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   Date  Event(s)
1337 
  • 1337—1453: WAR: Hundred Years' War .English and French kings fight for control of France.
1422 
  • 1422—2 Feb 1461: ROYAL: Henry VI, Ruler of England. .House of Plantagenet, Lancastrian Line - 9-month old only son of Henry V, deposed 1461 by Edward IV (Duke of York) after defeat of Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross on Feb 2, 1461. Died in Tower.
1455 
  • 1455—1455: HISTORY: Printing Press.Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type.
1461 
  • 1461—1483: ROYAL: .Edward IV. Ruler of England. House of York - Great-great-grandson of Edward III, son of Duke of York.
1462 
  • 1462—1505: POLITICAL: Ivan the Great .Rules Russia until 1505 as first czar; ends payment of tribute to Mongols.
1465 
  • 1465—1465: HISTORY: In Germany, drypoint engravings invented..
1475 
  • 1475—1475: HISTORY: .Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany.
1483 
  • 9 Apr 1483—25 Jun 1483: ROYAL: .Edward V. Ruler of England. House of York - Eldest son of Edward IV, murdered in Tower of London.
1485 
  • 1485—1485: HISTORY: Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute.
10 1486 
  • 1486—1486: HISTORY: First known copyright granted.In Venice, the first known copyright granted.
11 1487 
  • 1487—1487: HISTORY: .Bell chimes invented.
12 1492 
  • 1492—1492: HISTORY: Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines.
  • 1492—1492: HISTORY: Columbus becomes first European to encounter Caribbean islands.Returns to Spain (1493). [more]
13 1493 
  • 1493—1496: HISTORY: Columbus Second Voyage.Dominica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico (1493-1496).
14 1494 
  • 1494—1494: HISTORY: .Whiskey invented in Scotland.
15 1498 
  • 1498—1498: HISTORY: Columbus Third Voyage.Third voyage to Orinoco (1498).
16 1500 
  • 1500—1500: : First flush toilets appeared..
  • 1500—1500: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches become their own nation.Comanches seperate from Eastern Shoshone near Wind River to form their own nation.
17 1501 
  • 1501—1501: HISTORY: First black slaves in America .Brought to Spanish colony of Santo Domingo.
18 1502 
  • 1502—1504: HISTORY: Columbus Fourth Voyage.Fourth voyage to Honduras and Panama (1502-1504).
19 1504 
  • 1504—1504: : Moors conquered in Spain .Moors conquered in Spain by troops of Ferdinand and Isabella.
20 1508 
  • 1508—1508: ROYAL: .Henry VII Gaunt. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, whose father had married the widow of Henry V; descended from Edward III through his mother, Mary Beaufort, via John of Gaunt. By marriage with daughter of Edward IV he united Lancaster and York.
21 1509 
  • 1509—1509: : Henry VIII ascends English throne..
  • 1509—1509: LITERATURE: Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
22 1510 
  • 1510—1510: HISTORY: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel..
23 1513 
  • 1513—1513: HISTORY: .Urs Graf invents etching.
24 1520 
  • 1520—1520: HISTORY: Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France Summit.Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France, each with army behind him, meet, dismount and embrace in one of the world's earlier summit meetings. (June 7.) There will be celebrations and sermons on the virtues of peace.
25 1522 
  • 1522—1522: RELIGION: Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.Suleiman I (ithe Magnificenti) becomes Sultan of Turkey, invades Hungary (1521), Rhodes (1522), attacks Austria (1529), annexes Hungary (1541), Tripoli (1551), makes peace with Persia (1553), destroys Spanish fleet (1560), dies (1566). Magellan reaches the Pacific, is killed by Philippine natives (1521). One of his ships under Juan Sebasti.n del Cano continues around the world, reaches Spain (1522).
26 1535 
  • 1535—1535: ROYAL: Reformation begins as Henry VIII makes himself head of English Church.Excommunicated by Pope. Sir Thomas More executed as traitor for refusal to acknowledge king's religious authority. Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River, basis of French claims to Canada.
27 1540 
  • 1540—1540: HISTORY: Coronado Expedition into the Southern Plains..
  • 1540—1540: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches known to be using dogs for transport.
28 1547 
  • 1547—1547: ROYAL: Ivan IV (ithe Terrible) crowned as czar of Russia.Begins conquest of Astrakhan and Kazan (1552), battles nobles (boyars) for power (1564), kills his son (1580), dies, and is succeeded by his weak and feeble-minded son, Fyodor I.
  • 1547—1547: ROYAL: .Henry VIII. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Only surviving son of Henry VII by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
29 1551 
  • 1551—1551: HISTORY: In France, the works of Martin Luther, John Calvin and others considered heretics are prohibited. .In the cites of Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Rouen, Bordeaux, and Agners, various heretics and those selling forbidden books have been burned at the stake. And another massacre of Protestant occurs. More than 3,000 Protestants are to be reported as having been killed, 763 houses, 89 stables and 31 warehouses destroyed
30 1553 
  • 1553—1553: ROYAL: .Edward VI. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Son of Henry VIII, by Jane Seymour, his 3rd queen. Ruled under regents.
  • 10 Jul 1553—1553: ROYAL: Edward VI was forced to name Lady Jane Grey his successor.Council of State proclaimed her queen. Mary Tudor won Council, was proclaimed queen July 19, 1553. Mary had Lady Jane Grey beheaded for treason, Feb 1554.
31 1554 
  • Feb 1554—1554: ROYAL: Mary had Lady Jane Grey beheaded for treason..
32 1558 
  • 1558—1603: ROYAL: Queen Elizabeth I ascends the throne.Restores Protestantism, establishes state Church of England (Anglicanism). Renaissance will reach height in Englando Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.
  • 1558—1558: ROYAL: .Mary I. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Daughter of Henry VIII, by Catherine of Aragon.
33 1560 
  • 1560—1560: EPEDEMIC: Europe is still suffering from periodic epidemics and famines.One-half of all infants born alive are dying before twelve months (as in the poorest countries today). The wealthy might live to between 48 and 56, and the poor, who do not eat as well, might live to 40.
34 1568 
  • 1568—1568: HISTORY: .Bottled beer invented in London.
35 1569 
  • 1569—1569: HISTORY: .Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
36 1570 
  • 1570—1570: WAR: Japan permits visits of foreign ships.Japan permits visits of foreign ships.
  • 1570—1570: RELIGION: Queen Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope. .
37 1571 
  • 1571—1571: WAR: Turks attack Cyprus and war on Venice. .Turkish fleet defeated at Battle of Lepanto by Spanish and Italian fleets (1571).
38 1572 
  • 1572—1572: WAR: Peace of Constantinople (1572) ends Turkish attacks on Europe..
39 1587 
  • 1587—1587: ROYAL: Philip II of Spain plots to have the Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, replace Elizabeth I on the throne of England. .Mary has been a rallying point for all in England opposed to Elizabeth. Elizabeth solves her problem with Mary by having her beheaded
40 1589 
  • 1589—1589: HISTORY: .Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
41 1590 
  • 1590—1590: HISTORY: .Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
42 1593 
  • 1593—1593: HISTORY: .Galileo invents a water thermometer.
43 1598 
  • 1598—1598: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spain builds colony in New Mexico and starts enslaving Indians..
44 1601 
  • 1601—1601: NATIVE AMERICAN: Don Juan de Onate encounters Plains Apache at Canadian River while looking for the seven sities of gold (Cibola)..Don Juan de Onate encounters Plains Apache at Canadian River while looking for the seven sities of gold (Cibola).
45 1602 
  • 1602—1602: LITERATURE: William Shakespeare writes .Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.(From All's Well that Ends Well, first performed in 1602.)
46 1603 
  • 1603—1603: ROYAL: .Elizabeth I. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
  • 1603—1625: ROYAL: .James I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
47 1608 
  • 1608—1608: HISTORY: .Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
48 1611 
  • 1611—1611: HISTORY: Galileo exhibits the wonders of the telescope to the pontifical court. .He tries to produce scriptural confirmation of the view that the earth revolves around the sun, but he is rebuffed.
49 1617 
  • 1617—1617: HISTORY: Cigars & Cigarettes are born..Ships carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking has become a fad in England, with King James describing it as loathsome
50 1620 
  • 1620—1620: HISTORY: .Earliest human-powered submarine invented.
51 1624 
  • 1624—1624: HISTORY: .William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
52 1625 
  • 1625—1625: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
53 1629 
  • 1629—1629: HISTORY: .Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
54 1634 
  • 1634—1638: WAR: Pequot War .An armed conflict between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies
55 1636 
  • 1636—1636: HISTORY: .W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
56 1642 
  • 1642—1642: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
57 1643 
  • 1643—1643: HISTORY: .Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
58 1649 
  • 1649—30 Jan 1649: ROYAL: .Charles I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Only surviving son of James I beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
  • 1649—1658: ROYAL: .Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
59 1650 
  • 1650—1650: HISTORY: .Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
60 1656 
  • 1656—1656: HISTORY: .Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
61 1657 
  • 1657—1657: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
62 1658 
  • 1658—25 May 1659: ROYAL: .Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Proctorate - 3rd son of Oliver.
63 1660 
  • 1660—1660: HISTORY: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region..
64 1661 
  • 1661—1661: ROYAL: Charles II is crowned King of England.
  • 1661—1661: ROYAL: Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch; starts to build Versailles.
65 1663 
  • 1663—1663: HISTORY: .James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
66 1667 
  • 1667—1667: LITERATURE: Milton's Paradise Lost, widely considered the greatest epic poem in English..
67 1668 
  • 1668—1668: HISTORY: .Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
68 1670 
  • 1670—1670: HISTORY: .Dom Perignon invents Champagne.
69 1671 
  • 1671—1671: HISTORY: .Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
70 1675 
  • 1675—1675: HISTORY: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch..
71 1676 
  • 1676—1676: HISTORY: .Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
  • 1676—1676: WAR: King Philip's War.New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians.
72 1679 
  • 1679—1679: HISTORY: .Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
73 1680 
  • 1680—1680: NATIVE AMERICAN: Puebloe Rebellion.Comanche obtain horses which changes their culture.
74 1685 
  • 1685—1685: ROYAL: .Charles II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue.
  • 1685—1689: ROYAL: .James II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
75 1687 
  • 1687—1687: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sieur de La Salle Encounters Comanches near Trinity River..Comanches and Utes trade at Taos New Mexico.
76 1689 
  • 1689—1689: HISTORY: .Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia attempts to westernize nation and build Russia as a military power. Defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (1709). Beginning of the French and Indian Wars (to 1763), campaigns in America linked to a series of wars between France and England for domination of Europe.
77 1690 
  • 1690—1690: EPEDEMIC: Yellow Fever.New York
78 1692 
  • 1692—1692: NATIVE AMERICAN: Picuris relocate with Plains Apache in West Kansas..
79 1697 
  • 1697—1697: WAR: King William's War.English Colonies vs France.
80 1698 
  • 1698—1698: HISTORY: .Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
81 1700 
  • 1700—1700: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Ute trade at Taos New Mexico..
82 1701 
  • 1701—1701: HISTORY: .Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
83 1702 
  • 1702—1702: ROYAL: .William III and Mary II. Rulers of England. House of Stuart (restored) - Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
  • 1702—1713: WAR: Queen Anne's War.English Colonies vs France.
84 1706 
  • 1706—1706: HISTORY: Picuris return to the Rio Grande Valley Area..
85 1709 
  • 1709—1709: HISTORY: .Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
86 1711 
  • 1711—1711: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
87 1712 
  • 1712—1712: HISTORY: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine..
88 1713 
  • 1713—1713: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
89 1714 
  • 1714—1714: ROYAL: .Anne. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
  • 1714—1727: ROYAL: .George I. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
90 1716 
  • 1716—1716: NATIVE AMERICAN: Jicarilla Apache forced into mountians of New Mexico by repeated Comanche and Ute raids.
  • 1716—1716: NATIVE AMERICAN: During summer Comanche and Ute trade at villages in New Mexico.
  • 1716—1716: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish attack a Comanche Ute Village.North of Santa Fe, prisoners were taken and sold as slaves.
91 1717 
  • 1717—1717: HISTORY: .Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
92 1719 
  • 1719—1719: NATIVE AMERICAN: First recorded Comanche Raids.New Mexico for raids for horses.
  • 1719—1719: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish send soldiers as far north as Pueblo Colorado only to find abandoned campsites..
93 1720 
  • 1720—1720: NATIVE AMERICAN: Apache Bands retreat from Comanche.APACHE BANDS RETREAT INTO MEXICO FROM REPEATED COMANCHE ATTACKS.War between Comanches Utes and Plains Apache
  • 1720—1720: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish send military exepedition to investigate rumors of french trade and are destroyed by the Pawnee..
94 1722 
  • 1722—1722: HISTORY: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher..
95 1723 
  • 1723—1723: NATIVE AMERICAN: War between Comanches Utes and Plains Apache.Two military expeditions sent to help the Apache fail to locate Comanche and Ute Tribes.
  • 1723—1726: WAR: Drummer's War.
96 1724 
  • 1724—1724: HISTORY: .Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
  • 1724—1724: WAR: Great Mountain of Iron War.Comanches fight a 9 day war at Great Mountain of Iron, it results in major defeat for the Apache.
  • 1724—1724: NATIVE AMERICAN: French Trader Bourgmont trades with Padoucah in Kansas..
97 1725 
  • 1725—1725: NATIVE AMERICAN: Last Apache settlement on the upper Arkansas river disappeared..
98 1727 
  • 1727—1760: ROYAL: .George II. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
99 1728 
  • 1728—1728: NATIVE AMERICAN: Plains Apache settle on Rio Grande with Pueblo Tribes..
100 1729 
  • 1729—1729: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
101 1730 
  • 1730—1730: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche control of Texas.Comanches control Texas Panhandle, Central Texas and Northeastern New Mexico.
  • 1730—1730: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche/Ute alliance collapses. .Fifty year war begins between Comanches and Utes.
102 1732 
  • 1732—1732: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worldwide.
103 1733 
  • 1733—1733: HISTORY: .John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
104 1738 
  • 1738—1738: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox - SC.
105 1739 
  • 1739—1739: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
106 1740 
  • 1740—1740: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche obtain firearms.Fom French Traders.
107 1742 
  • 1742—1742: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish Expedition North seeking Comanches.Spanish send another failed expedition as far as Wichita Villages without encountering Comanche.
108 1743 
  • 1743—1743: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches visit San Antonio de Bexar..
109 1744 
  • 1744—1748: WAR: King George's War.French Colonies vs Great Britain.
110 1745 
  • 1745—1745: HISTORY: .E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
  • 1745—1745: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches force Utes from the plains and Utes run and hide into the mountains..
  • 1745—1745: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kotsoteka Comanches cross Arkansas river and move into New Mexico..
111 1746 
  • 1746—1746: WAR: Comanche, Osage & Pawnee War.MAJOR WAR BETWEEN COMANCHE AND THE OSAGE AND PAWNEE.
  • 1746—1746: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche raids.Comanche raids Pecos, New Mexico under siege, for next 40 years Comanches attack virtually all places in Spanish New Mexico.
112 1747 
  • 1747—1747: EPEDEMIC: Measles - CT, NY, PA, SC.
  • 1747—1747: NATIVE AMERICAN: French barter peace between Comanche and Wichita..
113 1749 
  • 1749—1749: NATIVE AMERICAN: French barter peace with Comanche.The French barter a peace between the Comanche and Wichita, Comanches break alliance with the Utes.
  • 1749—1749: NATIVE AMERICAN: Utes beg Spanish for protection from Comanche.
114 1750 
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: First permanent Comanche settlements in Texas.Comanches settle in the Llano Estacado or Staked Plains of Texas Panhandle.
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: French trade for horses increase with the Comanche for Firearms.
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: Utes make alliance with Jicarilla against the Comanche..
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Pecos again..
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: Wichita barters a peace between the Comanche and the Osage & Pawnee..
  • 1750—1750: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches drive Apaches out of the Southern Plains, Jicarillas, Carlanas, Mescaleros, Faraones, Lipans..
115 1751 
  • 1751—1751: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches and Pawnee defeat the Osage..
  • 1751—1751: NATIVE AMERICAN: Pawnee leave the plains and settle in the Platte Valley..
116 1752 
  • 1752—1752: HISTORY: .Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
117 1754 
  • 1754—1754: NATIVE AMERICAN: Blackfoot Tribe acquires horse from Comanches..
118 1755 
  • 1755—1755: LITERATURE: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary..
119 1756 
  • 1756—1763: WAR: Seven Years' War .(French and Indian Wars in America) (to 1763), in which Britain and Prussia defeat France, Spain, Austria, and Russia. France loses North American colonies; Spain cedes Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba. In India, over 100 British prisoners die in iBlack Hole of Calcutta.i
120 1757 
  • 1757—1757: HISTORY: .John Campbell invents the sextant.
  • 1757—1757: NATIVE AMERICAN: Lipan Apaches ask Spanish to build a mission on Comanche Territory to result in war between the Spanish and Comanche..
121 1758 
  • 1758—1758: HISTORY: .Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
  • 1758—1758: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches and Wichita attack San Saba Presido and mission and kill all..
122 1759 
  • 1759—1759: EPEDEMIC: Measles - North America .(areas inhabited by white people)
  • 1759—1759: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish army defeated by Comanches and Wichita at Red River..
123 1760 
  • 1760—1760: NATIVE AMERICAN: Crow tribe acquires horse from Comanches.
  • 1760—1760: NATIVE AMERICAN: Taos attacked by Comanches.
  • 1760—1820: ROYAL: .George III. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
124 1761 
  • 1761—1761: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
  • 1761—1761: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches attack Lipan mission on Nueces River.
  • 1761—1761: WAR: Cherokee War.English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians.
125 1763 
  • 1763—1763: POLITICAL: France transfers Louisana to Spanish control..
  • 1763—1763: WAR: French and Indian War.Also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain.
126 1764 
  • 1764—1764: HISTORY: .James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
127 1765 
  • 1765—1765: NATIVE AMERICAN: Prior to this date the Kiowa lived in the Black Hills, driven out by Lakota Sioux moving westward from Minnesota..
128 1767 
  • 1767—1767: HISTORY: .Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
129 1768 
  • 1768—1768: HISTORY: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame..
  • 1768—1768: NATIVE AMERICAN: Ute/Jicarilla alliance defeated by Comanches.
130 1769 
  • 1769—1769: HISTORY: .James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
131 1772 
  • 1772—1772: EPEDEMIC: Measles - North America.
132 1773 
  • 1773—1773: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Pecos a 3rd time..
133 1774 
  • 1774—1774: HISTORY: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph..
  • 1774—1774: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish soldiers with help of Pueblo Indians attack a Comanche Village near Raton and capture over 100 Comanche Prisoners..
134 1775 
  • 1775—1775: HISTORY: .Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • 1775—1775: NATIVE AMERICAN: YAMPARIKA COMANCHES FIGHTING LAKOTA AND CHEYENNE IN THE BLACK HILLS..
  • 1775—1775: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Pecos 4th time..
  • 1775—1775: NATIVE AMERICAN: Yamprika Comanches fighting Lakota and Cheyenne in the Black Hills..
  • 1775—1775: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches fight Arikara, frequent wars with the Osage, Pawnee and Kansa Indians..
135 1776 
  • 1776—1776: POLITICAL: Declaration of Independence..
136 1777 
  • 1777—1777: NATIVE AMERICAN: New Spain holds council of war and seeks alliance with the Nations of the North, Comanche and Wichita..
137 1779 
  • 1779—1779: HISTORY: .Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
  • 1779—1779: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish send 500 man army with 200 Utes and Apache attack a large Comanche village and kill Chief Green Horn..
138 1780 
  • 1780—1780: HISTORY: .Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses.
  • 1780—1780: NATIVE AMERICAN: Due to the Kiowa being forced to move south by the Lakota, war breaks out between the Comanche and Kiowa..
  • 1780—1780: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE UTE ALLIANCE COLLAPSE, 50-YEAR WAR BEGINS BETWEEN COMANCHES AND UTES.
  • 1780—1780: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE RAIDS PECOS, NEW MEXICO UNDER SIEGE, FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS, COMANCHES ATTACK VIRTUALLY ALL PLACES IN SPANISH NEW MEXICO..
139 1781 
  • 1781—1781: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worldwide.
  • 1781—1781: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPIDEMIC Smallpox decimates both Wichita and Comanche tribes, many people die..
140 1783 
  • 1783—1783: HISTORY: .Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783—1783: WAR: American Revolution English Colonists vs Great Britain.
141 1784 
  • 1784—1784: HISTORY: .Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
142 1785 
  • 1785—1785: HISTORY: .Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • 1785—1785: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish propose treaty with the Texas Comanche, signed in the fall..Spanish propose treaty with the Texas Comanche, signed in the fall.
143 1786 
  • 1786—1786: HISTORY: .John Fitch invents a steamboat.
  • 1786—1786: WAR: Kotsotekas kill Chief White Bull.In New Mexico because of his stance against peace, his followers are scattered.
  • 1786—1786: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish barter a peace between the Comanche and Ute Tribes, and sign treaty with Comanche..
144 1787 
  • 7 Dec 1787—1787: POLITICAL: Delaware statehood.
145 1788 
  • 1788—1788: EPEDEMIC: Measles - PA, NY.
146 1789 
  • 1789—1789: HISTORY: .Guillotine is invented.
  • 1789—1789: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish and Comanche defeat the Lipan Apache..
147 1790 
  • 1790—1790: HISTORY: United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton..
  • 1790—1790: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche & Pawnee war for 3 years, Pawnee defeated..
148 1791 
  • 1791—1791: HISTORY: .John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • 1791—1791: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Osage war, Osage again defeated by the Comanche..
149 1792 
  • 1792—1792: HISTORY: .William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
150 1793 
  • 1793—1793: EPEDEMIC: Many unexplained deaths.PA (Harrisburg & Middletown)
151 1794 
  • 1794—1794: HISTORY: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin..
152 1795 
  • 1795—1795: HISTORY: .Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
153 1796 
  • 1796—1796: EPEDEMIC: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination..
154 1797 
  • 1797—1797: HISTORY: .A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797—1797: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches destroy entire Osage village near the Kansas Missouri border..
  • 1797—1797: POLITICAL: George Washington, President.
155 1798 
  • 1798—1798: HISTORY: .Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798—1798: POLITICAL: Napoleon Bonaparte (French general).Napolion defeats Austrians. In the U.S., Washington's Farewell Address (Sept. 17); John Adams elected president; Thomas Jefferson, vice president. Edward Jenner introduces smallpox vaccination. Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt. U.S. Navy Department established.
156 1799 
  • 1799—1799: HISTORY: .Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
157 1800 
  • 1800—1800: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
  • 1800—1800: WAR: Franco American Naval War .United States vs France
158 1801 
  • 1801—1801: POLITICAL: John Adams, President.
  • 1801—1805: WAR: Tripolitan War .United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
159 1803 
  • 1803—1803: EPEDEMIC: Yelow Fever.Yelow Fever - NY
  • 1803—1803: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche & Pawnee war, Pawnee again defeated..
  • 1803—1803: POLITICAL: Louisanna Purchase..
160 1804 
  • 1804—1804: HISTORY: Steam Locomotive.Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
161 1805 
  • 1805—1805: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Kiowa make peace after a Kiowa warrior lives among the Comanche for a summer..
162 1807 
  • 1807—1807: NATIVE AMERICAN: Dr. John Sibley has meeting with Comanche Chief..
163 1809 
  • 1809—1809: HISTORY: .Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • 1809—1809: POLITICAL: Thomas Jefferson, President.
164 1810 
  • 1810—1810: HISTORY: .German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • 1810—1810: NATIVE AMERICAN: Approx. time of peace with the Kiowa Apache..
  • 1810—1810: HISTORY: Hildago Revolt occurs..
165 1811 
  • 1811—1811: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Chief El Sordo visits Bexar and imprisoned in Coahuila..
  • 1811—1811: NATIVE AMERICAN: Relations between Texas and Comanches break down due to the imprisonment of El Sordo..
166 1812 
  • 30 Apr 1812—1812: POLITICAL: Louisiana statehood.
167 1813 
  • 1813—1813: NATIVE AMERICAN: American traders trade with Comanches for horses..
  • 1813—1814: WAR: Creek War.United States vs Creek Indians
168 1814 
  • 1814—1814: HISTORY: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive..
  • 1814—1814: WAR: The War of 1812..The United States attempted to invade Canada, but failed. The British captured and burned Washington, D.C.. The British also attempted to invade the United States from Canada, but failed. This picture shows Captain Oliver Perry's victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. Commander Andrew Jackson defeated the British when they tried to invade New Orleans. A peace treaty was finally signed in December of 1814. The British agreed to recognize the United States country boundaries. In addition, the United States had established itself as a powerful military force.
169 1815 
  • 1815—1815: HISTORY: .Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
170 1816 
  • 1816—1816: NATIVE AMERICAN: John Jamison meets with Comanche Chiefs for trade..
  • 1816—1816: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPIDEMIC Smallpox.Smallpox spreads throughout Comancheria.
  • 11 Dec 1816—1816: POLITICAL: Indiana statehood.
171 1817 
  • 1817—1817: POLITICAL: James Madison, President.
  • 10 Dec 1817—1817: POLITICAL: Mississippi statehood.
172 1818 
  • 3 Dec 1818—1818: POLITICAL: Illinois statehood.
173 1819 
  • 1819—1819: HISTORY: .Rene Lainnec invents the stethoscope.
174 1820 
  • 15 Mar 1820—1820: POLITICAL: Maine statehood.
175 1821 
  • 1821—1821: HISTORY: Spanish rule replaced by Mexico..
  • 1821—1821: HISTORY: Santa Fe trail opened..
176 1822 
  • 1822—1822: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico makes treaty with the Texas Comanche..
177 1823 
  • 1823—1823: HISTORY: .Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
  • 1823—1823: EPEDEMIC: Unknown Fever.Fever starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads nationwide.
178 1824 
  • 1824—1824: HISTORY: .Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
179 1825 
  • 1825—1825: HISTORY: .William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
  • 1825—1825: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico does not honor treaty with Comanche and the Rio Grande war breaks out..
  • 1825—1825: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Chihuahua..
  • 1825—1825: WAR: United States begins construction of Fort Gibson in Ok..
  • 1825—1825: POLITICAL: James Monroe, President.
180 1826 
  • 1826—1826: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico makes treaty with Texas Comanches again..
181 1827 
  • 1827—1827: HISTORY: .Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
182 1829 
  • 1829—1829: HISTORY: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter..
  • 1829—1829: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches and Kiowas battle U.S. Infantry on Santa Fe Trail..
  • 1829—1829: POLITICAL: John Quincy Adams, President.
183 1830 
  • 1830—1830: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
  • 1830—1830: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches war with Cheyenne and Arapaho alliance..
  • 1830—1830: ROYAL: .George IV. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
184 1831 
  • 1831—1831: HISTORY: .American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
  • 1831—1831: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico bans trading with the Comanche..
  • 1831—1831: EPEDEMIC: Asiatic Cholera - Nationwide .(brought by English immigrants).
185 1832 
  • 1832—1832: HISTORY: .Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
  • 1832—1832: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches catch horse stealing Pawnee raiders and kill them all..
  • 1832—1832: WAR: Construction of Bent's Fort on Arkansas River..
186 1833 
  • 1833—1833: EPEDEMIC: Cholera - Columbus, OH.
  • 1833—1833: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sam Houston barters peace with Comanches, becomes friend to many..
187 1834 
  • 1834—1834: HISTORY: .Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
  • 1834—1834: NATIVE AMERICAN: MEXICO MAKES TREATY WITH TEXAS COMANCHES..
  • 1834—1834: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico makes treaty with Texas Comanches for 3rd time..
  • 1834—1834: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico again dishonors peace treaty and Comanches resume raids on Mexico..
188 1835 
  • 1835—1835: HISTORY: .Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
  • 1835—1835: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sonora & Chihuahua and Durango re-establish bounties for Comanche Scalps..
  • 1835—1835: NATIVE AMERICAN: American Treaty made at Camp Holmes with Comanche, Wichita, Osage, Quapaw, Seneca, Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek..Chief Diwali (Bowles) of the Texas Cherokee makes peace and trades with Comanches (16 villages.)
189 1836 
  • 1836—1836: HISTORY: .Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
  • 1836—1836: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cynthia Ann Parker captured at Ft. Parker Texas..
  • 1836—1836: POLITICAL: Sam Houston, President (Republic of Texas).Texas wins independance from Mexico, Sam Houston becomes president of the Republic.
  • 1836—1836: WAR: Texas Revolutionary War.Texas vs Mexico.
190 1837 
  • 1837—1837: HISTORY: .Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
  • 1837—1837: NATIVE AMERICAN: TEXAS CHEROKEE CHIEF DIWALI MAKES PEACE AND TRADES WITH 16 DIFFERENT BANDS OF COMANCHES..
  • 1837—1837: NATIVE AMERICAN: Chief Diwali (Bowles) of the Texas Cherokee makes peace and trades with Comanches (16 villages.).
  • 1837—1837: POLITICAL: Andrew Jackson, President.
  • 1837—1837: ROYAL: .William IV. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
191 1838 
  • 1838—1838: HISTORY: .Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
  • 1838—1838: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas and Comanches make peace treaty..
192 1839 
  • 1839—1839: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839—1839: NATIVE AMERICAN: TEXAS FORCE OUT CHEROKEE, SHAWNEE AND DELAWARE FROM TEXAS..
  • 1839—1839: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas expells the Cherokee, Shawnee, and Delaware from Texas in forced removal..
  • 1839—1839: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox.
193 1840 
  • 1840—1840: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHES MEET TEXANS FOR COUNCIL IN SAN ANTONIO, 12 COMANCHE CHIEFS ARE KILLED AND 27 WOMEN AND CHILDREN TAKEN PRISONER..
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches meet Texans for council in San Antonio, 12 Comanche Chiefs are killed and 27 women and children taken prisoner..
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: Peace is made between the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Comanche, Comanches give massive gift of horses to their new allies..
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: Chief Potsana Kwahip (Buffalo Hump) Takes warriors against Texas on a thousand mile raid, Homes are burned, Hundreds of Texans killed..UNITED STATES ANNEXES TEXAS.
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas with Tonkawa warriors attack Comanches at Plum Creek..
  • 1840—1840: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas Rangers formed to fight Comanches..
194 1841 
  • 1841—1841: POLITICAL: William H. Harrison, President.William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
  • 1841—1841: WAR: TEXAS HAS SECOND WAR WITH MEXICO..
  • 1841—1841: WAR: Texas has second war with Mexico..
195 1842 
  • 1842—1842: HISTORY: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator..
196 1843 
  • 1843—1843: HISTORY: .Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
  • 1843—1843: NATIVE AMERICAN: Colonel J.C. Eldridge meets with Chief Pahayuco of the Tenawa at Pecan Creek, near Red River..
197 1844 
  • 1844—1844: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
  • 1844—1844: : SAM HOUSTON MEETS WITH CHIEF TSEEP TASEWAH ALONG WITH OTHER INDIAN LEADERS..
  • 1844—1844: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sam Houston meets with Chief Buffalo Piss along with other Indian Leaders..
  • 1844—1844: POLITICAL: Martin van Buren, President .
198 1845 
  • 1845—1845: HISTORY: .American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
  • 1845—1845: NATIVE AMERICAN: Chief Quanah Parker born.Near Laguna Sabinas (Cedar Lake).
  • 1845—1845: NATIVE AMERICAN: Treaty between the Republic of Texas and Texas Comanches is signed..
  • 1845—1845: POLITICAL: John Tyler, President .John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
199 1846 
  • 1846—1846: HISTORY: Anesthesia Invented.Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
  • 1846—1846: TEXAS: United States annexes Texas..
  • 1846—1846: NATIVE AMERICAN: Butler-Lewis Treaty made with Comanche, Anadarko, Caddo, Lipan, Wichita, and Waco..
  • 1846—1846: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Delegation meet with President Polk.
200 1847 
  • 1847—1847: HISTORY: .Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
  • 1847—1847: NATIVE AMERICAN: German Treaty signed at Fredericksburg with Comanches, this treaty still honored..
201 1848 
  • 1848—1848: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPEDIMIC Smallpox strikes Comanche tribes.SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC STRIKES COMANCHE TRIBE.
  • 1848—1848: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico filed 366 separate claims for Comanche and Apache raids originating from north of the border..
  • 1848—1848: WAR: Mexican-American War..
  • 29 May 1848—1848: POLITICAL: Wisconsin statehood.
202 1849 
  • 1849—1849: HISTORY: .Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
  • 1849—1849: NATIVE AMERICAN: GOLD SEEKERS TRAVELING ALONG CANADIAN RIVER BRING SMALLPOX TO THE COMANCHES. .
  • 1849—1849: NATIVE AMERICAN: Gold seekers traveling along Canadian river bring smallpox to the Comanches..
  • 1849—1849: POLITICAL: James Polk, President .
  • 1849—1849: EPEDEMIC: Influeza - Worldwide.
  • 1849—1849: EPEDEMIC: Cholera - North America.
203 1850 
  • 1850—1850: HISTORY: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent..
  • 1850—1850: POLITICAL: Zachary Taylor, President .Zachary Taylor died while in office.
204 1851 
  • 1851—1851: HISTORY: .Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
  • 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPIDEMIC Smallpox strikes Comanche .Comanche population drops from around 20,000 to 12,000 due to smallpox.
  • 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: Fort Laramie Treaty with Plains Indian Tribes..
  • 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: Epidemic breaks out among Comanche and Kiowa..
  • 1851—1851: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Norht America.
205 1852 
  • 1852—1852: EPEDEMIC: Yellow Fever .Nationwide (8,000 die in New Orleans alone during the summer)
  • 1852—1852: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango and Tepic in Jalisco 700 miles south of the border..
206 1853 
  • 1853—1853: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kiowa and Yamprika sign Fort Atkinson Treaty..Kiowa and Yamprika sign Fort Atkinson Treaty.
  • 1853—1853: NATIVE AMERICAN: MEXICO FILED 366 SEPARATE CLAIMS FOR COMANCHES AND APACHE RAIDS ORIGINATING FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER..
  • 1853—1853: POLITICAL: Millard Fillmore, President.Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
  • 1853—1857: POLITICAL: Franklin Pierce, President.
207 1854 
  • 1854—1854: HISTORY: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics..
  • 1854—1854: NATIVE AMERICAN: TEXAS CONGRESS PROVIDES 23,000 ACRES AND ESTABLISHES THREE RESERVATIONS.ON THE UPPER BRAZOS RIVER FOR THE TEXAS TRIBES, CADDO, CHEROKEE, DELAWARE, SHAWNEE, WICHITA AND TONKAWA.
  • 1854—1854: NATIVE AMERICAN: Peneteka Tribe moves to Texas Reservation..
208 1855 
  • 1855—1855: HISTORY: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor..
209 1856 
  • 1856—1856: HISTORY: .Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization.
  • 1856—1856: NATIVE AMERICAN: Robert E. Lee becomes in charge of Texas Indian Reservation..
210 1857 
  • 1857—1857: HISTORY: .George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
211 1858 
  • 1858—1858: HISTORY: .Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Due to Indian raids the Army abandons Camp Cooper..
  • 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas Rangers attack Comanche Village at Little Robe Creek in Indian Territory..
  • 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Captain Earl Van Dorn attacked a Comanche village at Rush Springs killing 83..
  • 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Van Dorn strikes the Comanches at Crooked Creek in Kansas..
212 1859 
  • 1859—1859: NATIVE AMERICAN: Settlers attack reservation in Texas and are repelled by Indians..
  • 1859—1859: NATIVE AMERICAN: Indians on Texas Reservation forced to leave Texas..
  • 1859—1859: HISTORY: The California Gold Rush..
  • 14 Feb 1859—1859: POLITICAL: Oregon statehood.
213 1860 
  • 1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: CALVARY SENDS 3 COLUMNS ON EXPEDITION BATTLE FOUGHT WITH COMANCHES, KIOWA, CHEYENNE, AND ARAPAHO..
  • 1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: Calvary sends 3 columns on expedition battle fought with Comanches, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho..
  • 1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cynthia Ann re-captured by Sul Ross Texas Ranger..
  • 1860—1861: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox - PA.
214 1861 
  • 1861—1861: HISTORY: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator..
  • 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Confederates sign 2 treaties with Comanche Bands..
  • 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Confederates fail to make good on treaty and Comanches push the Texas frontier back over 100 miles, forts are abandoned and raids increase..
  • 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Santa Fe Trail closed down by Comanches, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho..
  • 1861—1861: POLITICAL: James Buchanan, President.
215 1862 
  • 1862—1862: HISTORY: .Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862—1862: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox.New Mexico
  • 1862—1862: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox.New Mexico
  • 1862—1862: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches & Pro-Union Delaware and Shawnee from Kansas attack the Tonkawa agency on revenge raid and kill 300 Tonkawa for helping the white man track and fight other Indian Tribes. (Numu Tuhka)..
216 1863 
  • 1863—1863: NATIVE AMERICAN: FULL SCALE WAR IN THE GREAT PLAINS BY AN ALLIANCE FOR LAKOTA, CHEYENNE, ARAPAHO, KIOWA, COMANCHE, AND KIOWA-APACHE..
  • 1863—1863: NATIVE AMERICAN: Full scale war in the Great Plains by an alliance of Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apache..
  • 20 Jun 1863—1863: POLITICAL: West Virginia statehood.
217 1864 
  • 1864—1864: NATIVE AMERICAN: Colonel Kit Carson sent to deal with Comanches at first battle of Adobe Walls with Ute and Jicarilla Scouts, Carson left after 4 day battle and never again returned to Texas to fight Comanches..
  • 1864—1864: NATIVE AMERICAN: Five days after Carson's battle, Chivington's Colorado volunteers attacked a sleeping Cheyenne village.Sand Creek in southern Colorado mutilating 300 Cheyenne, mostly women and children.
  • 31 Oct 1864—1864: POLITICAL: Nevada statehood.
218 1865 
  • 1865—1865: NATIVE AMERICAN: Council held with Confederates & Plains Tribes at Washita River 2 weeks after Lee had surrendered..
  • 1865—1865: NATIVE AMERICAN: Little Arkansas Treaty signed with the Comanche and other Plains Tribes..
  • 1865—1865: WAR: Civil War.
  • 1865—1869: POLITICAL: Andrew Johnson, President.Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
  • 14 Apr 1865—1865: POLITICAL: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day..
219 1866 
  • 1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
220 1867 
  • 1867—1867: HISTORY: .Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
  • 1867—1867: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPEDIMIC Cholera strikes Comanche tribes.
  • 1867—1867: NATIVE AMERICAN: Treaty of Medicine Lodge signed by Comanche Tribes, Quohada band refused to sign under Chief Quanah..Treaty of Medicine Lodge signed by Comanche Tribes, Quohada band refused to sign under Chief Quanah.
221 1868 
  • 1868—1868: HISTORY: .J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche bands that signed treaty moved to Fort Cobb only to leave again in summer to return home to the Plains..
  • 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche raids target Texas and Kansas, all tribes are then ordered to Oklahoma..
  • 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Custer's Last Stand.George Armstong Custer and the 7th Cavalry attacks a southern Cheyenne village on the Washita in November.
  • 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Major Andrew Evans attacks a Comanche village at Soldiers Spring on Christmas Day..
222 1869 
  • 1869—1869: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche-Kiowa agency was relocated to Fort Sill and the Cheyenne-Arapaho agency to Darlington..
  • 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
223 1870 
  • 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
224 1871 
  • 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: KIOWA RAIDS GENERAL WILLIAM SHERMAN's WAGON TRAIN.AND ALMOST KILLS THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY.A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station.
  • 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kiowa raids General William Shermans wagon train and almost kills the Supreme Commander of the American Army..
  • 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station..
  • 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Randell Mackenzie and his black buffalo soldiers fight Quanah for 2 years on the Plains..
225 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..
226 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..
227 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..
228 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.
229 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)
230 1877 
  • 1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
231 1878 
  • 1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
232 1879 
  • 1879—1879: NATIVE AMERICAN: The Buffalo of the Great Plains were gone, over 15 million destroyed by white hunters..Estimation taken this year was less than 1500 buffalo left in the Great Plains.
233 1880 
  • 1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
234 1881 
  • 1881—1881: HISTORY: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras..
  • 1881—1885: POLITICAL: Chester A. Arthur, President.Vice President under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
  • 4 Mar 1881—19 Sep 1881: POLITICAL: James Garfield, President.
235 1884 
  • 1884—1884: HISTORY: .James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
236 1885 
  • 1885—1885: HISTORY: .Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
237 1886 
  • 1886—1886: HISTORY: .John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
238 1887 
  • 1887—1887: HISTORY: .German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
239 1888 
  • 1888—1888: HISTORY: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire..
240 1889 
  • 1889—1889: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
241 1890 
  • 3 Jul 1890—1890: POLITICAL: Idaho statehood.
242 1891 
  • 1891—1891: HISTORY: .Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
243 1892 
  • 1892—1892: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
244 1893 
  • 1893—1893: HISTORY: .American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • 1893—1893: POLITICAL: Benjamin Harrison, President.
  • 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: POLITICAL: Grover Cleveland, President.
245 1895 
  • 1895—1895: HISTORY: .Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
246 1896 
  • 1896—1896: HISTORY: .American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
247 1897 
  • 1897—1897: EPEDEMIC: YELLOW FEVER - .PHILADELPHIA, PA
  • 1897—1897: POLITICAL: Grover Cleveland, President.
  • 1897—1901: POLITICAL: William McKinley, President.William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
248 1898 
  • 1898—1898: HISTORY: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster..
  • 1898—1898: WAR: Spanish-American War.United States vs Spain.
249 1899 
  • 1899—1899: HISTORY: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner..
250 1900 
  • 1900—1900: HISTORY: .Zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
251 1901 
  • 1901—1901: HISTORY: .King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • 1901—1901: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE RESERVATION IS BROKEN UP DUE TO GOVERNMENT PRESSURE TO OPEN THE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT..
  • 1901—1901: NATIVE AMERICAN: The Comanche reservation is broken up due to Government pressure to open the land for settlement..
  • 1901—1901: ROYAL: .Victoria. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
252 1902 
  • 1902—1902: HISTORY: .Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
253 1903 
  • 1903—1903: HISTORY: .Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
254 1904 
  • 1904—1904: HISTORY: .Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
255 1905 
  • 1905—1905: HISTORY: Albert Einstein.Published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
  • 1905—1905: POLITICAL: Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Comanche.Rides in President Roosevelt's inaugural parade in Washington, DC.
  • 1905—1905: POLITICAL: President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Chief Quanah at Star House.Quanah and the President go on a wolf hunt in April.
256 1906 
  • 1906—1906: HISTORY: .William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
257 1907 
  • 1907—1907: HISTORY: .Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
258 1908 
  • 1908—1908: HISTORY: .Gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
259 1909 
  • 1909—1909: HISTORY: .Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
  • 1909—1909: POLITICAL: Theodore Roosevelt, President.Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President under William McKinley, sworn in as President upon death of McKinley.
260 1910 
  • 1910—1910: HISTORY: Thomas Edison .Demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
  • 1910—1910: NATIVE AMERICAN: Quanah buries his mother Cynthia Ann Parker.December 4 at Post Oak Cemetery.
  • 1910—1910: ROYAL: .Edward VII. Ruler of England. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
261 1911 
  • 1911—1911: HISTORY: .Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
  • 1911—1911: NATIVE AMERICAN: Quanah Parker, Last Chief recognized by the U.S Government dies. .Over 2000 attend his funeral and many people mourn nationwide.
262 1912 
  • 1912—1912: HISTORY: .Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
263 1913 
  • 1913—1913: HISTORY: .Crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913—1913: POLITICAL: William Taft President.
264 1914 
  • 1914—1914: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
  • 1914—1918: WAR: World War I.Triple Alliance - Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente - Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
265 1915 
  • 1915—1915: HISTORY: .Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
266 1916 
  • 1916—1916: HISTORY: .Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • 1916—1916: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE WARRIORS VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE, CODE TALKERS ARE UTILIZED BY UNITED STATES FORCES..
  • 1916—1916: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Warriors volunteer for service in WWI. Comanche Code talkers are utilized by United States Forces..
267 1917 
  • 17 Jul 1917—1917: ROYAL: House of Windsor name adopted. .
268 1918 
  • 1918—1918: HISTORY: .Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918—1919: EPEDEMIC: Influenza pandemic.The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as Spanish Flu or La Grippe the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
269 1919 
  • 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
270 1920 
  • 1920—1920: HISTORY: Tommy Gun patented by John T Thompson..
271 1921 
  • 1921—1921: HISTORY: Artificial life begins .The first robot built.
  • 1921—1921: POLITICAL: Woodrow Wilson, President.
  • 4 Mar 1921—31 Jul 1921: POLITICAL: Warren Harding, President.Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
272 1922 
  • 1922—1922: HISTORY: .Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
273 1923 
  • 1923—1923: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
274 1924 
  • 1924—1924: HISTORY: .Dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
275 1925 
  • 1925—1925: HISTORY: .Mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
276 1926 
  • 1926—1926: HISTORY: .Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
277 1927 
  • 1927—1927: HISTORY: .JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
278 1928 
  • 1928—1928: HISTORY: Penecillin Developed.Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
279 1929 
  • 1929—1929: HISTORY: .American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
  • 1929—1929: POLITICAL: .Calvin Coolidge president of the USA. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
280 1931 
  • 1931—1931: HISTORY: .Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
281 1932 
  • 1932—1932: HISTORY: .Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
282 1933 
  • 1933—1933: HISTORY: .Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933—1933: POLITICAL: .Herbert Hoover president of the USA.
283 1934 
  • 1934—1934: HISTORY: .Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
284 1935 
  • 1935—1935: HISTORY: .Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
285 1936 
  • 1936—1936: HISTORY: .Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
  • 1936—1936: ROYAL: .George V. Ruler of England.
  • 20 Jan 1936—10 Dec 1936: ROYAL: Second son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck..Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
286 1937 
  • 1937—1937: HISTORY: .Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
287 1938 
  • 1938—1938: HISTORY: .Ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
288 1939 
  • 1939—1939: HISTORY: .Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
289 1940 
  • 1940—1940: HISTORY: .Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
290 1941 
  • 1941—1941: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE WARRIORS AGAIN VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE, CODE TALKERS USE THE COMANCHE LANGUAGE IN D-DAY INVASION AND PATTON's TANK BATTALION TO SECURE VICTORY FOR ALLIED FORCES DURING WWII..[more]
  • 1941—1941: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Warriors again volunteer for service in Europe, Code Talkers use the Comanche Language in D-Day Invasion and Patton's tank battalion to secure victory for allied forces during WWII..
291 1943 
  • 1943—1943: HISTORY: .Richard James invents the slinky.
292 1944 
  • 1944—1944: HISTORY: .Kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
293 1945 
  • 1945—1945: HISTORY: .Atomic bomb invented.
  • 1945—1945: POLITICAL: .Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA.
  • 1945—1945: WAR: World War II .Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers - United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia.
294 1946 
  • 1946—1946: HISTORY: .Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
295 1948 
  • 1948—1948: HISTORY: .Frisbee invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
296 1949 
  • 1949—1949: HISTORY: .Cake mix invented.
297 1950 
  • 1950—1950: HISTORY: .First credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
298 1951 
  • 1951—1951: HISTORY: .Super glue invented.
299 1952 
  • 1952—1952: ROYAL: .George VI. Ruler of England. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917) - 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
300 1953 
  • 1953—1953: HISTORY: .Radial tires invented.
  • 1953—1953: POLITICAL: .Harry Truman president of the USA.
  • 1953—1953: WAR: Korean War .United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China.
301 1954 
  • 1954—1954: HISTORY: .Oral contraceptives invented.
302 1955 
  • 1955—1955: HISTORY: .Optic fiber invented.
  • 1 Nov 1955—15 May 1975: WAR: Vietnam War.In South Vietnam, a tactic has been to bomb villages to discourage support of the Viet Cong. Terrorized children are televised running from the napalm bombing of the village of Trang Bang. Information about the later life of the naked girl with the burned flesh, seen running from her village (see photo), is available through a Wikipedia search for Phan Th? Kim Ph'c.
303 1957 
  • 1957—1957: HISTORY: .Fortran (computer language) invented.
304 1958 
  • 1958—1958: HISTORY: .Computer Modem invented.
305 1959 
  • 1959—1959: HISTORY: .Internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
306 1960 
  • 1960—1960: HISTORY: .Halogen lamp invented.
307 1961 
  • 1961—1961: HISTORY: Bay of Pigs Invasion.United States vs Cuba
  • 1961—1961: POLITICAL: .Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA
308 1962 
  • 1962—1962: HISTORY: .Audio cassette invented.
309 1963 
  • 1963—22 Nov 1963: POLITICAL: .John F. Kennedy president of the USA.
  • 22 Nov 1963—1963: POLITICAL: John F. Kennedy assassinated.by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
310 1964 
  • 1964—1964: HISTORY: .Acrylic paint invented.
311 1965 
  • 1965—1965: HISTORY: .Astroturf invented.
312 1966 
  • 1966—1966: HISTORY: .Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
313 1967 
  • 1967—1967: HISTORY: .First handheld calculator invented.
314 1968 
  • 1968—1968: HISTORY: .Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
315 1969 
  • 1969—1969: HISTORY: .Arpanet (first internet) invented.
  • 1969—1969: POLITICAL: .Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
316 1970 
  • 1970—1970: HISTORY: .Daisy-wheel printer invented.
317 1971 
  • 1971—1971: HISTORY: .Dot-matrix printer invented.
318 1972 
  • 1972—1972: HISTORY: .Word processor invented.
319 1973 
  • 1973—1973: HISTORY: .Gene splicing invented.
320 1974 
  • 1974—1974: POLITICAL: .Richard Nixon president of the USA.
  • 8 Aug 1974—1974: POLITICAL: .Richard M. Nixon first president of USA to resign from office.
321 1975 
  • 1975—1975: HISTORY: .Laser printer invented.
  • 1975—1975: WAR: Vietnam War.
322 1976 
  • 1976—1976: HISTORY: .ink-jet printer invented.
323 1977 
  • 1977—1977: HISTORY: .Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
  • 1977—1977: POLITICAL: .Gerald Ford president of the USA.
324 1978 
  • 1978—1978: HISTORY: .Artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
325 1979 
  • 1979—1979: HISTORY: .Cellular phones invented.
326 1980 
  • 1980—1980: HISTORY: .Hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
327 1981 
  • 1981—1981: HISTORY: .MS-DOS invented.
  • 1981—1981: POLITICAL: .Jimmy Carter president of the USA.
328 1984 
  • 1984—1984: HISTORY: .CD-ROM invented.
329 1985 
  • 1985—1985: HISTORY: .Windows program invented by Microsoft.
330 1987 
  • 1987—1987: HISTORY: .First 3-D video game invented.
331 1988 
  • 1988—1988: HISTORY: .Digital cellular phones invented.
332 1989 
  • 1989—1989: HISTORY: .High-definition television invented.
  • 1989—1989: NATIVE AMERICAN: .FRANCE RECOGNIZES COMANCHE WARRIORS FOR BRAVERY AND AWARDS THEM THE HIGHEST HONOR IT CAN BESTOW FOR ESTEEMED SERVICE IN HAVING SAVED FRANCE FOR GERMAN OCCUPATION.
  • 1989—1989: NATIVE AMERICAN: France recognizes Comanche Warriors for bravery and awards them the highest honor it can bestow for esteemed service in having saved France from German occupation..
  • 1989—1989: POLITICAL: .Ronald Reagan president of the USA.
333 1991 
  • 1991—1991: HISTORY: .Digital answering machine invented.
  • 1991—1991: WAR: Persian Gulf War.United States and Coalition Forces vs Iraq.
334 1993 
  • 1993—1993: HISTORY: .Pentium processor invented.
  • 1993—1993: POLITICAL: .George H.W. Bush president of the USA
335 1994 
  • 1994—1994: HISTORY: .HIV protease inhibitor invented.
  • 1994—1994: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches adopt official alphabet, and Numu Tekwapuha Nomneekatu is formed to preserve Comanche Culture..
336 1995 
  • 1995—1995: HISTORY: .Java computer language invented.
337 1996 
  • 1996—1996: HISTORY: .Web TV invented.
338 1998 
  • 1998—1998: HISTORY: .Viagra invented.
339 1999 
  • 1999—1999: NATIVE AMERICAN: LAST COMANCHE CODE TALKER, CHARLES CHIBITTY, RECEIVED THE KNOWLTON AWARD BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR THE CODE TALKERS HELP IN WWII..
340 2000 
  • 2000—2000: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE TRIBE ATTAINS A HERD OF BUFFALO FROM WICHITA WILDLIFE REFUGE FOR CULTURE REVITALIZATION.
  • 2000—2008: POLITICAL: .George W. Bush president of the USA
341 2001 
  • 2001—2001: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE ATTAIN HERD OF WILD MUSTANGS FROM PYRAMID LAKE PIUTES..
  • 2001—2001: POLITICAL: .William Jefferson Clinton president of the USA.
342 2008 
  • 2008—2012: POLITICAL: .Barack Hussean Obama president of the USA