had assembled on the east bank of the The board of regents of education acMissouri..... . Feb. 10, 1890 cording to amendment of State constiLegislature creates a State board of tution controlling all State educational incharities and correction, a board of re- stitutions, Charles N. Herreid, Robert H. gents of education, a State board of equal- Haira, H. H. Blair, H. L. Hough, and F. ization, a board of pardons, a bureau of A. Spafford appointed..... .1897 labor statistics, the office of State en- James H. Kyle elected United States gineer of irrigation, a State meteorological Senator.. ......1897 bureau, a State inspector of mines, and a Constitutional amendment providing State board of pharmaceutical examiners for a State dispensary system adopted 1898 1890 Pierre selected as the permanent capital of the State..... 1890 Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor parties meet in State convention at Huron, report in favor of woman suffrage, prohibition, and tariff for revenue only, and unite under the name of the Independent party...... ..June 6, 1890 Dakota soldiers' home, established at Hot Springs, Fall River county, in 1889, is opened.. ..Nov. 27, 1890 Battle with Big Foot's Indian band on Wounded Knee Creek; some 250 Indans killed, including forty-four squaws and eighteen papooses. Loss to United States troops, thirty-two killed, thirtynine wounded... Dec. 29, 1890 General Miles, after the Indians at Pine Ridge agency surrender, Jan. 15, declares the Indian outbreak at an end Jan. 19, 1891 James H. Kyle elected United States Senator.... Feb. 16, 1891 Australian ballot law enacted at session of..... ....Jan. 6-March 7, 1891 Sisseton Indian reservation opened to settlers... .. April 15, 1892 Catholic Sioux congress opens at Cheyenne agency; 6,000 Sioux Indians present... ...July 3, 1892 Republican, elected C. H. Sheldon, governor.... First Regiment mustered into the United States service...... May 12, 1898 Woman suffrage defeated by an adverse majority of 4,008..... . Nov. 8, 1898 Act carrying into effect provisions of constitutional amendment relating to initiative and referendum passed..... 1899 Andrew E. Lee, Populist, elected governor.... . 1899 Charles N. Herreid, Republican, elected governor.. .1900 School of technology at Aberdeen established.... . 1900 Act creating food and dairy commissioner and enforcement of the pure food laws, passed..... ..1901 State Histori1 Society established 1901 Circulating school library law enacted 1901 Judges Bartlett Tripp, J. M. Brown, and ex-United States Senator G. C. Moody appointed by Governor Herreid a committee to codify the laws of the State 1901 Act providing for the State board of agriculture... ..1901 Act giving governor absolute and unlimited power of removal of certain constitutional and all appointive officers 1901 1892 Act establishing law department of State University passed.. .....1901 United States Senator Kyle dies Board of medical examiners created and practice of medicine regulated......1893 Election of railroad commissioners provided for.... .1893 July 1, 1901 Governor Herreid appoints A. B. Kit- C. H. Sheldon, Republican, elected tredge Senator.... governor... 1894 The Supreme Court renders a decision Prize-fighting in the State prohibited construing the constitutional amendment ernor. 1895 on the initiative and referendum which Andrew E. Lee, Populist, elected gov- practically abolishes the same.......1901 . 1896 Great agricultural prosperity. ....1902 United States Circuit Judge A. J. Ed- National Farmers' Exchange incorpogerton dies. .....Aug. 10, 1896 rated with capital of $50,000,000; head[John A. Garland appointed successor.] quarters, Pierre... . April 15, 1904 TENNESSEE Written association formed for the gov ernment of the Watauga settlers, and five commissioners appointed as a governing court ... ..1772 Tennessee, one of the Southern United middle Tennessee, with camp at Price's States, lies between the Alleghany Moun- Meadows, Wayne county.... .1769 tains on the east and the Mississippi River on the west. It is bounded on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, east by North Carolina, south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri. It lies between lat. 35° and 36° 35' N., and long. 81° 37′ and 90° 15′ W. Area, 42,050 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Père Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°. Col. Richard Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract of country between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, which they call Transylvania...March 17, 1775 Watauga purchased from the Indians, and deed of conveyance to Charles Robertson executed.... ...March 19, 1775 Watauga settlers march against advanc...1673 ing Cherokees, and disperse them in a batRobert Cavalier de La Salle builds tle near Long Island Fort..July 20, 1776 Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chicka- Cherokees under old Abraham attack saw bluff of the Mississippi River....1682 the fort at Watauga, but are repulsed M. Charleville, a French trader, builds July 21, 1776 a trading-house near the present site of Forces under Col. William Christian Nashville 1714 destroy the Cherokee towns in east Tennes French erect Fort Assumption on the see Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff Bienville makes a treaty of peace with lina..... the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption June, 1739 ...1776 Washington county, including all of 1714 Tennessee, created by law of North Caro. November, 1777 Richard Hogan, Spencer, Holliday, and others come from Kentucky and begin a Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas plantation near Bledsoe's Lick......1778 Walker and others; discover the Cumber- Capt. James Robertson and others from land Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Watauga cross the Cumberland MounCumberland River ..1748 tains, pitch their tents near French Lick, Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles and plant a field of corn where Nashville from the present Knoxville.........1856 now stands ...1779 Colonel Bird builds Long Island Fort Eleven Chickamauga Indian towns deon the Holston River, where the Ameri- stroyed by troops under Isaac Shelby, who can army winters ... ...1758 left Big Creek, near the site of RogersCherokees capture Fort Loudon. The ville... . April 10, 1779 garrison, after the surrender, start out for Jonesboro laid off and established as Fort Prince George; after proceeding the seat of justics for Washington county about 15 miles they are massacred by the 1779 Indians... ...Aug. 7, 1760 1766 Colony under John Donelson in open Capt. James Smith and others explore boats, leaving Fort Patrick Henry on the the Cumberland and, Tennessee rivers Holston, descend the Tennessee and ascend from above Nashville down to the Ohio the Cumberland to French Lick, where they found Nashboro....... April 24, 1780 Form of government for the Cumberland settlements drawn up and articles signed at Nashboro... ...May 13, 1780 Capt. William Bean settles on Boone Battle of Boyd's Creek, a confluent of Creek, near Watauga... ...1769 the French Broad. Troops under Col. Company formed to hunt and explore John Sevier, returning from the battle of By treaty at Fort Stanwix the Six King's Mountain, join in expedition Battle of the Bluffs, where Nashville either the State of North Carolina or the First issue of the Knoxville Gazette Knoxville, chosen as the seat of government, is laid out......... February, 1792 Attack of 700 Indians on Buchanan's Station, 4 miles south of Nashville, repulsed by a garrison of fifteen....Sept. 30, 1792 General Assembly meets at Knoxville Aug. 5, 1794 University of Tennessee at Knoxville, chartered Sept. 10, 1794, as Blount College, is opened ....1795 State constitution adopted without popular vote by a convention which sits at Knoxville........Jan. 11-Feb. 6, 1796 John Sevier inaugurated first governor of State.. March 30, 1796 Tennessee admitted into the Union by act approved.... ....June 1, 1796 William Blount, of Tennessee, expelled from the United States Senate on charge of instigating the Creeks and Cherokees to assist the British in conquering Spanish Louisiana.... .July, 1797 Treaty with Cherokees extinguishing claims to land granted to individuals by North Carolina. . . . . September, 1798 Great revival of religion, begun in Kentucky in 1800, spreads through Tennessee 1801 .1783 Commissioners lay off on Duck River a grant of 2,500 acres of land presented by North Carolina to Gen. Nathanael Greene 1783 Nashville established by the legislature to succeed Nashboro.... .1784 General Assembly of North Carolina cedes to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains on condition that Congress accepts it within two years June 2, 1784 Believing themselves no longer a part of North Carolina, settlers in Washington, Sullivan, and Greene counties meet in convention at Jonesboro, choose John Sevier president, and form a constitution for the State of Frankland. . Dec. 14, 1784 Governor Caswell, of North Carolina, pronounces the revolt of Frankland by legislature.... usurpation.... Nashville chosen as seat of government .1802 1803 . April 14, 1785 General Wilkinson builds Fort PickerConstitution for Frankland, or the State ing at Memphis.. of Franklin, accepted by a convention of the people at Greeneville, which chooses John Sevier as governor.... Nov. 14, 1785 Capt. James White and James Connor settle on the site of Knoxville......1786 At a conference upon the legality of the State of Frankland it is agreed that the inhabitants are at full liberty and Nashville Bank, the first in Tennessee, discretion to pay their public taxes to chartered 66 Congress grants 1,000 acres in one tract for academies in Tennessee, one in each county; 1,000 acres more for two colleges, Blount in the east and Cumberland in the west ..1806 .1807 Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized...... . Feb. 4, 1810 John Sevier dies near Fort Decatur, Ala...... ..Sept. 24, 1815 Gens. Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby obtain by treaty from the Chickasaws a cession of their lands north of lat. 35° and east of the Mississippi River, known as the Jackson purchase.....Oct. 19, 1818 First conveyance of town lots in Memphis made.......... .May, 1819 Madison county organized and Jackson settled..... 1820 Capital permanently fixed at Nashville 1826 University of Nashville, founded in 1785, incorporated as Cumberland College in 1806, reorganized in 1824, and name changed.. ...1827 Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States... .Nov. 11, 1828 John H. Eaton appointed Secretary of War..... .March 9, 1829 Act for a State system of internal improvements.. ..Jan. 2, 1830 Joel Parrish, cashier of the State Bank, proves a defaulter for $200,000, and the bank wound up soon after....Jan. 3, 1830 Memphis Railroad chartered December, 1831 Andrew Jackson re-elected President of the United States.... Nov. 13, 1832 Conviction of John A. Murrell, of Madison county, the "great western land pirate" and leader of the "mystic clan," a band of outlaws, horse thieves, and negro runners, who was brought to justice by Virgil A. Stewart.... 1834 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Nashville, May 19, and completes its labors Aug. 30, 1834; ratified by a popular vote of 42,666 to 17,691 Cumberland University at Lebanon chartered and opened..... 1842 National Whig Convention held at Nashville........... ....Aug. 21, 1844 James K. Polk elected President of the United States.... .Nov. 12, 1844 Cave Johnson appointed PostmasterGeneral...... .March 6, 1845 Act for self taxation of districts for common schools. ...1845 Andrew Jackson dies at the Hermitage, aged seventy-eight.... June 8, 1845 James K. Polk dies at Nashville, aged fifty-four... .June 15, 1849 Memphis incorporated as a city December, 1849 Southern convention meets at Nashville June 3, 1850 Convention meets at Nashville, Nov. 11, 1850, and adjourns after recommending a congress of slave-holding States by a vote of six States Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, opposed to Tennessee -- Nov. 19, 1850 State agricultural bureau established 1854 State capitol, commenced in 1845, completed.... ....1855 Aaron V. Brown appointed PostmasterGeneral.... .March 6, 1857 Memphis and Charleston Railroad completed, joining the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River....March 27, 1857 Southern commercial convention at Knoxville, by vote of 64 to 27, recommends abrogation of the eighth article of the Ashburton treaty, which requires the United States to keep a naval force on the coast of Africa. . . . . ..Aug. 10, 1857 Constitutional Union Convention at Baltimore, Md., nominates John Bell, of Tennessee, for President........May 9, 1860 Call for a State convention at Nashville, to consider secession, is defeated by a vote of the people........ . Feb. 9, 1861 March 5-6, 1835 R. H. McEwen elected superintendent of public schools..... ...1836 During this and the previous year the State furnished 1,651 volunt ers for the Florida War.............. .1837 Felix Grundy appointed ttorney-General.... July 5, 1838 National Whig Convent.on meets at Gov. Isham G. Harris replies to PresiNashville..... .Aug. 17, 1840 dent Lincoln's call for troops, "Tennessee the insane opened will not furnish a single man for coercion, 1840 but 50,000, if necessary, for the defence John Bell app inted Secretary of War of our rights, or those of our Southern March 5, 1841 brothers". ..April 18, 1861 State hospital for near Nashville.... Governor Harris orders the seizure of ner, occupied by Federal troops under $75,000 worth of Tennessee bonds and $5,000 in cash belonging to the United States government, in possession of the collector at Nashville...... April 29, 1861 Majority vote of the State favors a declaration of independence for Tennessee and the acceptance of the provisional government of the Confederate States June 8, 1861 Eastern Tennessee Union convention at Greeneville declares its opposition to the Confederate government. June 21, 1861 Governor Harris proclaims Tennessee out of the Union..... ..June 24, 1861 Confederate commissary and ordnance stores at Nashville destroyed by fire Dec. 22, 1861 Feb. 23, 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 4, 1863 Battle of Spring Hill; Confederates under Gen. Earl Van Dorn victorious March 5, 1863 Van Dorn repulsed by Federals under Gen. Gordon Granger at Franklin Gen. A. E. Burnside...... Sept. 1, 1863 Chattanooga abandoned by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg, Sept. 8; Cumberland Gap surrendered to Federals Sept. 9, 1863 Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet defeat Federals at Philadelphia, east Tennessee... .Oct. 20, 1863 General Grant arrives at Nashville, Oct. 21, and at Chattanooga Oct. 23, 1863 Gen. W. E. Jones, Confederate, defeats Colonel Garrard at Rogersville Nov. 6, 1863 Longstreet besieges Knoxville and is repulsed. .Nov. 17, 1863 Grant defeats Bragg in battle of Chattanooga.... .Nov. 23-25, 1863 Longstreet repulses Federals under Gen. J. M. Shackelford at Bean's Station, east Tennessee.. .Dec. 14, 1863 Fort Pillow captured by Confederates under Gen. N. B. Forrest, and garrison of colored troops annihilated April 12, 1864 Federals under Gen. A. C. Gillem surprise the Confederate Gen. John H. Morgan at the house of a Mrs. Williams in Greeneville, east Tennessee. In attempting to escape he is killed........Sept. 4, 1864 Federals under Schofield repulse Confederates under Hood at Franklin Nov. 30, 1864 Federals retire from Franklin and occupy Nashville Dec. 1; Hood advances and partially invests Nashville Dec. 3-14, 1864 Thomas defeats Hood at Nashville Dec. 15-16, 1864 Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery framed by a convention which sits at Nashville, Jan. 9 to Jan. 26, 1865, ratified by a vote of the people, 21,104 to 40 Legislature ratifies Feb. 22, 1865 the Thirteenth .. April 5, 1865 President Lincoln dies, Andrew Johnson President.. April 15, 1865 Law disfranchising all citizens who have voluntarily borne arms for or aided the April 10, 1863 Confederate government...... ....1866 Federal raid under Col. Abel D. Streight Law making negroes and Indians comstarts from Nashville.... .April 11, 1863 petent witnesses.. 1866 Kingston and Knoxville, evacuated by Race riot in Memphis; twenty-four neConfederates under Gen. Simon B. Buck- groes killed... .May 1-3, 1866 |