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1600s-1700s
1590- John White returns to Roanoke to find that the settlers have all disappeared.
- Details: when white arrived in Roanoke he found a tree with the word CROATOAN.
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1655- the first European man settled in North Carolina
Details: Nathaniel Batts was the first European man who settled in North Carolina.
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1705 Bath, the first town in North Carolina, is built.
Details: Bath is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 249 at the 2010 census. Incorporated in 1705, Bath was North Carolina's first port of entry, located on the Pamlico River near its mouth. It developed a trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco. -
1715- The natives and Europeans have a war.
Details: The Tuscarora War between Native Americans and European settlers. After two years of fighting a number of military expeditions, the Tuscarora ended the war, marking the last significant effort by eastern Indians to stop the wave of white settlers crowding them out of their land. -
1718 Blackbeard the pirate is killed off the North Carolina coast.
Details: During the next six months, the Queen Anne’s Revenge served as the flagship of a pirate fleet featuring up to four vessels and more than 200 men. -
1767-1770 Tryon Palace is built in New Bern, becoming North Carolina's colonial capitol building.
Details: Tryon Palace is known for being North Carolina’s first permanent state capitol, but we’re remembered for capturing imaginations. -
1774 The women of Edenton, led by Penelope Barker, take on British rule by putting down their tea cups in what becomes known as the Edenton Tea Party.
Details: The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history.
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- The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge is the first battle of the American Revolution to be fought in North Carolina.
- Details: February 27,1776: The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge is the first battle of the American Revolution to be fought in North Carolina. -Details: April 12, 1776: North Carolina becomes the first state to vote in favor of independence.
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1789: north Carolina becomes the 12th state in the United States.
- Details: November 21: North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America. Details: December 11: The University of North Carolina is chartered, becoming the first public school in the United States.
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1799 The first gold nugget is found in the United States at Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County.
Details: It is the story of an illiterate Hessian mercenary from Germany — an illegal immigrant — who deserted from the British army in Savannah and made his way to backwoods North Carolina, where he settled near Meadow Creek in Mecklenburg County, married, and raised a family. -
(Early 1800s) – North Carolina is known as "Rip Van Winkle”
- Details: North Carolina becomes known as the "Rip Van Winkle" state because it makes so little progress that it appears to be asleep.
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November 5: Robert Vance, a former North Carolina congressman, is fatally wounded during a duel with his political successor, Samuel P. Carson, in present-day Henderson County.
Robert Vance, despite his passion for medicine, Vance switched careers because he suffered from a physical disability. Samuel Carson, a native of Marion, North Carolina, was a farmer who served in the North Carolina Senate from 1822 until 1824. In 1825, Vance and Carson competed for a seat in the 19th Congress. -
( 1828)- North Carolina native Andrew Jackson becomes the 7th president of the united states.
- Details: North Carolina Native Andrew Jackson becomes the 7th president of the United States.
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1829 George Moses Horton publishes a book of poetry entitled The Hope of Liberty. It is the first book by a North Carolina slave and a southern black.
Students at the nearby University of North Carolina bought his love poems and lent him books. As his fame spread, he gained the attention of Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz, a novelist and professor’s wife who transcribed his poetry and helped publish it in her hometown newspaper -
1834, the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad Company was chartered
At completion in 1840, this was the longest railroad in the world. By the American Civil War, North Carolina had an extensive north-south and east-west railroad network already in place. -
1835 The state constitution is extensively revised, with amendments approved by the voters that provide for the direct election of the governor and more democratic representation in the legislature.
The amendment was proposed by the 62nd Congress in 1912 and adopted in 1913 upon being ratified by three-fourths (36) of the state legislatures. It was first implemented in special elections in Maryland (November 1913) and Alabama (May 1914), then nationwide in the November 1914 election. -
1837 The federal government opens a United States Mint branch in Charlotte. It produces gold coins until the Civil War.
After 1868 the federal government will run an assay office at the mint, but no coins will be produced. -
1839 The General Assembly passes the Common School Law, which establishes the first free public schools in the state.
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1831 U.S. government forced Cherokee Indians from homes "Trail of Tears"; many hid in mountains.
Workmen fire proofing roof of State Capitol set building on fire; Nat Turner slave insurrection in Virginia caused execution of dozen North Carolina slaves . -
1864 Confederate troops under the command of General Robert F. Hoke retake Plymouth from the Federals.
At 4 P.M. on April 17, 1864, an advanced Union patrol on the Washington Road was captured by Confederate cavalry. -
1901 exile mill leaders meet in Charlotte to discuss self-regulation.
More than 100 manufacturers agree to maintain a 66-hour work week and not to employ children under age 12 during the school year (with exceptions for children of widows and the disabled). -
1911 The Sherman Antitrust Act forces the American Tobacco Company to split into four companies: American Tobacco, Liggett and Myers, Lorillard, and R. J. Reynolds.
The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company. -
1927 The North Carolina State Art Society is incorporated for the purpose of beginning a state art collection.
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1931 The General Assembly votes for the state to take over from the counties maintenance of all roads. Governor O. Max Gardner supports this plan as beneficial for the individual counties during the Depression.
The General Assembly passes an act consolidating the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and the Woman’s College in Greensboro into one system of higher education. -
1942 Greensboro native Edward R. Murrow gains fame as a radio correspondent covering the war in Europe.
He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. -
1954 In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the United States Supreme Court orders that public schools be integrated “with all deliberate speed.”
Most North Carolina schools are not fully desegregrated until the late 1960s. -
1964 Congress passes a Civil Rights Act giving African Americans equal access to public accommodations.
Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. -
1973 January 27: The United States signs a peace treaty in Paris, ending American military involvement in Vietnam.
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
1986 January 28: The space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff, killing all seven people on board, including pilot Michael Smith, a native of Beaufort, and Ron Erwin McNair, a 1971 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University.
The explosion became one of the most significant events of the 1980s, as billions around the world saw the accident on television and empathized with any one of the several crewmembers killed. -
1991 The Soviet Union is officially declared dead after several years of economic collapse and the secession of its former republics, which reject Communism and establish independent nations.
The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. -
2000 April: The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences opens its new facility to the public in Raleigh.
This museum is the oldest established museum in North Carolina and the largest museum of its kind in the Southeast. -
2002 Elizabeth Dole becomes the first woman to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate.
is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate. -
2004 North Carolina Senator John Edwards runs for vice president. He and running mate Senator John Kerry are narrowly defeated by incumbent President George Bush.
served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008. -
2010 NASCAR Hall of Fame and Bechtler Museum of Modern Art open.
honors drivers who have shown exceptional skill at NASCAR driving, all-time great crew chiefs and owners, and other major contributors to competition within the sanctioning body.
museum space dedicated to the exhibition of mid-20th-century modern art. The modern art museum is part of the new Levine Center for the Arts in Uptown. The museum building was designed by architect Mario Botta. -
2013 North Carolina police Officer Randall Kerrick shot Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed man, ten times. Ferrell, an ex-college football player, was reportedly seeking assistance after a car accident.
Police in North Carolina shot and killed a man running toward them Saturday morning -- but he may have just been looking for help after a car wreck. -
2014 North Carolina a leaking pipe dumped 82,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River in Eden. A permanent plug was installed and tested on Feb 8.
Initial estimates by Duke were that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash, along with 27 million gallons of contaminated water, had been released into the Dan River as of Monday. -
2014 Frank Janssen, the father of a North Carolina prosecutor, was kidnapped from his home in Wake Forest.
He was held for five days in Atlanta before being rescued by the FBI. Seven people were soon arrested in the case. Janssen’s daughter had prosecuted a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang. -
2014 In North Carolina Patrick Cannon, the mayor of Charlotte, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire fraud as he admitted his guilt in accepting thousands of dollars in cash and airline tickets.
He had struck a similar pose just six months earlier at his swearing-in ceremony to become the mayor of North Carolina's largest city.
Tuesday as he admitted his guilt in accepting thousands of dollars in cash and airline tickets from undercover federal agents posing as businessmen. -
2015 In North Carolina 3 Muslim students: Deah Shaddy Bakarat (23) his wife of two months Yusor Mohammad (21) and Ms. Mohammad’s sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha (19), were shot and killed near the campus of the Univ. of NC.
Craig Stephen Hicks (46) turned himself in to the nearby Chatham County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Police found at least a dozen firearms and a large stash of ammunition at the home of Hicks. -
2015 In North Carolina the town council in coastal Surf City approved the retirement of Police Chief Mike Halstead, who said he was forced to retire after he described the Black Lives Matter movement as "an American-born terrorist group" .
In a 662-word "open letter from a police chief" on Sept. 3, Halstead wrote that "this Black Lives Matter group is nothing more than an American-born terrorist group brought on by the lie of the hands up, don't shoot during the criminal thug Michael Brown incident."
