Today In Wyoming's History

1600     The British East India Company formed by Royal Charter; d.1874 1871  The Territorial Legislature authorized the formation of mili...

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...

1836  Stephen F. Austin died. Attribution:  On This Day. 1867  Dakota Territorial Legislature creates Sweetwater County. 1890  The Union...

This blog has been running now for about two years (I chose to start it on an odd month of the year, for some reason, rather than in January...

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

Today is Christmas Day This day remains the most popular holiday in the Western World, and much of the rest of the world, in spite...

 Today is the day of the Christmas Vigil (Christmas Eve) in the Christian world.  Aðfangadagskvöld, the day when the 13th and the last Yule...