiers massacred at River Raisin. Procession from the Council House. Ora- tion by Samuel T. Davenport.
August 10. First school in University Building opened.
August 27. Steamboat Walk-in-the-Water ar- rived at Detroit -first trip.
September 6, Sunday. On this day a boat arrived with Lord Selkirk as a passenger. A suit had previously been instituted against him, growing out of troubles at his settlement on the Red River, and on arrival of the boat he was arrested. As the arrest was made on Sunday, its legality was ques- tioned. The case came on for trial on September IO, at Sandwich. The Grand Jury discussed the case, but came to no conclusion, and after four days' time had been spent Chief Justice Powell would wait no longer, and the attorney-general took the Bill of Indictment from the table and dismissed the jury.
October 4. First session of a Protestant Sunday school in the city.
1819. January 2. Bank of Michigan began business.
March 13. The citizens vote against the tax for a fire engine.
March. Woodworth's new hotel opened.
July 16. Michigan Territory was authorized to elect a delegate to Congress.
September 2. First election in Detroit for dele- gate to Congress.
November 17. Edward Tanner found his brother, John Tanner, near Detroit. He had been a captive 28 years. John subsequently married a chambermaid at Ben. Woodworth's Hotel, but treated her so unkindly that she left him and the legislature gave her a divorce.
November 25. Elephant exhibited for first time in Detroit.
December 13. The Commissioners report the Pontiac Road as laid out.
1820. February 27. First Protestant church within limits of city dedicated.
March 30. City limits narrowed and Cass Farm left outside. The first brick store was erected this year.
April 19. The flag-staff on which Hull displayed his flag of surrender fell in a storm; no flag had waved on it since 1812.
May 24. The Cass-Schoolcraft excursion left for the upper lakes.
July 3. A tax of five hundred days' labor was voted to be expended on the river front.
July 28. Rev. Eleazar Williams (the reputed Dauphin) arrived at Detroit with a number of Oneida Indians.
July 31. Major-General Scott, with eight mili- tary gentlemen, arrived to hold a court-martial.
1821. April 9. Citizens vote a tax of $400 for a fire engine.
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April 12. First Protestant Society of Detroit incorporated.
June 4. Presentation of silver plate to Major- General Macomb by citizens on his leaving the Territory.
December 21. Detroit Lodge of Free Masons instituted.
December 27. Two Indians, Kewaubis and Ketaukah, having been tried for murder, were hanged.
1822. March II. Meeting at Detroit petitions Congress to separate the judicial from the legisla- tive power.
March 21. First Methodist Episcopal Society of Detroit incorporated.
May 23. John Roberts, Jr., notified persons liable to military duty to appear at Military Square on June 3, armed and equipped as the law directs.
May 25. The steamboat Superior, the second on the lakes, arrived from Buffalo on her trial trip with ninety-four passengers.
June. Public stages first began running from Detroit.
August 31. A meeting of citizens resolves to discourage the further circulation of individual bills of less than one dollar.
October 26. Committee appointed to draw up a petition to Congress, asking for a better form of government.
1823. March 3. Congress limited term of Ter- ritorial Judges then in office to four years from Feb- ruary 1, 1824.
March. Early this month Colonel Edwards found a manuscript volume of 300 or 400 pages under one of his buildings, written in a character that no one in the city could understand. A leaf of the manu- script was sent to Dr. Mitchell, of New York, who could give no information regarding it ; but an Irish professor in the Georgetown College pronounced it a religious work written in Irish.
March 27. Great rejoicing by citizens over pas- sage by Congress of a bill making provisions for Legislative Council for the Territory; salute fired, houses illuminated, supper served at the Sagina Hotel.
August 1. The Governor and Judges completed a contract for the erection of a court-house and capitol.
September 4. First members of Legislative Council elected.
September 22. Corner-stone of capitol laid.
October 10, Friday. Rev. Cutler Dallas arrived with Major Long, Professors Say and Keating, and Messrs. Calhoun and Seymour, of the Northwest Exploring Expedition; they left on the 14th.
1824. June 7. First Legislative Council of Michigan convened in Detroit.
August 5. New city charter; Common Council created ; city boundary extended; office of aldermen and mayor's court provided for.
November 22. St. Paul's P. E. Church organized. November 25. Under proclamation from Gov- ernor Cass, Thanksgiving Day was observed for the first time.
1825. January 23. First Protestant Society re- organized and becomes a Presbyterian Church.
February 5. Legislative Council increased from nine to thirteen members.
February 21. First ordinance establishing hy- draulic company passed.
May 10. The Michigan Herald was first issued.
May 24. Commissioners commenced locating Chicago Road. Erie Canal completed to Buffalo this year; also first street paving contracted for. June 4. Minute fire ordinance passed.
June 12. City marshal arrests several soldiers for fishing on Sunday.
July 12. Public dinner given to General Sol. Van Rensselaer at Woodworth's Hotel.
August 12. Horse-boat ferry first operated.
September 21. Fire Engine No. I purchased.
September 28. Hook and Ladder Company pro- vided for.
1826. January II. First provision for the in- spection of fire-wood.
May 20. The Military Reserve given to the city by Congress.
May 27. Two companies of infantry depart for Green Bay; city for the first time left without troops.
July 17. Special session of Common Council to take action on the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; it was "Recommended that the citizens of Detroit wear crape on the left arm for thirty days." The brick building of the First Methodist Episcopal Society was first used this year.
November 2. First session of Second Legislative Council.
1827. January 29. Inhabitants of Territory authorized to elect members of the Legislative Council.
March 22. City Cemetery on Beaubien Farm purchased.
March 31. Fire Company No. 2 organized.
April 4. Legislative Council exempts firemen from military and jury duty. Council authorized to change plan of city.
April 10. The council order shinplasters printed. May 3. Mansion House first opened after en- largement. In this month Fort Shelby was demol- ished.
May 16. First sale of lots on Military Reserve. In this month the first steam ferry-boat was oper- ated, and the first flour exported from Detroit.
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June. City ordinance forbids any more burials in cemetery on Woodward Avenue.
October 20. First Baptist Society organized.
November 26. First sidewalk ordinance passed.
1828. February 15. Meeting at Detroit to pro- test against organizing Lake Superior region into Territory of Huron.
May 5. Court house or capitol first occupied.
July 3. Historical Society organized at Mansion House.
August 24. First building of St. Paul's Protest- ant Episcopal Church consecrated.
October 23. Fire in woods about Detroit; dense smoke each morning.
December 25. Upper part of St. Anne's Church completed and first used.
1829. March 5. John P. Sheldon, editor of Detroit Gazette, imprisoned for contempt of court.
March 13. Public meeting of citizens to raise funds to pay fine imposed upon John P. Sheldon. Committee appointed to wait on Sheldon at the jail and take him to his residence in a carriage.
May 7. Complimentary dinner to J. P. Sheldon while in jail.
August. Hydraulic company bore for water on Fort Street West.
November 20. The Northwestern Journal first issued.
1830. February 19. First city temperance soci- ety organized.
March 18. Female Seminary Association incor- porated.
April 26. Detroit Gazette office burned, also several dwellings.
April 29. First firemen's review.
June 7. Farmers and Mechanics' Bank organ- ized.
July 31. Pontiac & Detroit Railroad chartered. September. Detroit barracks on Gratiot Road constructed.
September 24. Man named Simmons hanged for murder of his wife.
October II. First water supplied by steam power. November 3. Wayne County Bible Society or- ganized.
November 24. Detroit Journal and Michigan Advertiser first issued.
December 23. Detroit Courier first issued.
December 31. Celebration in honor of triumph of liberal principles in France. Major Whiting de- livered a discourse on the French Revolution, and there was a ball at the Mansion House.
1831. January 8. The Governor and Judges forward their plan to Congress.
January 9. Daily mails from the East began.
March 4. Law for the hiring out or whipping of disorderly persons, drunkards, etc., repealed.
March 22. Michigan Sunday School Union or- ganized. City Tract Society organized.
May 5. Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer first issued.
July 20. Alexis de Tocqueville visits Detroit.
July 23. A public meeting was held this day to express the sentiments of the people of Michigan on the appointment of S. T. Mason as Secretary of the Territory, he being under twenty-one years of age, and, by the resignation of Governor Cass, acting gov- ernor. A committee of four, consisting of A. Mack, S. Conant, O. Newberry, and J. E. Schwartz, were appointed to report the facts. On July 25 they reported that the President was aware of his being under twenty-one years of age. At an adjourned meeting on July 26, many citizens vigorously remon- strated. On July 28 Mr. Mason responded to the remonstrances in a manner that did credit to his ability, coolness, and general good sense.
July 26. Tuesday a public dinner was given to Governor Cass at the Mansion House on his leaving for Washington as Secretary of War.
September 17. George B. Porter, the new gov- ernor, arrived. He stopped at the Mansion House.
October 28. A public meeting was held at the council room to consider the subject of internal improvements, and petition Congress in relation thereto.
1832. February 22. The Common Council or- dered a national salute fired in honor of the centen- nial of Washington's birthday.
March 6. First annual meeting of Michigan S. S. Union at Presbyterian Church.
May 3. First underground reservoirs ordered.
May 24. Detachment of Detroit militia leave for Chicago on account of the Black Hawk War. Gris- wold Street was opened this year from Larned Street to Jefferson Avenue.
June 29. The council was authorized to compel convicts to work on the streets.
June 30. General Scott and staff arrived en route for Chicago, in connection with the Black Hawk War.
July 4. The steamboat Henry Clay arrived with several companies of troops for the Black Hawk War.
July 5. A soldier on the Henry Clay died of cholera and the vessel was ordered to Hog Island.
July and August. Much excitement from cholera and many deaths.
September 13. Death and burial of Father Rich- ard. Bishop Edward Fenwick in Detroit on a visit.
December 31. First county poorhouse completed and paid for.
1833. January 18. Young Men's Society organ- ized.
April 22. First city tax on all real and personal property authorized.
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April 23. Office of City Director of the Poor created.
April 27. Steamboat Michigan launched at De- troit.
June 16. The colored people rescue and release Blackburn, a slave. The first four-story brick build- ing was erected this year.
July 4. Black Hawk arrives at Detroit.
September. Mr. Smith's child lost in the woods -- many people searching for it for several days.
October 12. The synod of Western Reserve meets at Detroit.
October 14. Annual meeting of Western Reserve Branch of American Educational Society held at the Presbyterian session room.
1834. January 7. Bishop Frederick Rèse, first Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Detroit, arrived. The Catholic Female Association was or- ganized this year.
April 20-27. Bishop McIlvaine present, attend- ing the first annual convention of Protestant Episco- pal Church in Michigan.
May 31. City cemetery on Guoin Farm pur- chased.
July 7. Governor Porter died; funeral same day. The Common Council attend in a body and resolve to wear crape thirty days.
July 13. First M. E. Church on corner of Wood- ward Avenue and Congress Street dedicated.
August I. The cholera appeared. A large num- ber of deaths occur during the month.
October 18. First Hose company organized.
October 31. First real estate tax voted for by citizens.
1835. January II. First brick Baptist Church dedicated.
January 29. Office of County Register created.
March 6. Public meeting of citizens to protest against the claim of Ohio to the disputed terri- tory.
March 26. Michigan State Bank incorporated.
April 4. Election of delegates to first State Con- stitutional Convention.
April 9. Much excitement occasioned by a mad dog which bit a number of children and several dogs.
April 26. Shots exchanged between Michigan troops and Ohio boundary commissioners.
April 28. First brick Presbyterian Church dedi- cated.
May 11. State Constitutional Convention assem- bled. American Hotel opened.
June 24. State Constitutional Convention ad- journed.
June 27. Michigan Exchange Hotel first opened.
July 18. The sheriff of Monroe County and 250 armed men arrest eight persons in Toledo. First systematic street paving,-a portion of Atwater
Street paved this year, and the Campus Martius was graded and leveled.
September 6. Governor Mason and General Brown, with about 1,000 militia, enter Toledo to prevent the holding of a session of the Lucas County Court.
September 21. John S. Horner, Secretary of the Territory, arrives in Detroit.
September 28. The Daily Free Press was first issued.
October 5. First State election and first Consti- tution of Michigan adopted by vote of the people.
November 2. First session of the Legislature under the State Constitution.
November 18. Old City Hall first occupied.
December 2. Fire Engine Company No. 3 or- ganized.
1836. March 18. Public meeting held at City Hall to protest against change of State boundary. March 26. Supreme Court of State created.
May 18. Works of Hydraulic Company pur- chased by the city. Ladies' Protestant Orphan Asylum organized.
June II. Detroit Daily Advertiser first issued.
June 13. Harriet Martineau arrived.
June 15. First act passed by Congress for ad- mission of Michigan. The first underground sewer was built this year, and there were enormous sales of public lands in Michigan.
June 30. The City Council appointed a commit- tee to inspect springs in township of Southfield and at Northville, with a view of getting water therefrom.
July 3. Law creating State of Wisconsin out of Michigan Territory took effect. The power of Governor and Judges as a Land Board terminated.
July 11. President Jackson directs public officers to receive and pay out coin only.
July 27. Lord Selkirk, son of the one famous for his settlement in the wilds of Canada, visits Detroit.
September 2. Meeting in Detroit to oppose yielding territory to Ohio.
September 6. Street names first ordered at street corners. Same month fire wardens first provided for.
September 12. Election of delegates to State Convention on accepting admission on terms pro- posed by Congress.
September 26. The convention decides against acceptance of terms proposed by Congress.
October 1. Cars first run from Toledo to Adrian.
October 12. Meeting in Detroit to oppose yield- ing territory to Ohio.
October 18. First sale of lots on Cass Farm.
October 20. Detroit Evening Spectator and Lit- erary Gazette first issued.
November 8. First presidential election partici- pated in by citizens of Michigan.
November 14. Democratic County Convention
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recommend the holding of another convention and the accepting of the State boundary proposed by Congress.
December 1. National Hotel first opened.
December 14. A convention was held at Ann Arbor, and the terms proposed by Congress ac- cepted.
1837. January 4. The Free Press office and sev- eral other buildings on northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and Shelby Street were burned.
January 20. The first locomotive in Michigan arrived at Toledo.
January 26. The State was fully and formally admitted by Congress.
February 9. Celebration in honor of admission of State. Parade and illuminations.
March 15. Wildcat banking law passed by Mich- igan Legislature.
April 24. Monday. Meeting of the Agricultural Society at the City Hall. The organization of a State Agricultural and Horticultural Society was proposed.
April 26. The Detroit Anti-slavery Society was organized.
April 27. A large fire between Woodward Ave- nue and Randolph Street burned most of the build- ings south of Woodbridge Street.
May 16. News was received at Detroit of the refusal of New York banks to redeem in specie, and on May 17 the Detroit banks took the same action.
May and June. Captain Frederick Marryatt, the novelist, visited Detroit.
July 8. Mrs. Anna Jameson, the authoress, arrived. Daniel Webster and family arrived late in the evening, and put up at the National.
July 11. Upwards of 300 sat down to a collation served in a grove on Cass Farm in honor of Mr. Webster, after which 1,500 or 2,000 ladies and gen- tlemen gathered to listen to an address from their guest.
August 19. The bank of Homer established,- the first wildcat bank in Michigan.
September 6. First session of Michigan Confer- ence at Detroit.
October 23. First meeting of synod of Michigan. December 26. The Detroit City Bank, a wildcat, went into operation.
1838. January 1. Meeting of citizens of Detroit in favor of the Patriots.
January 5. Two hundred stand of arms seized at the jail by the Patriots.
January 8. Steamboats Erie and Brady left to disperse Patriots, and obtain arms taken at Detroit. January 9. Judge James Witherell died.
January 24. The Michigan Insurance Company Bank began business.
January 28. Steamboat Robert Fulton arrived from Buffalo with three companies of soldiers.
February 3. M. C. R. R. opened to Ypsilanti. Large excursion party from Detroit, dinner at Ypsi- lanti, etc.
February 25. The Canadians cannonade the Pa- triots on Fighting Island.
February 26. General Scott arrived.
March 12. Great meeting of citizens at City Hall to protest against the statement made in Cana- dian Parliament that Detroit sympathized with and . aided the Patriot War rebels.
March 30. The Whigs distribute bread and pork to influence votes.
June 20. The Detroit branch of the University first opened.
July 4. Union S. S. celebration in Presbyterian Church.
July 21. The Pontiac R. R. was opened to Royal Oak. In this year the M. C. R. R. track was ex- tended down Woodward Avenue to Atwater Street. The first public free schools were opened in Detroit. The first iron water-pipes were laid, and old round- house for reservoir completed.
August 21. The Fire Department opened a reading room and library.
December 3. Five hundred Patriots on the Forsyth Farm were dispersed by General Brady.
December 4. The Patriots attack Windsor, and are compelled to retreat, losing many men.
December 9. Major -General Scott and suite arrived for the purpose of maintaining neutral- ity.
1839. February 22. The County Poor Farm in Nankin township was purchased.
March 27. The city was divided into wards, and provision made for ward aldermen. Envelopes were first used in this year.
April 15. Ward elections first held.
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