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1763 - Pontiac besieges Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion. [4] 1778 - Fort Lernault built. [3] 1783 - The area south of the Great Lakes (including all of Michigan) is ceded by Great Britain to the United States by the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War. However, the British kept actual possession.
News of the peace treaty between Britain and the United States arrived in Detroit on May 6, 1783. DePeyster, who had recently been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, notified the various Indigenous tribes that Fort Detroit had supported, and began attempts to ransom captives still held by them. 492 American prisoners held by the British at Detroit ...
1950 Detroit was the 4th largest city in the U.S., with 1.8 million people. 1957 The five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge opened on November 1. 1959 Motown began recording music in Detroit. 1960 Census results revealed a 1.45 million increase in state population, the largest in state history. 1967 Race riots struck the city of Detroit. After five ...
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
Fort Shelby was a military fort in Detroit, Michigan that played a significant role in the War of 1812 (1812-1815). It was built by the British Army in 1779 as Fort Lernoult, and was ceded to the United States by the terms of the Jay Treaty in 1796, following up on the original terms of the peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), 13 years ...
Detroit was the goal of various American campaigns during the Revolutionary War, but logistical difficulties in the American frontier and American Indian allies of Great Britain would keep any armed Patriot force from reaching the Detroit area. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Great Britain ceded territory that included Detroit to the newly ...
American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776; Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783; Unorganized territory of the United States, 1783–1787; Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, 1787–1803; Territory of Indiana, 1800–1816; Territory of Michigan, 1805–1837
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