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First indians to arrive in what is today Tennessee
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Archic Indians arrive in Tennessee
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Woodlands Indians arrive in Tennessee
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In his attempt to reach China,Columbus arrives in the Americas and establishes a claim to the New World for Spain
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Hernando DeSota arrives in Tennessee as he explores North America for Spain.
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Hernando DeSota dies near the modern day city of Memphis,Tennessee and is ''buried'' by his men in the Mississippi River.
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada allows the French and English to begin settlement in the New World
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The British establish their first settlement in the New World at Jmaestown,Virginia.
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The First Englishmen visit Tennessee 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 place they name the ''French Lick'' near the modern day city of Nashville.
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Long Hunters ignore the Proclamation of 1763 and enter lands west of the Appalchian Mountains to hunt and trap.
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The Cherokee side with the British against the French.
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The British built Fort Loudoun in what is today eastern Tennessee
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The Cherokee & British become enemies
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The British win the French and Indian war and it ends with the soghning of the Treaty of Parris
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The British king George the 3 establishes the Proclamation Line,which is an attempt to keep the land of the various Indian groups out the hands of the American colonists.If doesn't work.
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The Brtish buy the Iroqouis Indians' claim 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 British sighns this treaty in an attempt to reserve land in east Tennessee for the Cherokee Indians.
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Mississippi Indians arrive in Tennessee
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Cherokee Indians help the americans during the War of Independence.
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The Creek Indians help the British fight against the americans during the War of Independence.
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Tecumseh leads the Shawnee against the americans in the War of 1812
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Andrew Jackson,with the help of Cherokee,and White Stick Creek Indians defeats the Red Stick Indians (allied with indians)at the Battle of Horshoe 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.