{"slug": "montana", "label": "Montana", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1212", "qid": "Q1212", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 17, "years": 13, "span": [1867, 2013], "span_label": ["1867 CE", "2013 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "american-indian-wars", "label": "American Indian Wars", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "sioux", "label": "Sioux", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "washington-state", "label": "Washington (state)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cheyenne", "label": "Cheyenne", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-house-of-representatives", "label": "United States House of Representatives", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grover-cleveland", "label": "Grover Cleveland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-dakota", "label": "South Dakota", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "washington-d-c", "label": "Washington, D.C.", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "texas", "label": "Texas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "minnesota", "label": "Minnesota", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine is named in Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#June", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River (only 1 man on each side is killed).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370305657#August", "title": "1873", "revid": 1370305657, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#November", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353220564#Events", "title": "1875 in the United States", "revid": 1353220564, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876: Battle of Wolf Mountain – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#January", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – Near Big Hole River, Montana, a small band of Nez Perce people who refuse government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers, and the Indians lose 89 warriors, in an Army victory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#August", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – American Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369747876#July", "title": "1881", "revid": 1369747876, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 in wide and 8 in thick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#January", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366127349#Events", "title": "1887 in the United States", "revid": 1366127349, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#January", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs the Enabling Act of 1889, admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367594292#February", "title": "1889", "revid": 1367594292, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367594292#November", "title": "1889", "revid": 1367594292, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – The first Hauser Dam in Montana fails, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340164529#April", "title": "1908 in the United States", "revid": 1340164529, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20–21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 e6acre in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363943559#July–September", "title": "1910 in the United States", "revid": 1363943559, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#November", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#March", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2013, "year_label": "2013 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – The Emergency Alert Systems of five different television stations across the U.S. states of Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico are hijacked, airing a false \"Zombie apocalypse\" hoax. It is amongst one of the largest cybersecurity breaches in EAS history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373160550#February", "title": "2013", "revid": 1373160550, "section": "Events › February"}}]}