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Outbreak of Queen Anne's War
In August, Carolina's Governor James Moore and Deputy Governor Robert Daniell sailed an army of nearly five hundred soldiers and 370 Indians down the coast. Their intent was to drive the Spanish out of Florida. This is important because it was when they destroyed the missions around St. Augustine, burned the town itself, and laid siege to its forts, the Castillo de San Marcos. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
New Jersey is formed when East and West Jersey are united under the authority of New York governor.
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Appalachee Massacre
Fifty Carolinians and a thousand of their Indian allies swept down the Flint River, destroyed nearly all the Spanish missions in southern Georgia and northern Florida, killed most of the region's Appalachee inhabitants and sold hundreds into slavery. This is an important event because it continued raids over the next few years almost depopulated the area of its native peoples. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
French and Abenaki Indians destroy Deerfield Massachusetts.
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The Treaty of Utrecht
This event is important because it brought an end to Queen Anne's War, in part reiterating the 1670 Madrid Treaty's agreement that each side recognize the other's colonial possessions. The war's end only brought more misery for the Indians. By becoming increasingly dependent on trade with the British, they became more vulnerable to being cheated and abused. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
South Carolinian forces capture Fort Nohucke of the Tuscarora Indians
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North Carolina and South Carolina are confirmed as royal provinces by the British parliament
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Oglethorpe requested a royal charter for the new colony, Georgia
This event is important because it was when the charter was requested to make the colony of Georgia. They proposed to govern it themselves as a board of Trustees. They planned on it being populated mainly by small farmers, together with merchants and craftsmen, who could also serve as the militia force for the colony. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Construction begins on the Pennsylvania State House, better known as Independence Hall
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Georgia issued charter
This is important because it was when Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the Privy Council, Parliament's executive body, finally issued Georgia's charter the summer of 1732. Over the next few months the Trustees selected about 120 charity colonists and made preparations for their upcoming voyage. Oglethorpe took charge of the voyage, the only Trustee to ever make the trip to Georgia. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Oglethorpe returned to Georgia with his colonists
This is important because it was when Oglethorpe returned with his colonists and set them to work laying out town lots and constructing Savannah's first houses. Families were assigned lots of sixty by ninety feet for their town dwellings. They also got a five-acre garden plot on the edge of the settlement and a forty-five acre farm plot in the countryside. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
The Molasses Act is passed by parliament
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1st American military court martial trial begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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John Houstoun led another invasion of Florida
This is important because this time Georgia was better prepared, having issued volunteers promises of more land taken from Tories under the Confiscation Act of 1778. The state also offered land in Florida itself. General Howe contributed troops to the effort, bringing the total Whig force to about two thousand. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Battle of Beaufort
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Battle of Kettle Creek
This is important because they defeated seven hundred Tories during this battle in Wilkes County. British troops abandoned Augusta that same day and withdrew toward Savannah, but on March 3rd beat back the Whigs at Briar Creek in Screven County. For more than a year after this, Georgia remained divided, with Whigs controlling the upcountry. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Fight between sailors in Savannah caused three days of riots
This is important because it was when an American seaman, sailing under a French flag, begins a fight with local sailors who question his motives for sailing on a foreign vessal. The fight explodes across Savannah's riverfront, beginning three days of riots. The riots caused an international incident and the French began raiding American shipping. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington
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The Rush-Bagot treaty is signed.
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First Seminole War began
In November 1817 a detachment of soldiers stationed at Fort Scott in southern Georgia traveled to the Seminole village of Fowl Town. The soldiers demanded that the Seminole chief surrender warriors whom American military officials believed were responsible for the murder of several Georgia families. He refused and then this is what caused the First Seminole War. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
In New York State, slavery was legally abolished
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All Creek Indian lands ceded to Georgia
This was important because this is the time when the Cherokees established a tribal government modeled after the US Constitution and made New Echota their capital. They became landowning farmers, merchants, blacksmiths, and carpenters. They ended up building towns and establishing networks of trade and commerce within their nation and beyond its borders. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
The Cherokee Georgia lottery is authorized
The Sixty Georgia Land Lottery, sometimes called the Cherokee Georgia lottery, is authorized by the General Assembly. This was so important because it was the only lottery where Georgia did not have a claim to the land it was giving away. The Cherokees had never ceded it so they had no rights. This was very different from the five lotteries that happened before this one. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Indian Removal Act approved
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Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union
Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union, which makes it very clear that Georgia was anti-slavery. Secession began after President Lincoln's election in the belief that his Republican Party was aggressively anti-slavery. This convention met and not only voted to secede the state from the Union but also created Georgia's first new constitution since 1978. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Fort Sumter harbor is bombarded for 34 hours by Confederate forces
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The New York riot kills 1,000 people
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Confederate troops won the Battle of Chickamauga
It was a very important event in Georgia history because it was how they scored the victory of Chattanooga. After the troops pushed the Confederates out of Chattanooga early that month, Bragg launched a counterattack on the banks of nearby Chickamauga Creek. Ulysses S. Grant soon arrived with reinforcements, allowing the Union to reverse the results of the battle. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre
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Johnson's Plan of Reconstruction
Johnson's Plan called for pardons to former Confederates (with some explantations), the rewriting of the state constitution, repudiation of the states' Confederate debt, and the nullification of the Ordinance of Secession. President Johnson would appoint a provisional governor to supervise the Reconstruction phase. This was a very important part of Georgia history. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Georgia was readmitted to the Union
On July 25th, 1868, Congress approved the state's readmission to the Union. Georgia was once again a member of the Union in good standing. The federal government no longer supervised the sate, General Meade left Georgia, and the troops were removed. However, Union membership in good standing did not last. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins in the Senate
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Georgia readmitted to the Union permanently
Georgia was once again expelled from the Union in 1868 because it refused to ratify the 15th Amendment, which was guaranteeing all male citizens to vote regardless of race. With these acts Georgia had, for a third time, met the requirements of Reconstruction, and, on 15 July 1870 Congress passed legislation readmitting the state. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming
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Rebecca Felton became the first U.S. woman Senator
Hardwick's most notable action was his appointment of Rebecca L. Felton to the US Senate in 1922 to fill the unexpired term of Tom Watson. In an era when most Georgians did not approve of women's suffrage and Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment, his appointment of Felton was notable. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Georgia became the first state to allow 18 year olds to vote
This was a very important moment in Georgia history. Arnall abolished the state's chain gang, and the entire penal system was modernized. Arnall also pardoned Georgia's most famous chain gang prisoner, Robert Burns. The state also took voting reform and the General Assembly passed bills permitting 18-year-old citizens to vote and to allow soldiers who were away from home to vote. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
The United States Army's 45th Infantry Division lands on the island of sicily, starting the campaign of Allied invasion into Axis-controlled Europe.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro
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Black children attended all-white schools in Georgia for the first time
Colleges and universities throughout the state followed suit and enrolled black students. During the summer of 1961, Georgia Tech announced that it would admit three black students in the fall term and did so without incident. This continued and was a real turning point for the black community. Meyers, C. C., & Williams, D. (2012). Georgia: A brief history. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. -
Georgia abolished its county unit voting system and reapportioned its senatorial districts
Since 1917, the county unit system had been used to determine winners in statewide elections, leading to an uneven distribution of power between rural and urban areas, and by 1960 little had changed. In that year one unit vote in tiny, rural Echols County represented 938 residents while one unit vote in urban Fulton County represented 92,721 residents. This had to be changed and that is what they did. -
The first sign of a looming Vietnam conflict emerges when President Kennedy admits that the military advisors already in Vietnam would engage the enemy if fired upon.
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
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Lester Maddox becomes governor of Georgia
On 10 January 1967, the legislature elected Lester Maddox by the lopsided vote of 182-66, with more than thirty Democrats voting for Callaway. Though Callaway did not win the 1966 election, it can be considered the beginning of a true two-party political system in Georgia. -
The United States Supreme Court rules in Roe vs. Wade that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
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Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., was elected mayor of Atlanta, and became the first black mayor of a major Southern city
Georgia's record in race relations got better with time. In 1972, Andrew Young was elected to the US House of Representatives, the first black congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction. A year later, Maynard Jackson was elected the first black mayor of Atlanta; he was the first African American mayor of a major Southern city. Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., was elected mayor of Atlanta, and became the first black mayor of a major Southern city. -
CNN was established in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia is also known for the distribution of news and information. Established in Atlanta in 1980, Cable News Network (CNN) is arguably the most well known television news channel in the country. Though many were skeptical that a 24-hour , all-news network would succeed (or was necessary), CNN became a daily staple for many Americans and still is today. -
President Jimmy Carter announces the embargo on sale of grain and high technology to the Soviet Union due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Sonny Perdue was elected governor of Georgia
The breakthrough came in 2002 when Sonny Perdue was elected President. Perdue was the first Republican governor in Georgia since the Reconstruction and went on to win reelection in 2006. He was then followed by another Republican, Nathan Deal, who took the helm in 2011. -
The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.