Timeline: Gijsje van Osenbruggen

1850 - 1862 (~ 12 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1850	1850—1850: HISTORY: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.. 1850—1850: POLITICAL: Zachary Taylor, President .Zachary Taylor died while in office.
2	1851	1851—1851: HISTORY: .Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine. 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPIDEMIC Smallpox strikes Comanche .Comanche population drops from around 20,000 to 12,000 due to smallpox. 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: Fort Laramie Treaty with Plains Indian Tribes.. 1851—1851: NATIVE AMERICAN: Epidemic breaks out among Comanche and Kiowa.. 1851—1851: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Norht America.
3	1852	1852—1852: EPEDEMIC: Yellow Fever .Nationwide (8,000 die in New Orleans alone during the summer) 1852—1852: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches raid Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango and Tepic in Jalisco 700 miles south of the border..
4	1853	1853—1853: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kiowa and Yamprika sign Fort Atkinson Treaty..Kiowa and Yamprika sign Fort Atkinson Treaty. 1853—1853: NATIVE AMERICAN: MEXICO FILED 366 SEPARATE CLAIMS FOR COMANCHES AND APACHE RAIDS ORIGINATING FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER.. 1853—1853: POLITICAL: Millard Fillmore, President.Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death. 1853—1857: POLITICAL: Franklin Pierce, President.
5	1854	1854—1854: HISTORY: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.. 1854—1854: NATIVE AMERICAN: TEXAS CONGRESS PROVIDES 23,000 ACRES AND ESTABLISHES THREE RESERVATIONS.ON THE UPPER BRAZOS RIVER FOR THE TEXAS TRIBES, CADDO, CHEROKEE, DELAWARE, SHAWNEE, WICHITA AND TONKAWA. 1854—1854: NATIVE AMERICAN: Peneteka Tribe moves to Texas Reservation..
6	1855	1855—1855: HISTORY: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor..
7	1856	1856—1856: HISTORY: .Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization. 1856—1856: NATIVE AMERICAN: Robert E. Lee becomes in charge of Texas Indian Reservation..
8	1857	1857—1857: HISTORY: .George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
9	1858	1858—1858: HISTORY: .Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Due to Indian raids the Army abandons Camp Cooper.. 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Texas Rangers attack Comanche Village at Little Robe Creek in Indian Territory.. 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Captain Earl Van Dorn attacked a Comanche village at Rush Springs killing 83.. 1858—1858: NATIVE AMERICAN: Van Dorn strikes the Comanches at Crooked Creek in Kansas..
10	1859	1859—1859: NATIVE AMERICAN: Settlers attack reservation in Texas and are repelled by Indians.. 1859—1859: NATIVE AMERICAN: Indians on Texas Reservation forced to leave Texas.. 1859—1859: HISTORY: The California Gold Rush.. 14 Feb 1859—1859: POLITICAL: Oregon statehood.
11	1860	1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: CALVARY SENDS 3 COLUMNS ON EXPEDITION BATTLE FOUGHT WITH COMANCHES, KIOWA, CHEYENNE, AND ARAPAHO.. 1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: Calvary sends 3 columns on expedition battle fought with Comanches, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho.. 1860—1860: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cynthia Ann re-captured by Sul Ross Texas Ranger.. 1860—1861: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox - PA.
12	1861	1861—1861: HISTORY: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.. 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Confederates sign 2 treaties with Comanche Bands.. 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Confederates fail to make good on treaty and Comanches push the Texas frontier back over 100 miles, forts are abandoned and raids increase.. 1861—1861: NATIVE AMERICAN: Santa Fe Trail closed down by Comanches, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho.. 1861—1861: POLITICAL: James Buchanan, President.
13	1862	1862—1862: HISTORY: .Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. 1862—1862: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox.New Mexico 1862—1862: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox.New Mexico 1862—1862: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanches & Pro-Union Delaware and Shawnee from Kansas attack the Tonkawa agency on revenge raid and kill 300 Tonkawa for helping the white man track and fight other Indian Tribes. (Numu Tuhka)..