Utah: Timeline

1850   University of Utah University of Utah

The University of Utah is a public university [i] in Salt Lake City, Utah [i]. ... 

 opens in Salt Lake City, Utah

1856   The Tintic War in Utah.

1857   Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.

1863   Indian Wars Indian Wars

Indian Wars is the name used by historians in the United States [i] to describe a series of conflicts be ... 

: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

1870   Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.

1896   Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state U.S. state

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.

1949   February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska Nebraska

Nebraska is a Great Plains [i] state [i] of the United States [i]. ... 

, Wyoming Wyoming

Wyoming is a state [i] of the western [i] United States [i]. ... 

, South Dakota South Dakota

South Dakota is a Midwestern [i] state [i] in the United States [i]. ... 

, Utah, Colorado Colorado

Colorado is a state [i] in the western United States [i]. ... 

 and Nevada Nevada

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 - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish

1964   Craig Breedlove's jet-powered car ''Spirit of America'' goes out of control in Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and makes skid marks 9.6 km long.

1968   Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah.

1977   Gary Gilmore Gary Gilmore

Gary Mark Gilmore was an American career criminal who gained international notoriety as the first person... 

 is executed by firing squad in Utah. First execution after reintroduction of death penalty in USA

1999   An F-2 tornado Tornado

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 rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.

2002   February 24 - The 2002 Winter Olympics open in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2002   Elizabeth Smart, 14, is kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2003   Police find Elizabeth Smart in Sandy, Utah, in the company of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee, whom they arrest for kidnapping her.