TIME LINES FOR WARS
WAR DATES AREA
French-Spanish 1565-67 Florida
English-French 1613-1629 Canada
Anglo-French 1629 St.Lawrence Riv.
Pequot War 1636-37 New England
??? 1640-45 New Netherland
Iroquois 1642-53 New Eng.; Acadia
Anglo-Dutch July 1653 New Netherland
Bacon's Rebellion 1675-76 Virginia
King Philip's 1675-76 New England
War In North 1676-78 Maine
Culpepper's Reb'n 1677-80 Carolinas
Leisler's Rebellion 1688-91 New England
Revolution in MD 1689 Maryland
Glorious Revolution 1689 New England
King Willliam's War 1689-97 Canada
Queen Anne's 1702-13 New England
Tuscarora 1711-12 Virginia
Jenkin's Ear 1739-42 Florida
King George's 1740 GA & VA
Louisbourg 1745 New England
Fort Necessity 1754 Ohio
Anglo-French 1755-58 Canada
French & Indian 1754-63 New Eng;VA
Siege of Quebec 1759 Canada
American Revolution 1775-83 USA
Wyoming Valley 1782-87 Pennsylvania
Shay's Rebellion 12/1786-1/1787 Massachusetts
Whiskey Insurrection 1794 Pennsylvania
Northwestern Indian 1790-95 Ohio
War with France 1798-1800 Naval
War with Tripoli(Naval) 1801-05 North Coast Africa
Burr's Insurrection 1806-1807 South Mississippi
Valley Chesapeake (Naval) 1807 Virginia
Northwestern Indian 1811 Indiana
Florida Seminole Indian 1812 FL(GA Volunteers)
War of 1812 1812-15 General
Peoria Indian 1813 Illinois
Creek Indian 1813-14 South
Lafitte's Pirates 1814 Local
Barbary Pirates 1815 North Coast Africa
Seminole Indian 1817-18 FL & GA
Lafitte's Pirates 1821 Galveston
Arickaree Indian 1823 Missouri Riv; Dakota Terr
Fever River Indian 1827 Illinois
Winnebago Indian 1827 Wisconsin
Sac & Fox Indians 1831 Illinois
Black Hawk 1832 Illinois & Wisconsin
Toledo 1835-36 Ohio & Michigan
Texan 1835-36 Texas
Indian Stream 1835-36 New Hampshire
Creek Indian 1836-37 Georgia & Alabama
Florida (Seminole) 1835-42 FL, GA, & AL
Sabine/Southwestern 1836-37 Louisiana
Cherokee Indian 1836-38 ---
Osage Indian 1837 Missouri
Heatherly Distrubance 1836 Missouri
Mormon 1838 Missouri
Aroostook 1839 Maine
Dorr's Rebellion 1842 Rhode Island
Mormon 1844 Illinois
Mexican 1846-1848 Mexico
Cayuse Indian 1847-48 Oregon
TX & NM Indian 1849-55 ---
California Indian 1851-52 ---
Utah Indian 1850-53 ---
Rogue River Indian 1851, 1853, 1856 Oregon
Oregon Indian 1854 Oregon
Nicaraguan 1854-58 Naval
Kansas Troubles 1854-59 Kansas
Yakima Indian 1855 Local
Klamath & Salmon 1855 Oregon & Idaho River Indian
Florida Indian 1855-58 Florida
John Brown's Raid 1859 VA
War of Rebellion 1860-65 General
Cheyenne 1861-64 Local
Sioux 1862-63 Minnesota
Indian Campaign 1865-68 OR, ID, CA
Fenian Invasion of 1866 From New England
Indian Campaign 1867-69 KS, CO & Ind. Terr.
Modac Indian 1872-73 Oregon
Apaches 1873 Arizona
Indian Campaigns 1874-75 KS, CO, TX, NM, & Indian Territory
Cheyenne & Sioux 1876-77 Dakota
Nez Perce 1877 Idaho
Bannock 1878 ID, Washington Terr. & Wyoming Terr.
White Riv. (Ute Ind.) 1879 Utah & Colorado
Cheyenne 1878-79 Dakota & Montana
Spanish-American 1898-99 Cuba
Phillippine Insurrection 1899-1902 Philippine Islands


The preceeding is courtesy of Dan Burrows of Orange Co. NY Genealogical Society. e-mail dburrows10@juno.com


EPIDEMICS


In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below.

1831-1832
YEAR LOCALITY EPIDEMIC
1657 Boston Measles
1687 Boston Measles
1690 New York Yellow Fever
1713 Boston Measles
1729 Boston Measles
1729 Boston Measles
1732-33 Worldwide Influenza
1738 South Carolina Smallpox
1739-40 Boston Measles
1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC Measles
1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people) Measles
1761 North America & West Indies Influenza
1772 North America Measles
1775 North America (especially hard in New England) Epidemic (unknown)
1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics)
1788/b> Philadelphia & NY Measles
1793 Vermont Influenza and a "putrid fever"
1793 Virginia Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks)
1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder
1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many unexplained deaths
1794 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1796-97 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia Yellow Fever (one of worst)
1803 New York Yellow Fever
1820-23 Nationwide "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads.
Nationwide Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants)
1832 New York & other major cities Cholera
1837 Philadelphia Typhus
1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever (especially severe in South)
1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever
1847-48 Worldwide Influenza
1848-49 North America Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850-51 North America Influenza
1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer)
1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever
1867 Fayette Co. TX, at least 1/4 of county died yellow fever
1860-61 Pennsylvania Smallpox
1865-73 Memphis & Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington DC A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever
1873-75 North America & Europe Influenza
1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease)
1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in some camps.
1833 Columbus, OH cholera
1834 New York City cholera
1849 New York cholera
1851 Coles Co, IL cholera
1851 The Great Plains cholera
1851 Missouri cholera

One cannot read this list without being especially
thankful for penicillin and other great medical advances
including simple hygiene.





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