| Date |
Description of Event |
| 1541-00-00 |
Hernando De Soto purported to have paid a visit
to now Taney County on exploration trip |
| 1673-07-04 |
Explorers Louis Jolliet and
Jesuit Jaques Marquette canoe past the future site of St. Louis. |
| 1682-00-00 |
Robert Cavelier sieur de La
Salle explored the Mississippi Valley and named it Louisiana |
| 1700-10-08 |
First European sponsored
settlement in Missouri was founded by Father Marest at River Des Peres (short
lived - only lasted to 1703) |
| 1735-00-00 |
Founding of Ste. Genevieve,
first permanent white settlement inside of present Missouri (some historians
place it's founding at 1732-34, others at 1750 - in any event it was
relocated after the great Mississippi flood of 1785)) |
| 1762-11-13 |
Spain gained control of
Louisiana Territory in Treaty of Fontainebleau |
| 1800-10-30 |
Spain returned control of
Louisiana Territory to France |
| 1803-04-30 |
Louisiana Purchase completed |
| 1804-10-16 |
Spanish Governor and Troops
depart from St. Louis |
| 1805-03-03 |
Territory of Louisiana
established with capital at St. Louis |
| 1811-12-16 |
New Madrid earthquakes
struck Missouri, the worst in U.S. history |
| 1812-06-04 |
Territory of Missouri formed |
| 1812-10-01 |
Taney area was made a part
of New Madrid county, one of the original 5 counties of Missouri Territory |
| 1815-00-00 |
Taney area became part of
Lawrence county Missouri Territory. This county was eventually abolished
when much of it's territory
became part of Arkansas Territory in 1819 |
| 1818-01-08 |
Petition presented to
Congress for Missouri to be admitted as a state |
| 1821-08-10 |
Missouri entered the Union
as a slave state |
| 1824-09-00 |
Catastrophic flood on the
White River in present Taney county was probably the worst in the 19th
century |
| 1825-00-00 |
Taney area became part of
Wayne county. |
| 1831-01-18 |
Taney area became part of a
non-county area attached to Crawford county |
| 1833-01-02 |
Taney area became part of
newly formed Greene county |
| 1835-09-01 |
The Public Land Office in
Springfield was first opened, allowing sales of public lands in the Taney
region |
| 1837-00-00 |
Forsyth, first of presently
existing post offices was created |
| 1837-01-00 |
Taney County formally
organized |
| 1839-00-00 |
A small area of territory
was added to eastern Taney county which extended it's border to the east into
non-county territory |
| 1840-00-00 |
First US Census of Taney
County taken |
| 1841-01-29 |
Ozark County taken from
Taney County |
| 1843-01-04 |
Large earthquake centered
near New Madrid would have impacted Taney county |
| 1844-05-00 |
Catastrophic flood on the
White River in present Taney county |
| 1849-00-00 |
A very tiny part of Taney on
it's border with Greene county was moved to Greene |
| 1851-02-10 |
Stone County taken from
Taney County |
| 1852-00-00 |
The first steam boat to
reach Forsyth in Taney county on the White River was the Yohogony in 1852 |
| 1855-00-00 |
Battles between Kansas
abolitionists and southwest Missouri Ozarkers began well before the Civil War |
| 1855-00-00 |
Three story brick courthouse
built in Taney county |
| 1855-00-00 |
Tiny piece of territory that
was moved to Greene county in 1849 was returned to Taney |
| 1857-08-29 |
Part of Taney County taken
to help form Douglas County |
| 1858-00-00 |
First schools were
established in the county by action of the Missouri legislature |
| 1858-00-00 |
The Wire Road was completed
which ran from Springfield to Fayetteville, Arkansas and carried the
telegraph and overland stage through adjacent Stone county. |
| 1859-03-08 |
Part of Taney County taken
to help form Christian County |
| 1859-07-04 |
A curious meteorite fell in Taney County near Miney (Mincy?) while a companion meteorite fell in Arkansas leading
to extensive scientific comparison over the years. |
| 1860-00-00 |
Walnut Shade, 2nd of
presently existing post offices was established |
| 1861-00-00 |
Bradleyville, 3rd of
presently existing post offices was established |
| 1861-04-13 |
Surrender of Fort Sumter
after it's attack by South Carolina, essentially beginning the Civil War |
| 1861-05-06 |
Arkansas secedes from the
Union |
| 1861-07-22 |
Union forces under General
Sweeney expelled the confederate forces from Forsyth, which they used as
their area HQ. The confederates
returned as soon as the Union forces left. |
| 1861-08-10 |
The confederate victory at
the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Taney gave the south effective control of
southwestern Missouri |
| 1862-03-06 |
The Battle of Pea Ridge,
across the Arkansas border in Benton county led to a victory for the North
and gave them control of most of the state of Missouri for the next two
years. |
| 1862-04-10 |
Union forces under General
Curtis expelled the confederate forces again from Forsyth.
The confederates returned as soon as the
Union forces left. |
| 1862-05-20 |
Homestead Act of 1862 helped
create influx of new settlers to Taney over the following several decades |
| 1862-11-07 |
The Battle of Clark's Mill
in Vera Cruz, Douglas county ended in a victory for the South |
| 1862-12-00 |
Union forces under General
Curtis returned to Forsyth after the battle of Prairie Grove and once again
expelled the confederate forces. The
confederates returned as soon as the Union forces left. |
| 1863-01-08 |
The battle for Springfield
ended in a Union victory |
| 1863-02-02 |
Union soldier kills
bushwhacker and outlaw Alf Bolin |
| 1863-04-22 |
Union forces left Forsyth
for the last time, burning the town and courthouse on their way out to insure
it wouldn't again be used by the confederate army. |
| 1864-00-00 |
Northeastern corner of Taney
was moved to Douglas county |
| 1865-00-00 |
The end of the Civil War was
followed by great increase in bushwhackers/outlaws/murders in the Taney area |
| 1865-04-09 |
General Lee surrendered to the Union at Appomattox
Courthous. |
| 1865-04-14 |
Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated |
| 1871-00-00 |
Kirbyville post office was
established |
| 1871-00-00 |
Kissee Mills post office was
established |
| 1873-00-00 |
National economic depression
impacts Taney county |
| 1874-00-00 |
Devastating grasshopper
plague impacts Taney county |
| 1875-00-00 |
Protem post office was
established |
| 1882-00-00 |
Branson post office was
established |
| 1883-09-22 |
The very public murder of
Jim Everett in Forsyth by Al Layton considered by many to be the trigger for
the Bald Knobber saga over the next 10 years |
| 1884-00-00 |
Widespread destruction from
flooding along the White River in Taney County |
| 1884-10-18 |
Al Layton acquitted of
murdering Jim Everett |
| 1885-04-05 |
First mass meeting of the
Bald Knobbers held on Sapp's Bald, two miles northwest of Kirbyville |
| 1885-12-19 |
Taney County courthouse
burned, with arson suspected, destroying most county records |
| 1888-08-20 |
Billy Miles kills Bald
Knobber leader Nate Kinney |
| 1890-00-00 |
Widespread destruction from
flooding along the White River in Taney County |
| 1890-12-15 |
Forsyth was incorporated |
| 1891-00-00 |
New Taney courthouse built |
| 1891-11-04 |
First bank in Taney county,
the Taney County Bank, was created and rented space in the new courthouse. |
| 1892-03-00 |
Murder of wife by John
Bright followed by his lynching was the last such event in the Bald Knobber
Saga |
| 1892-03-01 |
John Bright kills his wife |
| 1892-03-04 |
Taney county posse captures
John Bright |
| 1892-03-12 |
John Bright lynched/hung by
Bald Knobbers, murdering Deputy Sheriff George Williams in the process. |
| 1893-00-00 |
Rose O'Neill's family moved
to Bear Creek and created Bonniebrook |
| 1894-00-00 |
Cedarcreek post office was
established |
| 1894-00-00 |
Mc Clurg post office was
established |
| 1894-00-00 |
Taneyville post office was
established |
| 1895-10-00 |
Large earthquake centered
near Charleston, Missouri would have impacted Taney county |
| 1896-00-00 |
Harold Bell Wright comes to
Taney County |
| 1903-00-00 |
Railroad reached Branson,
first access to rail in Taney County |
| 1904-00-00 |
Hollister post office was
established |
| 1906-00-00 |
Passenger rail service began
in the county |
| 1906-00-00 |
Rueter post office was
established |
| 1907-00-00 |
Shepherd of the Hills, by
Harold Bell Wright, about life in Taney County was published |
| 1907-09-24 |
School of the Ozarks
dedicated in Forsyth |
| 1910-00-00 |
Large measles epidemic
occurred in the Taney area killing many |
| 1912-00-00 |
Ridgedale post office was
established |
| 1912-04-01 |
Branson incorporated - had
population of 1,200 |
| 1913-00-00 |
New jail was built, which is
still standing and presently headquarters of the White River Valley
Historical Society |
| 1913-00-00 |
Powersite post office was
established |
| 1913-00-00 |
Rose O'Neill copyrighted the
Kewpie Doll |
| 1913-09-00 |
Powersite Dam completed
creating Lake Taneycomo |
| 1915-01-12 |
Disasterous fire destroyed
the School of the Ozarks in Forsyth |
| 1919-00-00 |
Taneycomo post office was
started - later renamed Rockaway Beach |
| 1919-07-12 |
Power delivery began from
Powersite Dam to Forsyth providing the first electricity to the city |
| 1920-03-10 |
Serious tornado or tornados
caused much destruction and death in Melva and nearby Taney communities |
| 1931-00-00 |
Point Lookout post office
was established |
| 1933-00-00 |
Taneycomo post office was
renamed Rockaway Beach, the most recent new post office in Taney |
| 1951-00-00 |
Courthouse site inundated by
Bull Shoals dam, new courthouse built |
| 1951-07-00 |
Bull Shoals Dam completed
creating lake of the same name |
| 1952-00-00 |
Forsyth forced to relocate
to its present location by the rising waters of Bull Shoals lake |
| 1957-05-21 |
F2 level tornado in Taney
county caused a quarter of a million in property damage |
| 1958-00-00 |
Table Rock Dam completed |
| 1959-00-00 |
Branson's first music show,
the Baldknobbers, opened |
