Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lansing or East Lansing, Michigan. Lansing is the state capital of Michigan. Lansing Official Website East Lansing Official Website Timeline of Lansing 1825 – Lansing Township is surveyed. 1836 – A pair of New York speculators plot and market a non-existent city known as "Biddle City". The New Yorkers that bought into the id...