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In 13,000 B.C., the Paleo Indians arrived in Tennessee. These people were the first to come to Tennessee. The word Paleo comes from the Greeks, and it means "ancient" or "very old."
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The Archaic Indians arrived in Tennessee around 8,000 years ago. They were the first to bring farming and agriculture to Tennessee. They are also believed to be the first people in the region to domesticate the dog.
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The Woodland Indians arrived in Tennessee between 1,000 and 500 B.C. These indians built permanent villages and planted vegetable gardens. They were also the frist to cultivate corn, and believed to have developed the bow and arrow.
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The Mississippians arrived in the region at about 1,000 A.D. and settled mostly in west Tennessee. There, they raised maize (corn), beans, squash, and pumpkins.
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Columbus' abjective was to sail to Aisa, but he ended up setting up continueal contact between the Old and New World.
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A spanish explorer by the name of Hernando de Soto landed in Florida in 1539, but in 1540 de Soto arrived in Tennessee near Chattanooga.
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Hernando de Soto died near Memphis in 1542 from being ill.
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The english settled Jamestown in 1607
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Samuel de Champlain frounded Quebec in 1608.
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A Virginian merchant by the name of Abrham Wood set up trade with Indians and they first visited Tennessee.
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In 1682, La Selle built a fort in Memphis.
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In King Philip's War, France and Great Britian fougth a series of wars over control of Europe and their overseas empires. There were four series in this war.
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The French established a trading post in the Nashville area.
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Georgia was established as a colony, meaning that Great Britian now had established 13 colonies, but France had control of Canada and some land in Louisiana.
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In 1754, fighting of the French and Indian War began, and ended in 1763. The French and Indian War was the fourth war in the series of wars in King Philip's War.
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Daniel Boone fought in the French and Indian War. Boone and some woodsmen created the Wilderness Road.
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The British built a fort in the Cherokee territory, known as Fort Loudoun.
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Good relations came to an end between the British and Cherokee.
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In June of 1760, a British army of 1,500 men were sent to relieve Fort Loudoun.
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The Indians were given all the land between the Proclamation line (The Appalachains) and the Mississippi River.
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The British negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Also during 1768, Watatgua first settlement.
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Daniel Boone searches for the Cumberland Gap.
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British representative John Stuart signed the Treaty of Hard Labour with the Cherokee tribe, letting all Cherokee claims to the property west of the Allegheny Mountains and east of the Ohio River, comprising all of present-day West Virginia except the extreme southwestern part of the state.
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Almost 200,000 people had gone west on the Wildness Road.
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Tennessee becomes a state.
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On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, effectively ending the Creek War.
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In Obion County, Tennessee, the last reported elk sighting was reported.
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The National Park Service began reintroducing elk into the Great Smoky Mountains.
