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| 1 | 1860 | - 1860—1861: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox - PA.
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| 2 | 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.
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| 3 | 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)..
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| 4 | 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.
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| 5 | 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.
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| 6 | 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..
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| 7 | 1866 | - 1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
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