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1521 |
Santo
Domingo Spanish explorers are the first Europeans to enter the area. |
| A
temporary Spanish settlement is established at the mouth of Winyah Bay. |
1526 |
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1562 |
A
short-lived French settlement is established on Parris Island |
| King
Charles I gives the land called Carolana to Sir Robert Heath. |
1629 |
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1663 |
King
Charles II gives Carolana to the eight lords proprietor. |
| Charles
Towne is founded at Albemarle Point. |
1670 |
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1680 |
Charles
Towne moves to the present site of Charleston. |
| The
Yamassee War begins. |
1715 |
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1719 |
The
colonists rebel against the lords proprietor. King George makes
South Carolina a royal colony. |
| The
Dock Street Theatre opens in Charleston |
1736 |
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1776 |
The
British are defeated in an attempt to occupy Charleston |
| South
Carolina patriots defeat the British at Kings Mountain |
1780 |
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1781 |
The
British are defeated in an attempt to occupy Charleston. |
| South
Carolina enters the Union as the Eighth State. |
1788 |
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1828 |
South
Carolinian Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president of the United
States. |
| The
first working steam locomotive in United States makes its first run out of
Charleston. |
1830 |
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1832 |
South
Carolina adopts the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring two federal tax
laws null and void. |
| South
Carolina is the first state to withdraw from the Union. |
1860 |
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1861 |
Confederate
troops fire on Fort Sumter. |
| General
William Sherman burns many plantations and towns in SC including
Columbia. |
1865 |
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1868 |
SC
is readmitted to the Union. |
| Benjamin
Tillman is elected governor. He takes away the rights of African Americans
in SC, including the right to vote. |
1890 |
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1920's |
The
boll weevil destroys half of the state's cotton crop. |
| The
right to vote is returned to African Americans in SC. |
1948 |
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1955 |
The
SC legislature repeals it's law that children have to attend school. |
| The
SC legislature requires children to attend school again. |
1967 |
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1970 |
SC
and the city of Charleston celebrate their three hundredth anniversary. |
| DeQuincey
Newman is elected to the State Senate. |
1983 |
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1988 |
Three
Nuclear reactors in Aiken are shut down for safety reasons. |
| Hurricane
Hugo hits SC, killing 180 people. |
1989 |
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1992 |
BMW,
the European automaker, announces plans to build an assembly plant in
SC. It would be the company's first US production plant. |
| The
Confederate Flag was taken down from the top of the State House and placed
on the Capitol Building's lawn to appease the NAACP. |
2000 |
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