The Farmer-Labor Party and Minnesota's Democratic Party agree to merge at their joint convention, and a slate of candidates is quickly chosen to meet the filing deadline two days later. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party is unique to Minnesota.

Swedish settlement in Minnesota begins when Carl A. Fernstrom, Oscar Roos, and August Sandahl build a log cabin on Hay Lake in Washington County.

A blizzard marks the beginning of the "winter of the deep snow" and kills at least six individuals in Pipestone and Cottonwood Counties. During that winter, the Pipestone County Star is printed on brown wrapping paper for eight weeks while the snow blocks supply trains.

Daily mail service between Prairie du Chien and St. Anthony begins.

Aviator James H."Jimmy" Doolittle, touring with his Shell Oil Company plane, visits St. Paul. In 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle of the US Army Air Corps would command the first air attack on Japan during World War II, leading sixteen B-25 bombers, which had been prepped in St. Paul, from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet.

Mayor Louis A. Fritsche holds a meeting at the New Ulm armory in support of US neutrality in World War I. Attendees send a peace delegation to Washington, DC, but the country declares war in April.

The US Supreme Court upholds the rights of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to fish and hunt in ceded lands without state regulation, as dictated by an 1837 treaty.

Minnesota is among the first states to ratify the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the US Constitution, which gives US citizens eighteen years of age or older the right to vote in local, state, and national elections. Both Minnesota and Delaware claim to be the initial actor on this important issue, although one Minnesota legislator who voted against ratifying calls his state's role a "dubious pleasure." Ratification by the necessary number of states would be completed later in the year.

Convicted of poisoning her husband, Stanislaus, Ann Bilansky is executed in St. Paul. Bilansky would be the only woman and the first white person to be legally executed in the state, although serious doubts about her guilt still persist.

In St. Peter, Methodist minister Edward Eggleston marries Lizzie Snider. Eggleston is best remembered for his novel The Hoosier School-Master, set in Indiana, but a less popular novel, The Mystery of Metropolisville, deals with land speculation in Minnesota in the 1850s.