April 19
April 19, 1783: On this day in 1783 Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Crimean Tatars as part of Russia’s southwards expansion towards the Black Sea, the Caucasus and the […]
April 27
April 27, 1862: The Indian Indenture Act was repealed. The law, passed during the 1850s gold rush, which allowed white men to call for the arrest of any Native American who were perceived as […]
