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Date |
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| 1 | 1869 | - 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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| 2 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: HISTORY: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Combined Comanche and Kiowa raids in Texas kills 20 in Texas, at same time Texans steal 1,900 + horses from tribes at Ft. Sill Ok..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mackenzie attacks a Comanche Village at McClellan Creek he takes 130 women and children hostage and imprisons them at Ft. Concho. 200 or more lodges destroyed..
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| 3 | 1873 | - 1873—1873: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet & Yellow Fever.Memphis, TN; PA; NY; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: GENERAL RANDALL MACKENZIE AND HIS BLACK BUFFALO SOLDIERS FIGHT THE KWAHADA BAND OF COMANCHES FOR 2 YEARS ON THE PLAINS..
- 1873—1873: HISTORY: .Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche hostages released and forced to go to Ft. Sill..
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| 4 | 1874 | - 1874—1874: HISTORY: .American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cheyenne hunters report that there are dead buffalo all over the Plains.Violence erupted at Wichita and Darlington Agencies and put down by federal troops.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Large Groups of Cheyennes leave the reservation for the Plains..
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: A large Comanche-Cheyenne war party attacked 23 buffalo hunters camped in the Texas Panhandle at the site of Carson's 1864 battle at Adobe Walls..
- 1874—1874: WAR: Red River War or Buffalo War begins, this is the last Great Indian War in the Plains..
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| 5 | 1875 | - 1875—1875: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - North American & Europe.
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Miles attacks a group of Cheyenne near McClellan Creek..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Mackenzie attacks and burns 5 Comanche villages in Palo Duro Canyon and massacres women and children and destroys over 1400 Comanche horses..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: Winter time brings starvation to the Indians and they start to return to the reservation after relentless pursuit by Federal Troops..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: In April 200 Kwahada, who had never submitted, surrendered at Fort Sill.. In June the last 400 Kwahada with Quanah Parker surrendered.
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| 6 | 1876 | - 1876—1876: HISTORY: .Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876—1876: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worlwide.(one of the worst recorded)
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| 7 | 1877 | - 1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
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| 8 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
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1872 - 1878 (6 years)
