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Important Dates in Georgia History
2,000 BC - Pottery is first made in North America near Augusta
1540 - Hernando DeSoto explores Georgia
1562 - Jean Ribault of France explores the Georgia Coast and settles a company of Huguenots at Port Royal, S.C.
1566 - Spanish missionaries first arrive in Guale, which is now Georgia
1721 - Fort King George is erected by the British for protection against the Spanish and the French
1733 - General James Oglethorpe and the first Georgian colonists land at Yamacraw Bluff and select the town site of Savannah
1735 - General Oglethorpe
grants 600 acres of Savannah land for the founding of the 1st Moravian church on the continent1736 - John Wesley founds America’s first Protestant Sunday School in Savannah
1742 - Oglethorpe's forces defeat the Spanish at the Battle of Bloody Marsh, ending the threat of Spanish aggression
1763 - Georgia's first newspaper, the Georgia Gazette, is published in Savannah
1773 -
1st Negro Baptist church in America is founded at Silver Bluff1776 - George Walton, Dr. Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett sign the Declaration of Independence for Georgia
1783 -
Nation’s 1st government supported high school, Richmond Academy, opens in Augusta1785 - The University of Georgia becomes the first state-chartered and supported university
1788 - Georgia ratifies the U.S. Constitution on January 2, becoming the fourth state
1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin on the Greene Plantation near Savannah
1802 - Georgia cedes all western territories from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi River to the national government
1802 - Sarah Porter Hillhouse becomes 1st American woman to own and edit a newspaper, The Washington Gazette
1805 - First land lottery is held in Georgia
1819 - 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, The Savannah, sets sail from Savannah on May 20 en route to Liverpool, England
1821 - 1st Native American alphabet created by Sequoyah, a member of the Cherokee Indian nation whose capitol, New Echota, was later established in Georgia in 1825
1828 - America’s first gold rush begins in Auraria, Lumpkin County, near Dahlonega
1828 - 1st Native American newspaper, The Cherokee Pheonix, is published in New Echota
1830 - Launcelot Johnston discovers the process by which cotton seed oil can be made from cotton seed
1834 - 1st iron sea vessel, the John Randolph, is built in Savannah
1836 - First state-owned railroad, W & A Railroad, is created by the Georgia General Assembly on December 21
1836 - Wesleyan College founded in Macon - the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women
1838 - Cherokee Indians are forcibly removed to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears
1844 - Dr. John Gorrie of Columbus invents the 1st machine used for manufacturing ice
1861 - Georgia secedes from the Union; Alexander Stephens is elected Vice-President of the Confederacy
1864 - Following the Battle of Atlanta, General William Sherman carves a path of destruction on his March to the Sea
1866 - Georgia is 1st state to grant full property rights to married women
1870 - Georgia is readmitted to the Union
1881 - Spelman College in Atlanta becomes the 1st in the nation to grant a certificate to a black nurse
1886 - John Pemberton first makes and sells Coca-Cola in Atlanta
1893 - Thomas E. Watson of Georgia introduces a bill in U.S. Congress which creates rural free mail delivery
1895 - Atlanta hosts the Cotton States and International Exposition
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of America in Savannah on March 12
1918 -
Georgian Moina Bell Michael originates the Flanders Field Memorial Poppy, the memorial flower of World War I, on November 91922 - Rebecca Felton of Cartersville becomes the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate
1929 - Passenger air service begins in Atlanta
1932 - Dr. Charles Herty of Georgia makes newsprint from pine
1948 - WSB-TV broadcasts as the first television station in Georgia
1945 - Georgia changes the legal voting age from 21 to 18
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the first Georgian awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1974 -
Hank Aaron, an Atlanta Brave, breaks Babe Ruth’s home run record1979 - MARTA inaugurates rapid rail service in Atlanta; today it is one of the largest, serving over 68 million passengers per year
1976 - Former Governor Jimmy Carter becomes the first Georgian to be elected President of the United States
1980 - CNN
(headquartered in Atlanta) is first broadcast to the world1983 - New state Constitution becomes effective
1991 - Atlanta selected as the site for the 1996 Olympics
1993 - HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) Scholarship program begins
1994 - Atlanta hosts Super Bowl XXVIII; 72,817 in attendance
1996 - Atlanta and Georgia host the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games
2001 - New state flag adopted
2002 - President Carter (former Georgia governor) receives Nobel Peace Prize
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