Utah

state of the United States of America

10 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
  • 1896January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.source

20th century

  • 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
  • 1974December 5 – Ben McAdams, American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 in Utahsource
  • 1975Mia Love, American political commentator and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 in Utah, the first and to date only black woman elected to congress as a republicansource

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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