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Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
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1806
11.15.1806
Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1850
9.9.1850
The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1858
11.22.1858
Denver, Colorado is founded.
1861
2.28.1861
Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
1876
8.1.1876
Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1889
10.2.1889
In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1893
11.7.1893
Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1894
6.6.1894
Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1914
4.20.1914
Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1954
4.1.1954
President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1970
10.2.1970
A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1996
5.20.1996
Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''Romer v. Evans'' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.