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Paelo indains are the first to arrive in 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 arrive in the Americas, and establishes a claim to the New world for Span
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Hernado De Soto arrives in Tennessee as he explores North America for Spain
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Hernado Desoto dies near the modern day city of Memphis, Tennnesssee and is buried by his men in the Mississippi river
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the defeat of the Spanish Armada allows the Fench and English to begin settlement in the new world.
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The British established their first settlement in the New world at James town Virigina.
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The first Englishmen visit Tennesssee and befriend the Cherokee indians for the first time.
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La Salle 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 plce they name ''French Lick'' near the modern day city of Nashville
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The Cherokee side with the British agaisnt 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 with the french and Indian war, and it ends with the singing of the Treaty of paris
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The British king George 3 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.
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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 Creek Indians help the Americans during the war for independence
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Tecumseh leads the Shawnee agasint 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 Indaians (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.