half of Dakota Territory; that portion north of the 46th parallel to be called the Territory of Lincoln.... .....1884 Agricultural college at Brookings opened.... .1884 Dakota University at Mitchell opened September, 1885 Constitutional convention called by the legislature at Sioux Falls frames a constitution for South Dakota Sept. 25, 1885 Legislature passes a local option law 1887 School of mines at Rapid City, established by act of legislature in 1885, is opened.. ..1887 A majority vote for the division of Dakota Territory into two States, North and South Dakota, at an election held November, 1887 By organizing Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and Minnesota State, May 11, 1858, the remainder of Dakota is left without legal name or existence.... ...1858 Territory of Dakota organized with an area of 150,932 square miles, by act of Congress.. March 2, 1861 Seat of government for Dakota Territory located at Yankton... 1862 Sioux Falls destroyed by the Sioux Indians, and settlers flee to Yankton..1862 Fort Dakota built on reservation at Sioux Falls.... . 1865 Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad built from Sioux City, Ia., to Yankton, completed.... ..1873 Military and scientific exploring expedition, under Gen. G. A. Custer, arrives at the Black Hills, July, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln. Specimens of gold are washed from the soil near Harney's Peak, where it was known to exist in 1867, but emigration thither was stopped by General Sherman on account of Indian Election held by proclamation of territroubles. This visit causes great excite- torial governor, A. C. Mellette, April 15, ment among the Sioux Indians... .1874 1889, for delegates to a constitutional conand vention to meet July 4, and the Sioux 1875 Falls constitution of 1885 favored by 37,Indians relinquish their titles to lands 710 votes to 3,414.... .... May 14, 1889 in the Black Hills and western counties of southern Dakota.... .1876 Town of Deadwood laid out.. .1876 Dakota school for deaf-mutes at Sioux Charles A. Foster, of Ohio, William Falls opened.... ...1880 Warner, of Missouri, and Gen. George A. Yankton College, chartered in 1881, Cook, a committee appointed by the Presiopened at Yankton.... 1882 dent, arrive at the Sioux reservation early Tin, detected as a black sand accom- in June, and secure the consent of threepanying gold from the Black Hills, by fourths of the Indians to open for setProfessor Pearce, of Argo, is practically tlement 26,751,105 acres of their land in discovered by Maj. Andrew J. Simmons, the northwestern part of South Dakota of Rapid City.. Gold discovered in Deadwood Whitewood gulches... .1883 Act admitting South Dakota signed, a constitutional convention to meet at Sioux Falls, July 4, 1889...... . Feb. 22, 1889 Sioux Falls constitution amended and adopted by a convention at Sioux Falls, July 4, which adjourns. . . . . . Aug. 5, 1889 August, 1889 Seat of government removed from Yank- Arthur C. Mellette, Republican, elected ton to Bismarck....... .Sept. 11, 1883 governor of South Dakota, the Sioux Falls A convention called by some 400 dele- constitution adopted by 70,131 to 3,267; gates who met at Huron, June 19, con- the article prohibiting the manufacture venes at Sioux Falls, Sept. 4, and frames and sale of intoxicating liquors adopted a constitution for the State of Dakota to by 40,234 to 34,510, and Pierre chosen as comprise the southern half of the Terri- the temporary capital.......Oct. 1, 1889 tory..... ...Sept. 19, 1883 First State legislature convenes at Pierre University of South Dakota at VerOct. 15, 1889 milion opened.... ....1883 South Dakota admitted into the Union Pierre University at East Pierre char- with the northern boundary the seventh tered and opened.. .1883 standard parallel... .Nov. 2, 1889 Proclamation by President Harrison opening up the Sioux reservation, 9,000,000 acres, and a rush of immigrants who Sioux Falls University opened....1883 United States Senate passes a bill for the admission as a State of the southern had assembled on the east bank of the The board of regents of education acMissouri.... . Feb. 10, 1890 cording to amendment of State constiLegislature creates a State board of tution controlling all State educational incharities and correction, a board of re- stitutions, Charles N. Herreid, Robert H. gents of education, a State board of equal- Haira, H. H. Blair, H. L. Hough, and F. ization, a board of pardons, a bureau of A. Spafford appointed.... ...1897 labor statistics, the office of State en- James H. Kyle elected United States gineer of irrigation, a State meteorological Senator. .....1897 bureau, a State inspector of mines, and a Constitutional amendment providing State board of pharmaceutical examiners for a State dispensary system adopted 1890 1898 First Regiment mustered into the United States service.. .May 12, 1898 Woman suffrage defeated by an adverse majority of 4,008.......... Nov. 8, 1898 Act carrying into effect provisions of constitutional amendment relating to initiative and referendum passed.....1899 Andrew E. Lee, Populist, elected gov Pierre selected as the permanent capital of the State.... .1890 Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor parties meet in State convention at Huron, report in favor of woman suffrage, prohibition, and tariff for revenue only, and unite under the name of the Independent party.... June 6, 1890 Dakota soldiers' home, established at ernor..... Hot Springs, Fall River county, in 1889, is opened... ...Nov. 27, 1890 Battle with Big Foot's Indian band on Wounded Knee Creek; some 250 Indans killed, including forty-four squaws and eighteen papooses. States troops, thirty-two killed, thirty- laws, passed.... nine wounded...... .1899 Charles N. Herreid, Republican, elected governor.. ...1900 School of technology at Aberdeen established..... ....1900 Act creating food and dairy commisLoss to United sioner and enforcement of the pure food ...1901 ..Dec. 29, 1890 State Historical Society established 1901 Circulating school library law enacted 1901 Judges Bartlett Tripp, J. M. Brown, and ex-United States Senator G. C. Moody appointed by Governor Herreid a committee to codify the laws of the State 1901 Act providing for the State board of agriculture.... . 1901 Act giving governor absolute and unlimited power of removal of certain constitutional and all appointive officers 1901 Act establishing law department of State University passed... . 1901 United States Senator Kyle dies July 1, 1901 Governor Herreid appoints A. B. Kit...July 11, 1901 C. H. Sheldon, Republican, elected tredge Senator... governor. . 1894 The Supreme Court renders a decision Prize-fighting in the State prohibited construing the constitutional amendment 1895 on the initiative and referendum which Andrew E. Lee, Populist, elected gov- practically abolishes the same.......1901 1896 Great agricultural prosperity..... 1902 United States Circuit Judge A. J. Ed- National Farmers' Exchange incorpogerton dies..... .Aug. 10, 1896 rated with capital of $50,000,000; head[John A. Garland appointed successor.] quarters, Pierre.... .. April 15, 1904 ernor. TENNESSEE Written association formed for the government of the Watauga settlers, and five commissioners appointed as a governing court ....1772 Tennessee, one of the Southern United middle Tennessee, with camp at Price's States, lies between the Alleghany Moun- Meadows, Wayne county..... 1769 tains on the east and the Mississippi River on the west. It is bounded on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, east by North Carolina, south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri. It lies between lat. 35° and 36° 35′ N., and long. 81° 37′ and 90° 15′ W. Area, 42,050 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Père Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°... Col. Richard Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract of country between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, which they call Transylvania... March 17, 1775 July 21, 1776 Forces under Col. William Christian destroy the Cherokee towns in east Tennes see ...1776 Washington county, including all of Tennessee, created by law of North Carolina.... .November, 1777 Richard Hogan, Spencer, Holliday, and others come from Kentucky and begin a plantation near Bledsoe's Lick......1778 Watauga purchased from the Indians, and deed of conveyance to Charles Robertson executed... .March 19, 1775 Watauga settlers march against advanc..1673 ing Cherokees, and disperse them in a batRobert Cavalier de La Salle builds tle near Long Island Fort..July 20, 1776 Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chicka- Cherokees under old Abraham attack saw bluff of the Mississippi River....1682 the fort at Watauga, but are repulsed M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville .1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff 1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption June, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland River ..1748 Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......... 1856 Colonel Bird builds Long Island Fort Eleven Chickamauga Indian towns deon the Holston River, where the Ameri- stroyed by troops under Isaac Shelby, who can army winters .1758 left Big Creek, near the site of Rogersville.... . April 10, 1779 Jonesboro laid off and established as the seat of justice for Washington county 1779 Cherokees capture Fort Loudon. The garrison, after the surrender, start out for Fort Prince George; after proceeding about 15 miles they are massacred by the Indians...... ....Aug. 7, 1760 Capt. James Smith and others explore the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers from above Nashville down to the Ohio 1766 By treaty at Fort Stanwix the Six Capt. James Robertson and others from Watauga cross the Cumberland Mountains, pitch their tents near French Lick, and plant a field of corn where Nashville now stands ..1779 Colony under John Donelson in open boats, leaving Fort Patrick Henry on the Holston, descend the Tennessee and ascend the Cumberland to French Lick, where they found Nashboro....... April 24, 1780 Form of government for the Cumberland settlements drawn up and articles signed at Nashboro......... May 13, 1780 Battle of Boyd's Creek, a confluent of ..1769 the French Broad. Troops under Col. Company formed to hunt and explore John Sevier, returning from the battle of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-TENNESSEE .....March 20, 1787 King's Mountain, join in expedition either the State of North Carolina or the Legislature of Frankland meets for the against the Cherokees and disperse them State of Frankland' on their way to massacre the Watauga ...October, 1780 last time at Greeneville, and government settlers Indian atrocities and massacres of set- reverts to North Carolina..September, 1787 Deed conveying to the United States tlers in middle Tennessee, throughout this and the following year, begin by an attack territory west of the Alleghany MounApril 2, 1790 on the house of Major Lucas at Freeland's tains accepted by act of Congress, apWilliam Blount appointed governor of Station, on the Cumberland, near Stone proved... .Jan. 15, 1781 River... Battle of the Bluffs, where Nashville the territory southwest of the Ohio River now stands; an unsuccessful attack of the Cherokees on the fort........ April 2, 1781 Pre-emption right allowed to settlers on the Cumberland by legislature of North Carolina, 640 acres to each family or . April, 1782 head of family.. Court of oyer and terminer held at Jonesboro for Washington and Sullivan .Aug. 15, 1782 counties... Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Carolina a tract extending nearly 40 miles south from .1783 Cumberland River First Methodist preacher comes to east . 1783 Tennessee Commissioners lay off on Duck River a grant of 2,500 acres of land presented by North Carolina to Gen. Nathanael Greene 1783 Nashville established by the legislature to succeed Nashboro.. Aug. 7, 1790 First issue of the Knoxville Gazette .Nov. 5, 1791 published at Rogersville by George RoulKnoxville, chosen as the seat of governstone.. February, 1792 ment, is laid out.... Attack of 700 Indians on Buchanan's Station, 4 miles south of Nashville, repulsed by a garrison of fifteen.... Sept. 30, 1792 General Assembly meets at Knoxville Aug. 5, 1794 University of Tennessee at Knoxville, ..1795 chartered Sept. 10, 1794, as Blount College, is opened State constitution adopted without popular vote by a convention which sits John Sevier inaugurated first governor at Knoxville........Jan. 11-Feb. 6, 1796 .March 30, 1796 of State.... Tennessee admitted into the Union by . June 1, 1796 ..1784 act approved.. William Blount, of Tennessee, expelled from the United States Senate on charge .July, 1797 of instigating the Creeks and Cherokees to assist the British in conquering Spanish Louisiana... Treaty with Cherokees extinguishing ..September, 1798 claims to land granted to individuals by North Carolina.... Great revival of religion, begun in Ken1801 tucky in 1800, spreads through Tennessee Nashville chosen as seat of government General Assembly of North Carolina cedes to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains on condition that Congress accepts it within two years June 2, 1784 Believing themselves no longer a part of North Carolina, settlers in Washington, Sullivan, and Greene counties meet in convention at Jonesboro, choose John Sevier president, and form a constitution .1802 for the State of Frankland. .Dec. 14, 1784 Governor Caswell, of North Carolina, of Frankland by legislature.... the revolt General Wilkinson builds Fort Picker...1803 pronounces April 14, 1785 usurpation.... Constitution for Frankland, or the State ing at Memphis.... of Franklin, accepted by a convention of the people at Greeneville, which chooses Nashville.. John Sevier as governor....Nov. 14, 1785 Capt. James White and James Connor for academies in Tennessee, one in each settle on the site of Knoxville......1786 At a conference upon the legality of the State of Frankland it is agreed that the inhabitants are "at full liberty and discretion to pay their public taxes to chartered Public reception given to Aaron Burr at Congress grants 1,000 acres in one tract .1806 county; 1,000 acres more for two colleges, Blount in the east and Cumberland in the Nashville Bank, the first in Tennessee, west 525 ..1807 Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States..... Nov. 11, 1828 John H. Eaton appointed Secretary of War.. .March 9, 1829 Act for a State system of internal improvements.... .Jan. 2, 1830 Joel Parrish, cashier of the State Bank, proves a defaulter for $200,000, and the bank wound up soon after....Jan. 3, 1830 Memphis Railroad chartered December, 1831 Andrew Jackson re-elected President of the United States.. .Nov. 13, 1832 Conviction of John A. Murrell, of Madison county, the "great western land pirate" and leader of the "mystic clan," a band of outlaws, horse thieves, and negro runners, who was brought to justice by Virgil A. Stewart... ...1834 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Nashville, May 19, and completes its labors Aug. 30, 1834; ratified by a popular vote of 42,666 to 17,691 March 5-6, 1835 R. H. McEwen elected superintendent of public schools...... ....1836 During this and the previous year the State furnished 1,651 volunteers for the Florida War..... .1837 Felix Grundy appointed Attorney-General...... July 5, 1838 National Whig Convention meets at Nashville..... .Aug. 17, 1840 State hospital for the insane opened near Nashville...... ...1840 Cumberland University at Lebanon chartered and opened...... .1842 National Whig Convention held at Cave Johnson appointed Postmaster- Act for self- taxation of districts for 1845 common schools..... Andrew Jackson dies at the Hermitage, aged seventy-eight..........June 8, 1845 James K. Polk dies at Nashville, aged fifty-four.... ...June 15, 1849 Memphis incorporated as a city December, 1849 Southern convention meets at Nashville June 3, 1850 Convention meets at Nashville, Nov. 11, 1850, and adjourns after recommending a congress of slave-holding States by a vote of six States-Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, opposed to Tennessee Nov. 19, 1850 State agricultural bureau established 1854 State capitol, commenced in 1845, completed...... ...1855 Aaron V. Brown appointed PostmasterGeneral..... .March 6, 1857 Memphis and Charleston Railroad completed, joining the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River....March 27, 1857 Southern commercial convention at Knoxville, by vote of 64 to 27, recommends abrogation of the eighth article of the Ashburton treaty, which requires the United States to keep a naval force on the coast of Africa.......... ...Aug. 10, 1857 Constitutional Union Convention at Baltimore, Md., nominates John Bell, of Tennessee, for President........May 9, 1860 Call for a State convention at Nashville, to consider secession, is defeated by a vote of the people.... Feb. 9, 1861 Gov. Isham G. Harris replies to President Lincoln's call for troops, "Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but 50,000, if necessary, for the defence John Bell appointed Secretary of War of our rights, or those of our Southern March 5, 1841 brothers". ..April 18, 1861 |