Timeline of the Indian Wars
This chronological table contains events that took place during the Indian Wars in North America. Events which are not directly related to the Indian wars, but which serve to classify them in time, are in italics .
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| October 18, 1540 | Battle of Mauvilla or Battle of Mabila | ||
| Winter 1540–1541 | Battle of Hawiku | ||
| 1597 | Juanillo Rebellion | ||
| 1607-1615 | Tarrantine War | ||
| 1615 | † Bashabes fallen | ||
| 1608-1614 | First English Powhatan War | ||
| March 22, 1621 | Massasoit visits the Pilgrim Fathers for the first time , | ||
| March 1621 | Peace and assistance treaty between Wampanoag and the pilgrim fathers | ||
| Autumn 1621 | Joint harvest festival of Wampanoag and the pilgrim fathers ( Thanksgiving ) | ||
| March 22, 1622 | Jamestown Massacre (part of the Powhatan Wars) | ||
| 1637 | Pequot war | ||
| 1640-1701 | Beaver Wars | ||
| 1640 | Pig war | ||
| 1643-1645 | Wappinger War | ||
| February 25, 1643 | Pavonia massacre | ||
| 1644-1646 | Second English Powhatan War | ||
| 1646 | † Opechancanough (chief of the Pamunkey and later the Powhatan Confederation) | ||
| 1655 | Peach War | ||
| 1659-1660 | First Esopus War | ||
| 1662 | † Massasoit , Obersachem of the Wampanoag | ||
| 1663-1664 | Second Esopus War | ||
| 1675-1676 | King Philip's War | ||
| September 18, 1675 | Bloody Brook massacre | ||
| August 12, 1676 | † Metacomet killed in battle | ||
| 1680 | Pueblo uprising | ||
| 1689-1697 | King William's War ( French and Indian Wars 1) | ||
| October 1698 | † Death of Penobscot-Sagamore Madockawando | ||
| 1702-1713 | Queen Anne's War (French and Indian Wars 2) | ||
| 25./26. January 1704 | Apalachee massacre | ||
| 1711-1715 | Tuscarora War | ||
| 1712-1716 | First Fox War | ||
| 1715-1717 | Yamasee War | ||
| 1716 | First Natchez War | ||
| 1722 | Second Natchez War | ||
| 1722-1727 | Silly war | ||
| 1723 | Third Natchez War | ||
| 1728-1733 | Second Fox War | ||
| 1729 | Natchez uprising | ||
| May 26, 1736 | Battle of Ackia | ||
| 1744-1748 | King George's War (French and Indian Wars 3) | ||
| 1754-1763 | Seven Years War in North America (French and Indian Wars 4) | ||
| September 8, 1756 | Destruction of Kittanning | ||
| October 8, 1758 | Treaty of Easton | ||
| July 24, 1759 | Battle of La Belle Famille | ||
| 1763-1766 | Pontiac uprising | ||
| June 22, 1763 | The siege of Fort Pitt begins | ||
| October 7, 1763 | Royal Proclamation of 1763 | ||
| November 5, 1768 | Fort Stanwix Treaty | ||
| October 10, 1774 | Battle of Point Pleasant | ||
| April 19, 1775 | Start of the American War of Independence | ||
| 1776-1794 | Chickamauga Wars | ||
| 17th September 1778 | Fort Pitt Treaty | ||
| March 8, 1782 | Gnadenhütten massacre | ||
| September 3, 1783 | End of the American Revolutionary War | ||
| ??. October 1784 | Fort Stanwix Treaty | ||
| 1785-1795 | Northwest Indian War | ||
| November 4, 1791 | Battle of the Wabash River | ||
| August 20, 1794 | Battle of Fallen Timbers | ||
| August 3, 1795 | Greenville Treaty | ||
| 1804 | Defeat of the Diné (Navajo) against the Spaniards | ||
| November 7, 1811 | Battle of Tippecanoe , † Joseph Hamilton Daviess | ||
| June 18, 1812 | Beginning of the British-American War | ||
| 1813-1814 | Creek War (Rotstock War) | ||
| December 24, 1814 | End of the British-American War | ||
| 1817-1818 | First Seminole War | ||
| 1823 | Arikaree War | ||
| 1821-1875 | Texan Indian Wars | ||
| April 24, 1830 | Indian Removal Act resolution | ||
| 1832 | Black Hawk War | ||
| September 21, 1832 | First Black Hawk purchase | ||
| 1835-1842 | Second Seminole War | ||
| 1836 | Creek War of 1836 | ||
| ??. October 1837 | Second Black Hawk purchase | ||
| 1838 | † Black Hawk | ||
| June 6, 1838 | Beginning of the Path of Tears for the Cherokee | ||
| May 1, 1843 | New purchase (third Black Hawk purchase) | ||
| September 17, 1851 | First contract from Ft. Laramie | ||
| August 19, 1854 | Grattan massacre | ||
| 1854-1855 | Puget Sound War | ||
| 1855-1858 | Third Seminole War | ||
| September 2, 1855 | Battle of Ash Hollow | ||
| 1858 | Fraser Canyon War | ||
| 1861-1872 | Cochise's war | ||
| January 27, 1861 | Bascom affair | ||
| April 12, 1861 | Attack on Fort Sumter , beginning of the Civil War | ||
| 1862 | Sioux uprising | ||
| January 18, 1863 | † Apache chief Mangas Coloradas murdered | ||
| January 29, 1863 | Battle on the Bear River | ||
| September 3, 1863 | Battle of Whitestone Hill | ||
| January 14, 1864 | Start of Kit Carson's campaign against the Diné (Navajo) | ||
| 1864 | Long march of the Diné (Navajo) | ||
| July 28, 1864 | Battle of Killdeer Mountain | ||
| November 25, 1864 | First Battle of Adobe Walls | ||
| November 29, 1864 | Sand Creek Massacre | ||
| April 26, 1865 | End of the Civil War | ||
| 1866-1867 | Red cloud war | ||
| December 21, 1866 | Fetterman Skirmish | ||
| August 1, 1867 | Fight in the hay field | ||
| August 2, 1867 | Wagenburg battle | ||
| October 21, 1867 | Medicine Lodge contract | ||
| June 1, 1868 | Treaty of Fort Sumner, Return of the Diné (Navajo) | ||
| September 17, 1868 | Battle of Beecher Island | ||
| November 6, 1868 | Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 | ||
| November 27, 1868 | Battle of the Washita | ||
| 1869-1870 | Red River Rebellion | ||
| 1872-1873 | Modoc war | ||
| 1872-1884 | Geronimo's war | ||
| August 14, 1872 | Battle of Arrow Creek | ||
| September 28, 1872 | Battle of the North Arm of the Red River | ||
| June 27, 1874 | Second Battle of Adobe Walls | ||
| 1874-1875 | Red River War , gold discoveries in the Black Hills | ||
| September 28, 1874 | Ranald Slidell MacKenzie destroys 5 Indian villages in the Palo Duro Canyon | ||
| June 2, 1875 | Surrender of the Comanche under Quanah Parker | ||
| 1876-1877 | War for the Black Hills | ||
| March 17, 1876 | Battle of the Powder River | ||
| June 17, 1876 | Battle of Rosebud Creek | ||
| June 25, 1876 | Battle of Little Bighorn , † George Armstrong Custer | ||
| July 17, 1876 | Battle of Warbonnet Creek | ||
| September 9, 1876 | Battle of Slim Buttes , † American Horse | ||
| October 21, 1876 | Battle of Cedar Creek | ||
| November 25, 1876 | Dull Knife Skirmish | ||
| 1877 | Buffalo Hunters War | ||
| January 8, 1877 | Battle of Wolf Mountain | ||
| September 5, 1877 | † Crazy Horse killed at Fort Robinson | ||
| June 6, 1877 | Beginning of the campaign against the Nez Percé | ||
| October 5, 1877 | Surrender of the Nez Percé under Chief Joseph | ||
| July 17, 1882 | Battle of the Big Dry Wash | ||
| 1885 | Northwest Rebellion | ||
| 1885-1886 | Geronimo's second war | ||
| December 15, 1890 | † Sitting Bull shot dead on Standing Rock Reservation | ||
| December 29, 1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre | ||
| December 30, 1890 | Drexel Mission Fight , last battle between Sioux and US Army |
References and comments
- ↑ compare Tiguex War
- ↑ compare Apalachee massacre
- ↑ compare Fox Wars
- ↑ compare First Natchez War
- ↑ compare Second Natchez War
- ↑ compare Third Natchez War
- ↑ compare Fox Wars
- ↑ Source f. Oct 8 = http://www.american.edu/TED/ice/french-indian.htm
- ↑ compare Siege of Fort Pitt
- ^ Compare Treaty of Fort Stanwix
- ↑ compare Battle of Point Pleasant
- ↑ compare Chickamauga Wars
- ↑ compare Treaty of Fort Pitt
- ^ Compare Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)
- ↑ compare Northwest Indian War
- ↑ compare Arikara War
- ↑ compare Bascom Affair
- ↑ compare First Battle of Adobe Walls
- ↑ compare Hayfield Fight
- ↑ compare Wagon Box Fight
- ↑ compare Modoc War
- ↑ compare Battle of the North Fork
- ↑ compare Second Battle of Adobe Walls
- ↑ compare Red River War
- ↑ compare Black Hills War
- ↑ compare Battle of Powder River
- ↑ compare Battle of the Rosebud
- ↑ compare Battle of Warbonnet Creek
- ↑ compare Battle of Slim Buttes
- ↑ compare Battle of Cedar Creek
- ↑ Warning: There is a battle of the same name that took place in 1864 during the US Civil War.
- ↑ compare Dull Knife Fight
- ^ "Buried ..." p. 298
- ↑ compare Buffalo Hunters' War
- ↑ compare Battle of Wolf Mountain
- ↑ compare Battle of Big Dry Wash