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Paleo Indians were the first people to arrive in Tennessee
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The Archaic Indians were the second group of indians to settle in Tennessee
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Woodlands Indians arrive in Tennessee
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Mississippian Indians arrive in Tennessee
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Columbus set up continual contact between the Old World and thte New World in 1492
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Hernado de Soto was the first european to set foot in Tennessee
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Hernando de Soto lands in Florida in 1540
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In the spring of 1542 Hernando de Soto died near Mempis, Tennessee and was buried in the Mississppi River
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The Spanish Armada was destoryed in 1588 by the Bristish, this allowed France and England to start setting up colonies in the New World
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Jamestown was settled by John Smith in 1607
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Samuel de Champlain settled Quebec in 1608
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The English arrive in Tennessee around the same time as the French in 1673
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French arrive in Tennessse around the same time as the English
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La Salle builds Pruthome Fort in Memphis area in 1682
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The French established the French Lick in the Nashville area
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Daniel Boone's grandfather moved his family to Pennsylvania in 1717
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Great Britian established 13 colonies in the eastern coast of North America
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Daniel Boone was born in 1734, he would gorw up to be a frontiersmen
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The French and Indain War began in 1754 and ended in 1763. The war was between England and Frence over land ownershihp in the New World, England won the war
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Boone fought in the French and Indian war with the British
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord was in 1755, it started the Revolutionary War
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1st settlement in Tennessee
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With the Treaty of Fort Stanwix the Bristish purchased the claim of Iroquois tribe to the territory of Kentucky and Tennessee
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Daniel Boone began to search for a trail through the Appalachian Mountians
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In 1775, Boone and 30 other woodsmen cleared the Comberland Gap and made it into the Wilderness Road.
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The United States declared independence from Great Britian on July, 4th 1776
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Tennessee became the 16th state of the United States in 1796
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The War of 1812 was fought between England and the United States
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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was fought in 1814, it was apart of the Creek War
