August 6, 1846 — The Independent Treasury Act is signed into law
James Knox Polk was the eleventh President of the USA. In 1846, he approved a law restoring the Independent Treasury...
November 29, 2020
Politics & War
January 13, 1847 — The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in California
Along with Texas, California was one of the major battlegrounds in the Mexican-American War of 1846 – 1848, and the...
November 24, 2020
October 25, 1854 — The Battle of Balaclava
Beginning about a year into the Crimean War (1853-6), the Battle of Balaclava is perhaps the best known engagement of...
November 19, 2020
January 1, 1863 — Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Although a legendary milestone in the long fight for racial equality in the United States of America, the Emancipation Proclamation...
October 19, 2020
May 3, 1865 — Abraham Lincoln is buried
The remains of Abraham Lincoln and his son, William Wallace Lincoln, were placed on a funeral train which left Washington,...
September 29, 2020
June 1, 1868 — The Navajo Reservation is established
In the mid-19th century, primarily in the 1860s, most of the Navajo were forced to abandon their homes due to...
September 22, 2020
November 11, 1869 — “An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria” is presented to the Victorian Parliament
The first legal attempt to codify the treatment of Australia’s indigenous peoples was largely an attempt to give the government...
September 19, 2020
May 14, 1870 — Michael Davitt is arrested for treason
Michael Davitt was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in the year 1846, during the worst of the Great Famine (known...
September 14, 2020
September 5, 1877 — Crazy Horse dies
A great war leader of the Ogala Lakota people, Crazy Horse fought the US Cavalry for more than a decade,...
August 29, 2020
December 19, 1877 — Michael Davitt is released from prison
Michael Davitt was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a revolutionary movement that espoused armed uprising as the...
August 24, 2020
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