| 1881- | Hawthorne townsite auction: only $1.4 million produced on Comstock
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| 1883- | Sarah Winnemucca wrote "Life Among the Piutes"
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| 1883- | Piper's Opera House rebuilt on B Street in Virginia City
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| 1885- | September 12, cornerstone laid for Morrill Hall, first building at University of Nevada
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| 1887- | Ely designated county seat of White Pine County
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| 1887- | February 14, first electric street lamps in Reno
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| 1888- | Wovoka, the Paiute prophet has a vision of the Ghost Dance; Both parties back free coinage of silver
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| 1890- | June 20, woman hanged in Elko (Elizabeth Potts). Only women ever executed in Nevada
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| 1893- | Coin minting operations cease at U.S. Mint
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| 1894- | Greenfield renamed Yerington
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| 1897- | Corbett-Fitzsimons heavyweight championship bout
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| 1899- | First Reno Arch
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| 1900- | Jim Butler discovers gold at Tonopah; "Wild Bunch" robs a Winnemucca bank; Nevada Population: 42,000
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| 1902- | Congress creates Newlands Project (Fallon, Fernley established); Wyatt Erp arrives in Tonopah
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| 1902- | Mayor worries Reno's "a wide open town"
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| 1903- | Nevada's first offical Labor Day in Reno on September 7
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| 1903- | President Theodore Roosevelt visit
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| 1904- | Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad completed
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| 1904- | Sparks named for Gov. John Sparks; Eno trolley line opens November 24
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| 1905- | Las Vegas townsites auctioned
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| 1906- | Congress creates National Forests in Nevada; Gans-Nelson fight in Goldfield on September 3; Northern Nevada Railroad completed in Ely
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| 1906- | August 1, Service begins on V&T extension to Minden
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| 1907- | Federal troops sent to Goldfield for labor troubles
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| 1908- | The Burning of Chinatown
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| 1909- | Clark County established
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| 1909- | First official Governor's Mansion
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| 1910- | Gambling outlawed; Johnson-Jefferies fight in Reno on July 4; June 23, first Nevada plane flight
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| 1911- | Last Indian "Uprising." Shoshone Mike and family members killed
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| 1914- | Nevada women granted vote by state election; New Reno arch
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| 1916- | World's last stagecoach robbery near Jarbridge
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| 1917- | Carson, Dresslerville and Reno-Sparks Indian Colonies established
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| 1918- | State prohibition law goes into effect
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| 1919- | Pershing County created with Lovelock as county seat; First flight over Sierra Nevada on March 22; First woman in State Legislature, Sadie D. Hurst
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| 1920- | First airmail out of Reno; Arch erected for rodeo. Lit by electric lights
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