The flag of Nebraska was introduced on 2nd of April in 1925 and was first hoisted as the state banner on 1st of January in 1926. It was not until 1963 that it became today's official state flag. It shows a plain blue bunting and the state seal in gold and silver in the centre. The state seal was introduced in 1867 and shows a landscape with a blacksmith in the foreground (engineering), a tree, sheaves of grain and a log cabin (agriculture), a river (Missouri) with a paddle steamer (trade), in the background a railway (transport) heading towards the mountains (Rocky Mountains). In the sky of the landscape a banner with the country's motto: "Equality before the law". Many sources mention an unofficial flag from the years before the introduction of the current flag. It is at least mentioned in printed matter of the time, in 1915 in the "Nebraska Blue Book" and in 1917 in the "National Geographic Magazine". It was a plain golden bunting with the state seal in colour in the middle.
1740 · French expedition of the brothers Mallet, later nearly no French colonization, to French-Louisiana
1763 · Peace of Paris, France has to cede the Louisiana Colony to Spain and United Kingdom, large areas (up to the Mississippi River, including tosay's Nebraska) become Spanish possession
1st of October 1800 · Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain has to cede back the Louisiana Territory to France and has to withdraw to the borders of 1763
1803 · France sells Louisiana to the USA
26th of March 1804 · today's Nebraska is part of the Orleans Territory
1st of October 1804 · today's Nebraska is part of the Indiana Territory
4th of July 1805 · today's Nebraska is part of the Louisiana Territory
7th of December 1812 · today's Nebraska is part of the Missouri Territory
30th of May 1854 · Kansas-Nebraska Act, Nebraska and Kansas become territories of the USA, capital of Nebraska: Omaha
since 1860 · big wave of immigration
1st of March 1867 · Nebraska becomes the 37th state of the USA, capital: Lincoln
The name "Nebraska" comes from the vocabulary of the Sioux Indians, and goes back to the Indian name of the "Platte River". The word means "flat water".
