The Wounded Knee Massacre took place on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Lakota Sioux led by Spotted Elk, also called Big Foot, and tried to disarm them. A shot was fired during the search, and the soldiers opened fire with rifles and Hotchkiss guns, killing at least 150 Lakota, many of them women and children, though the number may have been closer to 300. Twenty soldiers received the Medal of Honor, which has long been criticised. The massacre is often regarded as the end of the Indian Wars. In 1973, the site was the scene of an occupation by the American Indian Movement.
Before and after
- 25 September 1890Establishment of Sequoia National Park
- 1 October 1890Establishment of Yosemite National Park
- 14 October 1890Birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 22 November 1890Birth of Charles de Gaulle
- 29 December 1890Wounded Knee Massacre
- from 29 December 1890 to 15 January 1891Ghost Dance War
- 1891Founding of California Institute of Technology
- 1891Construction of University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1891Founding of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
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- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- 23 June 1894Founding of International Olympic Committee
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 1896The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 21 May 1904Founding of FIFA
The era
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