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James Oglethorpe
Second Florida Expedition
John Cabot's 2nd Voyage
First Convention of The Pardo (El Pardo)
Byrd-Mathews Lumber plant, Helen, Georgia
Violence in Camille, GA
Gregorian Calendar
Nuclear warhead near Savannah
1794 Treaty with Cherokee
Tom Woolfolk and the Woolfolk Family murders
Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan
Carl Vinson, Father of the Two Ocean Navy
A killer pays the price
Andrew Jackson (A. J.) Miller
The Georgia Dome
Fire Destroys Colquitt, Georgia
W. T. Colquitt
Presidential Pardons
Herman Talmadge teaches John Ehrlichman a lesson on law
Milledgeville
The Lynching of Sam Hose
TLC
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William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell
Battle of Brown's Ferry
General George Thomas
Travis Tritt
James Walker Fannin
Johnny Mercer
Gladys Knight
UFO sightings in Marietta and Atlanta
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Henry Obediah Barber
Georgia ratifies the Bill of Rights
General Lucius D. Clay
Jean Toomer
Salzburgers in Georgia
Bomb Scare in Barnesville
Bill Elliott
James Dickey
Marquis Grissom
Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players
Spud Chandler
Memorabilia auction nets gains for Marietta museum
George Michael Troup
William Wyatt Bibb
Battle of Brown's Mill
Union troops enter Macon, Georgia
William Harris (W. H.) Crawford
Storm of the Century
Marquis de Lafayette
Augusta faces Depression
Mary McLeod Bethune
Georgia Supreme Court rules against using electric chair
Missouri earthquake shakes Georgia
1881 International Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia
A Republican governor
Georgia Western Railroad
Jewish Section, Oakland Cemetery.
Asa Griggs Chandler
Ray Charles
Senator Zell Miller addresses NRA
Tornado destroys homes in Gordon County
Coca-Cola
Oglethorpe signs treaty with Creek
Treaty of Coweta
Lachlan McIntosh
George Washington in Georgia
Georgia half-back Joe Geri dies in Milledgeville
Joel Chandler Harris
Police arrest trucker in Dublin
University of Georgia announces cloning advance
Georgia woman wins multi-state lottery
UGA sexual assault
Olga Korbut shoplifting
Creek Indians at Augusta
Charles Wesley
Tempest Storm
Holly Hunter
James Nathaniel 'Jim' Brown
Anthony 'T.' Graham Brown
Claude Akins
Actor Ben Affleck ticketed for speeding
Julia Roberts
Fiddlin' John Carson
Fighter downs EP-3E
William Jasper
Eight parishes established
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Polk County, Georgia
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Pickens County, Georgia
Paulding County, Georgia
Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Oconee County, Georgia
Muscogee County, Georgia
Newton County, Georgia
Murray County, Georgia
Morgan County, Georgia
Monroe County, Georgia
Montgomery County, Georgia
Mitchell County, Georgia
Meriwether County, Georgia
Miller County, Georgia
McDuffie County, Georgia
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Madison County, Georgia
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Cherokee County, Georgia
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Brooks County, Georgia
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Bibb County, Georgia
Berrien County, Georgia
Ben Hill County, Georgia
Bartow County, Georgia
Baldwin County, Georgia
Banks County, Georgia
Barrow County, Georgia
Baker County, Georgia
Bacon County, Georgia
Appling County
Atkinson County, Georgia
Hopewell Treaty
Treaty of Fort Wilkinson
Georgia beats UCLA, 9-0 at the Rose Bowl
Roy Riegels earns his 'Wrong Way' nickname
John Treutlen
Jackie Robinson
Alpharetta City Council
Kim Basinger
Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport disrupted.
The James docks at Port Royal
John Houstoun, Patriot
Daniel Appling
Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band
Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates library in Valdosta
Billy Joe Royal
23 dead in Brunswick crash
Capt. Manley Lanier Carter
Plane crash on Lavender Mountain kills 9
Crash kills 8 at Carrollton
Bus-Train accident kills 3 in Tennga
Charles Henry Smith 'Bill Arp'
Murder of Thomas Meredith
William Yates Atkinson
Chickamauga-Second Day
Atlanta becomes Georgia's capital
Chickamauga-First Day
American Civil War
Slavery in Georgia
First meeting of Georgia's Trustees
Bobby Jones
Fort Frederica
Archibald Bulloch
Alexander Stephens
Button Gwinnett
Georgia Tech / 2004 NCAA Tournement
Tour de Georgia 2004
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Lynn Turner
Okefenokee Swamp
Louise Suggs
Frank A. Hooper
Zell Miller
John Stith (Styth) Pemberton
Lone Star Flag
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Daniel Webster
Creek Indians
William Bartram
Stamp Act
Savannah, Georgia births and deaths
Clarence Cooper
Marietta, GA
Donald L. Hollowell
ZooAtlanta
Christian Priber
John Hollis Bankhead
William Pierce
Augusta Convention
Abraham Baldwin
Ossie Davis
Dakota Fanning
Supreme Court ruling takes 2 in Georgia off death row
Atlanta courthouse attack
Hogzilla
2005 Masters Tournament
2005 Tour de Georgia
George Leon Smith II
1966 Election for Governor of Georgia
Callaway Gardens
Cason J. Callaway
Jennifer Wilbanks, The Runaway Bride
Thomas Edward 'Tom' Watson
James Gunn
Martha Berry
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Georgia Base Closings-2005
Dahlonega, Georgia
Woodrow Wilson
James Longstreet
Howell Cobb
George Foster Peabody
Peabody Awards
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Georgia State Line
Abernathy convicted on 18 felony counts
Plot against Waycross teacher
Ralph David Abernathy III
Lillian Smith
Wildes Massacre
Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Monroe
1974 Tornado Outbreak in Georgia
Ku Klux Klan in Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Amanda (Knoedler) Penland
Albany, Georgia
Hurricane Katrina
Herschel V. Johnson
Joseph Emerson Brown
Rucker Smith
Linda Schrenko
John Ripley Forbes
Erk Russell
2006-10-25
Election of 2006
Georgia Aquarium
Women allowed on jury duty
Fires scorch Okefenokee and Southeast Georgia
Genarlow Wilson
Warner Robbins wins Little League Championship
Tiger Woods wins 2007 PGA Tournament
Nancy Hart
Carnegie Awards 2007
Chisholm v. Georgia
Escaped Emu on I-20
Dixie Crystal Plant Explosion
Tristan de Luna
Food recall at Castleberry in Augusta
2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball
2008 Georgia tornado outbreak
Barbie Bandits
Gunman at Doctors Hospital
Columbus, Georgia
Hamilton Jordan
Yuchi Indians
Copyright Lawsuit against Georgia State University
Georgia's Three Governors Controversy
Jerry Reed
Jack Alderman
Georgia Gas Shortage
Chrysler closes 14 dealerships in Georgia
Milledgeville assault
Baldwin County DA Fred Bright's transcript
Elton John Death Threats
Ralph Waldo Emerson Letter Against Cherokee Removal
| May 20, 1498 |
Italian explorer John Cabot leaves Dursey Head (Ireland) and makes a 2nd trip to explore North America. It is possible that while on the trip Cabot explored the coast of Georgia
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John Cabot's 2nd Voyage |
| September 29, 1526 |
The first colony on mainland America is established by Lucas Vazques de Ayllon. Recent research has led some to believe the location of the settlement to be on Georgia's Sapelo Island
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| June 4, 1540 |
DeSoto enters Chiaha (present-day Rome, Georgia)
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Rome, Georgia |
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Hernando deSoto |
| July 26, 1560 |
A detachment of Tristan de Luna's force reaches the Indian settlement of Coosa, on the site of present-day Rome, Georgia. |
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Tristan de Luna |
| May 27, 1561 |
Angel Villafane arrives at Santa Elana (present-day Port Royal, SC) after exploring the coast of the Southeast United States, including Georgia
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| May 27, 1562 |
Having slowly explored the coast of Georgia, giving French names to many of the rivers and islands, Jean Ribault pulls into a harbor he names Port Royal
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Jean Ribault |
| April 1, 1566 |
Pedro Menendez de Aviles, governor of Florida, visits St. Catherine's and meets with Guale, a chief who controls the lower half of Georgia's coast. Menendez builds two forts, one on Cumberland Island and one on St. Catherines
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| March 25, 1584 |
Queen Elizbeth grants a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first English colony in the New World. Rather than sailing due west from England and landing in Newfoundland, Raleigh opts to head south, then turn west at the Canary Islands, along the route first established by Columbus. Once in the New World, Raleigh followed the coast north (sailing past Georgia) to Roanoke Island.
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| June 1, 1588 |
Vincente Gonzalez leaves St. Augustine in search of a rumored English colony on the Southeastern coast of the present-day United States. He explores much of the Georgia coast
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| April 3, 1606 |
Bishop Altamirano arrives at Cumberland Island to tour the Spanish missions on what is today the coast of Georgia
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| May 23, 1609 |
Second Charter of Virgina is granted. This sets the southern limit as a line running west to the South Seas (Pacific Ocean) from a point 200 miles south of Point Comfort, where the James River runs into Chesapeake Bay. This includes most of present-day north Georgia
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| October 30, 1629 |
Charter granted to Sir Robert Heath by King Charles I. The southern border of the charter is somewhere north of St. Augustine, covering most, if not all of present-day Georgia. The grant will become Carolina
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| October 30, 1629 |
Carolina Charter of 1629 is signed. This gave all land from the 31st parallel to the 36th parallel to the colony of Carolina. The grant included most of Georgia. |
| March 24, 1663 |
Charter regranting Carolina to 8 Lord Proprietors by Charles II. This charter again granted most of Georgia to Carolina.
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| July 18, 1670 |
Madrid Treaty between Spain and England is signed. Article 2 divides all "kingdoms, states, colonies, forts, cities,..." between the two countries based on their current settlers. It essentially places all of the Georgia coast in Spanish hands. |
| October 1, 1702 |
During Queen Anne's War, James Moore leads an expedition against the coastal missions between South Carolina and St. Augustine (Spanish capitol of Florida). This effectively ended the Spanish presence along the coast of Georgia. Moore captured and held the city of St. Augustine, only to be driven from the city by the Spanish fleet. |
| June 1, 1711 |
Queen Anne's Act (the British Postal Act) goes into effect in English colonies in North America. When Georgia is founded, postal service is governed by this act.
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| May 21, 1721 |
HMS Enterprise arrives in Charles Town with a contingent of troops (His Majesty's Independent Company of Foot) to build Fort King George, near the present-day town of Darien, Georgia
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| June 19, 1721 |
Hans Kalb, for whom Dekalb County, Georgia is named, is born, Huettendorf, Bavaria. He will later assume the name of a friend from Paris, Jean De Kalb and the title Baron
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Baron DeKalb |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
| April 12, 1724 |
Lyman Hall, doctor, governor, signed the Declaration of Independence for Georgia, born in Wallingford, Connecticut
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Lyman Hall |
| January 27, 1732 |
Privy Council approves Georgia's charter |
| February 28, 1732 |
The final eighth of Georgia is conferred to the Trustees, coming from Lord Carteret.
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| April 21, 1732 |
King George II signs Georgia Charter of 1732
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| May 24, 1732 |
Roger Lacey proposes using child labor to produce silk in Georgia. |
| June 9, 1732 |
Privy Council affixes seal on charter creating the colony of Georgia
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| October 3, 1732 |
Selection is complete. 114 settlers (they did not count the preacher or the doctor) have been chosen to be the first to journey to Georgia
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James Oglethorpe |
| December 21, 1732 |
The Trustees of the colony of Georgia issue grants of land to Roger and James Lacey, Joseph Hetherington and Philip Bishop in present-day Thunderbolt. |
| December 28, 1732 |
Colonist Peter Gordon appointed first member of Tythings (Georgia Militia)
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| January 31, 1733 |
The Trustees demand the resignation of three trustees, who had used funds they raised for chartering a vessel and allowing Jewish colonists to go to Georgia
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| February 1, 1733 |
Oglethorpe and the settlers land on the site of present-day Savannah. They meet John and Mary Musgrove, who trade with nearby Indians
Georgia celebrates February 12 as her founding because of the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. |
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James Oglethorpe |
| February 9, 1733 |
Colonists complete the first structure in the city of Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Savannah's first building |
| March 17, 1733 |
Henry and Hannah Close have a baby daughter whom they name Georgia. It is the first recorded birth in the colony of Georgia |
| April 6, 1733 |
Ironically, Dr. Cox becomes the first colonist to die in Georgia. |
| May 2, 1733 |
Second group of Georgia colonists arrive in America
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The James docks at Port Royal |
| May 10, 1733 |
Sir Joseph Jekyll appeals to the House of Commons for 10,000 pounds to support the colony of Georgia. He receives the amount requested. |
| July 7, 1733 |
Oglethorpe organizes the administration of Georgia
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James Oglethorpe |
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Oglethorpe organizes an administration in the state of Georgia |
| July 11, 1733 |
Aboard a ship of Jews who arrive in Georgia without the knowledge of the Trustees is Dr. Samuel Nunis. The medical doctor is frequently credited with saving the colony of Georgia by sucessfully treating widespread sickness. |
| December 15, 1733 |
Trustees approve assisting the Salzburgers move to the colony of Georgia |
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| December 21, 1733 |
Salzburgers arrive in Dover and find the Trustees willing to help with the expense of sailing to Georgia |
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| January 8, 1734 |
Salzburgers set sail for Georgia in the ship Purysburg |
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| February 21, 1734 |
First Masonic meeting in Georgia held at Fort Morris in Sunbury.
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| March 3, 1734 |
James Vernon meets with the Earl of Egmont and expresses displeasure with Oglethorpe in the New World. This is the first in a long string of criticism hurled at Georgia's founding father
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James Oglethorpe |
| August 14, 1734 |
Thomas Sumter born, near Charlottesville, Virginia. Both Fort Sumter and Sumter County, Georgia are named in his honor
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Thomas Sumter |
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Sumter County, Georgia |
| December 27, 1734 |
The ship Prince of Wales arrives in Savannah. On board are James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Toonahowie, and others who visited England, and Salzburgers who are moving to Georgia. The Salzburgers are directed by Oglethorpe to Ebenezer.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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James Oglethorpe |
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Tomochichi's trip to England
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| January 9, 1735 |
Slavery and rum outlawed in the colony of Georgia. |
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Slavery in Georgia |
| January 19, 1735 |
Alice Riley is hanged for the murder of William Wise. She is the first person to be hanged in the colony of Georgia. |
| April 6, 1735 |
Morovians arrive in Georgia. They had been personally invited to join the colony by James Oglethorpe
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| June 13, 1735 |
Oglethorpe and the Trustees discuss Christian Priber's request to embark to Georgia. Since nothing is noted, it was probably approved. |
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Christian Priber |
| October 14, 1735 |
John and Charles Wesley set sail to Georgia on the 225 ton ship Simmonds
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Charles Wesley |
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The Wesleys in Georgia
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| October 21, 1735 |
Sailing from Inverness on the Prince of Wales, Scots under the command of Hugh MacKaye head for Georgia
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| September 10, 1736 |
Responding to the threat of Spanish troops, General Oglethorpe writes his friend, Sir Joseph Jekyll, and mentions that Spain has 1,500 regulars in St. Augustine while there is only militia in Georgia
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James Oglethorpe |
| November 29, 1736 |
Oglethorpe returns to England to petition the crown for money to defend Georgia
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James Oglethorpe |
| December 3, 1736 |
Charles Wesley arrives in England at the end of his return trip from Georgia
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Charles Wesley |
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The Wesleys in Georgia
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| September 20, 1737 |
Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence and namesake of Carroll County, Georgia, born, Annapolis, Maryland
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Charles Carroll |
| June 2, 1738 |
Unpaid bills for the colony of Georgia reach 5,000 pounds
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| June 15, 1738 |
Oglethorpe reports that the Spanish are attempting to bribe the Creek Nation to attack the Georgia colony
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Creek Indians |
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James Oglethorpe |
| September 28, 1738 |
42nd Regiment of Foote falls in for the first time at Fort Frederica, on St. Simons Island. |
| January 14, 1739 |
First Convention of El Pardo. England signs a preliminary agreement with Spain, leaving to a board of commissioners to be appointed by both countries the determination of the Spanish-English border (Georgia-Florida). England never ratifies the agreement.
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First Convention of The Pardo (El Pardo) |
| April 3, 1739 |
Facing the certainty of war, General James Oglethorpe presents his credentials to the South Carolina legislature, placing him as Commander-in-Chief of English forces in Carolina and Georgia
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James Oglethorpe |
| August 21, 1739 |
Creeks confirm their cession of land to Georgia in a second treaty
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James Oglethorpe |
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Treaty of Coweta |
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Creek Indians |
| December 0, 1740 |
Samuel Elbert born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Samuel Elbert |
| January 1, 1740 |
At the head of a fleet that included some 15 boats and 200 men, General Oglethorpe decides to raid two Spanish forts in response to an earlier attack by the Spanish on Amelia Island. The raiding party is a combined force of Highland Rangers, soldiers from Fort Frederica, and Creek, Chickasaw, and Uchee Indians.
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James Oglethorpe |
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Creek Indians |
| January 11, 1740 |
Oglethorpe and his raiding party returns to Fort Frederica. He had entered the St. John's River and burned Fort Picolata. Then his men quickly captured Fort St. Francis de Pupa (variously spelled as St. Francis de Papa and San Francisco de Pupo), just over 20 miles from St. Augustine. He stations the Highland Rangers at Fort St. Francis de Pupa, under the command of Hugh MacKaye, Jr., and leaves an armed sloop. |
| April 15, 1741 |
The Trustees divide Georgia into two counties, Savannah, with William Stephens as executive and Frederica, with James Oglethorpe as executive
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Fort Frederica |
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James Oglethorpe |
| July 14, 1742 |
Parliament repeals the "rum act," directing the Trustees to allow importation of rum into the colony of Georgia
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| July 11, 1743 |
William Stevens becomes president of the state of Georgia |
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| March 19, 1747 |
Mr Cretien Von Munch and the Rev. Sauel Urlsperger, of Augsburgh, are chosen as "corresponding members" of the trust established to manage Georgia. They never attend a meeting, but correspond information about German immigration
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| July 20, 1747 |
Mary Musgrove, with her husband Thomas Bosomworth and about 200 Creek Indian warriors, marches into Savannah and proclaims herself the Queen of the Creek. She demands payment for services rendered to the colony of Georgia.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Creek Indians |
| August 10, 1747 |
Queen of the Creeks, Mary Musgrove, claims ownership of much of Georgia, including the land from Savannah to Pipe Makers Bluff
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Creek Indians |
| January 10, 1749 |
James Habersham and Rev. George Whitefield among others, petition for the repeal of the ban against slaves. Georgia President William Stevens signs the petition.
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| July 26, 1750 |
Herny Parker is made vice-president of Georgia; James Habersham is named secretary
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| January 1, 1751 |
Slavery officially becomes legal in Georgia
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Slavery in Georgia |
| January 15, 1751 |
A Provincial Assembly is called to convene in Savannah. One of the major discussions will be the annexation of Georgia into South Carolina
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| April 8, 1751 |
Henry Parker is appointed President of Georgia, succeeding Col. William Stephens
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| June 13, 1751 |
Captain Noble Jones and 220 members of the Georgia Militia parade in Savannah.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| May 16, 1752 |
Puritans arrive in Georgia from South Carolina |
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Liberty County, Georgia |
| June 23, 1752 |
During the last meeting of the Trustees A deed of reconveyance is issued that returns control of Georgia to the crown.
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| September 2, 1752 |
The Gregorian calendar goes into effect in Georgia. Tomorrow becomes September 14, and September 3 - 13, 1752 never existed. New Years was moved from April 1 to January 1.
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Gregorian Calendar |
| December 6, 1752 |
Patrick Graham begins his term of service as president of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| December 27, 1752 |
Jonathan Bryan and his family move to Georgia. The Carolinian had been deeply involved in Georgia's affairs for 20 years |
| March 13, 1753 |
James Gunn, U. S. Senator from Georgia is born, Virginia |
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James Gunn |
| April 11, 1753 |
Population of Georgia reported to by 2,381 whites and 1,061 blacks. These figures do not include king's troops or boatmen
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| June 9, 1753 |
Original expiration date of the royal charter for the state of Georgia. The trustees had surrendered it two years earlier. |
| March 5, 1754 |
Plan submitted by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations for a royal government of Georgia
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| May 9, 1754 |
Franklin's "Join or die" rattlesnake, encouraging the colonies to unite to fight the common enemy (at that time it was France) is first published. Georgia does not appear on the snake because it was more closely tied to Great Britain |
| June 21, 1754 |
King George II approves a seal for Georgia |
| October 31, 1754 |
John Reynolds takes his oath of office, becoming the first royal governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| November 30, 1754 |
First election of an assembly in Georgia, |
| December 12, 1754 |
William Clifton, a barrister from England who had been appointed Attorney General by the king, presents a plan for creating a system of courts in the colony of Georgia. This was the genesis of the system still in use in today. |
| January 7, 1755 |
Georgia officially transitions from Trustee control to a royal colony
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| January 7, 1755 |
Georgia General Assembly meets for the first time. |
| October 8, 1755 |
A small group of Arcadians, expelled from Canada by the British, land in Georgia and establish a colony. |
| March 29, 1756 |
Royal governor John Reynolds writes to the British Board of Trade and charges Georgia assembly "greedy for power," incompetent and unfaithful.
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| April 6, 1756 |
Charges are brought by Georgia General Assembly to Lord Halifax about royal governor John Reynolds. William Little, his secretary, was handling administration of the colony and not Reynolds. Little, a friend of Reynolds from the Royal Navy, changed the voting of the house to show that a bill which was approved by the Georgia legislature had been voted down.
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| November 17, 1756 |
Governor Reynolds reads a communique from Earl of Loudoun announcing the defeat of the English fleet at Oswego (N. Y.) . Georgia is advised to prepare for invasion from the nearby French during the French and Indian War.
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| February 8, 1757 |
Georgia Assembly passes a bill allowing justices of the peace take into custody any Arcadians who are unwilling to work. |
| June 16, 1757 |
Henry Ellis delivers his first address to the Georgia general assembly
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| July 19, 1757 |
Law passed by the Georgia legislature that prohibits trade to the south of the colony. Georgia had become increasingly fearful of Spanish Florida, especially as the settlers pushed south
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| July 28, 1757 |
Georgia provides for militia training every Sabbath at the place of public worship.
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| October 25, 1757 |
Georgia Governor Henry Ellis and South Carolina Governor William Lyttleton meet with various Chiefs in an effort to preserve the peace during the war with France
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| November 3, 1757 |
Because of increased tensions due to the French and Indian War, Georgia signs a peace treaty with the Creek Indians.
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Creek Indians |
| March 15, 1758 |
Negro slaves prohibited from working as: carpenters, masons, bricklayers, plasterers, or joiners. The general assembly did this to encourage the settlement of skilled labor in the state of Georgia
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Slavery in Georgia |
| March 15, 1758 |
8 parishes are created in Georgia, mostly for military and religious purposes
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Eight parishes established |
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Burke County, Georgia |
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Chatham County, Georgia |
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Effingham County, Georgia |
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Liberty County, Georgia |
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Richmond County, Georgia |
| July 23, 1759 |
Georgia offers Mary Musgrove Bosomworth 2100 pounds in exchange for her claims to Ossabaw and Sapelo islands. They permit her live on St. Catherine's until her death in 1763. |
| May 13, 1760 |
James Wright commissioned Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Henry Ellis, well liked, wanted to leave
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James Wright |
| October 11, 1760 |
James Wright arrives in Georgia
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James Wright |
| October 31, 1760 |
James Wright becomes royal governor of Georgia
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James Wright |
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| November 2, 1760 |
Henry Ellis leaves Georgia to become Royal Governor of Nova Scotia.
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| May 4, 1761 |
Georgia recieves the decree appointing James Wright royal governor. |
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James Wright |
| January 3, 1763 |
Governor Wright, in a letter to the Earl of Egmont, lays out the reason for which he fired the Chief Justice of Georgia, William Grover. Among the reasons listed: absenteeism, opposing measures for the public good, discourage military discipline, refused to attend a trial; and insubordination.
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James Wright |
| February 10, 1763 |
Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and reduces Georgia's western boundary from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River
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| April 5, 1763 |
South Carolina governor Thomas Boone begins to grant Georgia land south of the Altamaha, mostly to speculators but some to wealthy friends.
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| April 7, 1763 |
Georgia Gazette begins publication |
| May 30, 1763 |
The Board of Trade, ruling English authority in the matter, instructs South Carolina governor Thomas Boone to cease granting Georgia land and withdrawing the land he had already granted
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| October 7, 1763 |
Following the French and Indian War, King George III declares the boundaries of Georgia and Florida (now in possession of England). This is different from the Proclaimation of 1763.
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| November 10, 1763 |
Creek Indians cede coastal land from the Altamaha to the St. Mary's to Georgia.
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Charlton County, Georgia |
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Creek Indians |
| January 20, 1764 |
King George III defines Georgia's boundaries, extending them to the St. Mary's
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| November 21, 1765 |
Because of uncertainty surrounding the Stamp Act, the Georgia Gazette ceases publication |
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Stamp Act |
| January 3, 1766 |
Stampmaster George Angus serves a single day in the port of Savannah, making Georgia the only colony to actually have a stampmaster.
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Stamp Act |
| March 18, 1766 |
King Georgia III signs bill repealing the Stamp Act, official as of May 1, 1766.
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Stamp Act |
| May 21, 1766 |
The Georgia Gazette resumes publication |
| July 16, 1766 |
Georgia receives word that the Stamp Act has been repealed. |
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Stamp Act |
| November 19, 1766 |
Georgia Gazette reports that Samuel Bowen meets King George III
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| April 11, 1768 |
Governor Wright signs into law an ordinance passed by both houses of the Georgia legislature appointing Benjamin Franklin as the state's colonial agent. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
| June 1, 1768 |
Benjamin Franklin becomes Georgia's colonial agent |
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Benjamin Franklin |
| June 16, 1768 |
Speaker of the Georgia House Alexander Wylly replies to the Massachusetts circular as a private citizen, in support of the northern colony
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| September 16, 1769 |
A group of Georgia merchants (mostly from Savannah) meet at the home of Alexander Creighton and decided to no longer import British goods rather than pay duties on these goods.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| November 15, 1769 |
Wright refuses to order elections for four newly established parishes along Georgia's southern coast.
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James Wright |
| January 28, 1770 |
George Whitefield delivers a sermon to the Royal Governor, his council and the General Assembly in Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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George Whitefield |
| March 3, 1770 |
Because of his continued involvement with the radical movement in Georgia, governor Wright suspends Jonathan Bryan from his privy council.
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James Wright |
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Bryan County, Georgia |
| December 11, 1770 |
The king agrees to hold elections for new land acquired by Georgia.
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| April 12, 1772 |
Georgia's House of Commons elects radical Noble Wimberly Jones as speaker for the first of three times. Acting Royal Governor James Habersham rejects the choice each time. The body then selects Archibald Bulloch as speaker, whom Habersham accepts but orders the house to remove any mention of Jones' election. They refuse and Habersham orders the house dissolved
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| April 21, 1772 |
Georgia House convenes under Governor James Habersham
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| April 25, 1772 |
Governor Habersham dissolves the Georgia House. Radical Noble Jones was once again selected by the House to be speaker. Jones knew that if he accepted the position then Governor Habersham would probably dissolve the House. There was a good deal of necessary business to be conducted, so Jones asked the House to select a new speaker. Archibald Bulloch was chosen in his place. Habersham was told of the choice, but not of the election of Jones prior to the election of Bulloch. When Habersham saw this in the minutes, he told the house to delete the reference. They refused. In response, Habersham dissolved the assembly.
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Archibald Bulloch |
| December 6, 1772 |
James Wright made a baronet for his accomplishments as Royal Governor of Georgia
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James Wright |
| February 15, 1773 |
Wright returns to Georgia and resumes duties as royal governor
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James Wright |
| April 11, 1773 |
William Bartram arrives in Savannah
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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William Bartram |
| April 16, 1773 |
William Bartram leaves Savannah, heading south on the King's Road to Darien
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William Bartram |
| April 24, 1773 |
William Bartram leaves Darien, following the River Road northwest to Fort Barrington
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William Bartram |
| May 1, 1773 |
William Bartram heads to Augusta, Georgia, to participate in meetings with the Creek Indians
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William Bartram |
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Creek Indians |
| June 1, 1773 |
Royal Governor James Wright and British Indian Agent John Stuart conclude a meeting to resolve boundary disputes with the Treaty of Augusta, which ceded some 675,000 acres from the Creek Nation to the state of Georgia.
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James Wright |
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Creek Indians |
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Taliaferro County, Georgia |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| January 17, 1774 |
Georgia House appoints a "committee of correspondence" to handle communication with the other colonies on matters of interest.
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| March 2, 1774 |
Georgia's lower house passes a resolution reappointing Benjamin Franklin as colonial agent. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
| May 2, 1774 |
Wanting to return to Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin turns over the job of Georgia's colonial agent to Grey Elliot. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
| July 14, 1774 |
The Georgia Gazette publishes an invitation to a meeting at the "liberty pole" at Tondee's Tavern signed by George Walton, John Houstoun, Noble W. Jones and Archibald Bulloch
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John Houstoun, Patriot |
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George Walton
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| July 24, 1774 |
Meeting at Tondee's Tavern to organize Georgia for the rebellion.
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John Houstoun, Patriot |
| September 5, 1774 |
First Continental Congress convenes with representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies. Only Georgia is absent.
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| January 23, 1775 |
Noble Wimberly Jones, Archibald Bullloch and John Houstoun selected to represent Georgia in the 2nd Continental Congress by 4 parishes. They refuse to take their seats because the number of counties do not represent a majority.
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Archibald Bulloch |
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John Houstoun, Patriot |
| June 6, 1775 |
George Galphin is paid for debts covered by treaty of 1773 with the Creek Indians. Galphin, a radical of note, had been refused money owed to him by the state of Georgia. Georgia had sold the land ceded by the Creek in 1773 to settlers for 1.25 dollars per acre. From the sum accumulated, the debts of the traders were to be paid, including the debts owed to Galphin. Wright knew Galphin was a radical and as such refused to pay him. Finally, Galphin demanded an audit of his claims and payment, which occurred on this date.
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James Wright |
| June 13, 1775 |
Meeting at Mrs Cuyler's home. Georgia's radicals sought to assuage the fears of settlers by guaranteeing to do their utmost to preserve peace and good order in the colony.
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| June 22, 1775 |
Council of Safety established to make decisions when the provincial congress is not seated. Its leader (William Ewen) serves as Georgia's executive. Other members are: Seth John Cuthbert, Joseph Habersham, Edward Telfair, William LeConte, Basil Cowper, Joseph Clay, George Walton, John Glenn, Samuel Elbert, William Young, Elisha Butler, George Houston, John Smith, Francis H. Harris and John Morel
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George Walton
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Samuel Elbert |
| July 13, 1775 |
Georgia agrees to adopt an "article of association." This brings them into the radical camp as a state
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| August 2, 1775 |
Ebenezer McCarthy is charge with enlisting Georgia recruits into the South Carolina regiments
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| October 7, 1775 |
Georgia seizes British Ship
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| November 10, 1775 |
Under the command of Benedict Arnold, American forces begin the invasion of Canada. Involved in this invasion are Captain Daniel Morgan and Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, both of whom have counties in Georgia named for them.
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Daniel Morgan |
| January 7, 1776 |
Lachlan McIntosh appointed Colonel of Georgia troops
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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Lachlan McIntosh |
| January 14, 1776 |
William Bartram returns to Augusta, Georgia
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William Bartram |
| January 20, 1776 |
Georgia provincial congress begins session.
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| February 7, 1776 |
The Georgia Gazette prints its last known issue. |
| February 16, 1776 |
Col. Lachlan McIntosh, commander of Amercan forces in Georgia, informs General Washington of of five British warships in Tybee Inlet. (Syren, Scarborough, Raven, Tamer, and Cherokee)
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Lachlan McIntosh |
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George Washington |
| February 16, 1776 |
Georgia's militia officers sign loyalty oath to the radicals
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| February 27, 1776 |
The Continental Congress creates the Southern Military Department of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
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Southern Department of the Continental Army |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| April 5, 1776 |
Archibald Bulloch writes letter to Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, and George Walton giving them great latitude in voting at the Second Continental Congress
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Lyman Hall |
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Button Gwinnett |
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Archibald Bulloch |
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George Walton
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| April 15, 1776 |
Georgia passes the 'Rules and Regulations,' a document generally viewed as the first constitution of the state.
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| May 1, 1776 |
Archibald Bulloch elected first executive of Georgia, President of the Council of Safety
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Archibald Bulloch |
| May 1, 1776 |
200 Creek Indians meet with representatives of the Georgia government in Augusta.
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Creek Indians |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Creek Indians at Augusta |
| May 21, 1776 |
Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall arrive in Philadelphia to attend the Second Continental Congress
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| July 5, 1776 |
A committee of the Continental Congress recommends two additional battalions be raised for the state of Georgia
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| August 2, 1776 |
Button Gwinnett, George Walton, and Lyman Hall sign the Declaration of Independence
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George Walton
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| March 4, 1777 |
Georgia's Council of Safety gives President Button Gwinnett the authority to organize the militia and proceed with an attack on Florida. This is known as the Second Florida Expedition.
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Button Gwinnett |
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Second Florida Expedition |
| March 14, 1777 |
Button Gwinnett, as head of the executive branch of the state of Georgia, orders George McIntosh be arrested on the charge of treason.
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Button Gwinnett |
| April 13, 1777 |
Main body of Georgia militia arrive at Sunbury under the command of Button Gwinnett.
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Button Gwinnett |
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Second Florida Expedition |
| May 1, 1777 |
Overshadowed by the McIntosh-Gwinnett feud, Elbert departs from Sunbury heading south to the Georgia-Florida border
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Samuel Elbert |
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Second Florida Expedition |
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Button Gwinnett |
| May 8, 1777 |
John Adam Treutlen becomes the first elected governor of Georgia
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John Treutlen |
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| May 12, 1777 |
Florida Rangers rout Georgians waiting to meet Samuel Elbert on the Florida side of the St. Mary River
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Samuel Elbert |
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Second Florida Expedition |
| May 16, 1777 |
Button Gwinnett, with his second George Wells and Lachlan McIntosh, with his second Col. Joseph Habersham square off in a duel just east of Savannah, Georgia. At 12 paces (about 60 feet), the General and Gwinnett fire pistols. McIntosh sustains an wound in his leg while Gwinnett is shot in the hip. Unaware of the severity of Gwinnett's wound, McIntosh asks if Gwinnett wants to duel again.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Button Gwinnett |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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Lachlan McIntosh |
| May 17, 1777 |
Georgia Whigs ambushed at Thomas Creek (present-day site of Jacksonville, Florida) in a decisive battle marking the end of the Second Florida Expedition
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Second Florida Expedition |
| June 7, 1777 |
Georgia passes its first headright law, allowing the leader of the executive branch to give land to individuals to "strengthen the state." No land is granted under this law.
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Georgia headright grants |
| June 17, 1777 |
400 Creek warriors, George Galphin, Robert Rae and the Georgia Indian commission meet at Ogeechee Old Town. From here the chiefs journeyed to Augusta and Charleston.
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Creek Indians |
| July 15, 1777 |
Governor John Adam Treutlen places a $100 reward on William Henry Drayton. Drayton had been advocating the creation of a single state from Georgia and South Carolina
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John Treutlen |
| September 10, 1777 |
The state of Georgia authorizes printing of specie, paper money exchangeable for Continental dollars on demand
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| September 16, 1777 |
Georgia amends the headright provision to also create a land sales office. No land is granted or sold under this act.
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Georgia headright grants |
| October 10, 1777 |
Lachlan McIntosh leaves Georgia to report to Continental Army Commander George Washington. Colonel Samuel Elbert takes command of the Georgia brigade
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Samuel Elbert |
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Lachlan McIntosh |
| January 10, 1778 |
John Houstoun becomes the first native-born Georgian to lead the executive branch.
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John Houstoun, Patriot |
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| April 19, 1778 |
Georgia ship capture three British vessels off the coast of St. Simons Island |
| June 25, 1778 |
Edward Langworthy, who was the only delegate to the Continental Congress from Georgia that was present, informs the body that he has no instructions from his state, but he is certain that Georgia will ratify
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| July 13, 1778 |
Edward Telfair and George Walton, who had arrived the previous day, sign the Articles of Confederation for Georgia. Edward Langworthy, who had left Philadelphia, signed the Articles in August
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George Walton
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| July 24, 1778 |
Georgia ratifies the Articles of Confederation
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| November 27, 1778 |
British troops under the command of Col. Preovst burn Midway Church because of the role the church members played in the American Revolution. Both Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall had attended services at the church |
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Lyman Hall |
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Button Gwinnett |
| December 19, 1778 |
Governor of East Florida Patrick Tonyn gets word of the impending English invasion of Georgia |
| February 14, 1779 |
Battle of Kettle Creek - American forces under the command of Andrew Pickens, Elijah Clarke and John Dooley defeat a larger number of British forces in rural Georgia. For more information see:
Georgia Fights Back
The Battle of Kettle Creek
or visit the battlefield at:
Kettle Creek battlefield
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Andrew Pickens |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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Wilkes County, Georgia |
| March 4, 1779 |
English Lt. Colonel James Mark Prevost appointed acting governor of Georgia, to serve until the arrival of James Wright
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James Wright |
| July 22, 1779 |
James Wright returns as royal governor of Georgia
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James Wright |
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| October 9, 1779 |
William Jasper dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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William Jasper |
| November 0, 1779 |
George Walton elected head of the executive branch
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George Walton
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| January 23, 1780 |
Georgia passes a headright law offering families 200 acres of land, plus 50 acres per person, to migrate to Georgia. Some land is surveyed to be granted, but none is actually granted under this law.
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Georgia headright grants |
| February 1, 1780 |
Realizing the government of Georgia was in jeopardy, the assembly passes a law to allow for the succession of the governor by an "executive committee"
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| February 3, 1780 |
Heard's Fort, built by Stephen Heard in 1774, is named capitol of Revolutionary Georgia
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| February 15, 1780 |
George Wells is killed in a duel by James Jackson, Augusta, Georgia
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James Jackson |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| May 23, 1780 |
Following the fall of Augusta, Georgia's Executive Council requests that Governor Richard Howley leave the state to protect himself.
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| January 4, 1781 |
General Danial Morgan publishes an address to refugees of Georgia, appealing to them to join him in a return to Georgia. Morgan, at that time, was encamped on the Pacolet River
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Daniel Morgan |
| August 17, 1781 |
Augusta becomes the capitol of Georgia
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| January 19, 1782 |
Continental General Anthony Wayne arrives in Georgia, crossing the Savannah River on horseback with orders to rid the state of the British in spite of being outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1. |
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'Mad' Anthony Wayne |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| July 13, 1782 |
Savannah becomes the capitol of Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| July 25, 1782 |
Lt. Col. James Jackson, leading a group of Georgia militia briefly engage British forces on Skidaway Island. This is the final action in the coastal war.
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James Jackson |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| September 20, 1782 |
British inspired Chickamauga Cherokee led by Skyuka meet John Siever and a band of irregulars near the face of Lookout Mountain (called Chattanooga by the Chickamaugans). Although this battle was fought in Tennessee many of the Cherokee came from Georgia. This is occasionally, and incorrectly, refered to as the last battle of the American Revolution.
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Lookout Mountain |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| October 22, 1782 |
Cherokee Indians give the Tories to Andrew Pickens and Elijah Clarke. Clarke and Pickens then force the Cherokee to cede much of northeast Georgia to the whites in the Treaty of the Long Swamp
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Andrew Pickens |
| January 30, 1783 |
First issue of the Gazette of the State of Georgia is published |
| January 31, 1783 |
George Walton chosen as Chief Justice, John Martin Treasurer, and John Milton Secretary of State for Georgia
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George Walton
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| February 17, 1783 |
Georgia passes a new headright law. This law recognizes the grants made under the 1780 headright law
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Georgia headright grants |
| May 1, 1783 |
Word reaches Georgia of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the Revolutionary War
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| May 31, 1783 |
In Augusta, the state of Georgia concludes a treaty based on the Long Swamp Treaty, which cedes a large tract of land in present-day north Georgia. Although the treaty ceded significant portions of Cherokee (and disputed Creek) land, it did not come close to meeting the demands of Andrew Pickens and Elijah Clarke, who want all land east of the Chattahoochee River
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Hart County, Georgia |
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Stephens County, Georgia |
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Banks County, Georgia |
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Clarke County, Georgia |
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Franklin County, Georgia |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| October 22, 1783 |
First of the Georgia headright grants is made.
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Georgia headright grants |
| November 1, 1783 |
Creek Indians agree to a land cession of lands in northeast Georgia, claimed by both the Creek and Cherokee Indians
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Creek Indians |
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Johnson County, Georgia |
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Washington County, Georgia |
| February 25, 1784 |
Georgia grants 40,000 acres to form a state college. The men on the board include John Houstoun, James Habersham, William Few, Joseph Clay, William Houstoun, Nathan Brownson and Abraham Baldwin
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John Houstoun, Patriot |
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Abraham Baldwin |
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William Few |
| July 15, 1784 |
Because of the huge amount of fraud Georgia's Executive Council suspends the granting of land in Franklin and Washington Counties
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Washington County, Georgia |
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Franklin County, Georgia |
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Georgia headright grants |
| December 0, 1784 |
Richard Howley dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| January 27, 1785 |
University of Georgia incorporated by the General Assembly. It is the first state-supported higher education institute in the United States
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| February 22, 1785 |
Last meeting of the Georgia Legislature in Savannah. Augusta would become the next state capital
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| February 13, 1786 |
First board meeting for University of Georgia. Abramham Baldwin selected as president
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Abraham Baldwin |
| August 27, 1786 |
Following the uprising of the Creek, Governor Telfair contacts Governor Sevier of Franklin to propose that Georgia and Tennessee march against the Creek at the same time.
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Creek Indians |
| February 10, 1787 |
Georgia Assembly appoints William Pierce, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, William Houstoun and Nathaniel Pendleton as delegates to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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William Pierce |
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George Walton
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Abraham Baldwin |
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William Few |
| April 24, 1787 |
Georgia and South Carolina meet to resolve boundary disputes. Georgia gets all land claimed by South Carolina north of the Savannah to the northern end of the Tugaloo.
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| May 25, 1787 |
Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia when a quorum of state representatives arrives. William Few is the sole Georgian to be at the convention, so
Georgia has no vote since its state ordinance requires two members to be present. |
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| August 9, 1787 |
The Continental Congress ratifies the agreement between South Carolina and Georgia on a new border
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| September 17, 1787 |
Signed by Abraham Baldwin and William Few of Georgia, the drafts for the Constitution are sent to Congress in preparation for ratification by the states.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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Abraham Baldwin |
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William Few |
| October 11, 1787 |
U. S. Constitution is printed in the Savannah Gazette of the State of Georgia and two days later in Augusta |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| October 18, 1787 |
Governor Mathews sends the Constitution to the Georgia Assembly for ratification. |
| October 26, 1787 |
The Georgia General Assembly decides to send the question of ratification to a special convention to be held in Augusta, Georgia. |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Augusta Convention |
| January 2, 1788 |
Delegates to the Augusta Convention sign the letter of ratification, making Georgia the fourth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. It was the first state in the Deep South to do so.
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Augusta Convention |
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| January 20, 1788 |
First African Baptist Church founded, Savannah, Georgia. It is the first African-American church in the United States. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| January 30, 1788 |
The Georgia assembly gives Governor Handley the power to call a convention to rewrite its state constitution to fit with the new Federal system. |
| February 3, 1788 |
John Reynolds, first royal governor of Georgia, died after suffering a stroke
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| October 6, 1788 |
Georgia is notified that 9 states have accepted the National Constitution. Governor Handly calls for the legislature to convene in Augusta to prepare a new state constitution
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| November 1, 1788 |
Samuel Elbert dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Samuel Elbert |
| November 4, 1788 |
The convention to rewrite the Georgia state constitution meets |
| March 4, 1789 |
James Gunn and William Few begin service as Georgia's first U. S. Senators. Abraham Baldwin, James Jackson and George Mathews begin service in the U. S. House of Representatives.
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Abraham Baldwin |
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James Gunn |
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William Few |
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James Jackson |
| April 3, 1789 |
George Washington is inaugurated as the first chief executive of the United States. Georgians Abraham Baldwin, James Jackson, and James Gunn are in attendance.
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Abraham Baldwin |
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James Gunn |
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George Washington |
| April 11, 1789 |
Ignatius Alphohso Few, son of William Few and founder of Emory University, is born, Columbia County, Georgia |
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Columbia County, Georgia |
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William Few |
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Ignatius Few |
| September 24, 1789 |
The Judiciary Act of 1789 organizes the state of Georgia as a single judicial district.
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| November 3, 1789 |
First General Assembly held in Georgia under the new state constitution
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| November 20, 1789 |
The Virginia Yazoo Company (headed by Patrick Henry), the Tennesse Company and the Carolina Company apply for land grants from the state of Georgia
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| December 10, 1789 |
William Pierce, who represented the state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention, dies bankrupt in Savannah, Georgia
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William Pierce |
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| December 21, 1789 |
The Georgia Assembly, unsuccessful in dealing with the headright issue, agrees to sell land to the South Carolina Yazoo Company, The Virginia Yazoo Company and the Tennessee Yazoo Land Company. The deal, selling some 20 million acres falls through when the companies try to pay with near worthless specie
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Georgia headright grants |
| May 3, 1790 |
U.S. Secretary of State says that Georgia has relinquished her right to treat with Indians
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| October 3, 1790 |
John Ross born
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| October 19, 1790 |
Lyman Hall dies, Burke County, Georgia
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Burke County, Georgia |
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Lyman Hall |
| December 8, 1790 |
Georgia legislature divides the state into three congressional districts
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| July 2, 1791 |
Treaty with the Cherokee, commonly called the Treaty of the Holston. This treaty redefined the cession of a portion of Georgia including Currahee Mountain, based on a 1790 treaty with the Creek Indians. |
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Treaty with the Cherokee |
| February 20, 1792 |
Postal Act of 1792 helps Georgia by standardizing postal rates throughout the nation, including the free mailing of newspapers between editors
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| December 14, 1792 |
Georgia assembly passes a resolution calling Chisholm v. Georgia an attempt to render the states to be "tributary corporations to the Government of the United States." |
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Chisholm v. Georgia |
| February 5, 1793 |
The U. S. Supreme Court hears the case of Chisholm v. Georgia |
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Chisholm v. Georgia |
| September 17, 1793 |
George Handley dies, Rae's Hall, Georgia
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| February 18, 1794 |
The U. S. Supreme Court rules against the state of Georgia in Chisholm v. Georgia |
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Chisholm v. Georgia |
| October 23, 1794 |
Richard Banks born, Elbert County, Georgia
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Banks County, Georgia |
| November 29, 1794 |
Georgia ratifies the 11th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| November 29, 1794 |
Georgia is the 11th state to ratify the 11th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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Chisholm v. Georgia |
| December 25, 1794 |
Several men threaten the governor of Georgia to make it unpleasant for him if he does not sign the Yazoo Act. Governor Mathews does not listen
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| December 29, 1794 |
Gov. George Mathews returns the Yazoo Act to the state legislature questioning the amount of money the state is to recieve and encouraging more participation of Georgia citizens
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| January 2, 1795 |
Amended version of the Yazoo Act passed by the Georgia House
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| January 3, 1795 |
Amended version of the Yazoo Act passed by the Georgia Senate
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| January 13, 1795 |
Land is deeded to The Georgia Company, The Georgia-Mississippi Company, The Tennessee Company and the Upper Mississippi Company under the corrupt Yazoo Act. Georgia Governor George Mathews signs the deed. |
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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Fletcher v. Peck |
| August 22, 1795 |
During the Yazoo Land Fraud, James Gunn, Mathew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Walburger, William Longstreet and Wade Hampton, by deed, convey a portion of the Georgia Company's land to James Greenleaf. Greenleaf's later sale of the land results in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court ruling, Fletcher v. Peck. |
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James Gunn |
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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Fletcher v. Peck |
| December 11, 1795 |
The Georgia Union Company is added to the Yazoo Act
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| February 13, 1796 |
Georgia legislature establishes a Mayor's Court in Savannah. This would eventually become the County Court.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| February 15, 1796 |
The Yazoo Land Fraud comes to an end as James Jackson and other expunge the event from Georgia history by buring all records related to the incident on the steps of the capitol, then in Louisville, Georgia. They missed one copy, sent to George Washington.
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James Jackson |
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George Washington |
| February 21, 1796 |
At the state capital in Louisville, Georgia's reform politicians burn every copy of the Yazoo Land Act except for one sent to General George Washington. It is the only known copy of the act to survive
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Georgia headright grants |
| June 28, 1796 |
A conference between Georgia, the United States and the Creek Confederacy at Coleraine on St. Mary's River ends with the Georgia commissioners denouncing the proceeding as a "...fraud on the state"
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Creek Indians |
| August 3, 1796 |
Point Peter (sometimes spelled Pointe Petre) is completed, St. Mary's, Georgia |
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Camden County, Georgia |
| September 16, 1796 |
Andrew Ellicott leaves leaves Philadelphia to begin the survey of the Florida-Georgia border, as agreed to in the Pinckney Treaty of 1795. Rather than sail south along the coast, Ellicott heads west to the Ohio River which he will take to New Orleans.
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| February 13, 1797 |
Georgia legislature makes Bruswick the county seat of Glynn County, although it had authorized building a jail and courthouse there ten years earlier
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| February 11, 1798 |
Joseph "Rich Joe" Vann born, Cherokee Nation (near present-day Chatsworth, Georgia)
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Joseph 'Rich Joe' Vann |
| April 7, 1798 |
U. S. Congress authorizes three commissioners to negotiate with Georgia for the cession of all or part of the lands encompassed by the Yazoo Land Act of 1795
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| December 22, 1798 |
George Walker Crawford born, Columbia County, Georgia
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Columbia County, Georgia |
| January 27, 1799 |
John Wereat dies, Bryan County, Georgia
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Bryan County, Georgia |
| January 10, 1800 |
Savannah, Georgia records 18 inches of snow
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| February 27, 1800 |
Ellicott's Mound erected to denote the boundary between Georgia and Spanish Florida, where the St. Mary's River is formed by the Okefenokee Swamp
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| July 25, 1801 |
John Milledge purchases more than 600 acres of land, which he donates to the University of Georgia. It becomes the school's only home, Athens, Georgia.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| July 30, 1801 |
James Gunn dies, Louisville, Georgia |
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James Gunn |
| April 26, 1802 |
Georgia cedes the land involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud (and the associated legal problems) to the United States. In exchange the state receives 1.25 million dollars and the promise of removal of the Cherokee Indians from the present-day boundaries of the state. President Thomas Jefferson announces the cession of Yazoo Act lands to the U. S. government
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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| May 11, 1803 |
Land Lottery Act passed by Georgia legislature. Georgia needed to divest new lands ceded by the Creek, and did not want to return to the corrupt headright practice. A lottery to be held in 1805 that gave advantages to veterans was chosen.
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Georgia headright grants |
| February 2, 1804 |
George Walton dies, Augusta, Georgia
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George Walton
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| April 4, 1804 |
Tornado kills 11 people in the Augusta, Georgia area
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 19, 1804 |
Georgia ratifies the 12th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| May 31, 1804 |
The first class graduates from University of Georgia in Athens.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| January 21, 1806 |
Former royal governor of Georgia Henry Ellis dies.
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| March 21, 1806 |
Andrew Jackson Miller born, Camden County, Georgia
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Camden County, Georgia |
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Andrew Jackson (A. J.) Miller |
| May 13, 1806 |
Polly Barclay, who had earlier been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to hang, died on the gallows in Washington, Georgia
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| June 26, 1806 |
Georgia's first land lottery (1805) proved so successful that a second land lottery was enacted to be held in 1807
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| September 23, 1806 |
Jared Irwin becomes governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| January 19, 1807 |
Robert Milledge Charlton born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| January 26, 1807 |
W. W. Bibb begins a four-term period as member of the U.S. House from Georgia
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William Wyatt Bibb |
| September 17, 1807 |
Edward Telfair dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| February 19, 1808 |
David Emanuel dies near his home in Waynesboro, Georgia
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| December 22, 1808 |
Christ Church on St. Simons Island (Glynn County) is chartered
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| November 10, 1809 |
David Brydie Mitchell begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| March 16, 1810 |
Chief Justice John Marshall delivered the opinion in Fletcher V. Peck. The ruling rescinded an act of the Georgia legislature which revoked rights previously granted by contract.
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Fletcher v. Peck |
| April 20, 1810 |
Julia Henrietta Scarborough (Barnsley) born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Godfrey Barnsley and Barnsley Gardens
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| July 2, 1810 |
Robert Augustus Toombs born, Wilkes County, Georgia
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Wilkes County, Georgia |
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Robert Toombs |
| September 24, 1810 |
Using a revolt by citizens of West Florida as a pretext, (they had secured Baton Rouge the previous day) Leonard Covington marches into West Florida and claims it for the United States. His actions endear him to the state of Georgia, the only American state near West Florida at the time. |
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Leonard Covington |
| March 11, 1811 |
William Lowndes begins his first term in the House of Representatives from Georgia |
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William Lowndes |
| December 16, 1811 |
Earthquake shakes the state of Georgia
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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Missouri earthquake shakes Georgia |
| January 23, 1812 |
Earthquake felt across Georgia, as far south as Augusta. Part of the New Madrid series of quakes
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Missouri earthquake shakes Georgia |
| February 11, 1812 |
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-president of the Confederate States of America, Georgia governor and U. S. Senator, born on a farm in present-day Taliaferro County, Georgia (near Crawfordville). |
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Alexander Stephens |
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Taliaferro County, Georgia |
| September 18, 1812 |
Herschel Johnson born, Burke County, Georgia |
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Herschel V. Johnson |
| January 21, 1813 |
Explorer John C. Fremont born, Savannah, Georgia |
| August 30, 1813 |
Battle of Fort Mims - Located north of Mobile, Alabama. Georgia militia under General John Floyd and Cherokee, technically under Major Ridge, responded in force to the plight of the Alabamians, many of whom were once Georgians |
| November 5, 1813 |
Peter Early begins term as governor of Georgia
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Peter Early |
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| August 9, 1814 |
Treaty of Fort Jackson, ceding the lower third of Georgia is signed by the Creek
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Jeff Davis County, Georgia |
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Atkinson County, Georgia |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
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Early County, Georgia |
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Baker County, Georgia |
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Creek Indians |
| January 10, 1815 |
British troops land on Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia. |
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Camden County, Georgia |
| September 7, 1815 |
Howell Cobb born, Jefferson, Georgia
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Howell Cobb |
| November 1, 1815 |
Crawford Long born, Danielsville (Madison County), Georgia
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Madison County, Georgia |
| November 15, 1815 |
Former governor Stephen Heard dies, Elbert County, Georgia
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Elbert County, Georgia |
| January 19, 1816 |
Bank of the State of Georgia is incorporated
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| June 6, 1816 |
Benjamin Hawkins dies, Crawford County, Georgia
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Crawford County, Georgia |
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Benjamin Hawkins |
| July 27, 1816 |
American troops under the command of Georgian Lt. Colonel Duncan L. Clinch destroy "The Negro Fort" on the Appalachicola River. Clinch, who commanded a combined force of U. S. soldiers, Georgia militia and Creek Indians fired on the fort with "hot shot," striking the magazine and killing 270 of the runaway slaves who occupied the fort. This incident is frequently cited as precipitating the First Seminole War. In 1818 General Jackson ordered Lt. James Gadsden to build a fort on the site of the "Negro Fort". Today the site is a Florida State Park known by that name.
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| November 9, 1816 |
W. W. Bibb resigns his Georgia Senate seat to become the only territorial governor of Alabama.
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William Wyatt Bibb |
| March 4, 1817 |
William Rabun begins term as governor of Georgia
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William Rabun |
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| July 8, 1817 |
Signed at Cherokee Agency (Rattlesanke Springs) in the Cherokee Nation. Near present-day Sweetwater, TN, the Treaty of Cherokee Agency ceded land in northeast Georgia
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| July 31, 1817 |
Philip Cook born, Twiggs County, Georgia
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Philip Cook, CSA |
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Twiggs County, Georgia |
| August 15, 1817 |
Peter Early dies, Scull Shoals, Georgia
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Peter Early |
| December 16, 1817 |
Georgia defines its common boundary with Tennessee and creates the Georgia Boundary Commission consisting of Thomas Stocks, Commissioner; James Camak, Mathematician; and Hugh Montgomery, Surveyor. |
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Georgia State Line |
| December 26, 1817 |
John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, orders General Andrew Jackson, in command of American forces in the Southeast, to cross into Florida (then claimed by Spain) to protect Georgia settlers from the Seminole Indians.
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John C. Calhoun |
| January 22, 1818 |
Andrew Jackson leaves Nashville, Tennessee, headed for Fort Scott, Georgia to take command of the Georgia troops during the First Seminole War.
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| February 19, 1818 |
Johanna Troutman is born, Crawford County, Georgia. She is credited with designing the "Lone Star" flag.
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Crawford County, Georgia |
| March 1, 1818 |
Jared Irwin dies, Union Hill, Georgia
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| March 9, 1818 |
Andrew Jackson arrives at Fort Scott (on the Flint River near the Georgia-Florida border) with 1,000+ men.
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| May 5, 1818 |
Establishment of the Georgia-Tennessee border begins. |
| June 1, 1818 |
Surveyors designate the Camak Stone as the western end of Georgia and Tennessee. They are about 1 mile south of the actual border, the 35th parallel. |
| December 15, 1818 |
The Third Georgia Land Lottery is authorized. It is held in 1820
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| February 22, 1819 |
Spain agrees to cede Florida to the U. S. Government, finally ending the threat of Spanish invasion of Georgia from Florida.
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| May 1, 1819 |
Dr. William Greene is appointed by Gov. William Rabun to settle continuing disputes over the location of the Florida-Georgia border
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William Rabun |
| October 24, 1819 |
Governor William Rabun dies following a sudden illness, Powellton, Georgia (Hancock County) |
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Hancock County, Georgia |
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William Rabun |
| November 5, 1819 |
John Clark begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| April 28, 1820 |
Adviced that Dr. Greene, a surveyor appointed the previous year might not be very skilled, Governor John Clark appoints Col. James D. Watson to mark a new Georgia-Florida boundary that is "more accurate."
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| January 8, 1821 |
Treaty with the Creek at Indian Springs, Creek Nation ceded additional Creek land to Georgia
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Butts County, Georgia |
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Monroe County, Georgia |
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Pike County, Georgia |
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Creek Indians |
| January 15, 1821 |
Lafayette McLaws born, Augusta, Georgia
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Lafayette McLaws |
| April 21, 1821 |
Mule Camp Springs is renamed to Gainesville in honor of controversial Major General Edmund P. Gaines, who was popular in Georgia because of his strong stand against Indians and his advocacy of building roads.
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| May 15, 1821 |
The Fourth Georgia Land Lottery is authorized. It is held the same year
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| November 30, 1821 |
Gainesville is officially recognized by the state of Georgia as county seat
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Hall County, Georgia |
| October 27, 1822 |
William Lowndes, former U. S. Representative from Georgia, dies at sea while on a journey to England. |
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William Lowndes |
| December 6, 1822 |
City of Covington, Georgia established (renamed from Newtonton). |
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Leonard Covington |
| February 26, 1823 |
Joseph LeConte, geologist, founded, along with John Muir, The Sierra Club, born, Liberty County, Georgia
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Liberty County, Georgia |
| April 3, 1823 |
U. S. Congress approves $500,000 to purchase all Georgia reservations
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| April 10, 1823 |
Thomas Reade Rootes (T. R. R.) Cobb born, Jefferson, Georgia
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Thomas Reade Rootes (T. R. R.) Cobb |
| August 28, 1823 |
Rev. Daniel Butrick, a Morovian missionary, makes an entry in his personal diary describing today's Rock City as a 'citadel of rocks...' atop Lookout Mountain
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Lookout Mountain |
| November 7, 1823 |
George Michael Troup begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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George Michael Troup |
| February 12, 1824 |
Daniel McNeil is appointed to re-measure the Georgia-Florida border because of continuing disputes
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| May 20, 1824 |
Alfred Holt Colquitt born, Walton County, Georgia
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Walton County, Georgia |
| June 28, 1824 |
William Tatum Wofford born, near Cornelia (Habersham County), Georgia. This date is sometimes erroneously given as 1823
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Habersham County, Georgia |
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William Tatum Wofford |
| July 31, 1824 |
Robert Toombs admitted to the University of Georgia. He is 14 years old
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Robert Toombs |
| November 2, 1824 |
William H. Crawford of Georgia loses the U. S. presidential election to John Adams
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William Harris (W. H.) Crawford |
| November 17, 1824 |
An amendment to the Georgia constitution provides for the direct election of the Governor |
| February 12, 1825 |
William McIntosh, the son of an American Revolution hero and a Creek woman, signs the Treaty of Indian Springs. In exchange for a plantation on the Chattahoochee River, McIntosh signs away almost all remaining Creek land in Georgia
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Creek Indians |
| March 27, 1825 |
Marquis de LaFayette spends the night at the Gachet house, Lamar County, Georgia
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Lamar County, Georgia |
| April 30, 1825 |
Creek Chief William McIntosh is executed for trading Creek land to the state of Georgia without consent of the Creek tribal council.
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Creek Indians |
| June 9, 1825 |
The Fifth Georgia Land Lottery is authorized. It is held in 1827
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| July 25, 1825 |
Henry "Obediah" Barber born, Bryan County, Georgia
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Bryan County, Georgia |
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Henry Obediah Barber |
| September 20, 1825 |
Robert Toombs is dismissed from the University of Georgia. He will be reaccepted after writing a letter apologizing for the incident of the 15th.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Robert Toombs |
| November 12, 1825 |
The city of New Echota is designated capital of the Cherokee Nation, culminating a nationalistic move led by John Ross. |
| June 26, 1826 |
Georgia appoints a surveyor to establish the western boundary of the state.
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Georgia State Line |
| August 17, 1826 |
While establishing the Georgia-Alabama line, mathematician James Camak realizes he made an error in establishing the Tennessee-Georgia line and reports it to the state. |
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Georgia State Line |
| August 25, 1826 |
Surveyors mark the actual location of the Georgia-Alabama border. The Camak Stone is "uprooted" and moved to the correct location. |
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Georgia State Line |
| November 19, 1826 |
Joel Abbott dies, Lexington, Georgia
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| January 1, 1827 |
Creek relinquish ceded land in western Georgia.
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Creek Indians |
| July 3, 1827 |
Logan E. Bleckley born, Rabun County, Georgia
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Rabun County, Georgia |
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Logan E. Bleckley |
| July 28, 1827 |
Alexander Stpehens arrives in Washington, Georgia to attend Washington Academy. |
| September 23, 1827 |
Freeman Walker dies, Augusta, Georgia. He is buried in his family cemetery in Richmond County
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Richmond County, Georgia |
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Freeman Walker
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| November 7, 1827 |
John Forsyth begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| November 15, 1827 |
Final cession of Creek land in Georgia, signed at the Creek Agency on the Flint River
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| December 24, 1827 |
State declares its intention to lay out the city of Columbus, Georgia
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Columbus, Georgia |
| February 21, 1828 |
First issue of the Cherokee Phoenix rolls off the press
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| August 4, 1828 |
Alexander Stephens passes the entrance exam for Frankin College (now the University of Georgia) |
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Alexander Stephens |
| December 3, 1828 |
Bill is introduced in the Georgia legislature to extend the laws of the state into the Cherokee Nation.
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Original Cherokee County |
| January 30, 1829 |
Alfred Cumming born, Augusta, Georgia
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| August 1, 1829 |
Article appears in the Georgia Journal announcing the discovery of gold in north Georgia. |
| August 1, 1829 |
First documentary evidence of gold in North Georgia, The Georgia Journal, a newspaper in Milledgeville, prints a report of two mines in Habersham County
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Habersham County, Georgia |
| October 29, 1829 |
Michigan's Berrien County is created to honor Georgian John McPherson Berrien
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John MacPherson Berrien (John Berrien) |
| November 4, 1829 |
George Gilmer begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| January 4, 1830 |
With a force of some 30 Cherokee and the permission of federal government, Major Ridge evicts whites who have illegally settled Cherokee land along the Georgia-Alabama border about 30 miles southwest of present-day Rome, Georgia. The act infuriates Georgia politicians
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Rome, Georgia |
| April 6, 1830 |
James Augustine Healy, who will become the first African-American Roman Catholic Bishop, is born near Grey, Georgia (Jones County). He is the property of Michael Morris Healy, who was also his father.
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James Augustine Healy |
| June 1, 1830 |
Hall, Habersham, Carroll, Dekalb and Gwinnett Counties are now responsible for enforcing civil law in the Cherokee Nation, at least as far as the state of Georgia is concerned
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Original Cherokee County |
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Hall County, Georgia |
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Habersham County, Georgia |
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Carroll County, Georgia |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
| June 1, 1830 |
Georgia annexes the entire Cherokee Nation
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| December 21, 1830 |
The Sixth Georgia Land Lottery, sometimes called the Cherokee Georgia lottery, is authorized by the General Assembly. The major difference between this lottery and the preceding five lotteries is that Georgia did not have a claim to the land it was giving away: The Cherokee had never ceded it.
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| December 21, 1830 |
Cherokee Nation formally claimed by the state of Georgia
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Original Cherokee County |
| March 1, 1831 |
Georgia enacts a law requiring all white males who reside in the Cherokee Nation to swear an oath of allegiance
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| March 5, 1831 |
Supreme Court hears the case of The Cherokee Nation vs. The State of Georgia, the Cherokee's first attempt to ensure sovereign rule over their nation.
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| March 12, 1831 |
Without warrants the Georgia Guard "arrests" a number of whites working in the Cherokee Nation. They are released from custody because they are licensed and acting as agents of the United States.
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| March 12, 1831 |
Arguing before the Supreme Court, lawyer William Wirt makes his case against the state of Georgia for extending its laws over the Cherokee Nation.
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| May 16, 1831 |
Governor Gilmer advises Samuel Worcester that the Georgia law requiring white men to take an oath of allegiance to state applies to everybody. In the same letter Gilmer advises Worcester that he has been relieved from his job as postmaster.
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| July 7, 1831 |
Georgia Guard arrests Samuel Worcester and takes him to Camp Gilmer
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| July 18, 1831 |
Chief Justice Marshall hands down the verdict in the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, ruling that the nation does not have standing to sue because it is not technically a nation
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| September 5, 1831 |
Trial begins in Gwinnett County before Augustin Smith Clayton for missionaries, including Samuel Worcester, who had violated a Georgia law prohibiting white from working in the Cherokee Nation. This case would go to the Supreme Court as Worcester vs. the State of Georgia
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Augustin Smith Clayton |
| September 16, 1831 |
Eleven white missionaries are tried and found guilty in Lawrenceville, Georgia for violating Georgia law requiring an oath of allegiance from all white men working in the Cherokee Nation. This case would go to the Supreme Court.
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Augustin Smith Clayton |
| October 3, 1831 |
Georgia's gubernatorial election of 1831 pitted George Gilmer against Wilson Lumpkin. The major difference between the two was Lumpkin promised Georgia Cherokee gold and Cherokee land while Gilmer had a "reserve" plan to hold the gold mines and no plan to take the Cherokee land. Lumpkin easily won the election
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| November 9, 1831 |
Wilson Lumpkin begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| December 24, 1831 |
Georgia Gold Lottery enacted. This lottery, whose enabling act and drawing dates were different than the Sixth Georgia Land Lottery is, for some reason, frequently combined with the earlier lottery. It is, in fact, totally separate
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| December 29, 1831 |
The Cherokee Nation officially protests the actions of the state of Georgia to Secretary of War Lewis Cass
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Lewis Cass |
| January 10, 1832 |
Secretary of War Lewis Cass responds to the official protest of the Cherokee Nation against the state of Georgia, claiming Andrew Jackson is "...anxious for the termination of all your difficulties"
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Lewis Cass |
| January 21, 1832 |
Augustin S. Clayton enters the U. S. Senate, replacing Wilson Lumpkin, who had been elected Governor of Georgia
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Augustin Smith Clayton |
| February 6, 1832 |
John Brown Gordon born, Upson County, Georgia
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Upson County, Georgia |
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John Brown Gordon
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| March 3, 1832 |
Chief Justice Marshall rules that Georgia's attempt to sieze the Cherokee Nation was illegal, dismissing the charges against Worcester.
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| May 9, 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing is signed. The treaty required that the Seminole Indians be removed to the west. A small band of the Seminoles lived in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| November 24, 1832 |
Start of the sixth land lottery. Georgia did not own the land it was giving to settlers
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
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Original Cherokee County |
| December 15, 1832 |
James Bowman and in his family are killed near Salacoa, Cherokee Nation (now Georgia). The savage murders would be blamed on the Cherokee
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| January 1, 1833 |
Georgia States Rights and Free Trade Association formed
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| April 8, 1833 |
The Western Herald begins publication in the town of Auraria, Georgia |
| December 21, 1833 |
The Georgia legislature approves the construction of a railroad connecting Augusta to the Tennessee River.
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| September 15, 1834 |
William Harris Crawford dies at a friend's home near Elberton, Georgia.
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Elbert County, Georgia |
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William Harris (W. H.) Crawford |
| November 4, 1834 |
Allen Daniel Candler born, Auroria, Georgia
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| December 18, 1834 |
State of Georgia charters the Georgia Methodists Conference Manuel Labor School in Oxford, Georgia. This would eventually become today's Emory University in Atlanta
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Atlanta, Georgia (through 1900) |
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Emory University |
| December 20, 1834 |
Rome, Georgia is created by the Georgia legislature
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Rome, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
| January 14, 1835 |
James Moore Wayne becomes a U. S. Supreme Court justice, the first justice from Georgia. He was nominated by Andrew Jackson on January 6 and confirmed by Congress on January 9.
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| March 3, 1835 |
Branch mints were created by the United States Congress including one in Dahlonega, Georgia, center of the world's first gold rush
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| March 13, 1835 |
Ignatius A. Few is appointed commissioner in charge of construction of the U. S. Mint in Dahlonega, Georgia. |
| April 8, 1835 |
Convinced that the Cherokee presence in Georgia would soon be extinguished, Samuel Worcester leaves Brainerd, Tennessee and heads to Dwight Mission, Cherokee Nation, West.
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| October 1, 1835 |
Robert Houstoun Anderson born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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General Robert H. Anderson |
| November 4, 1835 |
William Schley begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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William Schley |
| November 18, 1835 |
Joanna Troutman presents the first Lone Star flag to Col. William Ward, commander of the Georgia Battalion. The Macon, Georgia-area troops were headed west to join in the fight for Texas independence. |
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Crawford County, Georgia |
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Lone Star Flag |
| December 7, 1835 |
In an address to the House of Representatives, Gov. William Schley charges that Creek Indians from Alabama with hostilities against Georgians living in Stewart and Baker Counties.
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William Schley |
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Creek Indians |
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Stewart County, Georgia |
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Baker County, Georgia |
| January 8, 1836 |
The Georgia Battalion under the command of Col. William Ward unfurls a flag featuring a large blue star on a field of white in Velasco. They are enroute to join Col. James Fannin at Goliad. |
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Lone Star Flag |
| March 8, 1836 |
Col. James Fannin flies the "Lone Star" flag, designed by Georgian Joanna Troutman, at Goliad, making it the first flag to fly over an independent Texas.
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Lone Star Flag |
| June 9, 1836 |
A battle is fought between Georgia militia and Creek Indian in the vicinity of Fort Jones. It is known as the Battle of Shepherd's Plantation
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Creek Indians |
| August 3, 1836 |
Governor William Schley hires Abbott Hall Brisbane to study possible routes between the Chattahoochee River and Chattanooga for the Western and Atlantic Railroad. |
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Western and Atlantic Railroad |
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William Schley |
| September 21, 1836 |
Duncan Clinch resigns his commission in the army and settles near St. Marys, Camden County, Georgia
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Duncan L. (Lamont) Clinch |
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Camden County, Georgia |
| November 26, 1836 |
After this date settlers were allow to "disturb Indian occupants" on land they won in the sixth Georgia land lottery and the gold lottery. Georgia never legally took possession of the land.
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| December 21, 1836 |
The Western and Atlantic Railroad Company is created by act of the Georgia legislature
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Western and Atlantic Railroad |
| January 22, 1837 |
Genral Thomas Jesup, leading a combined force of Georgia irregular Cavalry and Alabama volunteers leave Fort Armstrong during the Second Seminole War
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| May 12, 1837 |
Stephen Harriman Long is hired by the state of Georgia as chief engineer for the Western and Atlantic Railroad. |
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Western and Atlantic Railroad |
| November 8, 1837 |
George Rockingham Gilmer begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| December 22, 1837 |
Mercer College chartered, Penfield, Georgia.
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| April 21, 1838 |
First coins ($5.00 gold pieces) are produced at the at the U.S. mint in Dahlonega, Georgia.
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| May 6, 1838 |
General Winfield Scott appointed head of federal troops in Georgia
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| July 22, 1838 |
The Wildes Family massacre occurs at the family homestead a few miles south of present-day Waycross. It is the last Indian attack in the state of Georgia.
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Ware County, Georgia |
| September 17, 1838 |
15 students attend Emory College in Oxford, Georgia.
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Ignatius Few |
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Emory University |
| May 12, 1839 |
Georgia Historical Society founded
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| May 17, 1839 |
Henry Mitchell dies, Hancock County, Georgia
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| June 21, 1839 |
Augustin Smith Clayton dies, Athens, Georgia
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Augustin Smith Clayton |
| October 20, 1839 |
Augustus Bacon born, Bryan County, Georgia
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Augustus Bacon |
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Bacon County, Georgia |
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Bryan County, Georgia |
| November 6, 1839 |
Charles James McDonald begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| January 24, 1840 |
Alabama legislature accepts the line established in the 1826 Georgia survey
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| October 4, 1840 |
African Methodist Episcopal minister W. J. (Wesley John) Gaines is born in Wilkes County, Georgia
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Wilkes County, Georgia |
| February 3, 1842 |
Sidney Clopton Lanier born, Macon, Georgia |
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Sidney Lanier |
| November 8, 1843 |
George Walker Crawford begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| February 16, 1845 |
Julia Scarborough Barnsley dies, Savannah, Georgia |
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Godfrey Barnsley and Barnsley Gardens
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| November 21, 1845 |
Ignatius Alphohso Few, founder of Emory University, dies, Athens, Georgia |
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Ignatius Few |
| December 27, 1845 |
First use of ether, in Jefferson, Georgia by Crawford Long
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| January 26, 1846 |
The Georgia Supreme Court is seated for the first time in Talbotton (Talbot County). The justices were Joseph Henry Lumpkin of Athens, Eugenius A. Nisbet of Macon, and Hiram Warner of Greenville. |
| October 13, 1846 |
The Great Hurricane of 1846 begins its destruction, striking Cuba, Florida and Georgia, and moving north along the U. S. coast
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| November 3, 1847 |
George Washington Towns begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| August 11, 1848 |
Georgia is split into two judicial districts, Northern and Southern
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| December 9, 1848 |
Joel Chandler Harris born, Eatonton, Georgia
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Joel Chandler Harris |
| April 16, 1849 |
A late season freeze destroys the cotton crop through much of Georgia
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| November 27, 1849 |
Duncan Lamont Clinch dies, Macon, Georgia
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Duncan L. (Lamont) Clinch |
| November 28, 1849 |
The four corners of the lot containing the Gwinnett County Courthouse are deeded to lawyers for building a fence around the courthouse. Among those receiving land is Charles H. Smith, better known to Georgians (and Americans) as Bill Arp
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
| February 6, 1850 |
Georgia agrees to send delegates to the Nashville Convention
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| May 24, 1850 |
Henry Woodfin Grady is born, Athens, Georgia
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Henry Woodfin Grady |
| December 6, 1850 |
The Georgia Platform, which outlined a program of solutions to avoid Southern secession, is passed
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| November 5, 1851 |
Howell Cobb begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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Howell Cobb |
| November 10, 1851 |
Georgia assembly elects Robert Toombs to the U. S. Senate to fill the seat of John Berrien |
| July 27, 1852 |
George Foster Peabody born, Columbus, Georgia
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George Foster Peabody |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| March 4, 1853 |
Robert Toombs begins his term as Senator of Georgia
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Robert Toombs |
| April 8, 1853 |
Anna Mitchell Davenport, co-founder of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, born, Isle of Hope, Georgia |
| November 9, 1853 |
Herschel Vespasian Johnson begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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Herschel V. Johnson |
| December 22, 1853 |
Theodore Roosevelt (Sr.) marries Mittie Bulloch at Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia. Their son Theodore (Jr.) would grow up to become President of the United States.
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| January 18, 1854 |
Robert Milledge Charlton dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| February 18, 1854 |
Georgia Western Railroad chartered
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Georgia Western Railroad |
| November 11, 1854 |
William Yates Atkinson born, Newnan, Georgia
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William Yates Atkinson |
| February 3, 1856 |
Andrew Jackson Miller, who is generally recognized as the earliest proponent of women's rights in Georgia, dies in Richmond County, Georgia
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Andrew Jackson (A. J.) Miller |
| February 21, 1856 |
Kinchafoonee County, Georgia is renamed to Webster County. At the same time the name of the county seat was changed from McIntosh to Preston.
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Daniel Webster |
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Webster County, Georgia |
| March 21, 1856 |
Henry O. (Ossian) Flipper born, Thomasville, Georgia. He was the property of Rev. Reuben H. Lucky, a Methodist minister.
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Henry O. Flipper From Slave to Officer
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| April 26, 1856 |
Georgia Michael Troup died.
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George Michael Troup |
| September 5, 1856 |
Thomas Edward Watson born, McDuffie County, Georgia |
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Thomas Edward 'Tom' Watson |
| November 20, 1856 |
Farish Carter Tate born in Jasper (Pickens County). Tate, who was educated at North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega, went on to serve 6 consecutive terms in the U. S. House, and served as U. S. District Attorney
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| October 14, 1857 |
Joseph Rucker Lamar born on a plantation near Ruckersville, Georgia
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| November 6, 1857 |
Joseph Emerson Brown begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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Joseph Emerson Brown |
| May 6, 1858 |
Richard Banks dies, Gainesville, Georgia
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Banks County, Georgia |
| November 20, 1858 |
William Schley dies, Augusta, Georgia |
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William Schley |
| May 15, 1860 |
Ellen Louise Axson, who becomes First Lady when husband Woodrow Wilson becomes President, is born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 31, 1860 |
Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon (Low), founder of the Girl Scouts, born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts |
| November 16, 1860 |
Georgia legislature votes to arm military
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Civil War - 1860 |
| November 18, 1860 |
Georgia's legislature votes 1 million dollars to arm state.
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| December 7, 1860 |
City council allocates first Jewish lots at City Cemetery (now Oakland Cemetery).
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Jewish Section, Oakland Cemetery. |
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Oakland Cemetery |
| December 14, 1860 |
The state of Georgia calls for a convention to discuss a Southern Confederacy. Only South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama are invited.
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| December 27, 1860 |
The day after Major Anderson transferred his troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter the state of Georgia offers assistance to South Carolina.
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Civil War - 1860 |
| January 1, 1861 |
Georgia votes against holding a secession convention, but the results are manipulated by Governor Joseph Brown to indicate that the state strongly supported the convention.
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Civil War - 1861 |
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Joseph Emerson Brown |
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Herschel V. Johnson |
| January 7, 1861 |
Robert Toombs delivers a farewell to the U. S. Senate, almost two weeks before Georgia votes to secede.
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Robert Toombs |
| January 19, 1861 |
Georgia votes to secede from the Union at a convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia. |
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Civil War - 1861 |
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Robert Toombs |
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Milledgeville |
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Slavery in Georgia |
| January 25, 1861 |
The federal arsenal in Augusta is taken by the Georgia Militia
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Civil War - 1861 |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| February 4, 1861 |
Georgia joins Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina, becoming a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. Georgian Howell Cobb is named president of the assembly.
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Civil War - 1861 |
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Robert Toombs |
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Howell Cobb |
| November 5, 1861 |
General Robert E. Lee placed in charge of Georgia coastal defenses
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Civil War - 1861 |
| June 2, 1862 |
Union spy James Andrews (The Great Locomotive Chase) escapes an Chattanooga city jail. He is captured the following day.
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| June 7, 1862 |
James Andrews (The Great Locomotive Chase) is hung in Atlanta at the present-day intersection of Juniper and Third Street. His body is buried nearby, but later exhumed and moved to the National Cemetery at Chattanooga
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| June 18, 1862 |
Six of Andrew's Raiders are hung at Memorial Drive and Park Avenue, Atlanta.
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| October 16, 1862 |
Eight of Andrew's Raiders escape from Fulton County jail, eventually reaching Union lines
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| February 16, 1863 |
The CSS Chattahoochee, a twin-screw steam powered gunboat built in Saffold, Georgia (Early County, just north of the Florida-Georgia state line) enters service
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Early County, Georgia |
| March 25, 1863 |
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton presents the first Medals of Honor to six participants of the Great Locomotive Chase (known in the North as Andrew's Raid).
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| May 27, 1863 |
The boiler on the CSS Chattahoochee explodes while plowing the waters near the coast of Georgia. She is taken to the shipyard in Columbus, where she is eventually scuttled.
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Columbus, Georgia |
| October 10, 1863 |
Jeff Davis tours Army of Tennessee lines in North Georgia
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Jefferson Davis |
| December 2, 1863 |
Following his defeat at Chattanooga, Braxton Bragg officially relinquishes command of the Army of Tennessee. General William Hardee assumes command.
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Civil War - 1863 |
| December 21, 1863 |
Sidney Winder orders construction to begin on Camp Sumter near Andersonville, Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| February 24, 1864 |
Prisoners (about 500) begin arriving at Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| May 4, 1864 |
14 Confederate soldiers who deserted from the Army of Tennessee are shot in Whitfield County outside of Dalton, Georgia |
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Whitfield County, Georgia |
| May 18, 1864 |
Major General Lafayette McLaws is placed in command of the defenses of Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Lafayette McLaws |
| July 5, 1864 |
Kennar Garrard secures Roswell Mill, a major objective of William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
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Civil War - 1864 |
| July 29, 1864 |
Construction begins on Camp Lawton north of Millen, Georgia (Jenkins County) to alleviate the overcrowded conditions at Camp Sumter in Andersville, Georgia.
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Jenkins County, Georgia |
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| August 2, 1864 |
Stoneman's Raiders are repelled by Georgia Rebels at Barber's Creek
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Civil War - 1864 |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
| November 9, 1864 |
General William Tecumseh Sherman issues the first orders (Special Orders No. 120), from Kingston, Georgia (Bartow County) directly related to his "March to the Sea." Over the next few days the city of Rome will be destroyed and track from Atlanta to Chattanooga will be torn up, some transported to Tennessee for later use, some twisted into Sherman's hairpins or Sherman's neckties and left by the side of the railroad.
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Civil War - 1864 |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
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March to the Sea |
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Rome, Georgia |
| November 12, 1864 |
Corse requests permission to destroy the towns of Cedartown, Van Wert and Buchanan, south of Rome. Sherman tells Corse to wait, effectively sparing the towns.
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March to the Sea |
| November 13, 1864 |
Confederate Cavalry commander Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler arrives in Jonesboro, Georgia
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March to the Sea |
| November 13, 1864 |
Federal troops destroy Acworth, Georgia
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March to the Sea |
| November 15, 1864 |
City of Atlanta burned under orders from General Sherman during the March to the Sea. A special battering ram was used to destroy the stone and brick railroad depot. Because of the city's size, it took the Union Cavalry nearly a day to complete the task, beginning this evening and completing the task the following afternoon.
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Civil War - 1864 |
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March to the Sea |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
| November 17, 1864 |
Kilpatrick engages Wheeler near Forsyth ahead of the Right Wing of Sherman's Army. Right Wing spends the night in Jackson and Indian Springs, Georgia
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March to the Sea |
| November 18, 1864 |
Union troops pass through Covington, Georgia
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March to the Sea |
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Newton County, Georgia |
| November 20, 1864 |
Henry Slocum spares Madison, Georgia (Morgan County). Joshua Hill, who knew Sherman's brother John, was the last Confederate senator to leave Washington D. C., and had met Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign, rode out to meet Slocum and ask that the town be spared destruction. Slocum granted the request, ordering the town be spared. In spite of the order the town was heavily looted.
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Morgan County, Georgia |
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March to the Sea |
| December 3, 1864 |
Sherman's Left Wing attempts to liberate the prisoner of war compound, Camp Lawton, north of Millen, Georgia, only to find it empty. Its 10,229 prisoners had been moved to temporary quarters in Thomasville (Thomas County) and Blackshear (Pierce County). Sherman orders the depot and a nearby hotel in Millen burned. Today the site is part of Magnolia Springs State Park
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Thomas County, Georgia |
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Pierce County, Georgia |
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March to the Sea |
| December 4, 1864 |
Statesboro, Georgia, is the first major town visited by the Right Wing of Sherman's Army in almost two weeks.
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March to the Sea |
| January 13, 1865 |
Flooding destroys property in east-central Georgia including Augusta and Hamburg
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Richmond County, Georgia |
| April 20, 1865 |
Major General Howell Cobb surrenders his troops and the city of Macon, Georgia |
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Howell Cobb |
| April 27, 1865 |
Steamship Sultana exploded about ten miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. Many of the dead had survived horrible conditions at Georgia's Andersonville Prison and were returning home.
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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Civil War - 1865 |
| May 10, 1865 |
Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis is captured in southwest Georgia near Irwinville
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Jefferson Davis |
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Civil War - 1865 |
| May 12, 1865 |
General William Tatum Wofford surrenders the last organized group of Confederate soldiers east of the Mississippi at Kingston, Georgia
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William Tatum Wofford |
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Civil War - 1865 |
| June 17, 1865 |
James Johnson, a pro-Union Georgian appointed by President Andrew Johnson begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| July 14, 1865 |
Atlanta National Bank, the first national bank in Georgia (and the Southeastern United States) is proposed by Alfred Austell
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| December 6, 1865 |
Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| December 14, 1865 |
Charles Jones Jenkins begins term as governor of Georgia
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Charles Jones Jenkins |
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| August 1, 1866 |
John Ross dies
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| December 20, 1866 |
Georgia Legislature grants a charter to the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad Company to build rail lines to Thunderbolt, the Isle of Hope and Skidaway Island. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| March 31, 1867 |
General John Pope arrives by train to the city of Atlanta, marking the second occupation of both Atlanta and Georgia
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| September 9, 1867 |
Nine soldiers from Fort McPherson roam through Shermantown (a town of freedmen around Wheat St., today's Auburn Ave.), vandalizing homes and beating blacks. Note: Shermantown was a common name for African American communities in Georgia after the War Between the States (Civil War)
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| January 13, 1868 |
Thomas Ruger ordered to become "provisional governor" of Georgia, replacing Gov. Charles Jenkins, who refused to pay for a state constitutional convention. Jenkins flees the state.
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Charles Jones Jenkins |
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| February 9, 1868 |
Lucien Lamar Knight born, Atlanta, Georgia
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| April 20, 1868 |
Atlanta becomes Georgia's state capital
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Milledgeville |
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Baldwin County, Georgia |
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Atlanta becomes Georgia's capital |
| May 11, 1868 |
Convict leasing program starts in Georgia
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| July 4, 1868 |
The Georgia Legislature meets in Atlanta for the first time.
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| July 21, 1868 |
Georgia ratifies the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| September 19, 1868 |
During a Republican rally in Camilla, Georgia, violence flares in front of the Mitchell County Courthouse.
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Mitchell County, Georgia |
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Violence in Camille, GA |
| January 12, 1869 |
Kimball Opera House opens for business in Atlanta, Georgia.
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| February 2, 1870 |
Georgia ratifies the 15th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| July 15, 1870 |
Georgia readmitted to Union
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| January 18, 1871 |
Invitations go out for a University of Georgia Alumni meeting at the end of July. Benjamin Harvey Hill is to be the speaker. |
| April 29, 1871 |
U. S. Government "gives" the Dahlonega Mint to the state of Georgia for use in North Georgia College.
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| July 31, 1871 |
At a meeting of the University of Georgia Alumni Association Benjamin Harvey Hill coins the term "The New South."
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| August 1, 1871 |
Joseph Thomas Robert arrives in Augusta, Georgia and becomes head of the "Augusta Institute." Originally The Augusta Baptist institute, it had been renamed shortly before Robert's arrival. |
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Joseph Thomas Robert |
| October 30, 1871 |
Benjamin Conley, president of the Georgia Senate, begins term as governor of Georgia with the departure of Rufus Bullock
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| November 24, 1871 |
Athens, Georgia becomes the seat of government for Clarke County, replacing Watkinsville.
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Clarke County, Georgia |
| January 12, 1872 |
James Milton Smith begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| April 9, 1872 |
The dispute over the boundary between Georgia and Florida, which had been waged for 72 years, is laid to rest by a act passed by the U. S. Congress
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| June 17, 1872 |
An intensity V (Modified Mercalli scale) earthquake strikes Milledgeville, Georgia
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| August 24, 1872 |
Athens, Georgia receives a charter as a city
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| August 24, 1872 |
Macon and Western merges with the Central Railroad and Banking Company to form Central of Georgia Railroad
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| October 7, 1872 |
Clockworks arrive in Rome, Georgia for the water tower on Neely Hill. The 9' diameter clock face will become a source of pride for the city's inhabitants. (more on Rome's Clock Tower)
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Rome, Georgia |
| March 23, 1874 |
"Fiddlin'" John Carson born on a farm north of Smyrna (Cobb County), Georgia. Sometimes given as March 23, 1868 in Blue Ridge (Fannin County) Georgia. Carson probably created this erroneous birthdate and birthplace himself to appear older and appeal to the displaced Appalachian farmers who made up his core audience
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Fannin County, Georgia |
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Fiddlin' John Carson |
| November 1, 1875 |
Earthquake on the South Carolina/Georgia state line felt in Atlanta and Macon
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| May 3, 1876 |
The Georgia Republican Convention, held in Atlanta, chooses 13 whites and 9 blacks to represent them at the National Republican Convention in Cincinnati. Additionally, a black man, John Emory Bryant, was appointed chainman of the state central committee. |
| May 4, 1876 |
| January 12, 1877 |
Alfred Holt Colquitt begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| January 29, 1878 |
Walter F. George born, Webster County, Georgia |
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Webster County, Georgia |
| June 16, 1878 |
Crawford Long dies in Atlanta, Georgia
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| December 19, 1878 |
Fire destroys the U.S. Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia. The building had been given to North Georgia College.
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| January 29, 1879 |
General William Tecumseh Sherman visits Atlanta.
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| July 20, 1879 |
A Morman, Joseph Standing, is murdered on his way to Rome
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| July 23, 1879 |
Johanna Troutman dies, Elmwood, Georgia. A monument to her was erected in Texas and her portrait hangs in the State Capitol at Austin
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| October 17, 1879 |
Governor Alfred Colquitt signed a bill creating Georgia's first state flag, a blue field with 3 stripes, scarlet, white and scarlet.
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| December 18, 1879 |
Having moved from Augusta, Georgia (where it was known as the Augusta Institute), the Atlanta Baptist Seminary holds opening exercises. In attendance is Governor Alfred Colquitt and Georgia School Commissioner Gustavus Orr. |
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Joseph Thomas Robert |
| August 16, 1880 |
U. S. Senator, Georgia governor, and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee (1860) Herschel Johnson dies near Louisville, Georgia (Jefferson County) |
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Herschel V. Johnson |
| January 5, 1881 |
W. J. Gaines (Wesley John) Gaines proposes the establishment of a College for African-American youths in North Georgia.
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| April 4, 1881 |
State of Georgia grants a charter for the International Cotton Exposition. |
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1881 International Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia |
| August 27, 1881 |
Hurricane smashes the Georgia coast in the vicinity of Savannah
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| April 25, 1882 |
Georgia gets a judge for both judicial districts. Before this date a single judge handled both districts.
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| October 19, 1882 |
Georgia admits Woodrow Wilson to the bar
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Woodrow Wilson |
| November 4, 1882 |
Alexander Hamilton Stephens begins term as governor of Georgia
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Alexander Stephens |
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| December 3, 1882 |
John Wesley Dobbs is born in Marietta, Georgia |
| March 4, 1883 |
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, governor of Georgia, dies in office
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Alexander Stephens |
| March 5, 1883 |
James Stoddard Boynton, president of the Georgia Senate, begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| May 10, 1883 |
Henry Dickerson McDaniel begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| May 22, 1884 |
William Tatum Wofford dies, Cass Station, Georgia and is buried at the Cassville Cemetery
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William Tatum Wofford |
| July 25, 1884 |
First professional baseball game played in Atlanta (Present-day campus of Georgia Tech). Atlanta defeated Augusta.
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| September 23, 1884 |
Eugene "Gene" Talmadge born, Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Eugene Talmadge |
| April 29, 1885 |
Famed conductor/composer Wallingford Riegger was born in Albany, Georgia. He spent almost all his life in New York.
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Albany, Georgia |
| December 15, 1885 |
Robert Augustus Toombs dies, Washington, Georgia
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Wilkes County, Georgia |
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Robert Toombs |
| January 6, 1886 |
Christ Church Frederica, on St. Simons Island is consectrated.
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| April 16, 1886 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the first of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| June 1, 1886 |
All Georgia railroads are required to regage to a width of 4' 81/2", to comply with the northern railroads. Prior to this time railroads in Georgia (and some other southern states) had been gaged at 5'0" |
| August 9, 1886 |
Central of Georgia Railroad reaches Bradley (Jones County)
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| August 31, 1886 |
Earthquake shakes Georgia. With an epicenter near Charleston, South Carolina, this massive earthquake laid waste to the coastal colonial city. It was felt across much of the northern and eastern sections of Georgia and cracked the Tybee Lighthouse and moved the lens an inch and a half to the northeast.
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| October 1, 1886 |
Deadline for bids to a commission studying the creation of Georgia Tech. Those who met the deadline were: Athens and UGA; Atlanta; Macon; Milledgeville; and Penfield, Georgia (site of original Mercer College)
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| November 9, 1886 |
John Brown Gordon begins term as governor of Georgia
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John Brown Gordon
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| December 6, 1886 |
Rome, Georgia is covered with more than 2 feet of snow
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Rome, Georgia |
| May 5, 1887 |
First contract awarded for a building on the campus of Georgia Tech. (Tech Tower)
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| May 28, 1887 |
First track and field contest held at the University of Georgia
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| August 28, 1887 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the second of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| February 8, 1888 |
CSA Brigadier General Robert Houstoun Anderson dies, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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General Robert H. Anderson |
| August 16, 1888 |
John Styth Pemberton dies, Atlanta, Georgia. Following a service attended by "every pharmicist in the city of Atlanta," Pemberton's body was returned to Columbus, Georgia |
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| October 8, 1888 |
Georgia Tech opens its doors with a total of 129 students
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| October 29, 1889 |
Georgia legislature approves the sale of the remaining land in the Okefenokee Swamp |
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| November 8, 1889 |
Governor William Northern signs bill creating Georgia Normal College and State University, Milledgeville
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| November 12, 1889 |
City of Willacoochee, Georgia (originally Coffee County, now Atkinson County) chartered
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Coffee County, Georgia |
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Atkinson County, Georgia |
| June 15, 1890 |
First Georgia Tech graduating class
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| August 12, 1890 |
First story appears in print about the "Tree that owns itself" in Athens, Georgia
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| November 8, 1890 |
William Jonathan Northen begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| November 26, 1890 |
"Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youths" created near Savannah. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| December 4, 1890 |
The charter of the Chickamauga Memorial Association is finalized and submitted to the Superior Court of Walker County, Georgia. The charter, which lasted for 20 years, allowed anyone to join the group for a lifetime fee of $5.00. The objective of the organization was to acquire land and honor those who fought at Chickamauga, the bloodiest two days of American history. This is the official start of what will become the Chickamauga National Military Park.
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| December 27, 1890 |
Georgia leases the Western and Atlantic Railroad to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad |
| January 1, 1891 |
Sale of 238,120 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp to the Suwannee Canal Company by the State of Georgia for $62,000. |
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| April 15, 1891 |
U. S. President Benjamin Harrison, who served under General William Tecumseh Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign, visits Atlanta
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| June 23, 1891 |
First electric streetcar appears in Athens, Georgia
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| October 21, 1891 |
Atlanta's Henry W. Grady monument is dedicated. A ten-foot bronze statue rests upon a pedestal of Georgia granite
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Henry Woodfin Grady |
| January 18, 1892 |
Rotund actor Oliver Hardy, part of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team born in Harlem, Georgia
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Oliver Hardy |
| April 21, 1892 |
An early morning fire destroys the machine shop at Georgia Tech
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| August 13, 1893 |
"Nancy Hanks," Central Railroad and Banking Company (precursor to Central of Georgia) rail service between Savannah and Atlanta is ended because the rails and railbed were too rough for high-speed service. A number of the locomotives had left the tracks.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| August 27, 1893 |
Powerful storm lashes the Georgia and South Carolina coast, coming ashore on Tybee Island. Death toll reaches 2,000 according to the National Weather Service
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| April 26, 1894 |
"The Lion of Atlanta," a marble statue depicting a sleeping lion and carved in Canton, Georgia, is unveiled at Oakland Cemetery. |
| May 21, 1894 |
General Philip Cook died, Atlanta, Georgia
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Philip Cook, CSA |
| July 1, 1894 |
Southern Railway Company was founded from Richmond and Danville Railroad and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad.
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| October 27, 1894 |
William Yates Atkinson begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| November 4, 1894 |
Georgia Tech defeats the University of Georgia in football, 22-6. This is the first game played between these traditional rivals
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| April 21, 1895 |
Judge Frank Arthur Hooper, Jr born, Americus, Georgia (Sumter County). |
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Frank A. Hooper |
| December 14, 1895 |
The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, which had been in receivership since 1879, is conveyed to the Central of Georgia Railway
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| December 16, 1895 |
The area around Sweetwater State Park, long known as Manchester, is renamed College Park
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| December 12, 1896 |
First electric lights, Brumby's Drugstore, Athens, Georgia
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| January 25, 1897 |
Brakemen strike the Georgia Railroad
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| February 17, 1897 |
Alice McLellan Birney, a native of Marietta, Georgia, organizes the National Congress of Mothers, which became the Parent Teachers Association
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Marietta, GA |
| April 23, 1897 |
Lucius Clay born, Marietta, Georgia
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Marietta, GA |
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| January 25, 1898 |
The first ever batch of Brunswick Stew is made on St. Simons Island, Georgia, a coastal island near the city of Brunswick.
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| August 15, 1898 |
Lilian Carter born, Richland, Georgia
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Lillian Carter |
| September 30, 1898 |
Georgia Day at the Transmississippi and International Exposition in Omaha. Georgia was the only southern state to erect a building at this event
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| October 2, 1898 |
Campbell Island is washed away by a hurricane as it crosses the Georgia coast with an estimated maximum wind of 95 mph. It will cut across the state to the northwest, exiting near Rome. It is designated Hurricane #7
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| October 2, 1898 |
Hurricane strikes coastal Georgia near Cumberland Island, killing 179 (Georgia and North Florida), and setting storm surge records that still stand.
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| October 29, 1898 |
Allen Daniel Candler begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1901-2000
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| July 1, 1899 |
Thomas Andrew Dorsey born, Villa Rica, Georgia
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Thomas Dorsey |
| July 21, 1899 |
Bejamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, two Chattanooga (History of Chattanooga, Tennessee) businessmen, receive approval on their plan to bottle Coca-Cola
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Coca-Cola |
| August 8, 1899 |
William Yates Atkinson dies, Newnan, Georgia
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William Yates Atkinson |
| February 19, 1900 |
Writer Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith) born, Columbus, Georgia
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Carson McCullers |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| June 1, 1900 |
Mary Phagan born, Marietta, Georgia
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Marietta, GA |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| June 24, 1900 |
35 people die when a Southern Railways train plunged into a washout 1.5 miles north of McDonough, Georgia. |
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Henry County, Georgia |
| July 1, 1900 |
Combining the old Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railroad (renamed to the Georgia and Alabama Railroad in 1895) with other assets, 35 year-old John Skelton Williams creates Seaboard Air Line Railway.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| January 1, 1901 |
The entire Georgia Tech senior class (18 students) fails to return as scheduled from the Christmas break. President Lyman Hall suspends graduation as a result.
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| February 4, 1901 |
Jefferson Franklin Long dies, Macon, Georgia
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| April 5, 1901 |
Actor Melvyn Douglas born, Macon, Georgia
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| May 5, 1901 |
William Samuel "Blind Willie" McTell is born, Thomson, Georgia
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William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell |
| May 16, 1901 |
The Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad is acquired by the Central of Georgia Railroad
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Rome, Georgia |
| November 2, 1901 |
Georgia Tech's senior class of 1901 graduates 5 months late as a result of the New Year's Day prank
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| March 17, 1902 |
Golfer Bobby (Robert Tyre) Jones born, Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Bobby Jones |
| May 16, 1902 |
The North Georgia Electric Company is formed to build a dam and power plant on the Chattahoochee River near Gainesville, Georgia (now under Lake Lanier).
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| June 28, 1902 |
Major portion of the city of Elberton, Georgia (county seat of Elbert County) is destroyed by fire |
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Elbert County, Georgia |
| October 18, 1902 |
East face of Rocky Face Mountain just west of Dalton, Georgia struck by an earthquake
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Whitfield County, Georgia |
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| October 25, 1902 |
Joseph Meriwether Terrell begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1901-2000
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| February 10, 1903 |
The Atlanta Joint Terminal Company was organized by Southern Railway, the Central of Georgia Railroad, and the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. |
| June 1, 1903 |
Tornado strikes Gainesville, Georgia and Hall County
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| January 2, 1904 |
James Longstreet dies, Gainesville, Georgia
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James Longstreet |
| October 11, 1904 |
The battleship Georgia is launched.
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| November 4, 1904 |
Elijah Clarke statue, at the corner of College and Hancock Streets in Athens is dedicated by University of Georgia Chancellor Walter B. Hill. It was moved to its present location on Broad Street in 1918.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| December 19, 1904 |
Benjamin Wynn Fortson born, Tignall, Georgia
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| December 27, 1904 |
Fort Oglethorpe, on the Chickamauga battlefield, is dedicated. |
| July 16, 1905 |
General Bryan Morel Thomas dies, Dalton, Georgia
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| October 20, 1905 |
President Theodore Roosevelt visits Roswell (Roswell, Georgia history) and Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia history). The President's train stopped at Chamblee (Roswell Station), where he boarded the train to Roswell. He crossed the Chattahoochee River and visited both Bulloch Hall and Roswell Square, where he made brief comments. Roosevelt then had lunch at the Piedmont Driving Club (now Piedmont Park) and spoke at Georgia Tech before leaving for Jacksonville, Florida later that evening.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Piedmont Park |
| April 6, 1906 |
Tornadoes strike North Georgia, striking Woodlands, (the estate of Godfrey Barnsley) and Gainesville, Georgia
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Godfrey Barnsley and Barnsley Gardens
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| December 0, 1906 |
The state of Georgia awards Carroll County the location of its newest institution of higher learning, the University of West Georgia |
| March 6, 1907 |
Logan E. Bleckley dies, Clarkesville, Georgia. He is interred at Oakland Cemetery
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Logan E. Bleckley |
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Oakland Cemetery |
| May 25, 1907 |
Carved by Solon Borglum, the statue of John B. Gordon (Biography of John B. Gordon) is unveiled at the state capitol
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John Brown Gordon
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| September 12, 1907 |
Spud Chandler born, Commerce, Georgia
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Spud Chandler |
| January 12, 1908 |
[circa] First students begin arriving at the University of West Georgia |
| April 24, 1908 |
Heavy thunderstorms spawn killer tornadoes across the Southeast United States (Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia), killing a total of 230 people. Chickamauga battlefield infrastructure suffered considerable damage.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| July 3, 1908 |
Joel Chandler Harris dies, Atlanta, Georgia
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Joel Chandler Harris |
| January 16, 1909 |
President-elect William H. Taft speaks at Georgia Tech
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| February 9, 1909 |
Dean Rusk born, Cherokee County, Georgia
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Dean Rusk
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| May 17, 1909 |
In protest over the hiring of black workers on the Georgia Railroad, firemen go on strike
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| November 18, 1909 |
A schooner, the George Taulane, vanishes without a trace off the coast of Georgia
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| March 15, 1910 |
A Navy tug boat, the Nina, on the way to Havana harbor on a mission to salvage the Maine, disappears after being sighted off the coast at Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| July 21, 1910 |
Construction begins on Atlanta's Georgian Terrace
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| August 3, 1910 |
Georgia ratifies the 16th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| November 17, 1910 |
The Technique, Georgia Tech's Alumni magazine, begins publication
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| November 22, 1910 |
Boarding a private train in New Jersey a group of New York bankers, a presidential advisor, and a senator journey to Jekyll Island, Georgia to discuss the revision of a failed piece of legislation, the Federal Reserve Act of 1910. Their discussions are frequently, wrongly, credited with leading to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created The Federal Reserve System.
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| December 5, 1910 |
Confederate General Alfred Cumming died, Rome, Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
| August 28, 1911 |
St. George, Georgia is deluged, receiving some 18 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. This set the state record for rainfall in a 24-hour period
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| October 2, 1911 |
Georgian Terrace, Atlanta opens
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| December 21, 1911 |
Hall of Fame catcher Josh Gibson born, Buena Vista, Georgia |
| May 13, 1912 |
The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing for direct election of Senators becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| May 18, 1912 |
For three innings Ty Cobb put up with insults from New York Highlanders fan Claude Lueker. Finally, Cobb charge the man, beating him fiercely. Lueker, who had lost a hand in an industrial accident could not defend himself. A. L. President Ban Johnson, who was attending the game, immediately suspended Cobb. |
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Ty Cobb |
| November 27, 1912 |
George Leon Smith II born, Stillmore, Georgia
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George Leon Smith II |
| February 23, 1913 |
The Million Dollar Fire destroys 6 blocks of downtown Columbus, Georgia. |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| December 1, 1913 |
Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, by Lucian Lamar Knight, is published
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| May 20, 1914 |
79 workers walk off the job at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| June 14, 1914 |
In the Atlanta Georgian, John Temple Graves, editor of the New York American, calls for the creation of a memorial to the men who fought for the Confederacy. |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Stone Mountain |
| January 25, 1915 |
UDC co-founder Anna Davenport Raines dies, Savannah, Georgia |
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| August 17, 1915 |
A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank, near the present-day site of the Big Chicken
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Marietta, GA |
| September 30, 1915 |
Lester Maddox is born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Lester Maddox |
| November 22, 1915 |
A circus train collided with a passenger train six miles east of Columbus, Georgia. 15 passengers and most of the animals died in the wreck or in the ensuing fire. |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| January 27, 1916 |
The battleship Georgia is decommissioned
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| July 1, 1916 |
The new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan receives its official charter from the state of Georgia |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
| September 3, 1916 |
Wilson signs the Adamson Act into law, four days after it had been proposed by Georgia Congressman William Adamson, averting a looming railroad strike
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William Charles Adamson |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 7, 1916 |
Georgian Alexa Stirling becomes the state's first championship women's golfer by winning the Women's National Golf Title at the Belmont Springs Country Club in Massachusetts. She would win the title again in 1919 and 1920 |
| October 7, 1916 |
Cumberland University is defeated by Georgia Tech, 222-0. While there were first downs in the game, neither team advanced to a first down. Cumberland never advanced 10 yards from the original line of scrimmage and Tech scored every time they had the ball.
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| October 9, 1916 |
Edward Andrews born, Griffin, Georgia
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Edward Andrews |
| April 6, 1917 |
With America's imminent entry into The Great War, the battleship Georgia is recommissioned, serving as an escort and troop transport
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| September 14, 1917 |
Poet Byron Herbert Reece is born in the vicinity of Vogel State Park
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| December 18, 1917 |
Ossie Davis born, Cogdell, Georgia
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Ossie Davis |
| June 26, 1918 |
Georgia ratifies the 18th Amendment (bans liquor)
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| July 3, 1918 |
Ernest Vandiver born, Franklin County, Georgia
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| July 4, 1919 |
Fort Oglethorpe is designated as the headquarters for the Sixth Cavalry |
| September 12, 1919 |
The Trust Company of Georgia purchases Coca-Cola from Asa Chandler, who continues to hold a significant amount of the stock
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Coca-Cola |
| June 20, 1920 |
Actor DeForest Kelley born, Atlanta, Georgia
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DeForest Kelley |
| July 8, 1920 |
Richard B. "Dick" Russell, Jr. announces his candidacy for the Georgia House from his home district
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| July 15, 1920 |
The battleship Georgia is decommissioned
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| August 18, 1920 |
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing women the right to vote becomes law. Georgia ratifies in 1970.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| September 9, 1920 |
Russell elected to the Georgia House
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| December 17, 1920 |
First meeting of the Lions Club in Georgia (Atlanta)
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| February 10, 1921 |
Gardner, Georgia, a small town about 35 miles north of Dublin, is destroyed by a tornado
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| August 21, 1921 |
Georgia permits women to vote. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution (Women granted the right to vote) had been ratified Aug. 18, 1920.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| September 6, 1921 |
The New York World began a series of expose articles on the Ku Klux Klan. Syndicated throughout the U.S., it only appeared in the Columbus Enquirer-Sun in Georgia. |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| December 0, 1922 |
Georgia Normal College is renamed to State College for Women
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| February 28, 1922 |
Georgia Railway and Power licenses the radio call letters WGM
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| October 30, 1922 |
Democratic Governor of Georgia Thomas Hardwick appoints the first woman to the U. S. Senate, Rebecca Latimer Felton. She replaced Tom Watson.
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Thomas Edward 'Tom' Watson |
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Rebecca Latimer Felton |
| February 2, 1923 |
Poet/writer James Dickey born, Atlanta (Piedmont Hospital), Georgia
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James Dickey |
| June 27, 1923 |
Russell is nominated to become Speaker pro tem of the Georgia House of Representatives. He is elected unanimously.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| September 7, 1923 |
Mae Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA, born, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Louise Suggs |
| January 19, 1924 |
Gutzon Borglum unveils the head of Robert E. Lee at Stone Mountain, Georgia
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John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum |
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Stone Mountain |
| May 30, 1924 |
C. E. Woolman to become vice president of Huff Daland Dusters, Macon, Georgia.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Delta Air Lines
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| October 1, 1924 |
Jimmy Carter born, Plains, Georgia
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Sumter County, Georgia |
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Jimmy Carter |
| October 3, 1924 |
At the urging of owner George Foster Peabody, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor visit Warm Springs, Georgia for the first time. Peabody believes that the warm, mineral-laden water will benefit the polio-stricken politician. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| December 2, 1924 |
Cartoonist Jack Davis born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| March 25, 1925 |
Flannery O'Connor (sometimes mispelled as O'Conner) is born in Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Flannery O'Connor |
| May 15, 1925 |
Carl Sanders is born, Augusta, Georgia
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Carl Sanders |
| May 22, 1925 |
Dean Rusk graduates from Boys High School, Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Dean Rusk
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| May 31, 1925 |
The Wisconsin Monument, dedicated to the Union soldiers from Wisconsin who died in Georgia, is dedicated at the Marietta National Cemetery
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Marietta, GA |
| May 25, 1926 |
Claude Marion Akins born, Nelson, Georgia
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Claude Akins |
| May 28, 1926 |
Georgia is split into three judicial districts, Northern, Middle and Southern
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| June 4, 1926 |
The Big Red Apple dedicated, Cornelia, Georgia
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| March 28, 1927 |
The state of Georgia accepts a gift of 16 acres near Frogtown (now Neels) Gap. This becomes Vogel State Park.
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| April 1, 1927 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt returns to Warm Springs, Georgia to greet the first polio patients who arrive at the Warm Springs Foundation. He worked with them, helping to establish an exercise program and share his experiences. The patients referred to him as "Dr. Roosevelt."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| August 7, 1927 |
George Busbee born, Vienna, Georgia. |
| August 18, 1927 |
Rosalynn Smith (Carter) born, Plains, Georgia
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Jimmy Carter |
| September 27, 1927 |
The Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company is incorporated in the city of Augusta, Georgia. It is now known as Georgia-Pacific. |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| October 11, 1927 |
100,000 people watch as "Lucky Lindy" parade's from Atlanta's Candler Field to Georgia Tech's Grant Field, where 20,000 hear him deliver a speech, shortly after his non-stop solo flight to Paris
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| January 31, 1928 |
Legendary R&B singer Chuck Willis is born, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chuck Willis |
| June 23, 1928 |
Lookout Mountain Hotel, also known as the Castle in the Clouds, opens on Lookout Mountain in Georgia.
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Lookout Mountain |
| December 17, 1928 |
New tunnel enters operation through Chetoogeta Mountain near Tunnel Hill, replacing a 1,477 foot tunnel built to complete the Western and Atlantic Railroad
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Western and Atlantic Railroad |
| December 28, 1928 |
While drilling an access shaft to a cave that had been sealed by a railroad tunnel, a worker discovers a second cave in Lookout Mountain. This cave will become Ruby Falls.
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Lookout Mountain |
| January 1, 1929 |
California's Roy Riegel scores winning TD in Rose Bowl for Georgia Tech
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Roy Riegels earns his 'Wrong Way' nickname |
| October 12, 1929 |
First game played in Sanford Stadium. Georgia defeats Yale 15 to 0.
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| December 8, 1929 |
Edwin Lowe, salesman for a toy company that he eventually bought, witnessed a game of Beano at a carnival just outside Jacksonville (Georgia). He made significant changes to the board and renamed the game to Bingo.
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| December 30, 1929 |
Lookout Mountain Caverns, on Lookout Mountain, opens (now known as Ruby Falls). Tours of the historic caverns will end in 1935.
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Lookout Mountain |
| February 3, 1930 |
Lee Hugh Phillips born, Stockbridge, Georgia
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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips
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| May 15, 1930 |
Painter Jasper Johns, Jr., a leader in the Pop Art movement, is born in Augusta, Georgia
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| August 12, 1930 |
Cason J. Callaway finds a plumleaf azelea near his home in Blue Springs, Georgia. The plant had been thought to be extinct. |
| September 10, 1930 |
Russell, running for Governor of Georgia against a field of five candidates, receives a plurality of votes, but less than 50%, forcing the election into a runoff.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| September 15, 1930 |
Hoagy Carmichael records Georgia on my Mind. Bix Beiderbecke accompanied Carmichael on the cornet.
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| October 17, 1930 |
Plant Atkinson, a coal-fired power plant, is introduced by Georgia Power. It is named for Georgia Power President, Atlanta civic leader and philanthropist Henry Morrell Atkinson |
| December 9, 1930 |
Service from Atlanta to New York inaugurated with a who's who list of names including New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgia Gov-elect Richard B. Russell, U.S. Senator Walter George (Georgia), and Ernie Pyle. Regular service began the following day.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| December 22, 1930 |
Georgia on my Mind, lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael and words by Stuart Gorrell, is copyrighted
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| May 5, 1931 |
The Byrd-Mathews saw mill in Helen, Georgia closes.
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Byrd-Mathews Lumber plant, Helen, Georgia |
| June 3, 1931 |
Bert Lance born, Gainesville, Georgia
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Bert Lance |
| June 27, 1931 |
Richard B. Russell, Jr. takes the oath of office for Governor of Georgia, administered by his father, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, Richard B. Russell, Sr.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| August 29, 1931 |
Celebration is held on St. Simons Island for the completion of a highway from Atlanta to Brunswick, GA. This meant it was now possible to travel to most cities in Georgia on paved road.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| October 31, 1931 |
Blind Willie McTell records Georgia Rag
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William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell |
| January 1, 1932 |
Reorganization Act of 1931 goes into effect. Georgia, faced with mounting debt because of decreased revenue during the Great Depression, reorganizes a vast bureaucracy into 18 agencies and departments to save money.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| February 24, 1932 |
Georgia Senator and former governor Zell Miller is born in Young Harris
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Zell Miller |
| May 21, 1932 |
Rock City opens atop Lookout Mountain
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Lookout Mountain |
| July 14, 1932 |
Roosevelt (Rosey) Grier born, Cuthbert, Georgia
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| August 20, 1932 |
While campaigning for the U. S. Senate, Dick Russell is involved in a serious automobile crash near Dublin, Georgia.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| September 4, 1932 |
University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley born, Mobile, Alabama
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Vince Dooley |
| September 14, 1932 |
Richard B. Russell, Jr., then governor of Georgia, defeats Charles Crisp of Americus, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, for U. S. Senate. Final totals: 162,745 votes for Russell, 119,193 for Crisp (296 county units to 114 for Crisp). Russell will remain a senator for almost 40 years.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| October 24, 1932 |
On a swing through Georgia, presidential candidate Frankiln Delano Roosevelt speaks in Atlanta. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| November 8, 1932 |
Georgia votes overwhelmingly for Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President. Roosevelt's frequent visits to Warm Springs, plus Eleanor's lineage had made him a popular figure in the state. Also elected to the U. S. House were Carl Vinson, Eugene Cox, Homer C. Parker, Malcolm Tarver, John Wood, Braswell D. Deen, Bryant T. Castellow, Emmett M. Owens and Robert Ramspeck. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Carl Vinson, Father of the Two Ocean Navy
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| December 5, 1932 |
Richard Wayne ("Little Richard") Penniman is born in Macon, Georgia
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| January 23, 1933 |
Georgia ratifies the 20th Amendment, changing terms of office for the President and Senators.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| March 13, 1933 |
President Roosevelt asked Congress to amend the Volstead Act, allowing for the sale of beer. Southern legislators are unhappy with the request. When voted on and approved two days later only two Georgians vote for the act. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| May 3, 1933 |
Singer James Brown, "The Godfather of Soul" is born in either Macon, Georgia or Barnwell, SC
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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James Brown |
| May 18, 1933 |
Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Three north Georgia lakes are currently part of the TVA.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| August 22, 1933 |
Georgia Day at the 1933 Chicago International Exposition
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| November 18, 1933 |
While in Warm Springs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt journeys to Savannah for Georgia's 150th year celebration, speaking in Fitzgerald and Cordele during the trip
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| November 19, 1933 |
Lucien Lamar Knight dies, Clearwater, Florida. His body is returned to Georgia, where it is buried at the cemetery at Christ Church (St. Simons Island, Glynn County)
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| December 5, 1933 |
The 21th Amendment to the Constitution, repeal of the 18th Amendment, becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| July 4, 1934 |
Delta begins air mail service from Charleston to Fort Worth, including Atlanta, Augusta and other stops in Georgia.
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Delta Air Lines
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| August 15, 1935 |
Vernon Jordan born at Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
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Vernon Jordan |
| March 6, 1936 |
While in Augusta, Georgia, heavyweight champ Jim Braddock states that he is not afraid of the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| April 9, 1936 |
While travelling by train to Warm Springs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives a brief address to Gainesville citizens from his rail car, shortly after a tornado struck the city
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 16, 1936 |
World record in high hurdle set by Georgia track star Forrest Towns
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| August 26, 1936 |
A heated race for U. S. Senate featuring current Senator Russell against current Governor Talmadge culminates in Griffin, Georgia where Russell gives "the greatest speech of his career" according to Ralph McGill. Russell threatened to make a Democrat out of "ol' Republican Gene," tore the governor up for calling the CCC a bunch of "bums and loafers," and denied Talmidge's claim that Russell had befriended northern blacks
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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Eugene Talmadge |
| October 28, 1936 |
Singer Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia) born in Wilmington, Delaware
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| March 20, 1937 |
Entertainer Jerry Reed (Hubbard) is born in Atlanta, Georgia |
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Jerry Reed |
| May 9, 1937 |
Dave Prater (one-half of Sam and Dave) born, Ocilla, Georgia
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| January 19, 1938 |
A bill to legalized liquor in 16 Georgia counties is introduced in the legislature
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| February 21, 1938 |
Anti-lynching legislation is defeated in the U. S. Senate. Georgia Senator Russell led the "Southern bloc" against the NAACP supported bill.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| April 1, 1938 |
Arthur L. Hutchins becomes the first Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent
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| August 11, 1938 |
President Roosevelt speaks at the University of Georgia commencement
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| September 8, 1938 |
Sam Nunn is born, Perry, Georgia
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| September 9, 1938 |
Ron Fairly born, Macon, Georgia
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Ron Fairly |
| October 15, 1938 |
79 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia are protected by limiting road incursions and foresting with a one-mile boundary secured by an agreement between the National Park Service and the Forest Service.
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| March 18, 1939 |
Georgia ratifies the Bill of Rights.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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Georgia ratifies the Bill of Rights |
| February 21, 1940 |
John Lewis, civil rights leader and congressman from Georgia born near Troy, Alabama
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| October 26, 1940 |
First night game at Sanford Stadium. Georgia ties Kentucky, 7-7
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| February 27, 1941 |
William Byron, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Maryland, died when his private plane crashed near Jonesboro, Georgia
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| September 9, 1941 |
Otis Redding born, Dawson, Georgia
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Otis Redding |
| December 7, 1941 |
Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Atlanta Mayor Roy LeGraw, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Georgia National Guard, informs the city council he intends to resign when assigned to active duty
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| January 1, 1942 |
Georgia defeats TCU 40-26 in the Orange Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 27, 1942 |
Martha Berry dies, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Martha Berry |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| March 10, 1942 |
Camp Brumby, a CCC camp at Kennesaw Mountain, is closed
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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| April 8, 1942 |
As part of "Operation Drumbeat," the SS (Steamship) Oklahoma is attacked and sunk by German U-boat 123 within site of St. Simons Island, Georgia (Glynn County). After closing to a distance of 400 meters, Kapitanleutnant Reinhard Hardegan gave the order to fire on the merchant marine vessel. The U-boat fired a single torpedo at the unarmed oil tanker, which suffered a direct hit to its engine room. The tanker went down in minutes and 19 men of the 38 man merchant marine crew died. Hardegan then found the Esso Baton Rouge (3 dead out of a 41 man crew). Among the boats giving aid and assistance was the yacht of Coca-Cola magnate Charles Candler.
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| April 9, 1942 |
Heading south off the coast of Georgia, U-boat 123 sinks the Esparta off the coast of Cumberland Island, Georgia (Camden County).
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| May 5, 1942 |
Clarence Cooper is born, Decatur, Georgia |
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Clarence Cooper |
| May 9, 1942 |
Singer Tommy Roe born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Tommy Roe |
| August 24, 1942 |
U. S. Senator Max Cleland born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Max Cleland
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| November 28, 1942 |
Announcement of Frank Sinkwich as winner of the Heisman Trophy. A successful halfback for the University of Georgia Athens football team, Sinkwich would become a Detroit Lion the following year.
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Frank Sinkwich |
| January 1, 1943 |
Georgia defeats UCLA 9-0 in the Rose Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 1, 1943 |
Georgia wins Rose Bowl
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Georgia beats UCLA, 9-0 at the Rose Bowl |
| June 15, 1943 |
58th Bombardment Wing of the Army Air Force is formed in Marietta, Georgia. It is the first B-29 unit established by the Army Air Force |
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Marietta, GA |
| July 4, 1943 |
Football player Emerson Boozer born, Augusta, Georgia
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| September 30, 1943 |
Jody Powell born, Cordele, Georgia
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Jody Powell |
| January 1, 1944 |
Georgia Tech defeats Tulsa in the Sugar Bowl
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| July 4, 1944 |
Rev. Primus King, enters the courthouse in Columbus, Georgia and attempts to vote in the "white only" Democratic primary. King was black.
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The Road to Integration
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Columbus, Georgia |
| December 24, 1944 |
Mike Curb born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| January 1, 1945 |
Tulsa defeats Georgia Tech 26-12 at the Orange Bowl
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| April 12, 1945 |
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia, victim of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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| January 1, 1946 |
Georgia defeats Tulsa 20-6 in the Oil Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| April 2, 1946 |
The U. S. Supreme Court, in Primus King v. State of Georgia, rules the "white only" primary is unconstitutional.
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The Road to Integration
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| August 18, 1946 |
The state of Georgia grants a charter to "The Colombians," a highly organized, all-white group of neo-Nazis (although the state did not know this at the time) that promoted hatred of Jews and blacks.
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The Colombians |
| October 13, 1946 |
Actor Demond Wilson born, Valdosta, Georgia
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| December 20, 1946 |
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III born, Perry, Georgia
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Sonny Perdue |
| December 21, 1946 |
Gene Talmadge dies, cirrhosis of liver, beginning Georgia's three governors controversy
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Eugene Talmadge |
| December 21, 1946 |
Eugene Talmadge, who had recently been elected, but not inaugurated, governor of Georgia dies, sparking the "three governors controversy" |
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Georgia's Three Governors Controversy |
| January 1, 1947 |
Georgia defeats the University of North Carolina in the Sugar Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 15, 1947 |
Herman Talmadge, son of Gene Talmadge and a write-in candidate on the 1946 gubernatorial ballot, claimed the governorship of Georgia. Outgoing governor Ellis Arnell refused to acknowledge Talmadge's claim to the governorship.
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Georgia's Three Governors Controversy |
| March 19, 1947 |
Lt. Governor M. E. Thompson is made governor by the Georgia Supreme Court
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Georgia's Three Governors Controversy |
| April 9, 1947 |
The "Journey of Reconciliation" began, testing the adherence to new integrated interstate bus rules throughout the South, including Georgia. First of a number of "Freedom Rides", as they would later be known, sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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The Road to Integration
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| May 2, 1947 |
JoAnn Pflug born, Atlanta, Georgia
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JoAnn Pflug |
| June 21, 1947 |
Inaugural run of "Man o' War" rail service between Columbus and Atlanta on the Central of Georgia Railway
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Columbus, Georgia |
| January 1, 1948 |
Georgia ties Maryland 20-20 in the Gator Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 1, 1948 |
Georgia Tech defeats Kansas 20-14 at the Orange Bowl
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| March 2, 1948 |
Roy Barnes born, Cobb County, Georgia
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| April 10, 1948 |
Football player Mel Blount born, Vidalia, Georgia
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| April 12, 1948 |
Tying the course record, Georgian Claude Harmon wins the Masters at Augusta
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Masters Tournament |
| June 28, 1948 |
Clarence Thomas is born, Pinpoint (near Savannah), Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Clarence Thomas |
| September 29, 1948 |
WSB-TV is dedicated. It is the first commercial television station in Georgia. |
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WSB Atlanta |
| October 31, 1948 |
Railroad accident in Edison, Georgia (Calhoun County) claims the lives of three workers on the Seaboard Air Line railroad, on the old Georgia, Florida and Alabama Line track
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Calhoun County, Georgia |
| November 8, 1948 |
With 100 paintings from the collection of Alfred H. Holbrook, the Georgia Museum of Art opens on the campus of the University of Georgia. |
| December 3, 1948 |
The Board of Governors of the Georgia Bar Association unanimously backs a bill allowing women jurors to be seated |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| January 1, 1949 |
Georgia loses to Texas 41-28 at the Orange Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 24, 1949 |
Georgia Women Jurors bill moves to the floor of the state house |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| February 24, 1949 |
Georgia Women Jurors bill fails to pass the state house |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| December 11, 1949 |
"Fiddlin'" John Carson died, Atlanta, Georgia
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Fiddlin' John Carson |
| January 18, 1950 |
Georgia State Industrial College renamed to Savannah State College |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| April 17, 1950 |
The U. S. Supreme Court dismisses South v. Peters, an early attempt to end Georgia's county-unit system. |
| May 15, 1950 |
State of Georgia presents a medal to the son of William Fuller in recognition of his father's efforts during the Great Locomotive Chase. The ceremony takes place at the Cyclorama in Atlanta. |
| September 21, 1950 |
The National Park Service abandons the property at New Echota, turning it over to the State of Georgia. |
| September 29, 1950 |
Horace Ward applies to the segregated University of Georgia Law School. |
| December 9, 1950 |
Georgia is defeated by Texas A&M in the President's Cup (bowl game)
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 17, 1951 |
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, a movie based on a book of the same title by famed Georgia writer Cora Harris, starring Susan Hayward, William Lundigan and Rory Calhoun, is released. It was filmed in Georgia, including extensive work in White County (Helen, Cleveland and Nora Mills)
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White County, Georgia |
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| February 20, 1951 |
Georgia ratifies the 22th Amendment to the Constitution (Presidential term limits)
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| April 12, 1951 |
[circa] Mary Ball Tinius becomes the first woman to be seated on a jury in Georgia, in White County, Georgia. Legislation had not yet passed allowing women jurors |
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White County, Georgia |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| June 7, 1951 |
Horace Ward's application to the University of Georgia Law School is rejected. |
| January 1, 1952 |
Georgia Tech defeats Baylor 17-14 at the Orange Bowl in Miami
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| February 28, 1952 |
U. S. Senator from Georgia Richard B. Russell announces his candidacy for President of the United States.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| June 23, 1952 |
Donald Hollowell, Constance Baker Motley and Austin Thomas Walden file suit in Atlanta federal court to allow Horace Ward into the University of Georgia Law School |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
| July 21, 1952 |
African-American comedian George Wallace is born, Atlanta, Georgia
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| July 21, 1952 |
The 1952 Democratic Convention is held at Chicago's International Amphitheater. Among the candidates for president are Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman, Estes Keefauver, Robert Kerr, and Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| July 24, 1952 |
The temperature in Louisville, Georgia rises to 112 degrees, a state record
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| September 16, 1952 |
The Cason J. Callaway, a merchant marine ship named for the Georgia textile magnate, makes her initial voyage. |
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Cason J. Callaway |
| January 1, 1953 |
Georgia Tech defeats Ole Miss 24-7 at the Sugar Bowl
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| February 4, 1953 |
Georgia's house passes the Women Juror bill and sends it on to the senate |
| February 19, 1953 |
Georgia enacts literary censorship, creating a board to review magazines, books and other forms of literary expression for material it considered obscene
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| April 18, 1953 |
More than 300 people were injured by a tornado in Muscogee County, Georgia
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| September 9, 1953 |
Horace Ward is drafted, effectively suspending his case to integrate the University of Georgia. |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
| December 8, 1953 |
Actress Kim Basinger born, Athens, Georgia
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Kim Basinger |
| January 1, 1954 |
Georgia Tech defeats West Virginia 42-19 at the Sugar Bowl
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| February 21, 1954 |
Nelson Robert Duncan, who was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list is apprehended in Atlanta, Georgia by police who were investigating an open skylight in a local grocery store. Duncan was attempting to burglarize the store safe.
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| March 29, 1954 |
Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson presents the Medal of Honor for Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips to his mother, Izora Cantrell. Phillips body is reinterred at the Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia.
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Marietta, GA |
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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips
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| September 29, 1954 |
Telephone workers throughout Georgia and the Southeast go on strike.
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| October 30, 1954 |
T. Graham Brown born, Arabi, Georgia
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Anthony 'T.' Graham Brown |
| November 18, 1954 |
Ray Charles, in an Atlanta, Georgia studio, records "I Got a Woman," blending rhythm and blues and gospel for the first time, forming the roots of soul music. |
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Ray Charles |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| December 2, 1954 |
Georgia Senators Russell and George vote to censure Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| September 5, 1955 |
Waffle House Unit No. 1 (the first Waffle House) opens in Avondale Estates, Georgia. |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
| October 4, 1955 |
George Mathews of Americus, in association with Bell Systems, demonstrates a photovoltic (sun-powered) phone, the Bell Solar Battery, in the rural Georgia town.
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Sumter County, Georgia |
| October 9, 1955 |
Bill Elliot born, Dawsonville, Georgia
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Bill Elliott |
| November 7, 1955 |
In a pivitol ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court desegregates public golf courses, playgrounds and beaches. Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge says the public has the right to "refuse to comply." (Actually, they don't)
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| January 1, 1956 |
Georgia Tech defeats Ole Miss 7-0 at the Sugar Bowl
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| January 20, 1956 |
Branch Rickey described the problems he faced after his decision to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers by signing Jackie Robinson in a speech in Atlanta, Georgia
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| February 1, 1956 |
The gates on Lake Lanier's dam, near Gainesville, Georgia, close, beginning the containment of the most popular Corps of Engineers lake in the Southeast. |
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Lake Lanier |
| March 12, 1956 |
Declaration of Constitutional Principles, also known as the "Southern Manifesto," is released to the press. Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell wrote the final draft of the Manifesto, which attacked the Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education Topeka. Only three southern Senators refused to sign it: Estes Kefauver, Albert Gore (Sr.) and Lyndon Johnson.
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The Road to Integration
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| June 8, 1956 |
The Great Locomotive Chase, starring Fess Parker, Jeff Hunter and Jeff York opens at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. Much of the action was filmed on the Tallulah Falls Railroad in northeast Georgia. |
| October 14, 1956 |
On its way to an undefeated season, Georgia Tech introduces the first non-leather football.
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| October 19, 1956 |
Wayne-Gordon house, built by James Moore Wayne, (Savannah mayor, U. S. Congressman, Supreme Court Justice), home to William Washington Gordon (founder of Central of Georgia Railway) and birthplace of his daughter Julliette Gordon Low, and is dedicated as a museum after an extensive renovation
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts |
| October 27, 1956 |
Alexander Memorial Coliseum, on the Georgia Tech campus, is dedicated
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| December 17, 1956 |
Horace Ward's suit opens in court, as he continues his attempt to integrate the University of Georgia |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
| February 12, 1957 |
Federal judge Frank Hooper dismisses Horace Ward's case to integrate the University of Georgia on the grounds that he had failed to reapply when he was rejected and that he had been accepted to another law school |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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The Road to Integration
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| February 24, 1957 |
About 100 members of the Ku Klux Klan visit Koinonia Farms after a Sumter County newspaper erroneously reports that the owner endorsed the applications of two black men to Georgia State College of Business Administration (now Georgia State College). They advice the owners it would be a good time to leave the county
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| May 13, 1957 |
State of Georgia approves $250,000 to improve land purchased by the city of Calhoun and Gordon County and donated to the state. The land was the site of the first capital of the Cherokee Nation, New Echota.
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Gordon County, Georgia |
| January 28, 1958 |
Georgia Museum of Art opens following a complete renovation and remodeling. |
| April 6, 1958 |
Arnold Palmer wins the Masters Tournement in Augusta, Georgia. It is his first "major" tournement win.
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Masters Tournament |
| April 10, 1958 |
R&B singer Chuck Willis died in Atlanta, Georgia from peritonitis. He was barely 30 years old.
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Chuck Willis |
| August 8, 1958 |
Deborah Norville born, Dalton, Georgia
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| September 19, 1958 |
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, Inc. gives Stone Mountain to the state of Georgia
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Stone Mountain |
| September 20, 1958 |
Martin Luther King is stabbed by a mentally deranged woman from Adrian, Georgia, while on a book tour in New York City.
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Martin Luther King
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| May 25, 1959 |
Lake Lanier reaches its normal height (1,070 feet above sea level) for the first time. |
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Lake Lanier |
| August 19, 1959 |
Blind Willie McTell dies from a cerebral hemhorrage, Milledgeville, Georgia
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William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell |
| November 29, 1959 |
The Midway Colonial Museum, Midway, Georgia, is dedicated. |
| January 1, 1960 |
Georgia defeats Missouri 14-0 at the Orange Bowl in Miami
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 5, 1960 |
In Coke v. City of Atlanta the District Court of North Georgia, Atlanta, finds that Dobbs House Restaurant, as agent for Atlanta at the airport violated the 14th Amendment rights of H. D. Coke by refusing to serve him in the same area as white patrons. Coke was Black. The judge also dismissed the portion of the suit against Atlanta. |
| February 29, 1960 |
In response to a filibuster organized by Georgia Senator Richard Russell, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announces he will keep the Senate in session continuously until a new Civil Rights bill proposed by the Eisenhower administration is passed. A watered-down version of the bill will pass later in the year.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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The Road to Integration
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| March 10, 1960 |
Some places in north Georgia receive up to 10 inches of snow from a widespread storm
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| May 4, 1960 |
Dr. Martin Luther King arrested for driving without a Georgia license (he had one from Alabama and lived in Georgia at the time.)
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Martin Luther King
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| June 4, 1960 |
"Mac" Davis graduates from South Dekalb High School, Georgia
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'Mac' Davis |
| October 2, 1960 |
Marietta added to the Metro Atlanta telephone calling area
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| October 26, 1960 |
Robert Kennedy calls Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver seeking King's release from Reidsville Prison
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The Road to Integration
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Martin Luther King
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| November 19, 1960 |
Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles reaches Number 1. It is the first time Charles tops the Pop Chart
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Ray Charles |
| November 25, 1960 |
Singer Amy Grant born, Augusta, Georgia
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| January 6, 1961 |
Macon judge William Bootle instructs the University of Georgia to admit Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to the University, finding that they had been excluded from admission simply because they were black
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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The Road to Integration
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| January 7, 1961 |
After meeting with attorney Griffin Bell and others, segregationist governor Earnest Vandiver moves to stay Bootle's order to desegregate the University of Georgia
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| January 9, 1961 |
Bootle stays his ruling forcing the University of Georgia to desegregate. Bootle's stay is ruled "improvidently granted" by an Atlanta judge. Vernon Jordan is told to escort Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to UGA to register for class. Georgia Governor Earnest Vandiver, who is required by law to close integrated schools does so in a way that UGA can keep operating at least for a few days: He cuts off state funding.
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
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The Road to Integration
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| January 10, 1961 |
Judge W. A. Bootle issues a temporary injunction preventing Georgia governor Earnest Vandiver from cutting off funds to the University of Georgia to prevent black Americans from attending class.
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| January 10, 1961 |
University of Georgia quarterback Fran Tarkenton, picked by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the draft, announces he has signed a contract with the expansion team
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| January 11, 1961 |
Racists riot in front of Myers Hall, where Charlayne Hunter had been living, prompting University of Georgia officials to suspend Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, another black student, for their "own safety."
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| January 12, 1961 |
Judge W. A. Bootle strikes down a state law designed to cut off funding if the University of Georgia becomes integrated.
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| January 19, 1961 |
In an attempt to deal with federal pressure to integrate schools, Gov. Earnest Vandiver proposes an amendment to the Georgia constitution that ends all laws designed to maintain segregated schools. In order to have it pass the overwhelmingly pro-segregation legislature, he includes a local option to close schools or integrate. This date is often noted as January 18.
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The Road to Integration
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| March 29, 1961 |
The 23th Amendment to the Constitution, Presidential vote for Washington D. C., becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| May 6, 1961 |
Attorney General Robert Kennedy speaks at Law Day, University of Georgia Law School, Athens
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| June 6, 1961 |
Art Gillham dies of a heart attack, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Art Gillham |
| July 30, 1961 |
Actor Laurence Fishburne born, Augusta, Georgia
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Laurence Fishborne |
| December 16, 1961 |
Martin Luther King is arrested in Albany, Georgia while attempting to desegregate public facilities in the city.
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Martin Luther King
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Albany, Georgia |
| February 27, 1962 |
Martin Luther King is convicted of minor offenses in Albany, Georgia as a result of his attempt to desegregate that city, however other charges remain pending
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Martin Luther King
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Albany, Georgia |
| May 9, 1962 |
106 members and friends of the Atlanta Art Association begin a month-long tour of Europe. Crash at Orly Airport - The Day Atlanta Died |
| June 3, 1962 |
Air France jet carrying 106 Atlanta civic and cultural leaders crashed during take-off at Orly Airport in Paris, France. Crash at Orly Airport - The Day Atlanta Died |
| July 10, 1962 |
Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph David Abernathy are convicted of charges stemming from his 1961 attempt to desegregate government buildings in Albany, Georgia. He is sentenced to a 45-day jail term.
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Martin Luther King
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Ralph David Abernathy, Jr. |
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Albany, Georgia |
| July 12, 1962 |
An unidentified person pays Martin Luther King's fine, freeing him from an Albany, Georgia jail
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Martin Luther King
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Albany, Georgia |
| October 16, 1962 |
Jimmy Carter loses the Democratic primary in a run for the Georgia senate. Carter asks for a recount and wins, thanks to Baker v. Carr
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Jimmy Carter |
| November 28, 1962 |
The Skylift, an Alpine-style tramway, opens at Stone Mountain Park. Governor Ernest Vandiver and Swiss Ambassador August Lindt attend the ceremony. |
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Stone Mountain |
| December 2, 1962 |
A Louisville and Nashville train derails in Marietta, Georgia while carrying nuclear weapons components |
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Marietta, GA |
| December 21, 1962 |
Country music singer Christy Forester born, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
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| December 22, 1962 |
Jeanette Clark, a 16 year old Barnesville, Georgia native, dies in a car accident on U. S. Highway 341, along with 2 other teenages who were attending Gordon College. Wayne Cochran, who had already written "Last Kiss," dedicated the song to Clark. |
| April 16, 1963 |
The Antebellum Plantation opens at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park |
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Stone Mountain |
| June 17, 1963 |
Central of Georgia Railway becomes a subsidiary of Southern Railway
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| August 28, 1963 |
Martin Luther King leads a march of 250,000 supporters of Civil Rights in Washington D.C. Speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King tells the racially mixed crowd "I Have A Dream." Some estimate the crowd at 400,000. This is the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and speakers other than King include Georgian John Lewis, then chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).
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Martin Luther King
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| September 10, 1963 |
Groundbreaking for St. Mary's Hospital, Athens, Georgia
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| October 1, 1963 |
Georgia, eight months ahead of the National Civil Rights Act comprehensively desegregates virtually every public facility
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The Road to Integration
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| October 27, 1963 |
Marla Maples born, Dalton, Georgia
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| October 31, 1963 |
Just before Halloween festivities were scheduled to begin in downtown Marietta, Georgia, Atherton's Drug Store exploded in a ball of flames, killing 7 and injuring 34 |
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Marietta, GA |
| November 29, 1963 |
President Lyndon Johnson issues a call for a committee to investigate the Kennedy assassination. Georgia Senator Richard Russell's name is on the list of members.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| January 23, 1964 |
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution, elimination of poll tax, becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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The Road to Integration
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| January 29, 1964 |
Dallas (Georgia) added to the Metro Atlanta telephone calling area
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| March 5, 1964 |
Milwaukee Braves owners complete negotiations to move the team to Atlanta, Georgia.
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
| March 12, 1964 |
Earthquake epicentered in tiny Haddock, Georgia, between Milledgeville and Macon
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| May 15, 1964 |
After passing a bad check in a Rome, Georgia store, Sammie Earl Ammons is chased by local authorities into Cherokee County, Alabama, where he is arrested. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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Rome, Georgia |
| May 26, 1964 |
Robert Kennedy speaks at the dedication of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy chapel on the campus of the University of West Georgia, Carroll County, Georgia |
| June 27, 1964 |
On the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, a granite overlook on Big Kennesaw Mountain is dedicated to the generals in the battle that were born in Georgia
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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| September 19, 1964 |
Covenant College on Lookout Mountain is dedicated
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Lookout Mountain |
| September 19, 1964 |
Trisha Yearwood born, Monticello, Georgia |
| November 3, 1964 |
Georgia is one of six states whose electoral votes are won by Barry Goldwater. Lyndon Johnson wins by a landslide. Georgia objected to much of Johnson's "Great Society" plans.
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| November 3, 1964 |
Georgia, along with other southern states, vote for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. It is the first time this happened since the Republican Party was founded.
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| November 7, 1964 |
"Last Kiss," a song written by Wayne Cochran, and recorded by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers reaches #2. The song is dedicated to a young woman who died in an accident in Barnesville, Georgia. |
| December 26, 1964 |
Georgia defeats Texas Tech 7-0 in the Sun Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| 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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| June 15, 1965 |
Julian Bond defeats Malcolm Dean in the race for the Georgia House, 136th District. |
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Julian Bond |
| January 10, 1966 |
Georgia legislature refuses to seat Julian Bond because of his advocation of draft-dodging. Bond would have been the first black legislator in Georgia since Reconstruction
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Julian Bond |
| May 16, 1966 |
11 people were injured in a tornado that touched down in Muscogee County Georgia, causing almost 3 million dollars of damage.
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 30, 1966 |
Singer Dolly Parton marries Carl Dean in Ringgold, Georgia
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
| September 28, 1966 |
Lillian Smith dies, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Lillian Smith |
| November 8, 1966 |
No one wins the Election for governor of Georgia. "Bo" Callaway, Republican, wins the popular vote but not a majority, thanks to Ellis Arnell's third party run for the position. According to Georgia law at the time the legislature must decide the outcome. They choose segregationist Lester Maddox (Democrat) to the lead the state.
Final totals in the election:
Howard H. "Bo" Callaway: 449,894 (47.07%)
Lester G. Maddox: 448,044 (46.88%)
Ellis G. Arnall: 57,832 (6.05%) |
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Lester Maddox |
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1966 Election for Governor of Georgia |
| December 5, 1966 |
The U.S. Supreme Court hears the case involving the election of the Governor of Georgia. |
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1966 Election for Governor of Georgia |
| December 5, 1966 |
U. S. Supreme Court reverses a lower court decision, ruling in Julian Bond's favor. Bond had been denied his seat in the Georgia House because he had encouraged draft dodging. |
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Julian Bond |
| December 12, 1966 |
U. S. Supreme Court overturns a lower court ruling, permitting the election of the governor of Georgia by a vote in the Georgia legislature. |
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1966 Election for Governor of Georgia |
| December 31, 1966 |
Georgia defeats SMU 24-9 in the Cotton Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 2, 1967 |
Georgia Tech loses to Florida, 27-12 at the Orange Bowl in Miami
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| January 12, 1967 |
Ethel Harpst dies, Montgomery, AL. Her body is buried in Cedartown, Georgia
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| February 10, 1967 |
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, defines presidential disability and succession, becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 28, 1967 |
Julia Roberts born, Smyrna, Georgia
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Julia Roberts |
| December 14, 1967 |
Campus Planning and Improvement Committee proposes the creation of the Georgia Botanical Gardens to UGA. |
| March 14, 1968 |
Final proposal prepared for the Georgia Botanical Garden in Athens. |
| April 9, 1968 |
Martin Luther King's funeral is held in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Lester Maddox, governor of the state at the time, refuses to close the state government in honor of the slain Civil Rights leader, or attend the funeral. Maddox felt King was an "enemy of the country." The governor additionally stationed 64 riot-helmeted state troopers at the entrances of the capitol to protect "the property of the state." |
| April 9, 1968 |
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Lester Maddox |
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Martin Luther King
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| October 2, 1968 |
National Trail System Act becomes law. This protects the 79 miles of The Appalachian Trail in Georgia, making it the first federal lineal park, along with the other 2000+ miles in other states. The land falls under management by the National Park Service
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| December 17, 1968 |
Ruth Eiseman-Schier, the first woman ever to appear on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, is arrested from the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. Mackle, who was eventually rescued, had been buried alive in a coffin-like box in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
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| January 1, 1969 |
Georgia loses to Arkansas 16-2 at the Sugar Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 20, 1969 |
Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell assumes the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| October 13, 1969 |
Sports Illustrated features Georgia RB Bruce Kemp on the cover
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| December 20, 1969 |
Georgia loses to Arkansas 16-2 in the Sun Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 20, 1970 |
Georgia ratifies the 19th Amendment, allowing women the right to vote, 50 years after it becomes law
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| March 25, 1970 |
"Mary Doe" applies for a "therapeutic abortion" (allowed under Georgia's laws), but is turned down.
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Roe v. Wade expanded in ruling on Doe v. Bolton |
| March 27, 1970 |
Georgia ratifies the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote |
| April 16, 1970 |
Lawyers for "Mary Doe" and other pro-choice entities begin federal action to overturn Georgia's abortion laws.
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Roe v. Wade expanded in ruling on Doe v. Bolton |
| May 16, 1970 |
"Man o' War," Central of Georgia rail service between Columbus and Atlanta ends.
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Columbus, Georgia |
| June 22, 1970 |
In a ballroom of the American Hotel in Atlanta, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, both of which had Georgia roots, were combined into a single organization
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| July 18, 1970 |
The Great Wallenda walks across Tallulah Gorge, Tallulah Falls, Georgia. |
| January 12, 1971 |
"The time for racial discrimination is over" announces Jimmy Carter, Georgia's new governor, shocking a mostly white Georgia crowd
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 17, 1971 |
Furman v. Georgia argued before the Supreme Court |
| February 15, 1971 |
A massive restructuring plan for Georgia's bureaucracy is signed into law by Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter |
| April 23, 1971 |
Two waves of storms, which included tornadoes that registered F3 on the Fujita-Pearson scale, swept through Georgia destroying more than a million dollars in property, killing one person and injuring 23. Counties affected were Polk, Gwinnett, Douglas, Dekalb, Carroll, Screven, Paulding, Randolph, Houstoun, Troup, Macon, Dooly, Sumter, Chatham, Lanier, Tattnall, and Wilcox.
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
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Douglas County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| June 21, 1971 |
In Jenness v. Fortson the Supreme Court upholds Georgia's "5% Rule." The rule, passed in 1943, requires a new political party to secure signatures of registered voters equal to 5% of the voters in the previous election to secure a position on the ballot. |
| October 4, 1971 |
Georgia ratifies the 26th Amendment, setting the voting age to 18
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| November 13, 1971 |
Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn walk the trails in the incomplete Georgia Botanical Garden in Athens. He agrees to allocate state funds to complete the garden. |
| December 18, 1971 |
Bobby Jones, 69, dies, Atlanta, Georgia
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Bobby Jones |
| December 31, 1971 |
Georgia defeats North Carolina 7-3 in the Gator Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| June 29, 1972 |
Supreme Court rules in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because it was applied in an arbitrary manner |
| November 7, 1972 |
Richard Nixon defeats George McGovern for President. Georgia votes for Nixon. Democrat Sam Nunn defeats Republican Fletcher Thompson in the U. S. Senate race to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard B. Russell
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| November 11, 1972 |
Berry Oakley dies, Macon, Georgia
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Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band |
| January 8, 1973 |
Ice fell in Atlanta and north Georgia, followed by an unusual 96 hour below freezing period. Restoring power took more than a week.
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| January 22, 1973 |
Using the Roe v. Wade ruling made earlier in the day, the Supreme Court decides to dramatically widen its pro-choice ruling by striking down Georgia's more liberal abortion laws. Although it is Roe v. Wade that is normally cited, it was Doe v. Bolton that is the landmark ruling on laws prohibiting abortions.
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Roe v. Wade expanded in ruling on Doe v. Bolton |
| February 10, 1973 |
More snow for Georgia as a storm dumps up to 18 inches in the northeast
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| March 28, 1973 |
Governor Jimmy Carter signs the re-drafted death penalty into law. The earlier version had been ruled arbitrary and discriminatory against blacks in Furman v. Georgia
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| April 9, 1973 |
Georgian Tommy Aaron wins the Masters in Augusta
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Masters Tournament |
| May 14, 1973 |
Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs, and Wayne Coleman enter the Alday home in Seminole County (Donalsonville), Georgia looking for money and guns. The Maryland work camp escapees kill Jerry Alday, his father Ned, two brothers and an uncle. Jerry's wife Mary, who had witnessed some of the killing, was forced into a car and raped repeatedly before she was killed.
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Alday family murders
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| July 24, 1973 |
John Ehrlichman is questioned by Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge during the Watergate hearings.
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| August 17, 1973 |
Conrad Potter Aiken died, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| October 27, 1973 |
Gladys Knight's Midnight Train to Georgia reaches #1 on Billboard's pop chart. She made significant changes to the original tune, Midnight Plane to Houston
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| December 13, 1973 |
Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter appears on The New What's My Line, hosted by Larry Blyden, with panel members Gene Shalit, Dana Valery, Arlene Francis and Soupy Sales. They are unable to determine that he is governor of Georgia.
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Jimmy Carter |
| December 28, 1973 |
Georgia defeats Maryland 17-16 in the Peach Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| April 4, 1974 |
The 1974 "super outbreak" of tornadoes badly damages counties in north Georgia. |
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1974 Tornado Outbreak in Georgia |
| May 4, 1974 |
Dedication of Dean Rusk portrait, University of Georgia. Among those speaking are Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy. Gonzo reporter Hunter S. Thompson (Rolling Stone) becomes a fan of the governor after an impassioned plea to use political office as a vehicle to end social injustice.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Dean Rusk
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Jimmy Carter |
| July 18, 1974 |
Rosalynn Carter attends the groundbreaking for a new headquarters at the Georgia Botanical Gardens in Athens. |
| August 8, 1974 |
Oglethorpe Power Corporation is formed to manage the power needs of 38 EMC across the state of Georgia |
| August 21, 1974 |
Set in Georgia in 1948, Buster and Billie is released to theaters. It stars Jan Micheal Vincent and Joan Goodfellow as the title characters and was filmed in Statesboro
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| September 7, 1974 |
Bill Elliot wins his first race, Dixie Speedway, Woodstock, Georgia
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Bill Elliott |
| September 21, 1974 |
Jack Alderman and John Arthur Brown kill Alderman's wife in Garden City, Georgia |
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Jack Alderman |
| October 30, 1974 |
Groundbreaking of the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta
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| December 21, 1974 |
Georgia loses to Miami, Ohio 21-10 in the Tangerine Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 1, 1975 |
Outast member Antwann Andre Patton ("Big Boi") born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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OutKast |
| April 18, 1975 |
Both the plans for I-485 and the Stone Mountain Tollway are officially discontinued by the Georgia Department of Transportation
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| April 18, 1975 |
The rail depot at Plains, Georgia opens as Jimmy Carter's campaign headquarters
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| May 27, 1975 |
OutKast member Andre Lauren Benjamin born, Atlanta, Georgia
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OutKast |
| September 12, 1975 |
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Facility in Glynco, Georgia, was dedicated. |
| January 1, 1976 |
Georgia loses to Arkansas 31-10 in the Cotton Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| July 2, 1976 |
In Gregg vs. Georgia the U. S. Supreme Court upholds the death penalty for murder, clarifying an earlier opinion that found the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment because of its arbitrary application
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| September 8, 1976 |
The Bobbin Show, a trade show of the American Apparel Manufacturers, becomes the first show in the new Georgia World Congress Center
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| September 14, 1976 |
The Georgia World Congress Center opens
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Georgia World Congress Center
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| September 23, 1976 |
Actor Kip Pardue born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Kevin Ian 'Kip' Pardue |
| November 2, 1976 |
Georgia approves a revision to the state constitution by a vote of 610,516 to 394,764. One change is that a governor may succeed himself.
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| November 2, 1976 |
Jimmy Carter becomes the first native born Georgian elected President of the United States
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 1, 1977 |
Georgia loses to Pitt at the Sugar Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 20, 1977 |
Jimmy Carter becomes the first native-born Georgian to be inaugurated President of the United States
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Jimmy Carter |
| March 28, 1977 |
Supreme Court hears the case of Coker v. Georgia. |
| April 4, 1977 |
Southern Airways Flight 242, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashed during a hailstorm while attempting an emergency landing on a two-lane highway near New Hope, Georgia (west of Atlanta)
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| May 29, 1977 |
Coker vs. Georgia. The U. S. Supreme Court denies the death sentence in a case of rape
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| June 29, 1977 |
Ruling in Coker v. Georgia, the Supreme Court holds that capital punishment in the case of rape is "grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment." |
| July 1, 1977 |
Georgia's "Cave Law" (Cave Protection Acts, 1977) goes into effect, protecting caves throughout the state from pollution, looting and vandalism
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| July 16, 1977 |
Bert Lance testifies before a Senate sub-committee, answering questions about activities of that bank while he was Chairman of the Board. Questions also arose about the involvement of Calhoun National Bank (Calhoun, Georgia). These questions revolved around "sweetheart" loans made to Lance.
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Bert Lance |
| August 20, 1977 |
Jack Stephens introduces Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady, who makes an offer for Lance's 200,767 shares of the National Bank of Georgia. The deal is refused at the time, but is consummated in 1982.
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Bert Lance |
| September 6, 1977 |
Larry Gene Campbell is arrested in Atlanta, Georgia after a neighbor spots his picture on a wanted posted at the local post office. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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| September 15, 1977 |
Mary Willis "Ferne" Jackson, Director of Public Education for the Columbus, Georgia Health Department is strangled in her bedroom by an intruder.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 15, 1977 |
Carter County staring Victor French and Kene Holliday begins a two-year run. The show aimed to cash in on Jimmy Carter's presidency by being set in Georgia
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| September 21, 1977 |
Office of Management and Budget Director Bert Lance resigns his position because of allegations of unethical behavior within the National Bank of Georgia
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Bert Lance |
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Jimmy Carter |
| September 25, 1977 |
71-year-old Jean Dimenstien is found strangled and assaulted in a sexual manner in her Wynnton (an area of Columbus, Georgia) home. Similar to a murder that had occured 10 days earlier, the elderly women of Columbus had become a target for a serial killer.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| December 14, 1977 |
Farmers, including many from Georgia, involved in the American Agriculture Movement stopped buying and selling products, as they look for "parity." The strike quickly fizzled
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| January 5, 1978 |
Lance sells his National Bank of Georgia stock to Ghaith Phararon, an associate of Pakistani banker Agha Hasan Abedi, who founded BCCI in 1972
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Bert Lance |
| January 6, 1978 |
Ralph Robert Cozzolino is arrested in Jonesboro, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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| December 31, 1978 |
Georgia loses to Stanford 25-22 in the Bluebonnet Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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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 |
| April 20, 1979 |
President Jimmy Carter, while on vacation in Plains, Georgia, is attacked by what press secretary Jody Powell described as a "swamp rabbit." The press, completely ignorant as to swamp rabbits, portrayed Carter being attacked by a "killer" bunny rabbit.
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Jimmy Carter |
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Jody Powell |
| April 24, 1979 |
Georgia on my Mind as performed by Ray Charles is made the state song
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Ray Charles |
| June 20, 1979 |
Willie Foster Sellers is arrested at a Delta Frieght dock in Atlanta, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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Delta Air Lines
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| June 30, 1979 |
Inaugural service on Marta's East Line, running from Georgia State Station to Avondale
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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) |
| September 18, 1979 |
The Misadventure of Sheriff Lobo begins a two year run starring Georgia native Claude Akins as the somewhat corrupt title character. Originally set in fictional Orly County, during the second season the show was set in Atlanta
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| December 8, 1979 |
The (Nitty Gritty) Dirt Band and Linda Ronstadt hit the top 40 records with "An American Dream." which spends 19 weeks on the Billboard chart, eventually peaking at #13. In the first verse is the line "Augusta Georgia is just no place to be."
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| March 11, 1980 |
Jimmy Carter wins the Democratic Presidential Primary in Georgia; Ronald Reagan wins the Republican Primary |
| April 5, 1980 |
In what Entertainment Weekly called one of the top 100 rock events of all time, the Athens, Georgia based band R.E.M. makes its first appearance
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| July 5, 1980 |
Jimmy Carter takes reporters on a walking tour of Plains, Georgia |
| July 10, 1980 |
David and Katie Hardin are murdered at a south Georgia rest stop on I-75 near Lenox
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A killer pays the price |
| November 6, 1980 |
The Attorney General directs the FBI to join the investigation of missing and murdered children in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| November 6, 1980 |
Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge requests a recount in the U. S. Senate race |
| January 1, 1981 |
Georgia defeats Notre Dame, 17-10 at the Sugar Bowl, winning the National Title. Outgoing U. S. President Jimmy Carter watches
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 18, 1981 |
Pvt. Joseph Christopher is arrested at Fort Benning, Georgia and charged in the assault on a black enlisted man. His arrest resulted in Buffalo NY police solving a string of racist murders by Christopher, who was from the Buffalo area. |
| May 8, 1981 |
Pvt. Joseph Christopher, Fort Benning, Georgia is extradited to New York to stand trial for several racially motivated killings. |
| June 27, 1981 |
The IRS sells Billy Carter's gas station in Plains, Georgia to pay off back tazes |
| June 30, 1981 |
President Ronald Reagan visits Atlanta, Georgia
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| August 31, 1981 |
Georgia Bulldog running back Herschel Walker appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated |
| January 1, 1982 |
Pitt defeats Georgia, 24-20 at the Sugar Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| May 1, 1982 |
Kennesaw, Georgia passes a city law that required a head of household to maintain a firearm and ammunition, in response to a law passed by Morton Grove, IL., banning the possession of firearms
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| May 2, 1982 |
The Weather Channel begins broadcasting from a building in Cobb County
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| September 17, 1982 |
In the wee hours of the morning the Georgia House and Senate resolved the differences between the versions of the first new state constitution in 37 years |
| September 25, 1982 |
Lisa Ann Millican, part of a girls group from the Ethel Harpst Home in Cedartown, Georgia, disappeared while on a trip to the Riverbend Mall in Rome. Her body would be recovered a few days later near Fort Payne, Alabama
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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Rome, Georgia |
| December 9, 1982 |
Junior Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia Athens receives the Heisman Trophy at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City
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| January 1, 1983 |
Penn State defeats Georgia, 27-23 at the Sugar Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| April 28, 1983 |
Marla Maples wins the Resaca Beach Poster Girl Contest, held at Grandma's Food and Spirits in Dalton, Georgia
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| July 13, 1983 |
Georgia is required to pay $3 million dollars to black workers who were denied promotions at the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville
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| September 1, 1983 |
Conservative U. S. Representative Lawrence "Larry" McDonald, from Cobb County, Georgia dies when Korean Airlines Flight 007, a Boeing 747, is shot down by a Soviet MIG fighter in international waters in the Sea of Japan. All 269 people aboard died.
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| October 30, 1983 |
Lilian Carter dies, Americus, Georgia
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Lillian Carter |
| January 2, 1984 |
Georgia defeated the Texas Longhorns 10 - 9 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. With Texas leading late in the 4th quarter on three field goals, the Longhorns fumbled and Georgia recovered. Georgia QB John Lastinger tied the game on an option play and Kevin Butler kicked an extra point. Texas had been ranked #2 |
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| April 18, 1984 |
Carlton Gary is arrested on marijuana related charges in Columbus, Georgia. He posts bond and is freed.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| May 3, 1984 |
S. W. A. T. team members surround Carlton Gary, an escapee from the South Carolina prison system, at the Albany, Georgia, Holiday Inn. He was captured alive. While in Georgia's custody, he is linked to the murders of three of the Wynnton Stock Strangler's murders.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Albany, Georgia |
| October 2, 1984 |
Groundbreaking for the Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Original plans have been modified to answer some of the local concerns.
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Jimmy Carter |
| December 22, 1984 |
Georgia ties Florida State 17-17 in the Citrus Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 21, 1985 |
Record breaking cold weather sweeps into Georgia, with the temperature reaching -8 degrees in Atlanta, -6 degrees in Macon and 3 degrees in Savannah
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| June 11, 1985 |
The Georgia Supreme Court overturns the lower court ruling, orders new trial for Jim Williams
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| December 28, 1985 |
Georgia ties Arizona 13-13 in the Sun Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| March 11, 1986 |
Georgia pardons Leo Frank, not because of new evidence in the murder of Mary Phagan, but because the state failed to provide protection while Frank was in custody.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| March 31, 1986 |
First Union acquires Citizens Dekalb Bank of Clarkston, Georgia
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| October 1, 1986 |
First Union acquires Georgia State Bankshares, Inc., Atlanta
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| November 1, 1986 |
First Union completes the acquisition of First Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, Augusta
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| November 14, 1986 |
First Union buys Bank of Waynesboro (Georgia)
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| December 3, 1986 |
Plant Hatch, a nuclear power facility near Baxley, Georgia, accidentally released radioactive water into Georgia wetlands near the plant
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Nuclear warhead near Savannah |
| December 23, 1986 |
Georgia loses to Boston College 27-24 in the Hall of Fame Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 17, 1987 |
A small group of Atlantans march to protest lack of blacks in Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County). Led by Rev. Hosea William the march is disrupted by militant white racists, many from outside the county.
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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The Road to Integration
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| January 24, 1987 |
A crowd of 20,000 racially mixed people from the metropolitan Atlanta area join Rev. Hosea Williams and others in a unity march in Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County). A march the previous week had been turned back by racists.
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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The Road to Integration
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| February 9, 1987 |
Oprah Winfrey broadcasts her show from Cumming, Georgia, in response to the violent behavior unleashed towards civil rights marchers the month before. |
| June 1, 1987 |
Unit 1 of the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant becomes operational in Waynesboro, Georgia |
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Burke County, Georgia |
| December 23, 1987 |
Creation of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Plains, Georgia
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Jimmy Carter |
| December 29, 1987 |
Georgia defeats Arkansas 20-17 in the Liberty Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 2, 1988 |
Georgia ratifies the 27th Amendment, defining pay raises for Congress
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| April 9, 1988 |
Dave Prater of Sam and Dave dies when his car runs off I-75 in Georgia
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| April 25, 1988 |
Strong thunderstorms produce hail across much of Georgia. Highest recorded accumulation is at Fayetteville, where some 4.5 inches fell.
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| September 24, 1988 |
Earliest recorded frost for the state of Georgia
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| January 12, 1989 |
Zell Miller announces his support for a Georgia lottery. At the time Zell was Lt. Governor and intending to run for governor. |
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Zell Miller |
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Georgia Lottery |
| January 14, 1989 |
Louise Suggs, Tommie Aaron, Thomas William Barnes, Arnold Blum, Alexa Stirling Frazer, William Goodloe, Watts Gunn, Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., Mary Dorothy Kirby, Hugh Royer, Jr., Doug Sanders, Harold Sargent and Charlie Yates become the first people inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame |
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Louise Suggs |
| April 10, 1989 |
Georgia Tech reports successful cold fusion experiments |
| April 13, 1989 |
Georgia Tech admits its experiments with cold fusion were flawed. They blamed the problem on errant measuring tools. |
| May 30, 1989 |
Speaker of the House Jim Wright, who suffered ethical problems thanks to unusual royalties from the sale of a book, becomes the first Speaker to resign. Pushing the investigation into Wright's ethics problems: Georgian Newt Gingrich
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Newt Gingrich
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| November 8, 1989 |
One person dies and 8 are injured when a series of 3 tornadoes strike Pineview, Georgia
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| November 22, 1989 |
Groundbreaking on the Georgia Dome
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The Georgia Dome |
| December 30, 1989 |
Georgia loses to Syracuse 19-18 in the Peach Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 2, 1990 |
Douglas Corley is stabbed to death while working at his grocery store in Eastman, Georgia. Exzavious Gibson, 17, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. |
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Supreme Court ruling takes 2 in Georgia off death row |
| February 16, 1990 |
Heavy rains began falling in north Georgia. Combined with soggy ground from earlier rainfall this results in the downtown area of Mccaysville, Georgia flooding
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| February 26, 1990 |
Georgia Bulldogs mascot Uga IV dies
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| March 6, 1990 |
Georgia Bulldogs mascot Uga V is born
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| April 17, 1990 |
Ralph David Abernathy dies, Atlanta, Georgia
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Ralph David Abernathy, Jr. |
| May 23, 1990 |
Georgia Dome awarded Super Bowl XXVIII (1994) |
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The Georgia Dome |
| October 22, 1990 |
Francis Frank Sinkwich dies after an extended battle with cancer, Athens, Georgia
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Frank Sinkwich |
| November 6, 1990 |
Georgia elects Sam Nunn (only candidate) for U. S. Senate and Democrat Zell Miller as governor over Republican Johnny Isakson.
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Zell Miller |
| January 3, 1991 |
Luke Appling died, Cumming, Georgia
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Luke Appling |
| January 14, 1991 |
Zell Miller inaugurated as Georgia's 79th governor |
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Zell Miller |
| January 31, 1991 |
House votes to put up the question of instituting a Georgia lottery to the voters |
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Georgia Lottery |
| February 8, 1991 |
Senate votes to put up the question of instituting a Georgia lottery to the voters |
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Georgia Lottery |
| June 18, 1991 |
Atlanta, Georgia sets its all-time record for 1-hour rainfall total, with 3.47 inches falling between 6:52 A. M. and 7:52 A. M.
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| August 29, 1991 |
Five commemorative postage stamps go on sale celebrating comedians. Georgian Oliver Hardy (along with his partner, Stan Laurel) graces one of the stamps. |
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Oliver Hardy |
| October 7, 1991 |
I'll Fly Away a TV show set in fictional Bryland County, Georgia begins a two-year run on NBC. The show documented the life of the Bedfords and the Harpers, and the difference in their lifestyles in 1950's Georgia: one family was black, the other was white.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| December 27, 1991 |
Filmed in Fayetteville, Juliette, Senoia and Zebulon, Georgia, starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker, Fried Green Tomatoes is released
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| December 29, 1991 |
Georgia defeats Arkansas 24-15 in the Independence Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| March 1, 1992 |
Work on the Georgia Dome is completed, making it the largest cable supported fabric roof in the world
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The Georgia Dome |
| March 6, 1992 |
Severe thunderstorms strike across the state of Georgia, with Marietta receiving 6 inches of hail
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| March 23, 1992 |
Martha McChesney Berry, Lucy Craft Laney, Juliette Gordon Low, Sara Branham (Matthews) and Flannery O'Connor are the first inductees into the Georgia Women of Achievement
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Martha Berry |
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Flannery O'Connor |
| September 6, 1992 |
Atlanta Falcons play their first regular season game in the Georgia Dome, defeating the New York Jets 20-17 |
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Atlanta Falcons |
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The Georgia Dome |
| October 3, 1992 |
Strong storms move east from the Gulf of Mexico along the southern tier of Georgia counties. Brunswick, Georgia received 10 inches of rain
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| October 9, 1992 |
Alan Jackson releases Lot About Livin' (and a Little 'bout Love) with the song "Chattahoochee" on it. The album becomes a favorite in Georgia
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| November 3, 1992 |
Georgia lottery is approved by the voters |
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Georgia Lottery |
| November 3, 1992 |
William Clinton wins Georgia, with George Bush second and Ross Perot third; Wyche Fowler wins the popular vote for U. S. Senate, but fails to gain the required majority, forcing a run-off against Paul Coverdell. Cynthia McKinney is elected to become the first black woman to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives from the state of Georgia.
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Paul Coverdell |
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Cynthia McKinney |
| November 24, 1992 |
In a run-off election Georgia selects Republican Paul Coverdell as U. S. Senator over incumbent Democrat Wyche Fowler
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Paul Coverdell |
| December 1, 1992 |
Following devastating storms that hit the state the previous month, portions of Georgia are declared federal disaster areas
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| January 1, 1993 |
Georgia defeats Ohio State 21-14 in the Florida Citrus Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 8, 1993 |
Terry Ralston and her 15-year-old son Michael are killed after being taken from their laudromat in Jesup, Georgia. Micheal was shot 6 times from behind at close range, his mother was shot once. Larry Jenkins, 17, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. |
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Supreme Court ruling takes 2 in Georgia off death row |
| January 12, 1993 |
Flash floods rip through Southeast Georgia causing 10 million dollars in property damage
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| January 15, 1993 |
First Union completes acquisition of Decatur Federal, Decatur, Georgia
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| February 18, 1993 |
Billy Issacs released from Georgia prison
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Alday family murders
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| April 20, 1993 |
In a surprise announcement, Georgia does not select the low bid contractor to handle the new Georgia lottery, but GTECH, a Rhode Island company to which who had heavily lobbied for the contract. |
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Georgia Lottery |
| May 13, 1993 |
Inquiry into lottery officials choice of GTECH as the lottery vendor for the Georgia Lottery Corp. was appropriate in spite of the fact that GTECH's bid was 33% higher than the low bidder |
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Georgia Lottery |
| May 24, 1993 |
Final episode of Designing Women, a show set in Atlanta, Georgia airs on CBS.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| June 11, 1993 |
Moose Moss Aquatic Center is dedicated in Moultrie, Georgia |
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Colquitt County, Georgia |
| June 12, 1993 |
First Union merges with Georgia Federal, Atlanta
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| June 23, 1993 |
Fire destroys 4-Way Lunch in Cartersville. |
| June 29, 1993 |
Sales begin on Georgia Lottery first games: Instant Cash and Georgia Millionaire
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Georgia Lottery |
| August 10, 1993 |
Georgia Lottery introduces Cash 3 |
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Georgia Lottery |
| August 10, 1993 |
Tickets for Lotto Georgia go on sale for the first time
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| September 1, 1993 |
First Georgia HOPE Scholarship awarded to Matthew Miller of Snellville. He will attend Gwinnett Technical College |
| January 30, 1994 |
Super Bowl XXVIII is held at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta where the Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills, 30 to 13.
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The Georgia Dome |
| February 23, 1994 |
Hannah Dakota Fanning born, Conyers, Georgia |
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Dakota Fanning |
| March 24, 1994 |
Emily Tubman is inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement. |
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Emily Tubman |
| March 27, 1994 |
The Palm Sunday Killer tornadoes destroy a church in Piedmont, AL (west of Cedartown) before killing 18 in Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 9, 1994 |
President Clinton appoints Clarence Cooper to the United States District Court as a Judge for the Northern District of Georgia |
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Clarence Cooper |
| July 6, 1994 |
Tropical Storm Alberto causes the worst flooding in the history of Georgia, inundating a wide area of the state and causing the Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee Rivers to reach record high levels
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Tropical Storm Alberto |
| October 13, 1994 |
24 hour rainfall at Hunter, Georgia: 14.26 inches
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| November 18, 1994 |
Georgia Lottery introduces Fantasy 5 |
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Georgia Lottery |
| December 20, 1994 |
Dean Rusk dies, Athens, Georgia
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Dean Rusk
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| January 4, 1995 |
Newt Gingrich becomes the first Republican Speaker of the House in 40 years, and the first Georgian to hold the position in 102 years (Charles Crisp)
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Newt Gingrich
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| January 28, 1995 |
A supercell hailstorm strikes Thomasville, Georgia, dumping hail that was 4 inches in diameter on the city near the Georgia-Florida border
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| March 8, 1995 |
Carl Bouckaert, CEO of Beaulieu of America, a carpet company located in Dalton, Georgia, asked employees and wives to donate $1,000 each to Lamar Alexander's 1996 Presidential Campaign. The contributors were then reimbursed by the company, which later pleaded guilty to hiding illegal contributions
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| June 29, 1995 |
Tickets for Powerball go on sale in Georgia for the first time
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| July 11, 1995 |
National program, called America's Hope, is modeled after the Georgia HOPE Scholarship program |
| October 4, 1995 |
The eye of Hurricane Opal reaches Georgia. While in the state the hurricane is downgraded to a tropical storm, then a tropical depression. Five people die from the hurricane, and many more are injured.
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Hurricane Opal |
| December 22, 1995 |
Butterfly McQueen, best known for her role as "Prissy" in Gone With The Wind died in a tragic accident in Augusta, Georgia involving a kerosene heater that caught the dress she was wearing on fire. She ran outside and attempted to roll on the ground. A passing teenager smothered the fire with a blanket, but the badly burned actress died 10 hours later.
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Gone With The Wind
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| December 29, 1995 |
Georgia defeats Arkansas 24-15 at the Independence Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| March 3, 1996 |
Andersonville, a movie about Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia is released. Some of the film was shot in Turin, Georgia
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| May 4, 1996 |
Dedication of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Pooler, Georgia. |
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Eighth Air Force |
| July 19, 1996 |
President Bill Clinton welcomes more than 20 heads of state to the Olympics, touring the Olympic Village at Georgia Tech
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| August 31, 1996 |
Georgia Lottery leaves the Powerball and joins The Big Game
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Georgia Lottery |
| September 21, 1996 |
Grand opening for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The building opened to visitors the following day
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| September 21, 1996 |
Georgia Music Hall of Fame opens with a gala celebration, inducting Mac Davis and Atlanta Rhythm Section. |
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'Mac' Davis |
| November 5, 1996 |
William Clinton defeats Robert Dole for President of the United States. Georgia voted for Dole. Democrat Max Cleland, who is running to fill the seat vacated by Sam Nunn's retirement, is elected U. S. Senator, defeating Republican Guy Milner.
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Max Cleland
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| December 31, 1996 |
After a service in Atlanta, JonBenet Ramsey's body is laid to rest in Marietta, Georgia.
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Marietta, GA |
| April 3, 1997 |
Poole's Mill Covered Bridge park opens in Forsyth County
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
| April 6, 1997 |
Georgia lottery introduces Cash 4 |
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Georgia Lottery |
| April 21, 1997 |
"Uga," the mascot for the University of Georgia, appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| June 5, 1997 |
Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers admits to an extramarital affair
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Bowers admits to Affair |
| June 10, 1997 |
Groundbreaking on the new Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in Macon
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| June 10, 1997 |
Groundbreaking for the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, Macon, Georgia |
| December 19, 1997 |
Charges of obstructing a police officer are dropped against Georgia quarterback Mike Bobo.
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| January 1, 1998 |
Georgia defeats Wisconsin 33-6 in the Outback Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| February 27, 1998 |
Following a piece on America's Most Wanted, Tony Ray Amati is arrested in Marietta, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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Marietta, GA |
| March 11, 1998 |
Monitoring stations along the Flint River report highest levels during flood that affected southwest Georgia
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| March 20, 1998 |
Tornadoes destroy homes in North Georgia, claiming 14 lives in Hall and White Counties
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Hall County, Georgia |
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White County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 8, 1998 |
Deadly tornadoes strike Marietta, Dunwoody, and Duluth
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Marietta, GA |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 23, 1998 |
The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame opens a new facility in Macon, Georgia, making it the largest state Hall of Fame in the nation.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Macon, Georgia |
| May 1, 1998 |
Black Dog, an action film starring Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis is released. It was partially filmed in Atlanta and Cleveland, Georgia
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| October 8, 1998 |
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin accepts design of "Georgia Quarter."
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| November 3, 1998 |
Georgia elects Democrat Roy Barnes Governor and Paul Coverdale as Senator
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| December 31, 1998 |
Georgia (8-3) defeats Virginia in the Peach Bowl (Atlanta)
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 1, 1999 |
Georgia Tech (9-2) defeats Notre Dame at the Gator Bowl
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| January 3, 1999 |
Student dead, another injured in shooting at Central High, Carrollton, GA (Carroll County, Georgia)
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Carroll County, Georgia |
| January 15, 1999 |
Judy Neelley, convicted of the brutal murders of two Georgia teenagers has her death sentance commuted by the Governor of Alabama
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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| April 24, 1999 |
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame opens in Macon, Georgia |
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| July 30, 1999 |
T. D. Jakes, a religious leader, draws 84,459 people to the Georgia Dome. It is the largest one-day crowd in the history of the stadium |
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The Georgia Dome |
| September 15, 1999 |
More than 100,000 coastal Georgia residents flee Hurricane Floyd.
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| January 1, 2000 |
Georgia Tech (8-3) loses to Miami at the Gator Bowl, 28-13
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| January 1, 2000 |
Georgia (7-4) defeats Purdue in overtime at the Outback Bowl in Tampa, 28-25
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 22, 2000 |
An ice storm wrecks havoc from Douglasville to Rome, east to Atlanta and further east into the Georgia mountains north of Athens. |
| January 30, 2000 |
The Ice Bowl, as the Super Bowl was called by local residents, is played in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome after an ice storm knocks out power and results in a 47 car pile-up on Interstate 20 west of the city. In the game the St. Louis Rams beat the Tennessee Titans, 23-16
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The Georgia Dome |
| February 14, 2000 |
Tornadoes strike Camilla, Georgia, south of Albany
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Worth County, Georgia |
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Tornadoes kill 19 in Southwest Georgia |
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Mitchell County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Turner County, Georgia |
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Tift County, Georgia |
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Colquitt County, Georgia |
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Grady County, Georgia |
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Decatur County, Georgia |
| March 11, 2000 |
Two dead in a shooting incident at Savannah High School, Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| July 24, 2000 |
Zell Miller is appointed by Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes to fill the U. S. Senate seat left vacant by Paul Coverdell until an election can be held.
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Zell Miller |
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Paul Coverdell |
| August 4, 2000 |
Thomas Allgood Sr., a former Georgia state senator dies when his Piper Malibu Mirage collided with a utility pole during take-off.
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| December 20, 2000 |
The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank and Michael Jeter, opens in limited release. It was filmed in Effingham County, Georgia and featured scenes shot in the Georgia cities of Springfield, Savannah, Thunderbolt, and Guyton.
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Chatham County, Georgia |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Effingham County, Georgia |
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| December 24, 2000 |
Georgia (7-4) defeats Virginia at the Oahu Bowl, 37-14
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| December 29, 2000 |
Georgia Tech (8-2) loses to LSU at the Peach Bowl, 28-14
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| January 20, 2001 |
President William Clinton pardons Georgians during the waning moments of his presidency
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Presidential Pardons |
| January 30, 2001 |
A new flag flies of the Georgia capitol for the first time in 45 years.
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| March 14, 2001 |
The largest traffic accident in Georgia's history occurs on I-75 near Ringgold, Georgia, involving 125 car and killing 5.
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| July 30, 2001 |
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, having been called into the Lynn Turner case to assist the Forsyth County police, declare that firefighter Randy Thomson died from antifreeze poisoning. His death will later be ruled a homicide. |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| September 9, 2001 |
Tickets for Lotto South go on sale in Georgia, Kentucky and Virginia
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| October 11, 2001 |
Feds indict former Georgia School Superintendent Linda Schrenko, her chief deputy Merle Temple Jr. and A. Stephan Botes, a business owner from Alpharetta, GA. Schrenko, who served as superintendent from 1995 through 2003, ordered the Education Department to issue 11 checks, ranging from $45,000 to $49,900, just under the $50,000 amount that would have triggered an automatic review by the department. |
| November 12, 2001 |
Georgia Lottery introduces Lotto South |
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Georgia Lottery |
| December 28, 2001 |
Georgia loses to Boston College in the Music City Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 23, 2002 |
Levi's Call, a statewide child abduction alert similar to the Amber Alert is implemented. Local law enforcement agencies can place these alerts state-wide through the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. |
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Levi Frady |
| January 31, 2002 |
3 West Georgia baseball players charged with sexual assault
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Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players |
| March 22, 2002 |
Former President Jimmy Carter accepts the Ivan Allan Award at Georgia Tech
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Jimmy Carter |
| March 27, 2002 |
President George W. Bush delivers a major speech on Homeland Security at Georgia Tech
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| April 16, 2002 |
Erika Greene wins 58 million dollars in the Big Game Georgia Lottery |
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Georgia woman wins multi-state lottery |
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Georgia Lottery |
| May 3, 2002 |
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes laid to rest in Lithonia, Georgia
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Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes |
| May 17, 2002 |
Georgia Lottery introduces Mega-millions, new name for the "Big Game" |
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Georgia Lottery |
| June 11, 2002 |
Life College, Marietta, Georgia, the largest Chiropractic College in the nation, loses its accreditation.
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Marietta, GA |
| July 27, 2002 |
Savannah unveils a bronze statue on River Street (Rousakis Plaza) commemorating African-Americans who had been forced into slavery and brought to Georgia through the port.
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Slavery in Georgia |
| September 27, 2002 |
General release date for Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon. Portions of the film were shot in Berry College (Rome), Atlanta, Conyers, Crawfordville, Peachtree City and Starr's Mill, Georgia.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 28, 2002 |
From hip-hop to smooth and sexy, the music of TLC earns them a place at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame
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TLC |
| November 1, 2002 |
Georgia's "Black Widow," Lynn Turner, is indicted on charges she killed her husband Glenn, a Cobb County police officer, in 1995
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| November 2, 2002 |
President George W. Bush visits Georgia to campaign for Saxby Chambliss and Sonny Purdue, urging Republicans to get out the vote on Tuesday, Election Day.
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| November 5, 2002 |
Georgia elects Sonny Perdue as its first Republican governor since 1872
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Sonny Perdue |
| November 21, 2002 |
Judge Aubrey Duffey declares a mistrial in the sexual assault trial of two former University of West Georgia baseball players
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Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players |
| January 1, 2003 |
A 17-year old woman walks into the Douglasville,
Georgia, police station and reports that she had been forced to have sex with a group of teenagers at a nearby hotel. Police return to the hotel room, find a group of males and evidence of sexual activity including a videotape of the incident. |
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Genarlow Wilson |
| January 13, 2003 |
Sonny Perdue's inauguration as governor of Georgia
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Sonny Perdue |
| February 9, 2003 |
The NBA All-Star Game is held at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia
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| February 27, 2003 |
Tony Cole makes charges of academic fraud in the University of Georgia basketball program on ESPN
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Vince Dooley |
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Coach Jim Harrick suspended |
| March 10, 2003 |
University of Georgia suspended basketball coach Jim Harrick.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Vince Dooley |
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Coach Jim Harrick suspended |
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UGA sexual assault |
| March 24, 2003 |
The grisly discovery of a decapitated nun's body in a parking lot in Virginia Beach, Virginia led police to Adrian O. Robinson at a local Burger King. Robinson has been charged with killing his father in Hamilton, Georgia, and abducting two nuns. The second nun was found in Robinson's motel room uninjured.
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| April 2, 2003 |
Winners of the George Foster Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia's Henry Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Among the locally important awards:- "Terror on Tape," CNN Productions, Atlanta; examination of training videos made by al-Qaida members.
- "Door to Door," TNT starring William H. Macy in the true story of Bill Porter who battled cerebral palsy. Macy also co-wrote the script
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Peabody Awards |
| April 9, 2003 |
University of Georgia, Athens hires Dennis Felton to replace former coach Jim Harrick, who left the school following a scandal |
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Coach Jim Harrick suspended |
| April 25, 2003 |
Supercell thunderstorms rake Polk, Paulding, Cobb, North Fulton and Dekalb County in north Georgia as well as Stewart, Marion, Webster, Sumter, and Dooly County in the south during the late afternoon and evening hours. Dade County also suffered some damage.
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Webster County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| April 29, 2003 |
Just before 5 a.m. a moderate earthquake, rated 4.9 on the Richter Scale, shook most of the northwest corner of Georgia, south to Atlanta. The epicenter was located in Menlo, Georgia, about 37 miles south of Chattanooga.
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Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
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| May 6, 2003 |
Strong storms move through north Georgia. Among the counties hardest hit are Floyd, Walker, Catoosa, Gordon, Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Dekalb, Clarke, Barrow and Elbert County.
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Bartow County, Georgia |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Gordon County, Georgia |
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Walker County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Clarke County, Georgia |
| May 8, 2003 |
New Georgia state flag adopted
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| June 13, 2003 |
Dumb and Dumberer, a "prequel" to Dumb and Dumber is released. It was filmed in Marietta and Atlanta
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Marietta, GA |
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| June 24, 2003 |
Lester Maddox, 87, a segregationist who governed Georgia as a moderate Democrat, died in an Atlanta hospice as a result of a fall.
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Lester Maddox |
| June 26, 2003 |
In Georgia v. Ashcroft the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the goal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was to create a society where "race no longer mattered," and that the Democratic Georgia redistricting plan of 2000 violated that tenet.
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| August 23, 2003 |
Booth Western Art Museum opens, Cartersville, Georgia
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| September 8, 2003 |
Georgia Lottery Corporation annouces it has accepted Rebecca Paul's resignation. |
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Georgia Lottery |
| September 11, 2003 |
Ardena Carter, a Georgia Southern College student is last seen leaving her apartment in Stateboro, Georgia. The 24-year old Masters candidate was 6 months pregnant at the time. |
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Ardena Carter |
| November 1, 2003 |
In the bloodiest day ever recorded, 26 teenagers died in traffic accidents in the United States (normal is 10). At 8:46 p.m. on SR 60 near Gainesville, Georgia, Ryan David Wagner, 19, of Gainesville died when the 1992 Honda Accord he was riding in, driven by James Lee Thigpen, ran off a road, down an embankment and rolled over before hitting a tree.
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| November 10, 2003 |
Barry Larkin and Ken Griffey Jr. joined friends and family in LaGrange, Georgia, paying their last respect to Cincinnati Reds rookie Dernell Stenson, who had been killed the week before.
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| November 11, 2003 |
Stephen Cooke of Roswell, Georgia, arrived at Georgia Lottery headquarters with one winning ticket and realized that he purchased another tickets with the same combination. He walked away with 26 million dollars |
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Georgia Lottery |
| December 7, 2003 |
Hunters find the body of Ardena Carter on the grounds of Fort Benning, Georgia, about 4 miles west of Cusseta in Chattahoochee County. The cause of death has been ruled a homicide. |
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Ardena Carter |
| December 18, 2003 |
Margaret DeFrancisco Named President/CEO of the Georgia Lottery Corporation. DeFrancisco had been running the New York Lottery for four years. |
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Georgia Lottery |
| January 1, 2004 |
Georgia Bulldogs (#11) defeat Purdue (#12) in the Capital One Bowl (formerly the Citrus Bowl) in Orlando, FL. With the game tied at the end of the 4th quarter, courtesy of a Purdue field goal with 49 seconds remaining, capping an astounding 24-point comeback by Purdue. On the first series of plays in overtime, Georgia decided to go in a fourth and one situation, scoring the winning touchdown. |
| April 5, 2004 |
Georgia Tech loses to UConn (University of Connecticut) in the NCAA Finals. |
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Georgia Tech / 2004 NCAA Tournement |
| April 20, 2004 |
Canada's Gord Fraser won Stage 1 of the six day, seven stage 2004 Dodge Tour de Georgia. Fraser, is known for his sprinting capabilities and fierce competitiveness. Comprised of 82.1 miles, the first stage began and ended in Macon, taking the riders east to Georgia's antebellum capitol, Milledgeville.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 21, 2004 |
Italy's Mario Cipollini won Stage 2 of the Dodge Tour de Georgia in a sprint finish. Comprised of 117.9 miles, the second stage began in Thomaston and concluded in Columbus, with more than 4,000 spectators cheering the cyclists at the finish area along Broadway Street.
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 22, 2004 |
Lance Armstrong, five-time winner of the Tour de France, sprinted for victory in Stage 3 of the Tour de Georgia. The 78.4 mile third stage began in Carrollton and concluded in downtown Rome with three additional circuits of 2.55 miles each. |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 23, 2004 |
Jason McCartney (US) captured Stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia with a solo breakaway finish. On the first of two epic mountain stages, McCartney crossed the finish line with a final time of 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 16 seconds. |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 24, 2004 |
Cesar Grajales captured Stage 6 of the Tour de Georgia atop the highest point in the state, Brasstown Bald. Comprised of 128.25 miles, the stage began in Athens and concluded after a "hors categorie" 3.5-mile climb up to the Bald with grades over 20%. Grajales' winning time was 5 hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds.
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 25, 2004 |
Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (USA), won the General Classification (G.C.) in the Tour de Georgia. Gord Fraser (CAN) captured today's final stage (Stage 7), an 88.4-mile course that finished with a four laps on the streets of Alpharetta |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| April 26, 2004 |
Lynn Turner's trial resumes in Perry, Georgia (Houston County). |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| May 7, 2004 |
Sonny Perdue orders a state of emergency in Georgia related to the G-8 Summit to be held on Sea Island. The order covered 6 Georgia counties, Chatham, Bryan, Libery, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden. |
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Glynn County, Georgia |
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McIntosh County, Georgia |
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Liberty County, Georgia |
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Bryan County, Georgia |
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Chatham County, Georgia |
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Camden County, Georgia |
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Sonny Perdue |
| May 21, 2004 |
Georgia Senator Zell Miller, retiring at the end of this term, announces he will not teach at his alma mater, Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia. Professor David Franklin penned a letter the Senator labeled as "vitrolic." Miller compared the enviroment at the college to Washington, D. C., and stated that he would not "put up with this kind of vitriol." In the letter, Franklin bitterly complained about the HOPE scholarship funding and Miller's stand on Iraq prisoner abuse. |
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Zell Miller |
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Towns County, Georgia |
| June 6, 2004 |
President George W. Bush arrives in Georgia in preparation for the G8 summit |
| June 8, 2004 |
Start of G8 summit on Sea Island, Georgia includes leaders from The United States of America (George W Bush), French Republic (Jacques Chirac), Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin), United Kingdom (Tony Charles Lynton Blair), Republic of Italy (Silvio Berlusconi), Federal Republic of Germany (Gerhard Schröder), Japan (Junichiro Koizumi), and Canada (Paul Martin). Prime Minister of Ireland, His Excellency Bertie Ahern, T.D., attended the Sea Island Summit in his capacity as President of the Council of the European Union |
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| June 10, 2004 |
The G8 Summit comes to a close at Sea Island, Georgia |
| June 17, 2004 |
Guide Chris Griffin bags a legendary pig known as Hogzilla that was killed after it wandered out of swamps along the Alapaha River. The river has long been a haven for swine that escape local pig farms and begin to live off the land. The land where the pig (technically, it was a hog) was shot is in Berrien County near the town of Alapaha, Georgia. |
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Hogzilla |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
| September 7, 2004 |
Sweeping north through Georgia, Hurricane Francis brings sustained winds of up to 35 mph and 12 inches of rain in some areas. Especially hard hit were the southern tier of counties. |
| November 10, 2004 |
Charles Michael Dean accidentally discharges his weapon during a holdup of an Amsouth bank branch in Rome, Georgia. The case becomes a bellweather for the belief that "proof of intent" is a valid legal argument. |
| November 13, 2004 |
Residents of rural Alapaha, Georgia (Berrien County), hold a festival celebrating Hogzilla, the legendary 1,000-pound hog. |
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Hogzilla |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
| November 15, 2004 |
After warning his teachers in Gainesville, Georgia that he could not endure any more time in a solitary confinement room in his school, Jonathan King hung himself while being confined. |
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Hall County, Georgia |
| December 8, 2004 |
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was forced to detonate a pipe bomb found in rocks by a fisherman in the vicinity of the Buford Dam powerhouse at Lake Lanier. Police closed off access to the dam during the operation. |
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Lake Lanier |
| December 27, 2004 |
Donald Hollowell dies of heart failure, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
| January 1, 2005 |
No. 7 ranked Georgia Bulldogs defeat No. 17 Wisconsin in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida. |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 29, 2005 |
Ice storm hits Atlanta and North Georgia knocking out power for more than 100,000 people. Two deaths were directly attributed to the storm |
| February 13, 2005 |
Georgia artists scored a major win at the Grammys, led by Ray Charles who received 8 posthumous awards including Record and Album of the Year for his Genius Loves Company. Atlanta-based Usher, who had won many awards in other shows, picked up three and Kayne West, born in Atlanta but raised in Chicago, who won for Best Rap Album, The College Dropout |
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Ray Charles |
| February 24, 2005 |
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine puts Choicepoint on probation until they prove to him that they have "create[d] a system with which to promptly notify consumers of a security breach and ... hire[d] an outside firm to audit its security measures." |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| March 2, 2005 |
Leah Ward Sears elected first woman Chief Justice of Georgia's Supreme Court |
| March 12, 2005 |
Gwinnett County police arrest multiple slaying suspect Brian Nichols in a Duluth, Georgia apartment |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Atlanta courthouse attack |
| March 20, 2005 |
National Geographic documentary confirms the existance of Hogzilla, a giant pig discovered in the vicinity of Alapaha, Georgia. Experts estimate the pig to be 8 feet in length and 800 pounds, having exhumed the body. |
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Hogzilla |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
| March 27, 2005 |
Hail the size of baseballs and golf balls was reported as well as flooding rivers including the Flint River in Culloden; the Ocmulgee in Hawkinsville, Abbeville and Macon; the Oconee in Dublin and Penfield; Big Creek near Alpharetta; and the Chattahoochee River in Whitesburg. |
| April 4, 2005 |
Phil Mickelson, who won the Masters in 2004, beat Arjun Atwal, Brandt Jobe, Jose Maria Olazabal, and Rich Beem in an unusual 5-way playoff to cap the rain-shortened BellSouth Classic at Sugarloaf in Duluth, Georgia |
| April 7, 2005 |
2005 Masters Tournament, Augusta, Georgia |
| April 10, 2005 |
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2005 Masters Tournament |
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Masters Tournament |
| April 19, 2005 |
Tom Danielson wins the Dodge Tour de Georgia |
| April 24, 2005 |
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2005 Tour de Georgia |
| April 19, 2005 |
Jennifer Wilbanks purchases a Greyhound bus ticket from Atlanta, Georgia to Austin, Texas. |
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Jennifer Wilbanks, The Runaway Bride |
| April 27, 2005 |
Duluth, Georgia police, assisted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, state police and FBI, along with friends of Jennifer Wilbanks and concerned citizens, begin search a 5.5 square mile area for the missing woman. Among those searching are members of the wedding party. |
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Jennifer Wilbanks, The Runaway Bride |
| April 30, 2005 |
Chamblee, Georgia police stop a 1992 Lexus with paper tags. Suspicious of the driver, police took him in for questioning. When they ran his prints they found Ernest Morris was wanted in connection with a triple murder in Philadelphia. |
| May 13, 2005 |
Department of Defense recommends 5 bases from Georgia be closed |
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Georgia Base Closings-2005 |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Clarke County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
| May 24, 2005 |
ChoicePoint is unable to meet a deadline set by Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine on February 24 to promptly notify consumers of a security breach and hire an outside consultant to provide security audits. |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| May 25, 2005 |
A grand jury in Gwinnett County, Georgia indicted Jennifer Wilbanks with one felony charge of making a false statement to police and one misdemeanor charge of filing a false police statement. |
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Jennifer Wilbanks, The Runaway Bride |
| June 2, 2005 |
Wachovia apologized to African-Americans for the Charlotte(NC)-based banks ties to American slavery. Georgia Railroad and Banking Co. of Augusta, a predecessor bank, held at least 182 slaves to build a railroad. |
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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Slavery in Georgia |
| June 21, 2005 |
Sandy Springs votes to become a city in Fulton County. It is Georgia's 7th largest city. |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| July 31, 2005 |
Americus police respond to a call involving the assault of a 29-year old woman. After investigation they arrest Southwest Georgia Chief Superior Court Judge Rucker Smith. |
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Rucker Smith |
| August 26, 2005 |
Federal government ok's the Georgia Voter ID law |
| August 31, 2005 |
Long lines at the gas pump and high prices are the major effect of Hurricane Katrina in Georgia |
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Hurricane Katrina |
| September 30, 2005 |
Six people are killed, a woman is assaulted and four others are seriously injured in a string of brutal attacks in trailer parks in the city of Tifton and Colquitt County, Georgia |
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Colquitt County, Georgia |
| October 4, 2005 |
Tropical storm Tammy comes ashore in Northeast Flordia, quickly moving into southeastern Georgia. High winds and heavy rain cause problems througout the state over the next two days. |
| October 18, 2005 |
District Judge Harold Murphy issued an injunction against the Georgia Voter ID law, finding that the voter ID law functions like a poll tax |
| October 27, 2005 |
In a brief order the 11th US Court of Appeals denied a request from Georgia to throw out a lower court injunction barring enforcement of the state's new Voter ID law |
| November 23, 2005 |
The Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest, opens in Atlanta |
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Georgia Aquarium |
| December 29, 2005 |
No. 24 Georgia Tech loses to Utah at the Emerald Bowl |
| January 2, 2006 |
No 8 Georgia Bulldogs lose the Sugar Bowl to No. 11 West Virginia, 38-35 |
| January 25, 2006 |
Georgia legislature passes a revised Voter ID bill |
| February 7, 2006 |
At Coretta Scott King's funeral, President George Bush praised the wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Georgian Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery (Alabama) verbally attacked the President after his eulogy. |
| March 12, 2006 |
Korean car manufacturer Kia Motors announced that it would build a $1.2 billion facility in West Point, Georgia, their first American based plant. |
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Troup County, Georgia |
| March 29, 2006 |
Formal request is made to the Georgia Supreme Court to remove Southwest Georgia Chief Judge Rucker Smith following his arrest on assault charges |
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Rucker Smith |
| March 29, 2006 |
Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney assaults a Capitol policeman after he stopped her from going around a security checkpoint |
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Cynthia McKinney |
| April 17, 2006 |
Georgia’s Judicial Qualification Commission postpones a hearing to remove Rucker Smith from office pending outcome of his assault trial |
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Rucker Smith |
| May 3, 2006 |
Paris Bennett of Fayetteville, Georgia lost her bid to become the next "American Idol," narrowing the remaining field to 4 |
| July 7, 2006 |
Judge Melvin K. Westmoreland of Fulton County Superior Court blocked a revised Georgia Voter ID law. |
| July 12, 2006 |
Former Georgia Secretary of Education Linda Schrenko plead guilty to stealing education funds. She is sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay restitution. |
| July 18, 2006 |
In Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial primary, former Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor defeated Secretary of State Cathy Cox while controversial Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was forced into a runoff by virtually unknown former DeKalb County Commissioner Henry "Hank" Johnson Jr. Republican Governor Sonny Perdue was renominated and Scott Cagle defeated Ralph Reed for Lt. Governor. |
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Cynthia McKinney |
| August 28, 2006 |
Columbus, Georgia won the Little League World Series on Monday, defeating Kawaguchi City, Japan, 2-1, in the rain-postponed final. |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 6, 2006 |
Atlanta Falcons owner asks publicly for a new stadium to replace the Georgia Dome |
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The Georgia Dome |
| September 7, 2006 |
After visiting with Little League World Champions from Columbus, Georgia, President George W. Bush visits Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler for a fund-raiser for Republican Max Burns and the Cobb Galleria in Marietta for a speech on the War Against Terror |
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Eighth Air Force |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| October 25, 2006 |
Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell announced the company would donate 2.5 acres of prime real estate adjacent to the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coke for a new Civil Rights Museum. |
| October 30, 2006 |
George Bush campaigns in Statesboro, Georgia for Republican U. S. House candidate Max Burns |
| November 26, 2006 |
Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick makes an obscene gesture to hometown fans at the Georgia Dome. |
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Michael Vick |
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The Georgia Dome |
| January 2, 2007 |
Gaspar, a beluga whale, is euthanized at the Georgia Aquarium. He was suffering from a bone disease contracted before coming to the aquarium |
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Georgia Aquarium |
| January 11, 2007 |
Ralph the whale shark dies unexpectedly at the Georgia Aquarium |
| February 27, 2007 |
In a daring daylight robbery, two women hold up a Bank of America branch in Smyrna, Georgia. The media dubs them "The Barbie Bandits" and the case garners worldwide attention. |
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Barbie Bandits |
| March 8, 2007 |
6-year old Christopher Barrios disappears from a Brunswick, Georgia trailer park |
| April 5, 2007 |
An opening day promotion at Six Flags over Georgia snarls traffic during rush hour on I-20 west of Atlanta |
| June 2, 2007 |
Tropical storm Barry strikes Pinellas County, Florida and moves northeast, bringing rain needed to douse fires in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp and nearby Waycross |
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Fires scorch Okefenokee and Southeast Georgia |
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Charlton County, Georgia |
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Camden County, Georgia |
| June 11, 2007 |
A Monroe County Superior Court judge reduces Genarlow Wilson's conviction to a misdemeanor and orders him freed. Attorney General Thurbert Baker appeals the decision to the Georgia Supreme Court. |
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Genarlow Wilson |
| July 20, 2007 |
Georgia's Supreme Court hears two appeals, one from the state attorney general, Thurbert Baker, to overturn the Genarlow Wilson plea agreement validated by a Monroe County judge, the second an appeal by a Wilson attorney to release her client on bond. |
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Genarlow Wilson |
| August 4, 2007 |
Federal authorities bust an illegal still operating in the Chattahoochee National Forest near Clayton, Georgia. It is the largest operation found in the National Forest in over 20 years. |
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William Rabun |
| August 26, 2007 |
Warner Robbins team wins Little League World Series, defeating Japan by a score of 3-2. It marked the second consecutive year the championship had been won by a team from Georgia. |
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Warner Robbins wins Little League Championship |
| September 28, 2007 |
Alpharetta-based Net Bank is closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision and its assets turned over to the FDIC. This is the first bank closing in Georgia since 1992. |
| October 20, 2007 |
Sonny Perdue declares North Georgia a disaster area siting falling water reserves and a long-term lack of rain. He asks President George Bush to do the same |
| October 26, 2007 |
Georgia Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision rules Genarlow Wilson's sentence for having consensual teen sex is cruel and unusual punishment |
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Genarlow Wilson |
| December 1, 2007 |
Marina, the Georgia Aquarium's ailing beluga whale, died about 2 AM |
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Georgia Aquarium |
| February 5, 2008 |
Georgians turn out in record numbers for an election, selecting Barrack Obama and Mike Huckabee as our choice for Democrat and Republican nominees for president. |
| February 5, 2008 |
A Washington D. C. court of appeals hands Georgia a major loss in its water wars with Florida and Alabama. The three-judge panel held that Georgia did not have a right to increase its draw of water from Lake Lanier |
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Lake Lanier |
| March 5, 2008 |
Eve Carson of Athens, Georgia was killed during a "random act of violence." Carson, who attended Clark High School in Athens was serving as student body president for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while majoring in biology and political science. |
| March 13, 2008 |
Georgia Bulldogs (UGA basketball) defeat Mississippi (Ole Miss) in overtime, 97-95 |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
| March 14, 2008 |
A strong tornado strikes the Georgia World Congress Center, Phillips Arena, The Equitable Building, and the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill (now upscale condos). Nearby, the Georgia Dome suffers damage while the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament is being held inside. Numerous minor injuries and one life-threatening injury are reported. |
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The Georgia Dome |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
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2008 Georgia tornado outbreak |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
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Georgia World Congress Center
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 15, 2008 |
Georgia Bulldogs (basketball) defeat the Kentucky Wildcats 60-56 in overtime at Alexander Memorial Stadium. Later the same day the Dogs hand Mississippi State a 64-60 loss in the SEC semifinal game |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
| March 16, 2008 |
Georgia Bulldogs (basketball) easily defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks 66-57 to gain the number 14 seed in the NCAA tournament. |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
| March 20, 2008 |
Georgia Bulldogs basketball team is eliminated from the NCAA Tournament in first-round play against Xavier College. They lost 73-61 |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
| March 27, 2008 |
Charles Johnson enters Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. He stalks a male nurse whom he blames for his mother's death in 2004 and kills him. He kills two more people while making his escape before being shot by a Columbus police detective. |
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Gunman at Doctors Hospital |
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Columbus, Georgia |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| April 11, 2008 |
Georgia Tech baseball player Michael Hutts is found dead in his off-campus apartment. It is later determined he died of morphine toxicity. |
| April 15, 2008 |
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications filed a copyright infringement suit against four Georgia State University officials alleging "systematic, widespread and unauthorized copying and distribution of a vast amount of copyrighted works." |
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Copyright Lawsuit against Georgia State University |
| May 11, 2008 |
11 tornadoes touch down in the state of Georgia. |
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Laurens County, Georgia |
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Johnson County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Clayton County, Georgia |
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Carroll County, Georgia |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 12, 2008 |
Former Representative Bob Barr from Georgia's 7th District announces his candidacy for President on the Libertarian ticket. |
| June 28, 2008 |
Owner "Sonny" Seiler announces the death of University of Georgia Athens mascot Uga IV |
| July 8, 2008 |
Barrack Obama visits McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia |
| July 23, 2008 |
U. S. President George Bush visits Atlanta for a fund-raising event for Rick Goddard, running for the House of Representatives from Georgia's 8th congressional district |
| July 24, 2008 |
Georgia State University, appearing in U. S. District Court in Atlanta, asserted that its online distribution of course material is permitted under copyright law's fair-use exemption in this closely watched case |
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Copyright Lawsuit against Georgia State University |
| July 29, 2008 |
Natural Resources Defense Council rated Georgia's beaches highest in Water Quality and Safety of all Southeastern states. Several St. Simons and Jekyll Island beaches never exceeded federal guidelines for pollution. |
| August 21, 2008 |
As Tropical Storm Fay makes its third landfall near Flagler Beach, Florida, heavy rain begins to drench south Georgia |
| August 25, 2008 |
After touching most parts of the state of Georgia, tropical depression Fay leaves northeast Georgia |
| September 5, 2008 |
Georgia School Superintendent Kathy Cox wins 1.0 million dollars on "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?," hosted by Georgian Jeff Foxworthy |
| September 16, 2008 |
With power out in Galveston refineries, gas shortages hit Georgia and other Southeastern U. S. states |
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Georgia Gas Shortage |
| September 30, 2008 |
Gas begins to flow to stations in Georgia, relieving the crunch following Hurricane Ike |
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Georgia Gas Shortage |
| October 24, 2008 |
Alpharetta-based Alpha Bank and Trust is closed by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance and the FDIC is appointed receiver. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| November 14, 2008 |
The Tour de Georgia, North Americas premier professional cycling event, is canceled |
| December 3, 2008 |
Incumbent U. S. Senator, Republican Saxby Chambliss defeats Georgia Democratic senator Jim Martin in a runoff election. Chambliss received 1,220,876 votes (57.4%) to Martin's 905,650 votes (42.6%). |
| December 5, 2008 |
The First Georgia Community Bank, Jackson, GA became the third Georgia bank to close this year. The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as Receiver. United Bank of Zebulon, GA immediately assumed all depository accounts and other bank assets. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| December 12, 2008 |
Haven Trust Bank in Duluth, Georgia was closed Friday by the Georgia Department of Banking, which named the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC immediately transferred the deposits to Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T), headquartered in Winston-Salem. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| December 17, 2008 |
Cooper Tires announces the closure of its Albany, Georgia facility, slated for completion in December, 2009. Production will move to three other plants in the United States. |
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Albany, Georgia |
| January 10, 2009 |
King Nut voluntarily recalls peanut butter manufactured for it by Peanut Corporation of America at their Blakely, Georgia plant. The Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture matches the salmonella from King Nut peanut butter to the illnesses in Minnesota |
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Early County, Georgia |
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Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Outbreak |
| January 27, 2009 |
The FDA completes an inspection of the Peanut Corporation of America facility in Blakely, Georgia. |
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Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Outbreak |
| January 28, 2009 |
Based on the findings of the FDA inspection, Peanut Corporation of America recalls all products produced at its Blakely, Georgia after January 1, 2007. |
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Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Outbreak |
| February 6, 2009 |
FirstBank Financial Services of McDonough, Georgia, was closed by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. Deposits and some assets were transferred to Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| February 24, 2009 |
The state of Georgia furloughs about 25% of its workforce (25,000 workers) because of a budget shortfall |
| March 6, 2009 |
Freedom Bank of Georgia in Commerce was closed by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance and the FDIC was named as receiver. Deposits and some assets were transferred to the Northeast Georgia Bank in Lavonia. |
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