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 divide the jointly occupied Oregon Country at the 49th parallel, and Fort Vancouver, the Hudson’s Bay Company post, ends up on the American side. Polk compromised in the north in the same weeks he went to war in the south.
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