Today In Wyoming's History

1620   One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth harbor in present-day Massachusetts, construction of the first permanent European s...

1836  Texas'  First Congress established the General Land Office. 1916   The Casper Weekly Press for December 22, 1916: War...

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. 1620     The Mayflower voyagers went ashore for ...

1803 The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in Ne...

1866   Indians attempted to lure a detachment commanded by Captain James Powell into a trap near Ft. Phil Kearny but did not succeed. 1...

1777  Congress declared a Thanksgiving Day following the  British surrender at Saratoga. 1871   A bill providing for the establishment of ...

1619     Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War, born.  He returned England with the restoration o...

1826   Benjamin Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and proclaims himself the ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 186...