Today In Wyoming's History

These two historic markers are located at Como Bluffs, between Rock River and Medicine Bow Wyoming. I'm sure I've stopped at ...

1782  The Decree of Trenton gives the Wyoming region of Ohio and Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania. 1835  Santa Ana declared that all foreigne...

1845 Texas admitted into the Union. While its borders would soon shrink, at first a small portion of Wyoming, previously claimed by Spain, a...

1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.  This does not mean that Spain was in control of Mexico until 1836, but rather that it r...

Today is Boxing Day (except when falling on a Sunday, when by Royal Proclamation, it is transferred to Monday). Boxing Day has its orig...

1854   Edward Gillette was born in New Haven, Connecticut.  He graduated from the Yale Scientific School in 1876 and took a job with the U.S...

Today is St. Lucy's Day. She is one of the patrons of writers. 1636 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ordered that th...

1716   Martín de Alarcón, founder of San Antonio, appointed governor of Texas.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1854 The poem "The Charg...

1868  Crook County created out of portions of Albany and Laramie counties. 1869  Territorial Governor Campbell approved measures to ask...