| 1514 |
Spaniards explore South
Carolina Coast |
| 1524 |
Giovanni da Verranzano
leads French expedition from Carolina to Nova Scotia |
| 1526 |
First settlers from
Hispaniola establish San Miguel de Guadalupe (South Carolina) |
| 1540 |
Hernando DeSoto meets
Queen of
Cofitachiqui while crossing central part of state |
| 1562 |
Huguenots led by Jean
Ribaut
attempt to settle what is now Parris Island near Beaufort |
| 1566 |
Spanish build Fort San
Felipe on
Parris Island, establish new settlement known as Santa Elena, the
capital of La Florida Province |
| 1576 |
Santa Elena abandoned
while under
attack by Native Americans |
| 1577 |
Fort San Felipe rebuilt |
| 1587 |
After withdrawl from
Santa Elena
to St. Augustine, South Carolina is again left to the Native Americans |
| 1663 |
Charter for the
Carolinas granted by Charles II |
| 1670 |
Carolina is first ship
to land in
Charlestowne, followed shortly after by the Albemarle and Port Royal |
| 1670 |
English establish first
permanent
European settlement at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River |
| 1670 |
Charleston (South
Carolina) founded |
| 1706 |
November, South Carolina
establishes the Anglican Church as its official church |
| 1708 |
The majority of
non-native
inhabitants were African American slaves |
| 1712 |
May, the Carolina Colony
is officially divided in North and South Carolina |
| 1714 |
Yamasee War (South
Carolina) |
| 1715 |
Last time Native
Americans
significatly threaten the colony's existence - Yemassee War |
| 1719 |
Colonist revolt against
proprietary rule, proprietors' interests bought out and South Carolina
becomes a royal province |
| 1739 |
England delares war on
Spain. As a result, hositilites break out between Georgia and South
Carolina colonists and Florida Spaniards. Also, three seperate violent
uprisings by black slaves occur |
| 1739 |
Stono Rebellion |
| 1740 |
Fifty black slaves
hanged in Charleston |
| 1750 |
Rice and indigo make the
planters
and merchants in the South Carolina lowcoutry the wealthiest men in
what would become the United States |
| 1765 |
Charlestonians were
strongest
supporters of rights as Englishment in Stamp Act crisis |
| 1767 |
Regulator movement |
| March
28, 1776 |
Constitution
of South Carolina |
| June
28, 1776 |
First decisive victory
of the war
was the repulse of a British fleet by patriot defenders in palmetto log
fort on Sullivans Island, Fort Moultrie
|
| 1777 - 1778 |
Charleston merchant
Henry Laurens
served as President of the Continental Congress |
| 1779 |
Feb 1, British Gen.
Clinton arrives in Charleston, after leaving New York with 8000 men on
Dec 26 |
| 1780 |
May 6, British capture
Fort Moultrie at Charleston |
| 1780 |
May 29, battle of Waxhaw
Creek |
| 1780 |
August 6, Battle at
Hanging Rock |
| 1780 |
August 16, battle of
Camden, big defeat for Americans as forces under Gen Gates are defeated
by troops of Gen Charles Corwallis, resulting in 900 Americans killed
and 1000 captured |
| 1780 |
August 18, defeat at
Fishing Creek |
| 1780 |
October 7, battle of
King's Mountain, victory begins to turn the tide in the south |
| 1780 |
October 14, Gen
Nathanael Greene is named as new commander of the Southern Army,
replaces Gen Gates. He begins a strategy of rallying support and
wearing down the British by leading Gen Cornwallis on a six month chase
through the woods of South Carolina to North Carolina, then Virginia
and back to North Carolina |
| 1781 |
Battle at Cowpens,
January 17, victory, Gen Daniel Morgan defeats British Gen Banastre
Tarleton
|
| 1781 |
April 25, Battle at
Hobkirk's Hill, Lord Rawdon defeats Natanael Greene |
| 1781 |
Battle at Ninety-six |
| 1781 |
Battle at Eutaw Springs |
| 1782 |
August 27, last fighting
of the Revolutionary War occurs in skirmish along the Combahee River |
| 1782 |
December 14, British
evacuate Charleston |
| 1788 |
South Carolina becomes
8th state
to ratify the United States Constitution |
| 1790 |
South Carolina moves its
seat of
government from Charleston to Columbia |
| 1824 |
John C. Calhoun served
as
secretary of war before becoming Vice President |
| 1832 |
John C. Calhoun emerges
as
political theorist of states rights when South Carolina nullifies
federal tariffs |
| 1856 |
South Carolina
representative Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner, outspoken
anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts, unconcious with a cane |
| December 20, 1860 |
South Carolina is first
to secede
from the Union when it ratifies the Ordinance of Secession |
| April 12, 1861 |
First shots of the Civil
War fired
in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina troops fire on Federal arsenal at
Fort Sumter
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