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100
The new river begens to flow into the Teays river
100 million b.c. -
100
Outer banks forms
16,000b.c -
270
Applalchian Mountains formed
270 million b.c. -
420
First Marine Organisms
540 MIllion BC -
Oct 13, 800
Frist Paleo-Indians starts to hunt lce age animals
9,500 b.c. -
Oct 13, 850
Hardaway spear point discovery site in nort carolina replaces Clovis spear piont
8,500 b.c. -
Oct 13, 900
Mississippian culture develops in Eastern Woodlands
8,ooo b.c. -
Oct 13, 1000
Woodland period, pottery, permanent villages, gardening
1,000 b.c. -
Oct 30, 1492
Christopher columbas reaches America
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Oct 13, 1497
Treaty of Tordesillas was singed and included North Carloina
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Oct 15, 1497
John Cabot claims Newfoundland for the English
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Oct 15, 1562
France fights Spain for Florida
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Gilbert leads expedtion to new found land
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Amadas and barlowe claim North carolina area for england
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Sir walter raleigh finances English of roanoke
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White returnes to North america only on to face the mistery of the ¨ost Colony¨
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jamestowm, virginia, is found
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First Africans brought to Virginia colony
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Settlers begin to arrive in Carolina
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The Dutch surrenders New Amsterdam to the English.
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Charles Town is established in southren Carolina
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Bath, the first town in northern Carolina, is established.
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Carolina officially splits into North Carolina and South Carolina
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George Burrington becomes the first royal governor of North Carolina.
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The first settlers arrive in Georgia and establish the settlement of Savannah.
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A Scot, Gabriel Johnston, becomes royal governor.
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Smallpox kills nearly half the Cherokee.
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Tobacco industry thrives and planters prosper.
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French and Indian War begins.
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French and Indain war ends.
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Western counties start Regulator movement.
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North carolina quakers call for an immediate end to slavery.
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Five colonists are killed in the Bosten Massacre.
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Patriots of Bosten dump tea into the Bosten Habor to protest tea tax.
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The Edenton Tea Party takes place.
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First continental congress is held.
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Declaration of Independence is signed.
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Patriots win battle of Saratoga; French makes alliance with colonies.
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Treaty of Paris is signed; Americans have officially won the revolutionary war.
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George Washington becomes the first president.
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The Bill Of Rights is passed.
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The University of North Carolina opens to the public.
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North Carolina gold rush begins with the discovery of gold in Cabarrus County.
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THe Louisiana Purchase is made.
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The War of 1812 begins.
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Andrew Jackson is elected president.
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Andrew Jackson is elected president.
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The Whig Party is formed.
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North Carolina's first railroad company is chartered.
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Cherokee forced to move to Oklahoma, a journey now called the "Trail of Tears."
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The first public school opens;Wilmington and Welden Railroad is completed.
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United States declares war against Mexico.
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Voters pass a manhood suffrage amendment.
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First successful oil well is drilled.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president. Confederate States of America is formed.
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Civil War begins.
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Confederates win First Battle of Manassas (First Battle of Bull Run).
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North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
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Sherman's troops enter North Carolina; Union forces take Roanoke Island and begin raiding towns in the eastern part of the state.
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Emancipation Proclamation takes effect: Lee retreats after Battle of Gettysburg; Union takes Vicksburg.
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Lincoln announces his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
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Union takes Richmond; Confederates surrender; Lincoln is assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president.
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North Carolina's Repulbican Party is organized.
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Congress passes Firthteen Amendment
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Ku Klux Klan murders two Republican leaders: Kirk-Holden War takes place.
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Rockefeller organizes Standard Oil Company.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Duke family begins making cigarettes.
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Farmers force legislation to establish state Railroad Commission.
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People's Party (Populists) is formed.
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The Maine blows up in Cuba; the Spanish-American War takes place.
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Henry Ford completes his first car.
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Wright Brothers make the first airplane flight.
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Prohibition is enacted.
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World War 1 begins; Panama Canal opens.
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Camp Bragg (later Fort Bragg) is established.
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Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War 1.
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North Carolinians overwhelmingly vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Congress passes Social Security Act.
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FDR is reelected.
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Furniture manufacturing is back to 1929 levels.
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Germany invades Poland; Great Britain and France declare war on Germany; World War II begins.
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Hitler's and Mussolini's troops roll through Europe.
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Allies invade Italy; Allies defeat Japanese at Guadalcanal.
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Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes president; Germany surrenders; U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Japan; Japan surrenders.
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Korean War begins.
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U.S. Supreme Court decides Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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African Americans stage "sit-in" in Greensboro.
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First building at Research Triangle Park is completed.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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King receives Nobel Peace Prize.
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Civil Rights Act passes in Congress.
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The first U.S. ground troops go to Vietnam.
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King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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NASA lands first astronaut on the moon.
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North Carolinians vote overwhelmingly to reelect President Nixon.
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Jimmy Carter is elected president.
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The Soviet Union breaks apart.
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North American Free Trade Agreement takes effect.
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Terrorists attack World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11.
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U.S. invades Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein.
