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cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Although simple handheld roller gins had been used in India and other countries since at earliest 500 AD,[3] the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794. -
yazoo land fraud
Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia politicians sold large tracts of territory in the Yazoo lands, in what are now portions of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794. -
state seal adopted
The General Assembly of the State of Georgia adopted the state seal on February 8, 1799. It was changed on August 17, 1914. The date was changed from 1799 to 1776. -
land lotteries
The Georgia land lotteries were an early nineteenth century system of land distribution in Georgia. Under this system, qualifying citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land that had formerly (and in most cases recently) been occupied by the Creek Indians and the Cherokee Nation. The lottery system was utilized by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833. Although some other states used land lotteries, none were implemented at the scale of the Georgia contests. -
capital moved
State capital moved to Milledgeville; boundary between Georgia and North Carolina established. -
war of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
fire of savannah
Fire in Savannah destroyed 463 buildings; most residents homeless -
dahlonega gold rush
The dahlonega Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt. By the early 1840s, gold became difficult to find.