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Tracy City (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
replaced by white free miners......Feb. 19, 1892 Steel cantilever bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis opened......May 12, 1892 Confederate soldiers' home at the Hermitage opened......May 12, 1892 Miners burn the convict stockade at Tracy City, Aug. 13, and make an attack on the stockade at Oliver Springs......Aug. 16, 1892 Miners capture the stockade at Oliver Springs, and send the guards and convicts to Knoxville......Aug. 17, 1892 Miners defeated and routed by militia under93 President Polk's remains removed to the State capitol grounds.......Sept. 19, 1893 The United States Supreme Court decides the boundary-line dispute with Virginia in favor of Tennessee......1893 Serious revolt in the convict camp at Tracy City......July 27, 1894 Contest for governorship decided in favor of Peter Turney, who, on the face of the returns had 748 votes less than H. Clay Evans, by the Tennessee legislature......May 3, 1895 Chickamauga National Park dedicated......Se
Sullivan (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
t......April 2, 1781 Pre-emption right allowed to settlers on the Cumberland by legislature of North Carolina, 640 acres to each family or head of family......April, 1782 Court of oyer and terminer held at Jonesboro for Washington and Sullivan counties......Aug. 15, 1782 Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Carolina a tract extending nearly 40 miles south from Cumberland River......1783 First Methodist preacher comes to east Tennessee......1783 Commissionersy of North Carolina cedes to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains on condition that Congress accepts it within two years......June 2, 1784 Believing themselves no longer a part of North Carolina, settlers in Washington, Sullivan, and Greene counties meet in convention at Jonesboro, choose John Sevier president, and form a constitution for the State of Frankland......Dec. 14, 1784 Governor Caswell, of North Carolina, pronounces the revolt of Frankland usurpation......
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
00 miners attack the convict camp at Fort Anderson......April 19, 1893 Judge J. H. Du Boise impeached, acquitted on some of the charges, convicted on others......June 2, 1893 President Polk's remains removed to the State capitol grounds.......Sept. 19, 1893 The United States Supreme Court decides the boundary-line dispute with Virginia in favor of Tennessee......1893 Serious revolt in the convict camp at Tracy City......July 27, 1894 Contest for governorship decided in favor of Peter Turney, who, on the face of the returns had 748 votes less than H. Clay Evans, by the Tennessee legislature......May 3, 1895 Chickamauga National Park dedicated......Sept. 19, 1895 General assignment law of 1895 declared unconstitutional......November, 1896 Fire at Knoxville, loss $2,000,000......April 8, 1897 Centennial Exposition opened......May 1, 1897 Anti-cigarette law declared constitutional......1900 Fifty lives lost in the hurricane of......Nov. 21, 1900 Texas
Jonesboro (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
n towns destroyed by troops under Isaac Shelby, who left Big Creek, near the site of Rogersville......April 10, 1779 Jonesboro laid off and established as the seat of justice for Washington county......1779 Colony under John Donelson in open bre of North Carolina, 640 acres to each family or head of family......April, 1782 Court of oyer and terminer held at Jonesboro for Washington and Sullivan counties......Aug. 15, 1782 Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Camselves no longer a part of North Carolina, settlers in Washington, Sullivan, and Greene counties meet in convention at Jonesboro, choose John Sevier president, and form a constitution for the State of Frankland......Dec. 14, 1784 Governor Caswel jail and shot dead by disguised men......Aug. 26, 1874 Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United States, dies near Jonesboro......July 31, 1875 Vanderbilt University at Nashville, chartered 1873, opened......1875 David McKendree Key appo
United States (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
Tennessee, One of the Southern United States, lies between the Alleghany Mountains on the east anal Assembly of North Carolina cedes to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains ..September, 1787 Deed conveying to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States......Nov. 11, 1828 John H. Eaton appoinAndrew Jackson re-elected President of the United States......Nov. 13, 1832 Conviction of John A James K. Polk elected President of the United States......Nov. 12, 1844 Cave Johnson appointf the Ashburton treaty, which requires the United States to keep a naval force on the coast of Afrince of the provisional government of the Confederate States......June 8, 1861 Eastern Tennessee Ufor refusing the oath of allegiance to the United States......April 5, 1862 Two days battle of Peking their full rights as citizens of the United States......April 28, 1874 Sixteen negroes, Au[1 more...]
Stone River (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
Nashboro......May 13, 1780 Battle of Boyd's Creek, a confluent of the French Broad. Troops under Col. John Sevier, returning from the battle of King's Mountain, join in expedition against the Cherokees and disperse them on their way to massacre the Watauga settlers......October, 1780 Indian atrocities and massacres of settlers in middle Tennessee, throughout this and the following year, begin by an attack on the house of Major Lucas at Freeland's Station, on the Cumberland, near Stone River......Jan. 15, 1781 Battle of the Bluffs, where Nashville now stands; an unsuccessful attack of the Cherokees on the fort......April 2, 1781 Pre-emption right allowed to settlers on the Cumberland by legislature of North Carolina, 640 acres to each family or head of family......April, 1782 Court of oyer and terminer held at Jonesboro for Washington and Sullivan counties......Aug. 15, 1782 Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Carolina a tract extending nearl
Jackson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
nty-two States......May 18, 1869 Constitution, framed by a convention which sat at Nashville, Jan. 10 to Feb. 22, ratified by a popular vote of 98,128 to 33,872......March 26, 1870 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America organized at Jackson by Bishop Paine......Dec. 16, 1870 Office of chief commissioner of immigration for the State created by act of legislature......1871 Reunion and Reform Association meets at Nashville......Oct. 13, 1871 Agricultural bureau organized under act of legislature......Dec. 14, 1871 Convention at Jackson to promote the formation of a new State, out of western Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi......July 29, 1873 Convention of colored people in Nashville, seeking their full rights as citizens of the United States......April 28, 1874 Sixteen negroes, Aug. 22, charged with shooting at two white men, are taken from Trenton jail and shot dead by disguised men......Aug. 26, 1874 Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United Stat
Transylvania (Romania) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
ov. 5, 1768 Capt. William Bean settles on Boone Creek, near Watauga......1769 Company formed to hunt and explore middle Tennessee, with camp at Price's Meadows, Wayne county......1769 Written association formed for the government of the Watauga settlers, and five commissioners appointed as a governing court......1772 Col. Richard Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract of country between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, which they call Transylvania......March 17, 1775 Watauga purchased from the Indians, and deed of conveyance to Charles Robertson executed......March 19, 1775 Watauga settlers march against advancing Cherokees, and disperse them in a battle near Long Island Fort......July 20, 1776 Cherokees under old Abraham attack the fort at Watauga, but are repulsed......July 21, 1776 Forces under Col. William Christian destroy the Cherokee towns in east Tennessee......1776 Washington county, including all of Tenness
Memphis (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
William Blount, of Tennessee, expelled from the United States Senate on charge of instigating the Creeks and Cherokees to assist the British in conquering Spanish Louisiana......July, 1797 Treaty with Cherokees extinguishing claims to land granted to individuals by North Carolina......September, 1798 Great revival of religion, begun in Kentucky in 1800, spreads through Tennessee......1801 Nashville chosen as seat of government by legislature......1802 General Wilkinson builds Fort Pickering at Memphis......1803 Public reception given to Aaron Burr at Nashville......May 28, 1805 Congress grants 1,000 acres in one tract for academies in Tennessee, one in each county; 1,000 acres more for two colleges, Blount in the east and Cumberland in the west......1806 Nashville Bank, the first in Tennessee, chartered......1807 Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized......Feb. 4, 1810 John Sevier dies near Fort Decatur, Ala......Sept. 24, 1815 Gens. Andrew Jackson and
Cumberland River (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
e, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland River......1748 Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......1856 Colonel Bird builds Long Isloceeding about 15 miles they are massacred by the Indians......Aug. 7, 1760 Capt. James Smith and others explore the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers from above Nashville down to the Ohio......1766 By treaty at Fort Stanwix the Six Nations cede d Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract of country between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, which they call Transylvania......March 17, 1775 Watauga purchased from the Indians, and deed of conveyance to Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Carolina a tract extending nearly 40 miles south from Cumberland River......1783 First Methodist preacher comes to east Tennessee......1783 Commissioners lay off on Duck River a gra
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