| Year |
History |
| 1500 |
Predatory Apacheans migrated
into Wichita territories |
| 1541 |
Met by Coronado while living in
central Kansas, called "Quivira;" Franciscan missionary
Juan de Padilla remained three years before being killed by tribe |
| 1601 |
Villages visited by Onate |
| 1719 |
Found by La Harpe on Canadian
River with confederate allies |
| 1758 |
Allied with French, along with
Caddo and Comanche, destroyed Spanish San Saba Mission and routed Lipan
Apaches, raid launched from substantial Twin Villages on the Red River |
| 1759 |
Spanish Col. Padilla attacked
Twin Villages with 500 men and two cannons, but was soundly defeated and
forced to retreat |
| 1772 |
Found on the northern course of
the Brazos River, had been forced south by the Osage |
| 1778 |
Tawehash soon joined Wichita |
| 1801 |
Smallpox epidemic |
| 1808 |
Trader Anthony Glass met tribe
at Twin Villages |
| 1818 |
Secretary of War sent A. Woolf
to negotiate peace with the Wichita (Towiach) found on the Brazos River;
smallpox epidemic |
| 1834 |
First US Dragoon Regiment from
Fort Gibson visited Wichita villages and returned two captives from the
Osage |
| 1835 |
Made first treaty with US
government |
| 1836 |
War party of 100 Wichita,
Comanche, Caddo, and Kiowa attacked Fort Parker, probably after having
been swindled on a horse deal, killed five and captured five including
nine year-old Cynthia Ann Parker, future mother of Comanche Chief Quanah
Parker |
| 1839 |
Smallpox epidemic |
| 1850 |
Wichita settled in Rush Springs,
OK joined by Tawakoni and Waco, and 10 Keeci |
| 1858 |
US Military destroyed Rush
Springs in pursuit of hostile Comanches |
| 1865 |
Fled to Kansas during Civil War |
| 1867 |
Returned to Oklahoma and
assigned a reservation |
| 1902 |
Smallpox epidemic |
