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1700-1800

By gowanh.2021

  • Carolina

    Carolina was divided into North and South Carolina

  • Tea

    Tea is introduced into the American colonies

  • slavery statement

    The Quakers make a statement opposing slavery in the
    United States

  • Province Hall

    Work begins on construction of Province Hall (now
    known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia

  • Publishes Poor Richard's Almanac

    Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanac

  • Conestoga wagon developed

    The Conestoga wagon is developed in Pennsylvania,
    helping improve overland travel into the frontier

  • Calander

    Britain and the British colonies switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar

  • Liberty Bell

    The Liberty Bell is placed in the Pennsylvania State
    House

  • Repeal Stamp Act

    Nine of thirteen colonies ask for repeal of the Stamp
    Act

  • Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland

    Mason Dixon Line establishes the boundary between
    Pennsylvania and Maryland

  • Shawanoe

    • Lt. Thomas Hutchins, a British Army engineer, begins mapping Ohio River and its tributaries, including the Cumberland River in Sumner County area. He called the river "Shawanoe"

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre occurs between colonists and British
    regulars in Boston

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party - colonists dress as Indians and throw
    English tea into Boston Harbor

  • Battle of Lexington

    Battle of Lexington between colonial militia and British
    Army starts the American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence Signed

    Members of the Continental Congress sign Declaration
    of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation are signed

  • Richard Henderson

    Three parties of settlers arrived in Cumberland Valley. Instrumental in persuading the state legislature to take the
    step was Richard Henderson. He entered into an agreement
    with John Donelson and James Robertson. The small colony
    they planted on the Cumberland River became Nashville

  • forts built in Sumner

    Mansker's, Bledsoe's and Asher's forts built in Sumner
    to try and hold off a declared war by the Indians

  • Peace Talks

    Peace talks begin between Britain and America

  • Davidson County created

  • Britain recognizes American Independence

  • Drakes Creek

    Daniel Smith settled on Drakes Creek in what is now
    Hendersonville and began the first two rooms of his
    Rock Castle

  • Sumner County

    North Carolina's general assembly created Sumner
    County from eastern part of Davidson County to provide
    government to people settling outside Nashville

  • Constitutional Convention meets

  • Constitution is ratified

  • The New York Stock Exchange was created

  • Ziegler Station Incedent

    At Ziegler's Station, ten people were killed and
    eighteen taken prisoner by Indians. They were driven south
    on a forced march to Chattanooga

  • Kentucky becomes the 15th state

  • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

  • Cumberland raid

    Cumberland volunteers took part in raids that destroyed
    Indian towns at Running Water and Nickajack on the Tennessee
    River near the foot of Lookout Mountain

  • Tennessee becomes the 16th state on June 1.

    Tennessee becomes the 16th state on June 1.

  • Cumberland

    The Cumberland area became a part of the Territory of
    the United States southwest of the River Ohio

  • Britain becomes the first nation to introduce a national income tax

  • stagecoach rout opened

    A stagecoach route opened between Louisville and
    Nashville. The White House Inn, for which city is named,
    became important stop along the way