THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 15
June 15 in history
What happened on June 15: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1846, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Oregon Treaty
15 Jun 1846 — Britain and the United States settle their competing claims to the jointly occupied Oregon Country by dividing it at the 49th parallel. Fort Vancouver, a Hudson’s Bay Company post, falls on the American side. In the same weeks that Polk accepted a compromise in the north, he went to war in the south.
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