Showdown at the O.K. Corral: The Trial of Wyatt Earp – Timeline

SHOWDOWN AT THE O.K. CORRAL: THE TRIAL OF WYATT EARP

TIMELINE

OCTOBER 26, 1881	The showdown at the O.K. Corral: Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday engage in a shootout with Ike and Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury; the McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton are killed; Ike Clanton escapes.
OCTOBER 28, 1881	Coroner Henry Mathews convenes an inquest and determines that the Earps and Holiday killed the three men; he does not assess blame.
OCTOBER 29, 1881	Ike Clanton files murder charges against the Earps and Holliday.
OCTOBER 31, 1881	Judge Wells Spicer commences a preliminary hearing to determine whether the Earps and Holliday will be tried for murder.
NOVEMBER 29, 1881	The hearing is completed as the evidence closes; both sides waive final argument.
NOVEMBER 30, 1881	Judge Spicer rules, exonerating the Earps and Holliday.
DECEMBER 28, 1881	Virgil Earp is ambushed and seriously injured, but he survives; IkeClanton is suspected of being involved, but this is never proven.
MARCH 18, 1882	Morgan Earp is shot and killed while playing pool in Tombstone.
NOVEMBER 8, 1887	Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis in Colorado, at age 36.
JANUARY 1929	Wyatt Earp dies at age 80.

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