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Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek people are living in present-day Tennesse.
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English and French explores enter the tennesse area.
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The French traders made a post trading near present-day Nashville.
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Franch gives land east of the Mississippi River to England. present-day Tennessee become part of North Carolina.
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The goverment forms the Tennessee territory when North Carolina turns over the land.
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Tennessee becomes the 16th state.
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Reelfoot Lake forms after major earth quake.
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The Chickasaws sell thier land in west Tennessee to the Goverment.
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The Civil War starts in April , Tennesse is the last of 11 states to leave the union.
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Tennessee is the first southern state allowed back into the union.
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Yellow fever kills 5,000 people , in the major city Memphis.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority begins buliding dams.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratary begin working on atomic bombs.
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James Earl Ray kills Martin Luther King jr . in Memphis .
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He was the first Afican American elected as mayor of Memphis.
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Tennessee celebrates it's 200th birthday as a state.
