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Paleo Indians are the first humans to arrive in what is today Tennessee.
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Archaic Indians arrive in Tennessee
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Woodland Indians arrive in Tennessee.
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Mississippian Indians arrive in Tennessee.
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In his attempt to reach China, Columbus arrives in the Americas, and establishes a claim to the New World for Spain.
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Hernando DeSoto arrives in Tennessee as he explores North America for Spain.
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Hernando DeSoto dies near the modern day city of Memphis, Tennessee and is "buried" by his men in the Mississippi River.
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada allows the French and English to begin settlement in the New World.
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The British establish their first settlement in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia.
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The First Englishmen visit Tennessee and befriend the Cherokee Indians for the first time.
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LaSalle builds a fort for the French near the modern day city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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The French establish a trading post at a place they name "French Lick" near the modern day city of Nashville.
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Long Hunters ignore the Proclamation of 1763, and enter lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to hunt and trap.
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The Cherokee side with the British against the French.
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The British build Fort Loudoun in what is today eastern Tennessee.
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The Cherokee and British become enemies.
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The British win the French and Indian war, and it ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris
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The British king George III establishes the Proclamation Line, which is an attempt to keep the land of the various Indian groups out of the hands of the American colonists. It doesn't work.
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The British buy the Iroqouis Indians' claim to the land that is now the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, opening it up to white settlement.
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Wataugua becomes the first white settlement in what is today the state of Tennessee, and was started by William Bean.
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The British sign this treaty in an attempt to reserve land in east Tennessee for the Cherokee Indians.
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Cherokee Indians help the Americans during the War for Independence.
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The Creek Indians help the British fight against the Americans in the War for Independence.
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Tecumseh leads the Shawnee against the Americans in the War of 1812.
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Andrew Jackson, with the help of the Cherokee, and White Stick Creek Indians defeats the Red Stick Indians (allied with England) at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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After Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, thousands of Native Americans are forced to move west of the Mississippi River.
