Donald McDonald receives the first steamboat shipment of cargo to the settlement that would become St. Paul. Six barrels of whiskey are delivered to McDonald's shop, the "Half-Way House," in Inyan Tipi (Fountain Cave).

Little Falls native Charles A. Lindbergh begins his famous trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, which takes thirty-three and one-half hours.

The State Federation of Afro-American Women's Clubs is organized in St. Paul, with the goal of uniting clubs for better communication and productivity. Representatives from clubs in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth attend the meeting.

Ten thousand trout and salmon are planted in Rice County's Cedar Lake.

Adolf Dehn, printmaker and artist, dies in his studio in New York. Born in Waterville, he was known for his satirical lithographs of high society.

Alexander Ramsey and other Republican notables travel from Chicago to Springfield, Illinois, to offer Abraham Lincoln the Republican presidential nomination.

Duluth is incorporated as a town, having been platted (surveyed and mapped) and named the previous year.

Methodist missionary Alfred Brunson arrives at Fort Snelling. He established the first Methodist mission in Minnesota at the Dakota village Kaposia (now in South St. Paul).

The sewage disposal plant on Pig's Eye Island in St. Paul is dedicated. Originally considered progressive, it later became a Superfund site.

The Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Regiments of the Minnesota Volunteer Infantry depart for training to fight in the Spanish-American War. Only the Thirteenth Regiment saw combat, in the Philippines.