Timeline: Lena Schieveen

1856 - 1893 (36 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1853	1853—1857: POLITICAL: Franklin Pierce, President.
2	1856	1856—1856: HISTORY: .Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization. 1856—1856: NATIVE AMERICAN: Robert E. Lee becomes in charge of Texas Indian Reservation..
3	1857	1857—1857: HISTORY: .George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
4	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..
5	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.
6	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.
7	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.
8	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)..
9	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.
10	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.
11	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..
12	1866	1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
13	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.
14	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..
15	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 .
16	1870	1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
17	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..
18	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..
19	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..
20	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..
21	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.
22	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)
23	1877	1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
24	1878	1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
25	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.
26	1880	1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
27	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.
28	1884	1884—1884: HISTORY: .James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
29	1885	1885—1885: HISTORY: .Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
30	1886	1886—1886: HISTORY: .John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
31	1887	1887—1887: HISTORY: .German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
32	1888	1888—1888: HISTORY: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire..
33	1889	1889—1889: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
34	1890	3 Jul 1890—1890: POLITICAL: Idaho statehood.
35	1891	1891—1891: HISTORY: .Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
36	1892	1892—1892: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
37	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.