Sitting Bull
1831–1890* · Person
Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man whose vision preceded the Little Bighorn; leader of the last free Lakota, exile in Canada, reluctant showman with Buffalo Bill, killed during his arrest on Standing Rock in the Ghost Dance panic.
On these timelines: USA, Master, People
More from USA
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)
- George Washington (1732)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743)
Around 1831
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)