Arizona: Timeline

1180   Last major volcanic eruption of Sunset Crater, in Arizona

1736   ''Real Arissona'', namesake of the U.S. state Arizona is founded in what is now that state.

1856   American Old West American Old West

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: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army United States Army

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 establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

1863   Arizona is organized as a United States territory Political divisions of the United States

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1877   Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy the Kid Billy the Kid

Henry McCarty better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and ... 

. Cahill will die the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.

1881   Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA United States

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1886   Indian Wars Indian Wars

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: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo Geronimo

Geronimo, was a prominent Native American [i] leader of the Chiricahua [i] ... 

 surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.

1912   Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state U.S. state

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1940   U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division U.S. 45th Infantry Division

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 (previously a National Guard Division in Arizona, Colorado Colorado

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, New Mexico New Mexico

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, and Oklahoma Oklahoma

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), activated and ordered into federal service for one year to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana Louisiana

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 prior to serving in World War II World War II

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1951   July 1 - In New Mexico New Mexico

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, Arizona, California California

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, Oregon Oregon

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, Washington Washington

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, and British Columbia British Columbia

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, thousands of hectares (many square miles) of forests were destroyed in fires.

1956   A TWA Twa

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 Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines United Airlines

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 Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash. All 128 people aboard the two aircraft are killed in the disaster. The accident prompts tighter air traffic control to be implemented in the United States.

1966   A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.

1967   Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.

1988   Governor Governor

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 Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment Impeachment

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 trial and removed from offi

1995   An Amtrak Amtrak

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 Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.

1997   Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate Real estate

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 business, effectively forcing him out of offi

1999   LaGrand Case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany Germany

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's legal action in the International Court of Justice International Court of Justice

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 to attempt to save him.

2002   Arizona experiences its worst forest fire, burning 462,606 acres (1,872 kmē) near the Mogollon Rim.