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King Charles granted charter for to Sir Robert Heath for all territory between 31 and 36 degrees North, or Albemarle Sound to Jekyll Island.
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First permanent English settlements and Charles Town founded.
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The Spanish attack Charles Town during Queen Anne's War.
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Carolina Territory becomes North and South Carolina.
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Blackbeard sailed into Charles Town and took hostages.
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Citizens rebel against proprietors and elect James Moore as governor.
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40 whites and 21 slaves killed in Stono Slave Revolt.
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New state government required male citizens to denounce king and pledge loyalty to the state.
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British troops land in Seabrook Island and lay siege to Charles Town for 40 days.
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Charles Town was renamed to Charleston.
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Vesey Conspiracy discovered (Plot to take Charleston, kill most of the whites, and escape to Caribbean or Africa) Vesey and 33 others hanged.
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The first steam locomotive in the U.S. began service from Charleston to Hamburg.
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A fire destroyed most of Ansonborough.
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South Carolina is the first state to secede from the Union.
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First shots of the Civil War fired at Fort Sumter.
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General Sherman’s troops leave Middleton Place plantation in ruins and burn Colombia.
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The Civil War ends.
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South Carolina is readmitted into the Union.
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Senator B.F. Randolph is murdered by radical whites.
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Joseph Rainey is the first African American U.S. representative.
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George Gershwin wrote the first opera in Charleston.
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River High School in Charleston became the first racially integrated school in the south.
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Angry whites overturn a school bus with young black children on way to integrate schools in Lamar\
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Astronaut Ron McNair is killed in Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
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Divers discover wreck of Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley in waters off of Sullivan's Island.
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South Carolina removes the last Confederate flag above a state house.
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South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond retires at age 100.
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Nine firefighters were killed in a warehouse fire.
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State law introduces mandating gold and silver coins to replace Federal currency.
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South Carolina's immigration laws challenged by 16 nations from Latin America and Caribbean.
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