Utah

state of the United States of America

11 dated entries naming Utah, drawn from 10 separate years between 1846 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1846February 4 – Led by Brigham Young, many Mormons in the U.S. begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake in what becomes Utah.source
  • 1856The Tintic War breaks out in Utah.source
  • 1857September 11 – The Mountain Meadows massacre occurs in Utah.source
  • 1857September 11 – Mountain Meadows massacre in Utah.source
  • 1870February 12 – Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. On February 14, in a Salt Lake City municipal election, Seraph Young Ford becomes the first woman in the U.S. to cast her vote.source
  • 1896January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.source

20th century

  • 1924March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah.source
  • 1935September 3 – English driver Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first person to drive an automobile at 300 miles per hour in Blue Bird, establishing a new absolute land speed record of 301.337 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.source
  • 1947March 12 – Mitt Romney, American businessman, politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 presidential candidate, and US Senator (R-UT)source

21st century

  • 2004September 8 – The Genesis space probe crash-lands in Utah after a three-year study of the Sun.source
  • 2025September 10 – Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing activist and influential ally of President Trump, is assassinated at a campus event in Utah, prompting widespread reactions and reprisals both domestically and internationally.source

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