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270,000 BCE
Appalachian Mountains Form.
270 million years B.C. the Appalachian Mountains were formed.
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100,000 BCE
New River starts to flow into North Carolina.
One hundred million years B.C. when New River starts to flow in North Carolina.
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16,000 BCE
Outer Banks Form.
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8500 BCE
Hardaway spear point, named after the site in North Carolina.
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300 BCE
Hohokam and Anasazi settles in Southwest.
Practcing irrigation and agriculture in 100 B.C, supposed to be 100 B.C it was glitched and showed 0100, which doesn't make sense, so we put it in as 1000. -
May 10, 1000
Mississippian culture develops in Eastern Woodlands.
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Oct 17, 1300
Warlike Mount Builders invade North Carolina, present-day Mt.Gilead.
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers America.
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas made Spain claim most of the Americas, including North Carolina.
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Aug 15, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano arriving at Cape Fear.
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Jun 17, 1526
Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon attempts to settle Carolina Coast.
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Oct 25, 1540
Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto explores the area in search of gold.
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Amadas and Barlowe claim North Carolina area for England.
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First English Colony established under Sir Richard Grenville, and Ralph Lane.
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John White returns to England for more supplies leaving the thriving colony.
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White returns to North America to figure out that the colony went missing ("Lost Colony").
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Jamestown, Virginia, is founded.
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Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrate the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth.
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King Charles ll gives Carolina to the Lord Proprietors.
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The popular party begins Culpeper's Rebellion.
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William Penn obtains charter from KIng Charles ll to establish Pennsylvania.
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Carolina offcially splits into North Carolina and South Carolina.
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The Cherokee and other Native American groups launch a war that nearly destroys South Carolina.
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George Burrington becomes first royal governor for North Carolina.
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First Settlers arrive in Georgia, establish settlement at Savannah.
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Smallbox kills nearly half the Cherokee.
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Albemarle beings ignoring laws passed by the Assembly.
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French and Indian War begins.
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French and Indian War ends; King George lll signs Proclamation of 1763.
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Parliament passes Quartering Act and Stamp Act.
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England buys more than 60 percent of its navel stores from North Carolina.
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Five colonists are killed in Boston Massacre.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord begin the American Revolution.
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Declaration of Independence is signed.
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Articles of Confederation are approved.
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British are defeated at Yorktown; Articles of Confederation are ratified.
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Treaty of Paris is signed; Americans have officially won the Revolutionary War.
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United States Constitution is ratified.
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Bill of Rights is passed.
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Louisiana Purchase is made.
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War of 1812 broke out between U.S and Great Britain.
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First locomotive engine in the United States is built.
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Lode mining of gold intensifiles gold rush.
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Andrew Jackson is elected president.
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North Carolina's first railroad company is chartered.
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Treaty ends all Native American claims to land east of the Mississippi River.
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James K. Polk becomes president.
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Manhood suffrage was passed.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
Abraham Lincoln is elected president. -
North Carolina joins the Confederacy.
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Emanicpation Proclamation takes effect. Confederates win Battle of Chancellorsville. Union take Vicksburg.
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Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau for assist former slaves.
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13th Amendment was ratified.
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Presidential Reconstruction was the period that President Andrew Johnson poilcies were created.
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Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed, it gave African American rights like to make contracts, sue, and to own property.
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Union takes Fort Fisher and the port of Wilmington. Union wins the Battle of Bentonville.
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Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 to prevent President Johnson from interfering with new laws pass during Radical Reconstruction.
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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 was passed and it divided the former Confederate states into five military districts that were placed under the adminstration of a Union general and occupired by Union soldiers.
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14th Amendment was ratified.
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15th Amendment was ratified.
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The Election of 1876, Democrat Samuel Tilden ran against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Spanish-American War occured at this time.
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Congress passed the 19th Amendment.
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First Radio Broadcasting Network was Formed.
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The U.S stock market crashed, which lead the Great Depression.
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Japan attacked the U.S military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Four German submarines, called U-boats, were sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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The National Security Act of 1947 created a Department of Defense that would oversee all branches of the military.
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Twelve Nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) in 1949.
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Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting the president to two terms.
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Dwight Eisenhower becomes president.
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Explorer 1, the first American satellite is launched
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Alaska becomes the 49th state.
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Hawaii becomes 50th State of the U.S
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. become the first men to land on the Moon.
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Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president.
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Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States after winning the 1980 presidential election.
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George H. W. Bush was vice president under Ronald Reagan before becoming president in 1989.
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Bush reauthorized the Clean Air Act in 1990.
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The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and forces from the United Nations, starting in1990.
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The U.S. began Operation Desert Storm, it started as a series attacks from air, then U.S sent ground troops to fight against Iraqi troops.
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George W. Bush becomes 43rd president.
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Colin Powell became the first African American to be appointed to the office of Secretary of State.
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Terrorists took control of American airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York .
The Terrorists also crashed the Pentagon with the planes and there was a hijacked plane, that the passengers fought back, then it crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. -
The U.S. invaded Iraq, and the Iraqi military was quickly defeated. This was known as the first part of the Second Gulf War.
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Barack Obama won the presidential election of 2008 and became the 44th president.
