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Events on Wednesday 4 July 1838 1
1838Iowa Territory OrganizedUS Congress creates a new territory west of the MississippiCongress established the Iowa Territory, separating it from the Wisconsin Territory, with its capital initially at Burlington. The territory encompassed land opened to settlement after earlier treaties with the Sauk and Meskwaki nations. Iowa would be admitted to the Union as a state in 1846.