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Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
iles east, by act of Assembly and council......Feb. 1, 1802 Articles of agreement and cession under the compromise act, secures to the United States all territory south of Tennessee, north of the Spanish line of demarkation, and eastward from the Mississippi to the Chattahoochee......April 24, 1802 Outrages and murders by the bandit Mason and his gang along the great Natchez trace; the governor offers a reward for his head, which is brought to Washington by Little Harpe, who fled from Kentucky in 1799 and joined Mason in his depredations. Harpe and another of the band murder Mason for the reward, but are recognized, arrested, condemned, and executed at Greenville......1802 Weekly newspaper, the Natchez Gazette, published by Col. Andrew Marschalk at Natchez......1802 Natchez incorporated as a city......March 10, 1803 Jefferson College established at Washington by act of legislature......1803 Natchez hospital for sick and distressed boatmen employed in the navigation o
Perdido River (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
e court refusing release from his recognizance, Feb. 5, next morning it was ascertained that he had made his escape......Feb. 6, 1807 Judge Harry Toulmin's digest of the laws of Mississippi adopted by the legislature......Feb. 10, 1807 Congress to extend the right of suffrage in the Territory permitting the people to elect delegates to Congress......Jan. 9, 1808 Bank of Mississippi chartered......Dec. 23, 1809 Mobile district, lying south of lat. 31° and between the Pearl and Perdido rivers, is added to Mississippi by act......May 14, 1812 Expedition under Gen. F. L. Claiborne attacks the holy city of the Creek Indians, called Escanachaha, on the east side of the Alabama River, which they burn......Dec. 23, 1813 Enabling act for Mississippi passed by Congress, establishing the eastern boundary, and the Territory of Alabama created......March 1, 1817 Convention for framing a constitution meets at Washington, July 7, 1817, and completes its labors......Aug. 15, 1817
La Salle, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
y, and reaches the Indian village of Chickasaw......December, 1540 Indians attack and burn Chickasaw, which De Soto had fortified and occupied as winter quarters......February, 1541 De Soto reaches the Mississippi, which he crosses, probably within 30 miles of Helena, in boats built for the purpose......April, 1541 Mississippi included in the proprietary charter of Carolina......1663 Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi as far as lat. 33°......1673 La Salle descends the Mississippi to its mouth......1682 Lemoine d'iberville plants a colony on the bay of Biloxi......May, 1699 Iberville, Bienville, and Chevalier de Tonti ascend the Mississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and completed......Aug. 3, 1716 Mississippi Company chartered with exclusive privilege of the commerce of Louisiana and New France, and obligated to introduce within twenty-
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
sent State of Mississippi near the junction of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers; crosses the Pearl in Leake county, and reaches the Indian village of Chickasaw......December, 1540 Indians attack and burn Chickasaw, which De Soto had fortified and occupied as winter quarters......February, 1541 De Soto reaches the Mississippi, which he crosses, probably within 30 miles of Helena, in boats built for the purpose......April, 1541 Mississippi included in the proprietary charter of Carolina......1663 Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi as far as lat. 33°......1673 La Salle descends the Mississippi to its mouth......1682 Lemoine d'iberville plants a colony on the bay of Biloxi......May, 1699 Iberville, Bienville, and Chevalier de Tonti ascend the Mississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and completed......Aug. 3, 1716 Mississippi Company ch
Yazoo River (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
31st parallel acquired by treaty of Paris......Nov. 21, 1763 A second decree of the King in council extends the limits of west Florida north to the mouth of the Yazoo, to include the settlements on the Mississippi......June 10, 1764 Scotch Highlanders from North Carolina and Scotland build Scotia, about 30 miles eastward fromrom the Mississippi to the St. Mary's River; but in ceding Florida to Spain no boundary on the north is mentioned, hence Spain claims north to the mouth of the Yazoo River; signed......Sept. 3, 1782 County of Bourbon established by Georgia of all lands east of the Mississippi between lat. 31° and the mouth of the Yazoo, to whicYazoo, to which Indian titles had been extinguished......Feb. 7, 1785 Act erecting Bourbon county repealed......Feb. 1, 1788 Four companies chartered by the Georgia legislature with control of more than 3,000,000 acres of land in Mississippi at the rate of 2 1/2 cents per acre, to be paid into the State treasury......Jan. 7, 1795 Treaty
Grenada (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
Confederate government removes the State archives from Jackson to Columbus for safety......June 16, 1862 Chief military operations in Mississippi during 1862 were as follows: General Beauregard evacuates Corinth, and Halleck takes possession, May 29; United States gunboat Essex bombards Natchez and the city surrenders, Sept. 10; Rosecrans defeats Confederates under Price in a battle at Iuka, Sept. 19-20; unsuccessful attack on Corinth by the Confederates under General Van Dorn, Oct. 3-4; Grenada occupied by General Hovey's expedition, 20,000 strong, Dec. 2; Van Dorn defeats the Federal cavalry in battle of Coffeeville, Dec. 5; Holly Springs surrendered to the Confederates, Dec. 20; unsuccessful attack of Federals on Vicksburg......Dec. 27-29, 1862 Important military operations during 1863: Colonel Grierson with Federal troops makes a raid through the State from Tennessee to Louisiana, April 17–May 5; naval battle of Grand Gulf, April 29; McClernand defeats the Confederates at Po
Natchez (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
ississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and coed from Biloxi to New Orleans......1723 Chopart, commander of Fort Rosalie, demands that Great Sun, head of the Natchez tribe of Indians, slity of the colonies at Natchez, Bayou Pierre, etc.......1778 Fort Panmure, formerly the French fort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infantry under Capt. Michael Jackson, by order of the governor of west Florida......1778 Gen. don Bernardo de Galvez, proposing to expel the who surrenders all west Florida upon the Mississippi, including Fort Panmure and the district of Natchez, to the Spanish......Sept. 21, 1779 Fort Panmure surrendered by the Spaniards to insurgents, under the British flag, after a siege of a week......April 30, 1781 Don Carlos that on March 23 Fort Nogales on Walnut Hill was evacuated, and Fort Panmure about midnight......March 29-30, 1798 Act of Congress approve
Bourbon County (Kansas, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
States at the 31st parallel N. lat., from the Mississippi to the St. Mary's River; but in ceding Florida to Spain no boundary on the north is mentioned, hence Spain claims north to the mouth of the Yazoo River; signed......Sept. 3, 1782 County of Bourbon established by Georgia of all lands east of the Mississippi between lat. 31° and the mouth of the Yazoo, to which Indian titles had been extinguished......Feb. 7, 1785 Act erecting Bourbon county repealed......Feb. 1, 1788 Four companBourbon county repealed......Feb. 1, 1788 Four companies chartered by the Georgia legislature with control of more than 3,000,000 acres of land in Mississippi at the rate of 2 1/2 cents per acre, to be paid into the State treasury......Jan. 7, 1795 Treaty at Madrid with Spain fixes the southern boundary of the United States at lat. 31° N.; the western boundary the middle of the Mississippi River, with free navigation......Oct. 27, 1795 Georgia legislature rescinds grants to the Mississippi companies......Feb. 13, 1796 Spanish commissioner
Capitol (Utah, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
ing the selling or giving away of intoxicating liquors within 5 miles of the University of Mississippi......1882 Inter-State levee convention assembles at Vicksburg......Oct. 1, 1883 General local option law passed......1886 Extensive negro emigration from the hill country of Mississippi to the river bottoms along the Mississippi in the Yazoo section commences in Hinds and Rankin counties......November, 1886 Laying the corner-stone of the monument to the Confederate dead on the capitol grounds at Jackson......May 25, 1888 Legislature introduces the Australian ballot system of voting in all except congressional elections......1890 State Treasurer Hemingway convicted of embezzling $315,612.19 by the Supreme Court......Dec. 1, 1890 Constitutional convention which meets at Jackson, Aug. 12, 1890, adjourns Nov. 1, having promulgated a new constitution to take effect......Jan. 1, 1891 Monument to Confederate dead unveiled at Jackson......June 3, 1891 A fire start
Greenville (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
f Tennessee, north of the Spanish line of demarkation, and eastward from the Mississippi to the Chattahoochee......April 24, 1802 Outrages and murders by the bandit Mason and his gang along the great Natchez trace; the governor offers a reward for his head, which is brought to Washington by Little Harpe, who fled from Kentucky in 1799 and joined Mason in his depredations. Harpe and another of the band murder Mason for the reward, but are recognized, arrested, condemned, and executed at Greenville......1802 Weekly newspaper, the Natchez Gazette, published by Col. Andrew Marschalk at Natchez......1802 Natchez incorporated as a city......March 10, 1803 Jefferson College established at Washington by act of legislature......1803 Natchez hospital for sick and distressed boatmen employed in the navigation of the Mississippi River and others, incorporated......1804 Whole of the territory ceded to the United States by Georgia, north of the Mississippi Territory and south of T
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