1838
| 1838 • Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star. |
1874
Nov 2
Age: 36y
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birth of childHood Summerl Somers Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168 |