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| 1 | 1865 | - 1865—1869: POLITICAL: Andrew Johnson, President.Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
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| 2 | 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.
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| 3 | 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..
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| 4 | 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 .
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| 5 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
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| 6 | 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..
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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.
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| 15 | 1880 | - 1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
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| 16 | 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.
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| 17 | 1884 | - 1884—1884: HISTORY: .James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
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| 18 | 1885 | - 1885—1885: HISTORY: .Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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| 19 | 1886 | - 1886—1886: HISTORY: .John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
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| 20 | 1887 | - 1887—1887: HISTORY: .German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
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| 21 | 1888 | - 1888—1888: HISTORY: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire..
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| 22 | 1889 | - 1889—1889: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
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| 23 | 1890 | - 3 Jul 1890—1890: POLITICAL: Idaho statehood.
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| 24 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: HISTORY: .Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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1867 - 1891 (23 years)
