1701 July 24 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his party of soldiers, fur traders and Native Americans land at "De Troit" -- French for "The Strait" -- later to be called the Village of Detroit. The Iroquois Confederacy adopts official neutrality towards the French and the British.

 

 

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1720

1736 October - The first formal record of a person of African decent in Detroit: Father Daniel notes having given the sacrament of "Last Rites," to a person he called an "unknown negresse."

 

 

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