Wiepkje Koopmans

Female 1892 - 1955  (63 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1702 
  • 1702—1713: WAR: Queen Anne's War.English Colonies vs France.
1706 
  • 1706—1706: HISTORY: Picuris return to the Rio Grande Valley Area..
1709 
  • 1709—1709: HISTORY: .Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711 
  • 1711—1711: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712 
  • 1712—1712: HISTORY: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine..
1713 
  • 1713—1713: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
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.
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.
1717 
  • 1717—1717: HISTORY: .Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
10 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..
11 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..
12 1722 
  • 1722—1722: HISTORY: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher..
13 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.
14 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..
15 1725 
  • 1725—1725: NATIVE AMERICAN: Last Apache settlement on the upper Arkansas river disappeared..
16 1727 
  • 1727—1760: ROYAL: .George II. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
17 1728 
  • 1728—1728: NATIVE AMERICAN: Plains Apache settle on Rio Grande with Pueblo Tribes..
18 1729 
  • 1729—1729: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
19 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.
20 1732 
  • 1732—1732: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worldwide.
21 1733 
  • 1733—1733: HISTORY: .John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
22 1738 
  • 1738—1738: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox - SC.
23 1739 
  • 1739—1739: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
24 1740 
  • 1740—1740: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche obtain firearms.Fom French Traders.
25 1742 
  • 1742—1742: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish Expedition North seeking Comanches.Spanish send another failed expedition as far as Wichita Villages without encountering Comanche.
26 1743 
  • 1743—1743: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches visit San Antonio de Bexar..
27 1744 
  • 1744—1748: WAR: King George's War.French Colonies vs Great Britain.
28 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..
29 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.
30 1747 
  • 1747—1747: EPEDEMIC: Measles - CT, NY, PA, SC.
  • 1747—1747: NATIVE AMERICAN: French barter peace between Comanche and Wichita..
31 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.
32 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..
33 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..
34 1752 
  • 1752—1752: HISTORY: .Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
35 1754 
  • 1754—1754: NATIVE AMERICAN: Blackfoot Tribe acquires horse from Comanches..
36 1755 
  • 1755—1755: LITERATURE: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary..
37 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
38 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..
39 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..
40 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..
41 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.
42 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.
43 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.
44 1764 
  • 1764—1764: HISTORY: .James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
45 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..
46 1767 
  • 1767—1767: HISTORY: .Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
47 1768 
  • 1768—1768: HISTORY: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame..
  • 1768—1768: NATIVE AMERICAN: Ute/Jicarilla alliance defeated by Comanches.
48 1769 
  • 1769—1769: HISTORY: .James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
49 1772 
  • 1772—1772: EPEDEMIC: Measles - North America.
50 1773 
  • 1773—1773: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Pecos a 3rd time..
51 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..
52 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..
53 1776 
  • 1776—1776: POLITICAL: Declaration of Independence..
54 1777 
  • 1777—1777: NATIVE AMERICAN: New Spain holds council of war and seeks alliance with the Nations of the North, Comanche and Wichita..
55 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..
56 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..
57 1781 
  • 1781—1781: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worldwide.
  • 1781—1781: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPIDEMIC Smallpox decimates both Wichita and Comanche tribes, many people die..
58 1783 
  • 1783—1783: HISTORY: .Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783—1783: WAR: American Revolution English Colonists vs Great Britain.
59 1784 
  • 1784—1784: HISTORY: .Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
60 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.
61 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..
62 1787 
  • 7 Dec 1787—1787: POLITICAL: Delaware statehood.
63 1788 
  • 1788—1788: EPEDEMIC: Measles - PA, NY.
64 1789 
  • 1789—1789: HISTORY: .Guillotine is invented.
  • 1789—1789: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spanish and Comanche defeat the Lipan Apache..
65 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..
66 1791 
  • 1791—1791: HISTORY: .John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • 1791—1791: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Osage war, Osage again defeated by the Comanche..
67 1792 
  • 1792—1792: HISTORY: .William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
68 1793 
  • 1793—1793: EPEDEMIC: Many unexplained deaths.PA (Harrisburg & Middletown)
69 1794 
  • 1794—1794: HISTORY: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin..
70 1795 
  • 1795—1795: HISTORY: .Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
71 1796 
  • 1796—1796: EPEDEMIC: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination..
72 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.
73 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.
74 1799 
  • 1799—1799: HISTORY: .Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
75 1800 
  • 1800—1800: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
  • 1800—1800: WAR: Franco American Naval War .United States vs France
76 1801 
  • 1801—1801: POLITICAL: John Adams, President.
  • 1801—1805: WAR: Tripolitan War .United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
77 1803 
  • 1803—1803: EPEDEMIC: Yelow Fever.Yelow Fever - NY
  • 1803—1803: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche & Pawnee war, Pawnee again defeated..
  • 1803—1803: POLITICAL: Louisanna Purchase..
78 1804 
  • 1804—1804: HISTORY: Steam Locomotive.Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
79 1805 
  • 1805—1805: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Kiowa make peace after a Kiowa warrior lives among the Comanche for a summer..
80 1807 
  • 1807—1807: NATIVE AMERICAN: Dr. John Sibley has meeting with Comanche Chief..
81 1809 
  • 1809—1809: HISTORY: .Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • 1809—1809: POLITICAL: Thomas Jefferson, President.
82 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..
83 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..
84 1812 
  • 30 Apr 1812—1812: POLITICAL: Louisiana statehood.
85 1813 
  • 1813—1813: NATIVE AMERICAN: American traders trade with Comanches for horses..
  • 1813—1814: WAR: Creek War.United States vs Creek Indians
86 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.
87 1815 
  • 1815—1815: HISTORY: .Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
88 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.
89 1817 
  • 1817—1817: POLITICAL: James Madison, President.
  • 10 Dec 1817—1817: POLITICAL: Mississippi statehood.
90 1818 
  • 3 Dec 1818—1818: POLITICAL: Illinois statehood.
91 1819 
  • 1819—1819: HISTORY: .Rene Lainnec invents the stethoscope.
92 1820 
  • 15 Mar 1820—1820: POLITICAL: Maine statehood.
93 1821 
  • 1821—1821: HISTORY: Spanish rule replaced by Mexico..
  • 1821—1821: HISTORY: Santa Fe trail opened..
94 1822 
  • 1822—1822: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico makes treaty with the Texas Comanche..
95 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.
96 1824 
  • 1824—1824: HISTORY: .Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
97 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.
98 1826 
  • 1826—1826: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mexico makes treaty with Texas Comanches again..
99 1827 
  • 1827—1827: HISTORY: .Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
100 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.
101 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.
102 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).
103 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..
104 1833 
  • 1833—1833: EPEDEMIC: Cholera - Columbus, OH.
  • 1833—1833: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sam Houston barters peace with Comanches, becomes friend to many..
105 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..
106 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.)
107 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.
108 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.
109 1838 
  • 1838—1838: HISTORY: .Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
  • 1838—1838: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas and Comanches make peace treaty..
110 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.
111 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..
112 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..
113 1842 
  • 1842—1842: HISTORY: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator..
114 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..
115 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 .
116 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.
117 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.
118 1847 
  • 1847—1847: HISTORY: .Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
  • 1847—1847: NATIVE AMERICAN: German Treaty signed at Fredericksburg with Comanches, this treaty still honored..
119 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.
120 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.
121 1850 
  • 1850—1850: HISTORY: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent..
  • 1850—1850: POLITICAL: Zachary Taylor, President .Zachary Taylor died while in office.
122 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.
123 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..
124 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.
125 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..
126 1855 
  • 1855—1855: HISTORY: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor..
127 1856 
  • 1856—1856: HISTORY: .Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization.
  • 1856—1856: NATIVE AMERICAN: Robert E. Lee becomes in charge of Texas Indian Reservation..
128 1857 
  • 1857—1857: HISTORY: .George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
129 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..
130 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.
131 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.
132 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.
133 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)..
134 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.
135 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.
136 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..
137 1866 
  • 1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
138 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.
139 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..
140 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 .
141 1870 
  • 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
142 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..
143 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..
144 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..
145 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..
146 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.
147 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)
148 1877 
  • 1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
149 1878 
  • 1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
150 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.
151 1880 
  • 1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
152 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.
153 1884 
  • 1884—1884: HISTORY: .James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
154 1885 
  • 1885—1885: HISTORY: .Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
155 1886 
  • 1886—1886: HISTORY: .John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
156 1887 
  • 1887—1887: HISTORY: .German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
157 1888 
  • 1888—1888: HISTORY: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire..
158 1889 
  • 1889—1889: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
159 1890 
  • 3 Jul 1890—1890: POLITICAL: Idaho statehood.
160 1891 
  • 1891—1891: HISTORY: .Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
161 1892 
  • 1892—1892: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
162 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.
163 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.
164 1896 
  • 1896—1896: HISTORY: .American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
165 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.
166 1898 
  • 1898—1898: HISTORY: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster..
  • 1898—1898: WAR: Spanish-American War.United States vs Spain.
167 1899 
  • 1899—1899: HISTORY: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner..
168 1900 
  • 1900—1900: HISTORY: .Zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
169 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.
170 1902 
  • 1902—1902: HISTORY: .Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
171 1903 
  • 1903—1903: HISTORY: .Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
172 1904 
  • 1904—1904: HISTORY: .Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
173 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.
174 1906 
  • 1906—1906: HISTORY: .William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
175 1907 
  • 1907—1907: HISTORY: .Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
176 1908 
  • 1908—1908: HISTORY: .Gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
177 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.
178 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.
179 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.
180 1912 
  • 1912—1912: HISTORY: .Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
181 1913 
  • 1913—1913: HISTORY: .Crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913—1913: POLITICAL: William Taft President.
182 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.
183 1915 
  • 1915—1915: HISTORY: .Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
184 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..
185 1917 
  • 17 Jul 1917—1917: ROYAL: House of Windsor name adopted. .
186 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.
187 1919 
  • 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
188 1920 
  • 1920—1920: HISTORY: Tommy Gun patented by John T Thompson..
189 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.
190 1922 
  • 1922—1922: HISTORY: .Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
191 1923 
  • 1923—1923: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
192 1924 
  • 1924—1924: HISTORY: .Dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
193 1925 
  • 1925—1925: HISTORY: .Mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
194 1926 
  • 1926—1926: HISTORY: .Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
195 1927 
  • 1927—1927: HISTORY: .JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
196 1928 
  • 1928—1928: HISTORY: Penecillin Developed.Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
197 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.
198 1931 
  • 1931—1931: HISTORY: .Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
199 1932 
  • 1932—1932: HISTORY: .Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
200 1933 
  • 1933—1933: HISTORY: .Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933—1933: POLITICAL: .Herbert Hoover president of the USA.
201 1934 
  • 1934—1934: HISTORY: .Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
202 1935 
  • 1935—1935: HISTORY: .Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
203 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.
204 1937 
  • 1937—1937: HISTORY: .Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
205 1938 
  • 1938—1938: HISTORY: .Ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
206 1939 
  • 1939—1939: HISTORY: .Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
207 1940 
  • 1940—1940: HISTORY: .Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
208 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..
209 1943 
  • 1943—1943: HISTORY: .Richard James invents the slinky.
210 1944 
  • 1944—1944: HISTORY: .Kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
211 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.
212 1946 
  • 1946—1946: HISTORY: .Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
213 1948 
  • 1948—1948: HISTORY: .Frisbee invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
214 1949 
  • 1949—1949: HISTORY: .Cake mix invented.
215 1950 
  • 1950—1950: HISTORY: .First credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
216 1951 
  • 1951—1951: HISTORY: .Super glue invented.
217 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.
218 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.
219 1954 
  • 1954—1954: HISTORY: .Oral contraceptives invented.
220 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.
221 1957 
  • 1957—1957: HISTORY: .Fortran (computer language) invented.
222 1958 
  • 1958—1958: HISTORY: .Computer Modem invented.
223 1959 
  • 1959—1959: HISTORY: .Internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
224 1960 
  • 1960—1960: HISTORY: .Halogen lamp invented.
225 1961 
  • 1961—1961: HISTORY: Bay of Pigs Invasion.United States vs Cuba
  • 1961—1961: POLITICAL: .Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA
226 1962 
  • 1962—1962: HISTORY: .Audio cassette invented.
227 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
228 1964 
  • 1964—1964: HISTORY: .Acrylic paint invented.
229 1965 
  • 1965—1965: HISTORY: .Astroturf invented.
230 1966 
  • 1966—1966: HISTORY: .Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
231 1967 
  • 1967—1967: HISTORY: .First handheld calculator invented.
232 1968 
  • 1968—1968: HISTORY: .Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
233 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.
234 1970 
  • 1970—1970: HISTORY: .Daisy-wheel printer invented.
235 1971 
  • 1971—1971: HISTORY: .Dot-matrix printer invented.
236 1972 
  • 1972—1972: HISTORY: .Word processor invented.
237 1973 
  • 1973—1973: HISTORY: .Gene splicing invented.
238 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.
239 1975 
  • 1975—1975: HISTORY: .Laser printer invented.
  • 1975—1975: WAR: Vietnam War.
240 1976 
  • 1976—1976: HISTORY: .ink-jet printer invented.
241 1977 
  • 1977—1977: HISTORY: .Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
  • 1977—1977: POLITICAL: .Gerald Ford president of the USA.
242 1978 
  • 1978—1978: HISTORY: .Artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
243 1979 
  • 1979—1979: HISTORY: .Cellular phones invented.
244 1980 
  • 1980—1980: HISTORY: .Hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
245 1981 
  • 1981—1981: HISTORY: .MS-DOS invented.
  • 1981—1981: POLITICAL: .Jimmy Carter president of the USA.
246 1984 
  • 1984—1984: HISTORY: .CD-ROM invented.
247 1985 
  • 1985—1985: HISTORY: .Windows program invented by Microsoft.
248 1987 
  • 1987—1987: HISTORY: .First 3-D video game invented.
249 1988 
  • 1988—1988: HISTORY: .Digital cellular phones invented.
250 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.
251 1991 
  • 1991—1991: HISTORY: .Digital answering machine invented.
  • 1991—1991: WAR: Persian Gulf War.United States and Coalition Forces vs Iraq.
252 1993 
  • 1993—1993: HISTORY: .Pentium processor invented.
  • 1993—1993: POLITICAL: .George H.W. Bush president of the USA
253 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..
254 1995 
  • 1995—1995: HISTORY: .Java computer language invented.
255 1996 
  • 1996—1996: HISTORY: .Web TV invented.
256 1998 
  • 1998—1998: HISTORY: .Viagra invented.
257 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..
258 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
259 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.
260 2008 
  • 2008—2012: POLITICAL: .Barack Hussean Obama president of the USA