| |
|
|
Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for February 22;
Yesterday Tomorrow
| February 22, 1732 |
George Washington born, Pope's Creek Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| |
George Washington |
| February 22, 1736 |
Oglethorpe crosses the bay from Frederica to Darien and visits the Highlanders in New Inverness. He approves the construction of a fort on the site of Fort King George and the name of the fort (Fort Darien). He allots land to the male heads of households for farming and lays out a city.
|
| |
Fort Frederica |
| |
James Oglethorpe |
| February 22, 1770 |
Royal Governor James Wright dissolves the Lower House because of its refusal to accept the governor's actions as precedent
|
| |
James Wright |
| February 22, 1772 |
William Harris Crawford born in Nelson County, Virginia
|
| |
William Harris (W. H.) Crawford |
| February 22, 1777 |
Archibald Bulloch given the powers of the executive branch of the government; he dies under unusual circumstances the same day
|
| |
Archibald Bulloch |
| February 22, 1785 |
The General Assembly addresses the headright issues with a new act establishing a set procedure for granting headright land by delegating the authority to grant land to land courts in each county
|
| |
Georgia headright grants |
| February 22, 1785 |
Last meeting of the Georgia Legislature in Savannah. Augusta would become the next state capital
|
| |
City of Savannah, Georgia |
| |
City of Augusta, Georgia
|
| February 22, 1819 |
Spain agrees to cede Florida to the U. S. Government, finally ending the threat of Spanish invasion of Georgia from Florida.
|
| February 22, 1847 |
Augusta Factory, a textile mill, was organized
|
| |
City of Augusta, Georgia
|
| February 22, 1864 |
First battle of Dalton |
| February 27, 1864 |
| |
Civil War - 1864 |
| |
Whitfield County, Georgia |
| |
William Tecumseh Sherman |
Yesterday Tomorrow
|
|
|
