Maine Time Line

1819 - Massachusetts agrees to allow Maine to protest for statehood.

1820 - Maine becomes its own state.
Maine becomes the first state to school privileges to all regardless of race.

1839 - Governor fair field declares war on England over a border between New Brunswick and northern Maine. The argument was settled before any blood was shed.

1842 - the Treaty of 1842 settled the Maine and New Brunswick border

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswick, Maine. it was a novel.
1866 - A great fire destroys much of downtown Portland in the area now known as the Old Port.
1888 - Melville W. Fuller, a native of Maine, became the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court.
1898 - U.S. Battleship "Maine" is sunk in Havana Harbor, an incident which helps trigger the Spanish-American War. "Remember the Maine" became a war slogan