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The Treaty of Berlin
The treaty was signed September and December 1732 between the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Prussia. The purpose of the treaty was supposed to be a secret treaty signed -
Colony of Georgia
King George II signs a charter establishing the colony of Georgia and its governing body. The charter was granted to the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America. The first twenty years of Georgia history is known as the Trustee of Georgia. . The group was formed by James Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe founding the colony of Georgie for two main reasons he wanted to have a "buffer zone" and to serve as a haven for cruelly-treated English prisoners. -
The Treaty of Coweta
James Oglethorpe and the Creek chiefs signed the Treaty of Coweta the Chattahoochee River. The purpose of the treaty of Coweta was to get with the Creek Nation in the hopes of preventing them from “going to the Spaniards. The treat was designed so that areas of land that could be settled by the British and those remaining part of Creek lands. -
Negro Act of 1740.
The law prohibited enslaved Africans from learning to read, earning money, moving freely, and assembling in groups. The Act also authorized white owners to whip and kill enslaved Africans for being "rebellious." The Act was implemented by Charleston South Caroline when fifty black slaves resite bondage and waged. The slaves killed a total of twenty-five white people. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the start of the American Revolutionary. The battle was fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The British Army wanted to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and to destroy the American's store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
Declaration of Independence
Georgia joined The United States on August 2, 1776. Georgia Signs the Declaration of Indepences from Britain. George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett where the three gentlemen from Georgia that sign the Declaration of Independence. -
Georgia ratifies the Constitution
Georgia ratifies the constitution and joins the United States as the 4th state. Georgia ratiftes the constrution because more and more people began to move into Georgia . The people began to push westward into the land occupied by Indians . However , the Indians were determined to hold onto their lands. -
New Hampshire
On June 21 1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution -
Gold is found in northern Georgia
The largest quantities of gold found in the eastern United States were found in the Georgia Gold Belt, extending from eastern Alabama to Rabun County, Georgia. The biggest concentration of gold was found in White, Lumpkin, and northern Cherokee counties in Georgia. When the gold was found it Georgia white prospectors flooded over the border onto their lands, and the state of Georgia used this as a pretext for declaring all treaties with Indian nations to be null and void. -
Trails of Tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
George Washington
George Washington Towns begins term as governor of Georgia. Washington was a full-fledged states-rights opponent of abolitionists, whom he considered fanatics bent on subjugating the white South. Towns opposed the Compromise of 1850 after it banned slavery in California and called a special Georgia convention to consider secession . -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was born a slave in Southampton, Virginia. Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Dred Scott lived in a free state but having live in a free state did not entitle to his freedom. The court decides that Scott was property and not a citizen therefore he could not sue in a federal court. -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding the slaves that had an away the government was also responsible for returning
escaped slaves. -
George Walker Crawford
George Walker Crawford resigns as Secretary of War -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman led approximately 60,000 soldiers on a march from Atlanta to Savannah. The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. His march led to a lot of destruction and casualties. The number of confederate soldiers that died was in a total of 650. Having so many soldiers die as a result of his march left the confederate army in a dire place. -
Abraham Lincoln reelected
On November 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was elect for a second term. -
Lincoln Assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. The assassination of President Lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the U.S. after the Civil War. -
Georgia Slavery
In Georgia, slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, which took effect on December 18, 1865, The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Georgia banned slavery because it was inconsistent with its social and economic intentions. Given the Spanish presence in Florida, slavery also seemed certain to threaten the military security of the colony. -
Georgia is restored to the Union.
On this day in 1870, Georgia became the last former Confederate state to be readmitted into the Union after agreeing to seat some black members in the state Legislature. The United States Congress had originally readmitted Georgia to the Union in July 1868 after a newly elected General Assembly had ratified the 14th Amendment.In September, white Republicans joined with Democrats to expel the three black senators and 25 black representatives from the general assembly -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case was from an incident 1892 which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. When Plessy was told to vacate the whites-only car, he refused and was arrested.
The case argues the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. -
President William McKinley
Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 campaign took place during an economic depression known as the Panic of 1893. -
Right to Vote
Georgia became the first state to allow 18-year-olds to vote. The 15th Amendment gave voting rights to all legal citizens regardless of race. Several Black plaintiffs filed suits in federal court against the whites-only primary, and in the 1946 King v. Chapman decision The Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld a 1945 ruling that declared the white primary in Georgia unconstitutional, saying that the primary was an integral part of the election process and thus could not exclude Black voters -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a national leader in the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Jimmy Carter
Georgia governor Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States. -
Cold War
Rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. -
Georgia State Song
Ray Charles made the song “Georgia on My Mind”, which was designated the state song. Georgia on y mind became the state song On April 24, 1979, when Gov. George Busbee signed it into law. -
9/11 Attack
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States. The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, and substantial long-term health consequences, in addition to at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. It is the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States. -
War in Iraq
The Iraq War began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. -
Georgia Flag
Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The flag was redesign without the Confederate emblem. The Confederate Emblem was considered by many to be evocative of Georgias Past history as a slave state. The Georgia General Assembly's proposed flag combined elements of Georgia's. Creating a composition that was inspired by the First National Flag of the Confederacy, the Stars, and Bars, rather than the Confederate Battle Flag. -
Presidential Election
Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States. He was the first African-American president of the United States. -
Death of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs. -
Georgia Music Hall of Fame
Georgia Music Hall of Fame located in Macon, Georgia closed. -
Georgia Congressman Receives Medal
Georgia congressman John Lewis received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award possible, for his work as a civil rights activist. -
U.S. Presidential Election
Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president. -
Terrorist Attack at the Boston Marathon
Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after. -
Black Lives Matter Movement
Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against what it sees as widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. -
Georgia Senator Steps Down
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss announced he would not seek re-election, primarily because of the frustrating gridlock in national politics. -
March on Washington 50th Anniversary
Many Georgians, including family and friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and former President Jimmy Carter, attended the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. -
National Center for Human Rights
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Dedicated to the achievements of both the civil rights movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement. The Center hosts a number of exhibitions, both permanent and temporary. -
Same Sex Marriages
Same-sex marriage is legalized in all 50 US states. -
Georgia State Representative Resigns
Georgia state representative and civil rights activist Tyrone Brooks resigned from his Georgia house seat and pled guilty to one count of filing a false tax claim, and no contest to five other charges of wire and mail fraud. -
U.S. Presidential Election
Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office. -
Execution of Gregory Lawler
Gregory Paul Lawler was executed by lethal injection for the 1997 murder of an Atlanta policeman. This marked the seventh execution in Georgia for 2016, the most since the death penalty was re-instated in 1976. -
Impeachment of Donald Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. He had charges of abuse of power for asking Ukraine to investigate 2020 political rival Joe Biden while withholding aid as leverage, and obstruction of Congress for stonewalling the House's investigation. -
Sick Congressman
US Congressman John Lewis of Georgia announced that he has stage IV pancreatic cancer, vowing he will stay in office and fight the disease. -
Georgia’s New U.S. Senator
Kelly Loeffler a wealthy Republican donor and businesswoman, was sworn in as Georgia's new US senator, replacing former Sen. Johnny Isakson, who resigned in December amid poor health. -
Coronavirus Outbreak
The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus. -
Donald Trump Acquitted
The Senate acquitted Trump on both impeachment articles, as neither article obtained the support of a two-thirds supermajority of senators. Fifty-two Republican senators voted against the charge of abuse of power, and all fifty-three voted against the charge of obstruction of Congress. Senator Mitt Romney became the first U.S Senator in history to cast a vote to convict and remove the President of their own political party from office. -
Coronavirus Cases Increases in Georgia
In state of Georgia the number of coronavirus cases rose past 21,000 with 847 deaths. -
Death of Georgia Congressman
Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died in Atlanta. -
Missing Children Found
The US Marshals Service found 39 missing children over two weeks in a mission known as "Operation Not Forgotten".