The Utah War begins: Democratic (constitutionalist) President Buchanan dispatches Soldiers of the Army of the united States to the federal enclave of Utah because of violence perpetrated against migrants to the Republic of California, by members of the Church of Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. “Mormons”).

        [restored 2/25/2022]

Subsequent Events:

7/15/1857                   9/11/1857                  9/15/1857

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 150.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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