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Thirteen states in North America formally established.
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Georgia colony founded: created to form a buffer between South Carolina and Florida.
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Alice Riley was hanged in Savannah for participating in a murder, making her the first woman to be executed in Georgia.
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John Peter Zenger is found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4.
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English and Spanish forces skirmished on St. Simons Island in an encounter later known as the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
Reason: This event was the only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and it resulted in a significant English victory. -
King George's War (1744–48)
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James Habersham established Georgia’s first commercial house, for the purpose of shipping raw materials to England.
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Declaratory Act: The British Parliament asserts its "full power and authority to make laws and statutes ... to bind the colonies and people of America ... in all cases whatsoever".
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Stamp act: though Parliament would shortly repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766, Georgia would have the unhappy distinction of being the only American colony in which revenue was collected under the act.
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Battle of the Rice Boats. Governor Wright escaped from his confinement and safely reached one of the fleet's ships. His departure marked the end of British control over Georgia.
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United States Declaration of Independence.
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First Georgia Constitution adopted. Introduced the policy of separation of powers within the government (judicial, legislative, and executive). This is still in use today in both Georgia’s government and the United States government.
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American Revolutionary War: Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.
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Battle of Point Royal Island, South Carolina
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In 1779, more than 500 recruits from Saint-Domingue (the French colony which later became Haiti), under the overall command of French nobleman Charles Hector, Comte d'Estaing, fought alongside American colonial troops against the British Army during the siege of Savannah.
Reason: The Continental army's failure to recapture Savannah marked a signal British victory in a distinctly international affair. -
British signed the Treaty of Paris and left Savanna. Colony Georgia became to State Georgia.
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Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States of America.
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Georgia was admitted to the Union and Georgis was the 4th state to be admitted to the Union.
Reason: Savanah was captured by the British and the Patriots won many Georgians. -
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George Washington is unanimously elected president of the United States in a vote by state electors.
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Governor Telfair signs the first Yazoo Act. In 1789 the legislature sold about 25 million acres to three companies, only to torpedo the sale six months later by insisting that payment be made in gold and silver rather than in depreciated paper currency.
Reason: The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post–Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia, which shaped Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation. -
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No matter who made the gold discovery in 1828, the gold rush started in 1829 in Lumpkin County and began spreading rapidly.
Reason: thousands of miners swarmed into the mountains in what the Cherokees called the “Great Intrusion,” and the Georgia Gold Rush was on. -
An Ordinance of Secession is the name given to multiple resolutions drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, by which each seceding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America.
Reason: The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty. -
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The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid in northern Georgia during the American Civil War.
Reason: The Civil War in Georgia beginning with the Great Locomotive Chase -
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The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War.
Reason: The success of the overall Atlanta Campaign was a boon to Northern morale and President Lincoln's political standing. -
James Johnson appointed Provisional Governor by President Johnson. The Voter Registration committee reported two portentous pieces of legislation, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Reconstruction Act.
Reason: Reconstruction transformed the state politically, socially, and economically. -
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U.S acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million
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In March 1867 the First Reconstruction Act passed Congress. Georgia, together with Alabama and Florida, became part of the Third Military District, supervised by General John Pope.
Reason: Georgia placed under the 3rd Military district by the Reconstruction Act of March 2. -
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship.
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General Thomas Ruger USA Provisional Governor of Georgia leases 100 able-bodied and healthy Negro convicts to William A. Fort.
Reason: Within five years, convict leasing was a major source of revenue for Georgia. -
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote.
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Georgia is permanently readmitted to the Union, Georgia became the last former Confederate state to be readmitted into the Union after agreeing to seat some black members in the state Legislature.
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The first telephone line is built from Boston to Somerville, Mass
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Atlanta becomes the capital of Georgia. Vote is 99,147 to 55,201.
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“Separate but equal”: Jim Crow Laws and other measures led to increased segregation of whites and blacks.
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New roles for women: first women admitted into the University of Georgia. Many women had to begin work to support their families as their husbands.
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Great depression: industry faced low demand, job cut back. One in four people faced unemployment.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Martin Luther King founded it and expanded its focus beyond buses to ending all forms of segregation.
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Bloody Sunday: State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.
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