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★14 Aug 1842
American Indian Wars: American general William J. Worth declared the Second Seminole War to be over.

★03 May 1848
The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.

★16 Dec 1850
The Canterbury Pilgrims aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.

★30 Dec 1853
The United States purchased approximately 29,700 square miles from Mexico for $10 million.

★22 May 1856
U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.

★15 Jun 1859
The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands led to the so-called Pig War over the border between the United States and British North America.

★29 Jan 1863
American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.

★18 Sep 1870
Nathaniel P. Langford of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition first observed a geyser in Wyoming Territory erupting at regular intervals and named it "Old Faithful".

★07 Mar 1871
José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, became Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, starting a four-year rule, the longest in the state's history.

★24 Feb 1875
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at low tide and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, Queensland, Australia, with over 98 deaths.

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