Jan 8th Suffrage is granted to blacks in Washington D.C.; President Johnson vetoes the bill; Congress overrides his veto
Jan 19th The much loved Virginia City, NV prostitute, Julia Bulette is murdered. The town closes down to pay respects at her funeral. Thousands attend the procession.
Jan 29th President Johnson vetoes Colorado's second attempt to become a U.S. state
Mar 1st Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state
Mar 2nd The First Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress over Johnson's veto
Mar 30th Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million by Secretary of State, William Seward (aka "Seward's Folly")
Jul 22nd The Kidder Massacre: 300 Sioux kill 10 soldiers at Beaver Creek, KS
Aug 2nd The Wagon Box Fight: Red Cloud & Crazy Horse lead 1,000 Sioux against Major Powell's 32 infantrymen in Wyoming. Armed with new .50 cal Springfield rifles, 200 Sioux die to only 7 soldiers
Nov 1st Tucson becomes the 2nd territorial capital of Arizona Territory
Nov 25th Due to the abundant number of vetoes by Johnson, impeachment proceedings of the President begin
Nov 25th Lt. Colonel George Custer is court-martialed for being AWOL from his command
Dec 9th Denver becomes the territorial capital of Colorado
Other
Reconstruction era (1865-1877)
Railroad construction: 30,000 miles of track are laid from 1867-1873
Yellow Fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans
Denver learns that the Union Pacific RR will pass them by & begins the development of its own RR
Mayne Reid publishes the Headless Horseman
Christopher Sholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
Births
Feb 7th Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pioneer/Author, "Little House on the Prairie")
Jul 18th Margaret Tobin (the "Unsinkable Molly Brown")
Nov 7th Madam Marie Curies (Physicist/Chemist/Researcher on Radioactivity)
Deaths
Mar 23rd Charles Deas (Painter of Native Americans, Fur Trappers)
Sep 25th Oliver Loving (Cattle Rancher/Developer of the Loving-Goodnight Trail)
Oct 3rd Elias Howe (Inventor, Sewing Machine Pioneer)
