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The Paleo Indians arrive in Tennessee.
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The Archaic Indians arrive in Tennessee.
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The Woodland Indians arrived in Tennessee.
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The Mississippian Indians arrived in Tennessee.
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In his journey to reach china he ended up landing in the new world. He sets up continual contact between the old world and the new world.
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De Soto arrives in Tennessee around what is now Chattanooga.
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In the spring of 1542, after crossing the Mississippi River, De Soto gets ill and dies.
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The Spanish Armada was defeated by the British in 1588.
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The English establish Jamestown along the Atlantic coast.
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The french settled in Canada and established Quebec.
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James Needham and Gabriel Arthur were the first two Englishmen to set foot in Tennessee.
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When Georgia was established as a colony in 1733, the British now had established thirteen colonies.
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Danie Boone was born in 1734.
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Long hunters entered Tennesee in the 1750-60s. There only obstacle was the proclamation line.
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The French and Indian War started in 1754. The indians were basically stuck in the middle of all the fighting.
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In June of 1760 a British army of 1800 men were sent to relive Ft. Loudon, but the Cherokee had already attacked and shattered the fort.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed in the fall of 1763 ending the war between France and Great Britian.
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The French and Indian War ends in 1763.
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Under the Treaty of Fort Stanwix the British purchased the claim of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Bean and his party cleared out land in Tennessee during the fall of 1768.
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This was a passage way for people to move west without going over the mountains.
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Under the Hard Labor Treaty, a portion of land was reserved fro the Cherokee Indians in east Tennessee.
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Daniel Boone got his first adventures in 1775 during the French and Indian War. He fought along with George Washington. Boone was a wagon driver.
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Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen turned the Indian Trail into the Wilderness Road that way families could travel with wagons and animals. The Wilderness road went on for almost 300 miles.
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In 1790 almlost 200,000 people had moved west on the Wilderness Road.
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Daniel Boone dies in 1820 at the age of 85.
