History ^[a]

• 1871, January 6; A post office is established on the Colorado River Indian reservation to serve the Indian agency.
• 1905; A railroad reaches the area of the Parker Post Office. The Post office is moved upstream four miles to the railroad.
• 1908; The town of Parker is founded and named for Ely S. Parker, the first Native American commissioner for the U.S. government.
• 1909; Railroad location engineer, Earl H. Parker, surveys and lays out the town of Parker. The town is laid out for the purpose of providing a railroad stopover, watering and shipping station.
• 1928; Parker Dam is completed.
• 1937; A highway bridge was completed across the Colorado River connecting Arizona to California.
• 1948; Parker is officially incorporated as a town.
• 1982, May; voters petition to form La Paz County from the northern portion of Yuma County.
• 1983, January 1; Parker became the county seat for La Paz County.
• 2000; Population 3,140.
• 2009; Population 3,120.
• 2010; Population 3,083.

For more information about the History of La Puente, California, visit the following sites:

• Parker, AZ, History
• Wikipedia - Parker, Arizona

References

1. ^ Parker, AZ, History   [Online] http://www.ci.parker.az.us/history.php
     •Wikipedia – Parker, Arizona   [Online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker,_Arizona


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State History





Ancient times




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1500 - 1700

1700 - 1899

• 1861 - 1865 American Civil War. [More Information]
• 1861, January 10: First Shot of the Civil War fired at the Union Ship "Star of the West" as it attempted to reinforce Major Anderson at Fort Sumter.
• 1861, February 18: Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1861, March 4: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States.
• 1861, April 9: The Confederate cabinet at a meeting in Montgomery, AL, decides to open fire on Ft. Sumter. President Jefferson Davis orders General P. T. Beauregard to "reduce" Fort Sumter.
• 1861, April 12: Bombardment of Fort Sumter begins at 4:30 A.M. The bombardment lasts 33 hours and the Confederates fire 3,000 shells. No one on either side is killed and only one injured at Fort Sumter. Edmund Ruffin is credited with the first shot. Captain James fired the signal shell from a ten inch mortar on Johnson's Island but the first gun from the iron clad battery on Morris Island is generally considered the first shot. Roger A. Pryor declined the honor of firing the signal shell. Ruffin later wraps himself in the Confederate Flag and commits suicide.
• 1861, April 13: Fort Sumter surrenders at 2:30 PM on Saturday. Major Robert Anderson is allowed to fire a 100 gun salute to the United States Flag but only 50 guns are fired. One of the guns explodes and Private Daniel Hough is killed and five are injured. Some authors say two were killed. Perhaps one died of wounds.
• 1861, April 15: Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers for three months service.
  
• 1861: Construction begins on the Confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley in Mobile, Alabama. For more information; visit the Online Library; SHIPS of the CONFEDERATE STATES, Submarine H.L. Hunley (1863-1864).
• 1862, June 16: In early June Major General David Hunter transports Horatio G. Wright's and Isaac I. Stevens's Union divisions under immediate direction of Brigadier General Henry Benham to James Island where they entrenched at Grimball's Landing near the southern flank of the Confederate defenses around Charleston, SC. Without orders, Benham launched an unsuccessful frontal assault against Fort Lamar at Secessionville.
• 1862, September 22: President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation declaring the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
• 1863, July 1-3: Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1863, July 13-16: Draft Riots in New York City.
• 1863, August 12: the Hunley arrived by train in Charleston.
• 1863, September 19 - 20: Confederate Victory at the Battle of Chickamauga, GA. The battle is the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
• 1863, November 15: William T. Sherman arrives in Chattanooga, TN.
• 1863, November 19: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1864, December 21: United States troops occupy Savannah, GA.
• 1865, April 8: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Station, VA.
• 1865, April 14: Lincoln shot by John Wilks Booth at Fords Theater on Good Friday.
• 1865, April 14: General Robert Anderson raises the same flag over Fort Sumter that he lowered 4 years before.
• 1865 May 26: Civil War ends; when General Kirby Smith surrendered Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River.
• 1896; Plessy v. Ferguson decision by U.S. Supreme Court establishes "separate but equal" doctrine in racial policy.
• 1898, February 15; The USS Maine (ACR-1) exploded and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba.
• 1898; Spanish-American War.
1900 - 2007

• 1914 - 1920 The First World War. [More Information]
• 1917; Fort Jackson, SC, the nation's largest U.S. Army training facility, established to prepare soldiers for World War I.
• 1917, February 3: US severs diplomatic ties with Germany.
• 1917, April 6: The US declares war on Germany.
• 1918, March 3: Russia and Germany sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
• 1918, May 28: US forces make their first offensive, at Cantigny, France.
• 1918, November 11: Armistice Day. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. The war is officially over. More than 8.5 million have been killed and over twice as many wounded from across the globe. New technology has been created, America has risen to prominence as an economic power and new countries are forming in Europe and the Middle East.
• 1950 - 1953; The Korean War is fought in Korea.
• 1954; U.S. Supreme Court decides in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka that "separate" schools cannot be "equal." This paved the way for desegregation and the civil rights movement.
• 1929 - 1940; The Great Depression and New Deal.
• The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. The depression had devastating effects in both the industrialized countries and those which exported raw materials.
• 1933; The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is created as part of the The New Deal to develop resources of poor Appalachian South, including large parts of north Alabama.
• The New Deal is the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving relief, reform and recovery to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression.
• 1931, September 18, Japan invades Manchuria.
• 1939 - 1945 World War II. [More Information]
• Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia).
• 1939: Germany invades Poland.


• 1941, December 7: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
• 1945, April 12: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia.
• 1945, May 8: Victory in Europe, V-E Day.
• 1945, September 2: Victory over Japan, V-J Day Japanese sign surrender terms aboard battleship Missouri (BB-63).
  
• 1950 - 1953; The Korean War is fought in Korea.
• 1954; U.S. Supreme Court decides in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka that "separate" schools cannot be "equal." This paved the way for desegregation and the civil rights movement.