Here is a list of some military events which occurred in the United States.
1775-1785 War of the Revolution, 19 Apr 1775 to 11 Apr 1783
1782-1787 Wyoming Valley disturbances, Pennsylvania
1786-1787 Shays Rebellion, Mass.
1790-1795 War w/ Northwest Indians, Miamis, Wyandots, Delawares,Pottawattamies, Shawnees, Chippewas, Ottawas. Sept. 1790 to Aug 1795
1791-1794 Whisky Insurrection in PA
1798-1800 War with France, Jul 1798 to Sept 30, 1800
1799 Fries Insurrection in PA, Spring of 1799
1806 Burr Conspiracy
1806 Sabine Expedition, LA
1807 Naval affair, Chesapeake Bay, Jul 9 to Aug 5, 1807
1811-1813 War with Northwest Indians, Nov 1811 to Oct 1813
1812-1815 War with Great Britain, Jul 18, 1812 to Feb 17, 1815
1812 Florida or Seminole War, Aug 15 to Oct 1812
1813 Peoria Indian War, IL, Sept 19 to Oct 21, 1813
1813-1814 Creek Indian War, Alabama, Jul 27, 1813 to Aug 9, 1814
1817-1818 Seminole or Florida War, Nov 20, 1817-Oct 31, 1818 1819 Yellowstone Expedition, Jul 4 to Sept 1819
1823 Campaign against Blackfeet & Arickare Upper Missouri River
1827 Winnebago Expedition, WI (no fighting) June to Sept 1827. Known as the LaFevre War
1831 Sac & Fox Indian troubles, in Illinois
1832 Black Hawk War, Apr 26 to Sept 21, 1832
1832-1833 Nullification of troubles in S.C., Nov 18, 1832-
Feb 1833
1833-1839 Cherokee removal
1834 Pawnee Expedition, Indian Territory, June to
Sept 1834.
1835-1836 Toledo War, Ohio, & Michigan boundary dispute
1835-1842 Seminole or Florida War, Nov 1, 1835 to Aug 1842
1836-1837 Creek disturbances in AL, May 5, 1836-Sept 30, 1837
1836-1837 Southwestern frontier, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas Savine disturbances) no fighting, Apr 1837 to Jun 1837
1837 Osage Indian troubles,MO
1838 Heatherly Indian troubles in Missouri and Iowa line.
1838 Morman disturbances,MO
1838-1839 NY, Aroostock, Canada (Patriot War disturbances)
1846-1847 Doniphan's Expedition Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chihuahua,Mexico, Nov 1846-Feb 1847
1846-1848 Mexican War, Apr 24, 1846 to May 30, 1848
1846-1848 New Mexico Expedition, June 30, 1846-Feb 13, 1848
1848 Cayuse War, Oregon vols.
1849-1861 Navajo troubles, NM
1849-1861 Disturbances - Comanche, Cheyenne, Lipan and Kickapoo Indians in Texas
1850 Pitt River Expedition, CA, Apr 28 to Sept 13, 1850
1851-1852 Yuma Expedition, CA, Dec 1851 to Apr 1852
1851-1853 Utah Indian disturbance
1851-1856 Rogue River,Yakima, Klikitat, Klamath and Salmon River
Indian Wars in Oregon & Washington
1855 Winnas Expedition against Snake Indians, Oregon,
May 24 to Sept 8, 1855
1855-1856 Sioux Expedition, NE Territory, Apr 3 1856- Jul 27, 1856
1855 Yakima Expedition, Washington Territory, Oct 11, 1855-
Nov 24, 1855
1855-1856 Cheyenne & Arapaho
1855-1858 Seminole or Florida War, Dec 20, 1855-May 1858
1856-1858 Kansas border troubles
1857 Gila Expedition, NM, Apr 16 to Sept 16, 1857
1857 Sioux Indian troubles, Minnesota and Iowa, Mar and Apr
1857 1857 Mountain Meadow Massacre, Utah, Sept 11, 1857
1857-1858 Utah Expedition
1858 Expedition vs Northern Indians, Washington Terr.
Jul 17-Oct 17, 1858
1858 Puget Sound Expedition, Washington Territory, Aug 10 to Sept 23, 1858
1858 Spokana, Coeur d'Alene & Paloos Indian troubles in Washington Territory
1858 Navajo Expedition, NM Sept 9-Dec 25, 1858
1858-1859 Wichita Expedition,Indian Territory, Sept 11, 1858 to Dec
1859 1859 Colorado River Expedition, CA Feb 11 to Apr 28,
1859 1859 Pecos Expedition, Texas, Apr 16 to Aug 17, 1859
1859 Antelope Hills Expedition, Texas, June 10 to Sept 23, 1859
1859 Bear River Expedition, UT,June 12-Oct 18, 1859
1859 San Juan imbroglio, Washington Territory
1859 John Brown raid, VA, Nov and Dec 1859
1859-1860 Cortina troubles in Texas and Mexico border
1860 Pah-Ute Expedition, California, Apr 12 to Jul 9, 1860
1860 Kiowa and Comanche Expedition, Indian Terr., May 8 - Oct 11, 1860
1860 Carson Valley Expedition, Utah, May 14-Jul 15, 1860
1860 Attack on and murder of emigrants -Bannock Indians, Salmon Fork,Snake River, Idaho Sept 13, 1860
1860-1861 Navajo Expedition, New Mexico, Sept 12, 1860 to Feb 24, 1861
1861-1890 Apache Indian War and troubles in AZ and NM
1861-1866 Civil War or War of the Rebellion, Apr 19, 1861 to Aug 20, 1866. Actual hostilities commenced on the firing of Ft. Sumpter, Apr 12, 1861 & ceased by surrender of Confederate forces
under General Kirby Smith, May 1865
1862 Indian massacres at New Ulm and vicinity, Minn., Apr 17 to 23,1862
1862-1867 Sioux Indian War in MN and Dakota
1863-1869 War against Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado & Indian Terr.
1865-1868 Indian War in southern Oregon & Idaho N. California, Nevada
1865-1866 Fenian raid, New York & Canada border troubles
1867-1880 Campaign against Lipan,Kiowa,Kickapoo, Comanche Indians, and Mexican border troubles.
1868-1869 Canadian River Expedition, New Mexico, Nov 5, 1868 to Feb 13, 1869
1871 Yellowstone Expedition, Aug 28 to Oct 25, 1871
1871 Fenian troubles, Dakota and Manitoba frontier, Sept-Oct 1871
1872 Yellowstone Expedition, Dakota, Jul 26-Oct 15, 1872
1872-1873 Modoc Campaign, Nov 28, 1872-Jun 1, 1873
1873 Yellowstone Expedition, Dakota, Jun 4, Oct 4, 1873
1874-187 Campaign against Kiowa, Cheyenne and Comanche Indians in Indian Terr. Aug 1, 1874-Feb 16, 1875
1874 Sioux Expedition, WY & NE, Feb 13-Aug 19, 1874
1874 Black Hills Expedition, Dakota Jun 20 to Aug 30, 1874
1874 Big Horn Expedition, WY Aug 13 to Aug 10, 1874
1875 Expedition vs. Indians in eastern Nevada, Sept 7-27, 1875
1876 Sioux Expedition, Dakota May 17 to Sept 26, 1876
1876 Powder River Expedition, Wyoming, Nov 1 to Dec 31, 1876
1876-1877 Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, Wyoming and Montana,Feb 17, 1877 to Jun 13, 1877
1876-1879 War with Northern Cheyenne, Sioux Indians in Indian Territory,KS, Wyoming, Dakota, Nebraska & Montana
1877 Labor strikes in PA and MD, Jul to Oct 1877
1878 Bannock & Piute Campaign, May 30 to Sept 4, 1878
1878 Ute Expedition,Colorado Apr 3 to Sept 9, 1878
1879 Snake or Sheepeater Indian troubles, Idaho, Aug to Oct 1879
1879-1894 Disturbances of settlers in Indian and Oklahoma, "Oklahoma Boomers: Cherokee Strip troubles
1879-1880 Ute Indian Campaign in Colorado & Utah, Sept 21, 1879-Nov 8, 1880
1885 Chinese miner and labor troubles in Wyoming, Sept and Oct 1885
1890-1891 Sioux Indian disturbances in South Dakota, Nov 1890 to Jan 1891
1891-1893 Garza troubles, Texas and Mexican border disturbances, "Tin Horn War"
1892 Minor disturbances in Idaho, Jul to Nov 1892
1892-1896 Troubles with renegade Apache Indians, under Kidd and Massai in AZ and Mexican border
1894 "Industrial Army", "Commonwealers", "Coxyites", labor
disturbances
1894 Railroad, Pullman & labor strikes, extending from Illinois to Pacific coast, Jun to Aug 1894
1895 Bannock Indian troubles, Jul and Aug 1895
1898-1899 War with Spain, Apr 21, 1898 to Apr 11, 1899
1898 Chippewa Indian disturbances at Leech Lake, MI., Oct 1898
1899-1902 Insurrection in Philippine Islands, Feb 4, 1899 to Jul 4,
1902 1899 Minor disturbances in Idaho, Apr 29 to Oct 20,1899
1900-1901 Boxer Insurrection in China, murder of Europeans, etc
Epidemics in U.S. - 1657 - 1918
Epidemics have always had a great influence on people -- and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records cam be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below:
1657 Boston: Measles
1687 Boston: Measles
1690 New York: Yellow Fever
1713 Boston: Measles
1729 Boston: Measles
1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza
1738 South Carolina: Smallpox
1739-40 Boston: Measles
1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina: Measles
1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles
1761-61 North America & West Indies: Influenza
1772 North America: Measles
1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic
(unknown)
1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza
1781-82 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics)
1788 Philadelphia & New York: Measles
1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever"
1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks)
1793 Philadelphia: Yellow fever (one of worst)
1783 Delaware (Dover): "extremely fatal" bilious disorder
1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown): many unexplained deaths
1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever
1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst)
1803 New York: Yellow Fever
1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads
1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants)
1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera
1837 Philadelphia: Typhus
1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South)
1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever
1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza
1848-49 North America: Cholera
1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever
1850-51 North America: Influenza
1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in summer)
1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever
1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics)
1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis, & Washington D.C.: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera,
Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever
1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza
1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease)
1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid
1886: Jacksonville, Fl: Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps --with 80 percent death rate in some camps
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Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned:
1833 Columbus, Ohio
1834 New York City
1849 New York
1851 Coles Co., Illinois
1851 The Great Plains
1851 Missouri
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