Oregon+Territory

**OREGON TERRITORY 1846** The Oregon Territory was first explored by the Europeans, with the first documented exploration in 1776 by the Spanish. Soon, territorial conflicts arose against the United States and the British. After these conflicts, treaties were written, including the treaty of 1818, which set up a temporary joint occupation between the US and Great Britain. Eventually the claim was settled with the signing of the the Oregon Treaty in 1846, which marked the boundary at the forty-ninth Parallel of North Latitude to the the channel that separates the continent from Vancouver's Islands.