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1,000 - 500 B.C

500

The Woodland Indians came and started buliding permanent villages.

13,000 B.C

Mar 24, 600

The Paleo Indians arrived in Tennesse around 15,000 years ago, when the Ice Age ended.

6,000 B.C

Mar 24, 700

The Archaic Indians and were the first to bring farming and agriculture to Tennessee.

1539

Mar 24, 1539

Hernando de Soto landed in Florida to pursue what he thought were unlimited riches

1588

Mar 24, 1588

After the Spanish Armada was defeated by the British in 1588 it opened the door for the French and British to continue settlements in North America.

1673

Mar 24, 1673

The 1st two Englishmen set foot in TN; James Needham and Gabriel Arthur.

1682

Mar 24, 1682

Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi river.

1689

Mar 24, 1689

In King Philip's war France and Great Britan fought a series of battles over the control of Europe.

1710

Mar 24, 1710

Other French explorers journeyed along the Ohio and Cumberland rivers which is now present day middle TN.

1733

Mar 24, 1733

With the establishment of Georgia as a colony Great Britan established the 13 cololnies.

1754-1763

Mar 24, 1754

The French and Indian War starts.

1757

Mar 25, 1757

The British built a fort in the Cherokee territory.

1759

Mar 25, 1759

Good Relations came to an end between the British and the Cherokee.

1760

Mar 25, 1760

A British army of 1,500 men were sent to retrieve Fort Stanwix

1763

Mar 25, 1763

the Treaty of Paris was signed

1768

Mar 25, 1768

The British negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. With that the british purchased the claim of the Iroquois tribe to the territory of Kentucky and Tennessee

1775

Mar 25, 1775

Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen turned their Indian trail into the Wilderness Road

1790

Mar 25, 1790

Almost 200,000 people had gone west to the Wilderness Road

1812

Mar 25, 1812

The Shawnee Indians and their chief (Tecumsuh) fought in the War of 1812

1,000 A.D

Mar 24, 2000

The Mississipian Indians arrive.