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Events. 1680 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist ...
July 4 – The United States centennial is celebrated. August 1 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state (see History of Colorado). Senate votes to acquit former Secretary of War William W. Belknap of all impeached charges relating to the trader post scandal. August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota.
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August 6 – Thomas Seay is reelected the 27th governor of Alabama defeating W. T. Ewing. August 10 – Lynching of Amos Miller: 23-year-old African American farmhand Amos Miller is hanged by a mob from the balcony of Williamson County Courthouse (Franklin, Tennessee). August 25 – William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
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March 16 – John Pope, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War (died 1892) April 3 – Edward Everett Hale, writer (died 1909) April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (died 1903) April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (died 1885)
August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians. August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant.