Richard Eberhart is born in Austin. A poet and teacher, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems: 1930–1965 in 1966.

The Bohemian Reading and Educational Society of McLeod County orders a set of Czech readers. The society met regularly for more than sixty years, usually in Bohemian Hall, located between the towns of Silver Lake and Hutchinson.

Minnesota goes dry! The citizens of the territory approve a prohibition bill by a vote of 853 to 662. The measure, which would have outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, is declared unconstitutional in November.

The first work of fiction set in Minnesota, a collection of stories about fur traders and Native Americans titled Tales of the Northwest, is published in Boston. The author, William J. Snelling, is the son of Josiah Snelling, for whom Fort Snelling is named.

Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder of the timber dynasty, dies in California. At one time he owned two million acres of forestland in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific Northwest.

The Minnesota state flag is adopted, just in time to appear in a state-sponsored exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago. Designed by Amelia H. Center of Minneapolis, the flag depicts the state seal ringed by a wreath of white lady slippers and surrounded by nineteen stars, representing Minnesota as the nineteenth state (after the original thirteen) to be admitted to the Union. The flag would be modified on March 18, 1957, when the white flowers were replaced with pink-and-white lady slippers.

Abram Elfelt, one of the first Jewish people to make a permanent home in Minnesota, dies.

The former Greyhound bus station in Minneapolis opens its doors as a music club, the Depot. Twelve years later it would be renamed First Avenue by Steve McClellan, the booking agent of the club, and Jack Meyers, the club's financial manager. A cornerstone of the city's music scene, First Avenue hosted local and national acts and was featured in Prince's movie Purple Rain.

St. Paul's Union Station opens.

In Wright County, Oscar F. Jackson is found not guilty of the murder of his neighbor Henry A. Wallace. Although there was a good deal of evidence against Jackson, a forensic examination of Wallace's body did not offer sufficient proof of his guilt. After his acquittal, on April 25, an angry mob lynched Jackson in Wallace's house. Because the authorities in Wright County cooperated with the lynching, Governor Henry H. Sibley offered a $500 reward for their capture. These events marked the beginning of the "Wright County War."