North Carolina history

outer banks

16,000 BCE

16,000 bc outer banks begin to form

paleo Indians

9500 BCE

9500 b.c. first paleo indians appear as nomads hunting large

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8500 BCE

8,500 bc hardaway spear point, named after discovery site in N.C. begins to replace clovis spear point

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8000 BCE

8,000bc Archic. period starts marked by devlopmennt of new tools and artafacts

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100

270 million bc Appalachian mountains begin to form

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Nov 22, 1100

1100ad mississippian period brings full scale agriculure with corn beans and squash as major crops

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Dec 17, 1300

1300 ad warlike mound builders invade North Carolina near preasent day Mt. Gilead, and then the mysteriously leave 100 years later

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Dec 17, 1497

Treaty of Tordesillas recognizes spanish rights to most of the americans icluding N.C.

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Dec 17, 1524

Giovanni da Verrazano explores coast of North Carolina

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Dec 17, 1526

Lucas Vasquez de ayllon attempts settelments on N.C. coast

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Jan 5, 1730

George burrington becames first royal governor of NC

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Nov 21, 1738

1000bc woodland period marked by pottry semi-permanent villages and gardening

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Mar 3, 1799

nc gold rush begins with the discovery of gold in cabarrus county

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Mar 3, 1812

reformer Archibald D. Mrurphy begins term in general assembly

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Mar 3, 1819

board of internal improvementsis organized and funded

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Mar 3, 1825

States literary fund is estabilshed

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Mar 3, 1825

Lode mining of gold rush intensifies gold ruch

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Mar 3, 1831

genral assembly authorzes countties to erect poor house

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Mar 3, 1832

David L. Swain becomes governor

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Mar 3, 1834

N.C. first railroad company is charted

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Mar 3, 1835

constitutional convention leads nc to reforms

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Mar 3, 1836

edward bishop dudley a whig becomes the first popularity elected govenor

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Mar 3, 1840

the frist public school opens wilmington and weldonrailroad is completed.

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Mar 3, 1845

a school for those with impared hearing opens in raleigh

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Mar 3, 1849

the general assembly charters the N.C. railroad company

david reid

Mar 3, 1850

David Reid a democrat is elected govenor

calvin h whiley

Mar 3, 1852

Calvin H. Whiley becomes the first superintendent of public schools

dorothea dix

Mar 3, 1853

Effort of Dorothea Dix lead to construction of a hospital fo the mentaley ill

Benjamin Hendrick

Mar 3, 1856

publishes book aginst slavery

manhood suffrage

Mar 3, 1857

voters pass a manhood suffrage amendment

Hinton rowan helper

Mar 3, 1857

pudlishes the impending crisis of the south how to meet it

daniel worth

Mar 3, 1859

is found guilty of encouraging slaves to reble

confederacy union

Mar 3, 1861

N.C. joins the confederacy union captures fort hatteras

sherman troops

Mar 3, 1862

enter nc union forces take roanoke island and begin rading towns in the eastern part of nc

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Mar 3, 1864

The albemarle defends plymouth from union ships but is eventually sunk

fort fisher

Mar 3, 1865

union takes fort fisher and the port of wilmington union wins battle of bertoville

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Apr 5, 1865

w.w. Holden becomes provisional govner ; nc retifies 13th amendment

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Apr 5, 1868

Many educational reforms are includeed in new states. nc is reamited in union

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Apr 5, 1875

consitutional convention meets; some power in restore to the legislator

Zebulon B. Vance

Dec 24, 1877

becomes governor

James Bonsack

Dec 24, 1880

invents a crude cigarette rolling machine

Duke Family

Dec 24, 1881

begins making cigarettes

Leonidas L. polk

Dec 24, 1887

organisms nc farmers association

Farmers

Dec 24, 1891

force legislator to establish state railroad commission

Allience

Dec 24, 1894

of populist ans republicans sweeps state elections association to promote women suffrage is organised

race riots

Dec 24, 1898

Wilmington race riot result in death of 11 African Americans

Wright Brothers

Dec 24, 1903

make first airplane filght

prohibition

Dec 24, 1908

is enacted

camp Greene

Dec 24, 1917

more than 86 thousand men from NC joined the armed forces Camp Greene is established in Charlotte

camp bragg

Dec 24, 1918

is established

Cameron Morrison

Dec 24, 1921

becomes governor, reforms to road systems, ed, and institutions for the disables begins

Highway act

Dec 24, 1921

is passed under Governor Cameron Morrison

o.max gardner

Dec 24, 1929

becomes governor

o max Gardner

Dec 24, 1930

council of unemployment and relief

NC

Dec 24, 1932

overwhelmingly votes for Franklin roosevelt

textile mills

Dec 24, 1933

many furniture factories ans textile mills are out of business

manufacturing

Dec 24, 1937

furniture man. is back to 1920 levels

battleship nc

Dec 24, 1941

thousands volunteer for armed forces battleship NC is commissioned

airborne forces

Dec 24, 1942

the first us forces are trained are fort Bragg

state board of ed

Dec 24, 1943

is created, Margaret craighill becomes becomes the 1st woman physician to join the cs military

state intistuts

Dec 24, 1944

a nine month school year

end of war

Dec 24, 1945

by the end of the war more soldiers had been trained in NC than any other state

unc university

Dec 24, 1951

is required to admit African Americans to law, graduate, and medical schools

commission of reorganization

Dec 24, 1953

of state gov. is created

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Dec 24, 1955

graduate

pearsall plan

Dec 24, 1956

is adopted

pearsall plan

Dec 24, 1956

is ratified, giving parents tuition money to send children to private schools

first building

Dec 24, 1961

at the research triangle park is completed

federal court

Dec 24, 1966

strikes down pearsall plan

executive organization act

Dec 24, 1970

is passed

environmental management commission

Dec 24, 1973

general assembly creates environmental management commission

Susie Marshall sharp

Dec 24, 1974

becomes first woman to serve as chief justice of NC supreme court