History of Site
- 25 and 26 June 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn
- 29 January 1879: The Secretary of War first preserved the site as a U.S. National Cemetery, to protect graves of the 7th Cavalry troopers buried there.
- 1877: Custer, who had been buried there, was reinterred in West Point Cemetery.
- 7 December 1886: The site was proclaimed National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation to include burials of other campaigns and wars. The name has been shortened to "Custer National Cemetery".
- 5 November 1887: Battle of Crow Agency, three miles north of Custer battlefield
- 14 April 1926: Reno-Benteen Battlefield was added
- 1 July 1940: The site was transferred from the United States Department of War to the National Park Service
- 22 March 1946: The site was redesignated "Custer Battlefield National Monument".
- 15 October 1966: The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 11 August 1983: A wildfire destroyed dense thorn scrub which over the years had seeded itself about and covered the site. This allowed archaeologists access to the site.
- 1984, 1985: Archaeological digging on site.
- 10 December 1991: The site was renamed Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument by a law signed by President George H. W. Bush.
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