| March 7, 1540 |
Hernando deSoto reaches the Capachequi River (now called the Flint River) in the general vicinity of Bainbridge
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Decatur County, Georgia |
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Hernando deSoto |
| March 7, 1567 |
Juan Pardo returns to Santa Elana
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| March 7, 1734 |
Salzburgers arrive in Charleston, where they are personally greeted by James Oglethorpe |
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| March 7, 1736 |
John Wesley gives his first sermon (not in a church) in Savannah
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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The Wesleys in Georgia
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| March 7, 1825 |
Indian Springs Treaty of 1825 ratified by Congress
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| March 7, 1853 |
Davis becomes Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War
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Jefferson Davis |
| March 7, 1857 |
Howell Cobb begins to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under James Buchanan. |
| March 7, 1965 |
Georgians Hosea Williams and John Lewis lead a peaceful group of about 600 civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery. It is brutally stopped on the Edmund Pettus Bridge just outside the city limits by Alabama State Troopers. Today the beating of these peaceful marchers is known simply as "Bloody Sunday".
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The Road to Integration
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| March 7, 1979 |
Ray Charles performs his song Georgia before the General Assembly of Georgia. |
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Ray Charles |
| March 7, 1983 |
Trial begins in Alabama for accused murderer Judy Neelley
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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| March 7, 2008 |
Castleberry Foods plant in Augusta loses its FDA-issued temporary operating license and closes |
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Food recall at Castleberry in Augusta |
