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Events

  • Unknown - The California Genocide ends, with the deaths of Californian Natives estimated to be between 9,492 and 16,094.
  • April 13 - Colfax Massacre: 62 - 153 black militia volunteers are killed by a white mob at the Grant parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana.
  • July 21 - Jesse James's first train robbery occurs in Adair, Iowa. Engineer John Rafferty is killed during the robbery.
  • August 4 - George Armstrong Custer engages the Sioux for the first time near the Tongue River.

Births

Villain births

Deaths

Villain deaths

Victim deaths

  • July 21 - John Rafferty.