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| 1 | 1853 | - 1853—1857: POLITICAL: Franklin Pierce, President.
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| 2 | 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..
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| 3 | 1855 | - 1855—1855: HISTORY: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor..
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| 4 | 1856 | - 1856—1856: HISTORY: .Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization.
- 1856—1856: NATIVE AMERICAN: Robert E. Lee becomes in charge of Texas Indian Reservation..
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| 5 | 1857 | - 1857—1857: HISTORY: .George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
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| 6 | 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..
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| 7 | 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.
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| 8 | 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.
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1866 | - 1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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1862 - 1868 (5 years)
