(1801) The United States Congress names several dozen Canadians who fought on the side of the U.S in the Revolution who will receive land grants in central Ohio in the Refugee Tract.
(1789) Thomas Hutchins, the Geographer General of the United States and first surveyor of the Northwest Territory, dies at age 59. Hutchins was the first to survey the land that would become Ohio.
(1796) Congress creates the 2,500,000-acre (10,000km2) United States Military District in eastern Ohio for land bounties promised to Revolutionary War veterans.
(1953) The year of Ohio's 150th anniversary, President Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.
(1785) Geographer Thomas Hutchins begins the first government land survey west of the Ohio River in the Seven Ranges at East Liverpool. The project is abandoned October 8 due to Indian hostility.
(1836) The Toledo War, the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining Territory of Michigan, unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention."