Today In Wyoming's History

1836  A convention approved the Texas Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Attribution:  On This Day. 1837  The United States sen...

This date only occurs in Leap Years. 45 BC The first Leap Day was recognized by proclamation of Julius Caesar. Under the old Roman cale...

1868  Sixteen mules were reported as having been stolen from Ft. Bridger.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society. 1885  F.E. Warr...

1885  F. E. Warren commences his first period as Territorial Governor. This one would be brief, as President Cleveland would remove him fro...

1846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, born in Scott County, Iowa. 1917  Governor John B. Kendrick resigned to enter the United Sta...

1858  Ft. Thompson abandoned. The post near the present location of Lander had only been in existence since October 1857. 1868   Cheyen...

1803  The principal that the U.S. Supreme Court could rule upon the constitutionality of a statute established in Marbury v Madison. 1821 ...

1540   Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado began his unsuccessful search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American Sout...