Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    paleo

    paleo
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
  • Jan 1, 1000

    woodland

    woodland
  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    mississippian

  • Dec 14, 1200

    leo frank case

    leo frank case
    The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed.
  • Nov 25, 1540

    Hernando de soto

    Hernando de soto
    Hernando de Soto arrives in Georgia in search of gold and riches. he was also a spanish conquistador who led the frist european expedition.
  • Georgia founded

    Georgia founded
    Georgia was the 13th and last conloy to be establishes
  • tom watson and the populists

    tom watson and the populists
    The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. In his early years he was characterized as a liberal, especially for his time. In later years he emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric
  • international cotton exposition

    international cotton exposition
    International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area.
  • Period: to

    William B. Hartsfield

    William Berry Hartsfield, Sr. (March 1, 1890 – February 22, 1971),William B. Hartsfield an he also served the mayor of Atlanta Georgia
  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Mays
    Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister and became a leader in the African-American Civil rights movement.
  • 1906 Atlanta Riot

    1906 Atlanta Riot
    The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes".
  • Period: to

    Ivan Allen jr

    Ivan Allen jr served as a mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970.He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical.
  • leo frank case

    leo frank case
    The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed.
  • Herman Talmadge

    Herman Talmadge
    Herman Eugene Talmadge Sr was Democratic American politician from the swtate of Georgia.
  • martin luther king jr

    martin luther king jr
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
  • Atlanta Hawks

    Atlanta Hawks
    the Atlanta Hawks are a professional team based in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Atlanta Falcons

    Atlanta Falcons
    The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • plessy v. ferguson

  • county unit system

  • Atlanta Braves

    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade
  • john and lugenia hope

  • booker t . washington

  • web duboois

  • 1946 governor's race

    1946 governor's race
    For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election tp a fourrth terms as Georgis's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration.