Timeline of South Dakota

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This timeline of South Dakota is a list of events in the history of South Dakota by year.

Contents

First people

Arikara man, wearing a bearskin, 1908 Bear's Belly by Edward Curtis, 1908.jpg
Arikara man, wearing a bearskin, 1908

16th century

17th century

1670-1707

1683

1699-1764

18th century

1700

1743

1745

1750

1762

1764-1803

1775

1780

1785

1790

1792

1796

1797

19th century

1800

1803

1804

1805

1806

1807

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Manuel Lisa

1808

1809

1810

1811

1812

1813

1815

1816

1817

1818

1822

1823

1825

1828

1831

1832

1837

1838

1839

1840

1842

1845

1847

1849

1851

1855

1856

1857

1858

1859

1860

1861

1862

1863

1864

1865

1866

1868

1869

1870

1872

1873

1874

1875

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Miners in the Black Hills

1876

1877

1878

1879

1880

1881

1882

1883

1884

1885

1887

1889

1890

Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was one of the principal Sioux leaders. Sitting Bull by D F Barry ca 1883 Dakota Territory.jpg
Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was one of the principal Sioux leaders.
View of canyon at Wounded Knee, dead horses and Lakota bodies are visible. Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg
View of canyon at Wounded Knee, dead horses and Lakota bodies are visible.

1891

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

20th century

1901

1903

1904

1905

1924

1927

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Construction of the Mount Rushmore monument

1933

1934

Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934" Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934" - NARA - 195304.tif
Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934"

1935

1936

Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936 Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg
Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936

1938

1946

1948

Oahe Dam from the International Space Station Pierre South Dakota.jpg
Oahe Dam from the International Space Station

1952

Late 1950s

1959

1961

1972

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Cars jumbled together by the flood.

1973

1978

1980

1981

1988

21st century

2002

2004

2012

2013

2019

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yankton Treaty</span>

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References

This article incorporates public domain text: Robinson, Doane (1905). A Brief History of South Dakota. American Book Company. pp.  215–221.

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