Chronology - Events of the Modoc War - History - http://maxpages.com/modocwar/Chronology

For more detailed timelines select one of the periods below:
---- events leading up to the war
---- early events of the war
---- the peace conference period
---- the final events of the war

1846 -- The Opening of the Applegate Trail.

1847-1851 -- Alleged massacres of travelers on the Applegate Trail by Modocs.

1851 -- The first exedition against the Modocs.

Summer 1852 -- The Modocs attack travellers on the Applegate Trail.

31 August 1852 -- The Battle of Tule Lake.

8 November 1852 -- The Ben Wright Affair.

1864 -- The Steele and Huntington Treaties.

1865 -- Klamath Reservation established.

November 1867 -- Old Schonchin's Modocs settle on Klamath Reservation; Captain Jack's Modocs refuse.

December 1869 -- Meacham convinces Captain Jack's Modocs to settle on Klamath Reservation.

April 1870 -- All the Modocs leave Klamath Reservation and return to the Lost River country.

November 1871 -- The Ivan Applegate conference.

January-February 1872 -- The 1872 Petitions. Petitions from southern Oregon urge the removal of the Modocs to Klamath Reservation.

April 1872 -- The Otis Conference.

For a more detailed timeline of the first phases of the war click here.

25 November 1872 -- Superintendent Odeneal sends word to the Modocs to meet him at Linkville on the 28th.

26 November 1872 -- The Modocs refuse Odeneal's demand.

27 November 1872 -- Odeneal sends to Fort Klamath for troops.

28 November 1872 -- Troops leave Fort Klamath for Lost River.

29 November 1872 -- The Lost River Fight. Troops attack Captain Jack's village; citizens attack Hooker Jim's village on the other side of Lost River.

29-30 November 1872 -- The Lost River Murders. Hooker Jim's band murders settlers.

4 December 1872 -- The Hot Creeks Incident. The Hot Creek Modocs try to reach Klamath Reservation, but a mob from Linkville prevents them.

8 December 1872 -- Fairchild and Captain Jack confer.

12 December 1872 -- The Hot Creek Modocs join Captain Jack. The First Correspondent, Robert Bogart of the San Francisco Chronicle, arrives at the front.

21 December 1872 -- Modocs ambush a supply train on its way to the soldiers at Lost River.

17 January 1873 -- The First Battle for the Stronghold. Troops fail to take the Modocs' stronghold.

for a more detailed timeline of the Peace Commission period of the war click here.

22 January 1873 -- The Modocs attack wagons carrying grain and force the soldiers to withdraw; troops under Captain Bernard recapture wagons.

25 January 1873 -- The Peace Commission. In Washington D.C. an Oregon delegation headed by Elisha Applegate calls on Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, to propose a peace commission to the Modocs.

30 January 1873 -- A conference between Fairchild and Captain Jack aborts.

11 February 1873 -- Gillem takes over from Wheaton.

14 February 1873 -- A Grand Jury in Jacksonville indicts eight Modocs for murder.

15 February 1873 -- Preliminary Peace Commission Meeting. Jesse Applegate and Samuel Case meet; they receive a letter from Governor Grover.

18 February 1873 -- The Peace Commissioners hold a meeting at Fairchild's Ranch.

20-21 February 1873 -- The Preliminary Conference.

22 February 1873 -- Bob Whittle's Conference.

24-25 February 1873 -- The Fairchild Conference.

28 February to 1 March 1873 -- The Fairchild-Steele Conference.

3-4 March 1873 -- The Woman's Hat Conference.

6-7 March 1873 -- Boston Charley's First Embassy.

8 March 1873 -- Boston Charley's Second Embassy.

13 March 1873 -- Troops capture Modoc horses in spite of the truce.

21 March 1873 -- Juniper Tree Conference. Captain Jack confers with General Canby.

26 March 1873 -- Gillem and Elder Thomas talk with Bogus and Boston Charley.

29-30 March 1873 -- Boston Charley's Third Embassy.

31 March 1873 -- Gradual Compression begins.

2 April 1873 -- The Canby Conference.

4 April 1873 -- The Rosborough Conference.

about 4 April 1873 -- The Plan to Assassinate the Commissioners. Leading Modoc warriors convince Captain Jack to take part in a plot to assassinate the Peace Commissioners.

11 April 1873 -- The Good Friday Assassinations.

for a more detailed timeline of the final stages of the war click here.

13 April 1873 -- The Warm Spring Indians under Donald McKay arrive.

15-17 April 1873 -- The Second Battle for the Stronghold.

21 April 1873 -- The First "Battle" of Scorpion Point.

26 April 1873 -- The Attack on the Thomas Patrol.

7 May 1873 -- The Second "Battle" of Scorpion Point.

10 May 1873 -- The Battle of Sorass Lake.

12-14 May 1873 -- The Projected Battle of Big Sand Butte; the Modocs split into two bands.

22 May 1873 -- The Surrender. Bogus Charley, Hooker Jim, and others surrender.

29 May 1873 -- Boston Charley and others surrender.

30-31 May 1873 -- Scarfaced Charley and others surrender.

1 June 1873 -- Captain Jack surrenders.

2 June 1873 -- Black Jim and others surrender.

7 June 1873 -- The Massacre of Modoc Prisoners of War.

1-7 July 1873 -- Trial of the Modoc Leaders.

3 October 1873 -- Execution of Captain Jack, John Schonchin, Boston Charley, and Black Jim.

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