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Hernando de Santo, the Spanish explorer, first traveled to parts of Georgia
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it was founded. Kind Georgia the second granted James Oglethorpe a charter to create a colony. King George the second signed of the last of the colonies.
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116 settlers arrived in modern-day Savannah aboard the HMS ANNE
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Oglethorpe defeated Spanish invaders in the Battle of Bloody Marsh
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Georgia was governed as a royal colony. The charter expired in 1752 and became a royal colony in 1775
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Georgia signs the Declaration of Independence from Britain.
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General Cornwallis surrendered his British troops
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Georgia ratifies the Constitution and joins the United States as the 4th state
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Gold is found in northern Georgia and the Georgia Gold Rush begins.
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Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States
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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia, captured Atlanta and began his infamous March to the Sea. They were cutting a two hundred mile swath of fire and destruction reaching all the way to Savannah.
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Georgia was expelled from the Union because it refused to ratify the 15th Amendment (guaranteeing all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race).
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Georgia was readmitted to the Union, with Atlanta declared the 5th state capital in its young history.
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United States forces evacuate Georgia
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Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law
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Georgia became the first state to allow 18-year-olds to vote.
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Black children attended all-white schools in Georgia for the first time.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated; funeral held in Atlanta; riots occurred in Albany, Fort Valley, Macon and Savannah
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Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., was elected mayor of Atlanta, and became the first black mayor of a major Southern city
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Former Georgia Governor James Earl Carter was elected President of the United States
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Olympic Summer Games held in Georgia; bomb set off in Centennial Olympic Park, one killed, over 100 injured; first Olympic games with tickets sold over internet
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Police found over 80 decomposed bodies at crematorium
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Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, died at age 78
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Two nuclear plants to be constructed in Georgia - first to be built in over 30 years
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Georgia resident and former house speaker, Newt Gingrich, announced bid for Republican nomination for president.
