This Week in Missouri History
These biographical and historical sketches are highlights of Missouri history. Many sketches are from Missouri, Day by Day, published by the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1942.
| January 20, 1845 | Inaugural meeting of the first statewide historical society |
| January 27, 1891 | Formation of Missouri Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy |
| February 3, 1837 | St. Charles College Chartered |
| February 8, 1796 | Birth date of Peyton R. Hayden
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February 13, 1855 | St. Louis Girl's Industrial Home Incorporated |
| February 22, 1818 | Birth date of Joseph Washington McClurg in St. Louis County |
| March 1, 1897 | Soldiers' Homes Become State Property |
| March 7 and 8, 1862 | Battle of Pea Ridge |
| March 16, 1819 | Birth date of William Franklin Switzler |
| March 23, 1808 | Birth date of William Barclay Napton |
| March 26, 1804 | District of Louisiana Created |
| April 6, 1879 | Lincoln University Receives First Regular Appropriation |
| April 15, 1889 | Birth date of Thomas Hart Benton |
| April 18, 1880 | Tornado Devastates Marshfield |
| April 24, 1917 | Missouri Council of Defense Named |
| May 5, 1775 | Birth date of Alexander McNair |
| May 11, 1869 | Birth date of Lars Peter Jensen |
| May 15, 1776 | Birth date of John Sappington |
| May 26, 1849 | Benton's "Appeal to the People" |
| June 2, 1865 | Last meeting of the "Iron Brigade" |
| June 3, 1875 | Grasshopper Plague of 1875 |
| June 10, 1872 | Birth date of Guy B. Park |
| June 24, 1798 | Birth date of Jedediah Strong Smith |
| June 30, 1870 | Race of the Natchez and the Lee
| | July 2, 1864 | Birth date of Walter Williams |
| July 12, 1808 | First Issue of Missouri Gazette Printed |
| July 19, 1820 | Missouri's First Constitution Signed |
| July 28, 1881 | Crittenden Offers Reward For Arrest and Conviction Of James Gang |
| August 3, 1976 | Congressman Jerry Litton Dies In Plane Crash |
| August 11, 1807 | Birth date of David Rice Atchison |
| August 18, 1774 | Birth date of Meriwether Lewis |
| August 21, 1863 | Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas |
| August 31, 1825 | Birth date of Odon Guitar |
| September 8, 1842 | Birth of Phoebe Wilson Couzins |
| September 14, 1818 | Sisters of the Sacred Heart found school for girls in St. Charles |
| September 20, 1861 | The Battle of Lexington |
| September 27, 1864 | Centralia Massacre and the Battle of Centralia |
| October 9, 1858 | First Overland Mail From California Reaches St. Louis |
| October 12, 1861 | First Civil War Iron-Clad Gunboat, the Baron DeKalb, Launched in St. Louis |
| October 18, 1862 | Palmyra Massacre |
| October 24, 1875 | Dedication of the Present Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in St. Louis |
| October 30, 1886 | Birth date of Zoe Akins |
| November 8, 1960 | Theodore D. McNeal, First Black Missouri Senator, Elected |
| November 15, 1869 | Birth date of Harry Bartow Hawes |
| November 23, 1871 | Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy Opened At Rolla |
| November 29, 1854 | Kansas Election For Territorial Delegate |
| December 8, 1881 | St. Charles Bridge Disaster of 1881 |
| December 16, 1811 | First Shock of the New Madrid Earthquake Felt. |
| December 18, 1890 | Richard Henry Jesse Elected President of the University of Missouri. |
| December 24, 1861 | Gratiot Street Prison Receives First Confederate Prisoners of War.
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