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Cherokee Nation had successfully migrated southward, occupying more than 40,000 square miles in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Charles II delivers the 1629 charter to the Earl of Claredon, the Duke of Albemarle, Sir George Carteret and five other favorites.
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Second charter extends the bounds of the grant to 36 degrees 30 min and 29 degrees N Lat. This is approximately from the northern border of North Carolina (36 degrees 34min) and Daytona Beach, Florida.
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July 18 - Treaty of peace between England and Spain, who claims the entire eastern half of North America, signed at Madrid, Spain provides that actual possession of land would determine ownership. The English have no settlements south of Charleston while the Spanish have settlements as far north as latitude 32, 30'. This is approximately the latitude of Port Royal (Santa Elena), South Carolina or about fifty miles north of Savannah.
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The Spanish reoccupy Santa Catalina (St. Catherines Island) and begin constructing a fort.
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February - Spanish abandon St. Catherines Island and move the garrison to Sapelo Island.
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South Carolina rebel against the lords proprietors and elect James Moore governor
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Sir Robert Montgomery publishes A Description of the Golden Island.
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Colonel John Barnwell, of South Carolina, builds Fort King George at the mouth of the Altamaha River. This is the first British settlement in what will be Georgia.
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February 6 - Oglethorpe arrives in Savannah John and Charles Wesley arrive in Georgia and a party of Moravians July 26 - Charles Wesley returns to England.
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State capital moved to Milledgeville; boundary between Georgia and North Carolina established.
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Fight between sailors in Savannah caused three days of riots.
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War of 1812 began.
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British burned fort at Point Peter in final battle of War of 1812
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First Seminole War began; Indians raided white settlements
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First Seminole War ended
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Steamship SS Savannah sailed from Savannah to Liverpool, England, first steamship to cross Atlantic
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Fire in Savannah destroyed 463 buildings; most residents homeless
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Hurricane hit St. Simons Island; 83 killed
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All Creek Indian lands ceded to Georgia
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An amendment to the state constitution established literacy and property requirements to supplement the poll tax, effectively barring voting by blacks, and many poor whites as well. This disfranchisement, along with legislatively mandated racial segregation of public facilities, defined the Jim Crow era that would prevail in Georgia and the South for more than half a century.
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More than 400,000 residents, almost all black, migrated to other parts of the Country, and between 1910 and 1930 nearly half the state's agricultural workers had abandoned farming
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Promising a surplus of cheap, nonunion labor and relying on a variety of inducements, some of which were financed by public subscription or deductions from workers' checks, several Georgia towns succeeded in attracting small, low-wage employers—mostly textile mills.
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(1941-45) The United States' entry into World War II brought the Great Depression to an end, as industrial production for the war effort created thousands of new jobs around the nation.
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(1962-65) Students protest segregation at the state capitol building in Atlanta on February 1, 1962. The passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 ended legal segregation across the nation. Segregation Protest the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s unfolded, the interests, aims, and ambitions of Atlanta's political and economic leaders diverged dramatically in many ways from those that prevailed in the state at large.
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History Book - (1977-1981) President: James E Carter, Jr. He was a Democrat, Birth place Georgia, Born October 1, 1924. Pg.R34 and R38
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Bruce Wilkinson, Georgia preacher, authored “The Prayer of Jabez," a 93-page, $10 tract based on a passage from the Bible. Sales made him a rich man and in 2002 he embarked on a mission to save children in Swaziland orphaned by AIDS.
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Feb 17, Khalid Abdul Muhammad (born as Harold Moore), national chairman of the New Black Panther Party and former Nation of Islam official, died at age 53 in Marietta, Ga. He was known for his harsh rhetoric about Jews and whites.
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Jan 30, Georgia lawmakers agreed to downsize the Confederate emblem on the state flag to a small symbol.
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Mar 8, the parents and sister of Ray Brent Marsh were arrested for signing death certificates even though they were not licensed. The number of corpses found at the Tri-State Crematory rose to 339.
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Mar 23, Adrian O’Neill Robinson (25) allegedly shot and killed his father (56) in Hamilton, Georgia. He then kidnapped 2 nuns, one of whom was found 3 days later, mutilated in a Norfolk, Va., parking lot. The other nun was found ok. Robinson was arrested Mar 27.
