date,event,place,source_title,source_url,checked
before 9000 BC,"Ice Age hunters were present at the Ocmulgee site, and people lived there until around 1715 AD.",Macon,Georgia: Ocmulgee National Monument (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/articles/ocmulgee.htm,2026-10-19
900 to about 1350,Mississippian peoples were the dominant culture at Ocmulgee; the late Mississippian village was lived in from about 1350 to the late 1600s.,Macon,Georgia: Ocmulgee National Monument (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/articles/ocmulgee.htm,2026-10-19
1000 to 1550,"Several thousand Native Americans lived at Etowah Indian Mounds, a Mississippian ceremonial complex of ritual and burial mounds.","Cartersville, Bartow County",Etowah Indian Mounds (Georgia State Parks),https://gastateparks.org/EtowahIndianMounds,2026-10-19
February 1733,"Savannah was founded; settlers arrived on February 1 at Yamacraw Bluff, the site Oglethorpe chose. The Trustees' charter from King George II dated from 1732.",Savannah,"Savannah, Georgia: The Lasting Legacy of Colonial City Planning (NPS)",https://www.nps.gov/articles/savannah-georgia-the-lasting-legacy-of-colonial-city-planning-teaching-with-historic-places.htm,2026-10-19
1736,"Three years after founding Georgia, General James Edward Oglethorpe established Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island.",St. Simons Island,Frederica Historical Background (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/fofr/learn/historyculture/frederica-historical-background.htm,2026-10-19
"January 2, 1788","Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, in Augusta.",Augusta,Georgia's State Capital (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/georgias-state-capital/,2026-10-19
1825,The Cherokee national legislature established New Echota as its capital; the site later held the first Indian-language newspaper office.,"Calhoun, Gordon County",New Echota State Historic Site (Georgia State Parks),https://gastateparks.org/NewEchota,2026-10-19
December 1835,"U.S. officials met a small Cherokee minority at New Echota; twenty signers ceded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi, and the Senate ratified the treaty in May 1836 by one vote.",New Echota,What Happened on the Trail of Tears? (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/what-happened-on-the-trail-of-tears.htm,2026-10-19
May 1838 to March 1839,Federal troops and state militias rounded up Cherokees into stockades from May 1838; by March 1839 all survivors had reached the west.,"Cherokee lands in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee",What Happened on the Trail of Tears? (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/what-happened-on-the-trail-of-tears.htm,2026-10-19
"April 10-11, 1862",U.S. forces began bombarding Fort Pulaski on April 10; the commander surrendered about 2:30 p.m. the next day.,"Cockspur Island, near Savannah",Battle for Fort Pulaski (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/battle-for-fort-pulaski.htm,2026-10-19
"September 18-20, 1863",The Battle of Chickamauga was fought along Chickamauga Creek in north Georgia.,North Georgia (park at Fort Oglethorpe),The Battle of Chickamauga (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/chch/learn/historyculture/battle-of-chickamauga.htm,2026-10-19
Late February 1864,"The first prisoners arrived at Camp Sumter (Andersonville); about 45,000 Union soldiers were held there and nearly 13,000 died.","Andersonville, Sumter County",History of the Andersonville Prison (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm,2026-10-19
"June 27, 1864","The Union attack at Kennesaw Mountain took place on the morning of June 27, as part of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.",North and west of Marietta,"Battle Detail, The Civil War (NPS)",https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles-detail.htm?battleCode=ga015,2026-10-19
"July 22, 1864","The Battle of Atlanta was fought, one of four inconclusive battles inside today's I-285 Perimeter (Peachtree Creek July 20, Atlanta July 22, Ezra Church July 28, Utoy Creek August 6).",Atlanta,The Battles for Atlanta (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/the-battles-for-atlanta/,2026-10-19
"September 2, 1864","Atlanta fell to Union forces after they cut the last supply railroad at Jonesboro, August 31 to September 1.",Atlanta,The Battles for Atlanta (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/the-battles-for-atlanta/,2026-10-19
"November 15, 1864","U.S. forces under General William T. Sherman set out from Atlanta on the March to the Sea, a march of over 250 miles.",Atlanta,Georgia Historical Society to Commemorate Beginning of Sherman's March to the Sea,https://www.georgiahistory.com/georgia-historical-society-to-commemorate-beginning-of-shermans-march-to-the-sea/,2026-10-19
December 1864,"Sherman's forces captured Savannah. The Georgia Historical Society marker gives December 21, 1864; the National Park Service's Fort Pulaski page says Sherman entered the city on December 22, 1864.",Savannah,March to the Sea: Savannah (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/march-to-the-sea-savannah/,2026-10-19
May 1865,The Andersonville prison ceased operation after about fourteen months of use.,"Andersonville, Sumter County",History of the Andersonville Prison (NPS),https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm,2026-10-19
"September 3, 1868",The Georgia House voted that 25 of its 29 Black members were not qualified to hold office; two Black senators were expelled on September 12.,Atlanta,Documenting Reconstruction and Civil Rights in Georgia's Records 1865-1870 (Georgia Archives),https://www.georgiaarchives.org/assets/documents/Documenting_Reconstruction_Website.pdf,2026-10-19
"September 19, 1868","A rally in Mitchell County ended with about a dozen freedmen killed in the Camilla Massacre, one of the most violent episodes of Reconstruction in Georgia.","Camilla, Mitchell County",Camilla Massacre (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/camilla-massacre/,2026-10-19
July 1870,Georgia was readmitted to the Union for the second time; it had ratified the 15th Amendment in February.,Statewide,Documenting Reconstruction and Civil Rights in Georgia's Records 1865-1870 (Georgia Archives),https://www.georgiaarchives.org/assets/documents/Documenting_Reconstruction_Website.pdf,2026-10-19
"January 15, 1929",Martin Luther King Jr. was born in the house at 501 Auburn Avenue NE.,Atlanta,"Birth Home (NPS, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park)",https://www.nps.gov/malu/planyourvisit/birth-home.htm,2026-10-19
"April 12, 1945","President Franklin D. Roosevelt died at the Little White House; he first came to Warm Springs in 1924, hoping to find a cure for polio.","Warm Springs, Meriwether County",Little White House Historic Site (Georgia State Parks),https://gastateparks.org/LittleWhiteHouse,2026-10-19
"July 25, 1946",Two African American couples were beaten and shot by an unmasked mob at Moore's Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River.,"Moore's Ford Bridge, Apalachee River",Moore's Ford Lynching (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/moores-ford-lynching/,2026-10-19
"March 15, 1960",The first student sit-ins were held at 11 eating facilities in downtown Atlanta; 77 students were arrested.,"Atlanta, Fulton County",Atlanta Student Movement (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/atlanta-students-movement/,2026-10-19
November 1961,"The Albany Movement began at Shiloh Baptist Church; over two years 1,500 protesters were detained and Dr. King took part.","Albany, Dougherty County",Georgia Civil Rights Trail: The Albany Movement (Georgia Historical Society),https://www.georgiahistory.com/?p=28405,2026-10-19
"July 19 to August 4, 1996",Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games.,Atlanta,1996 Summer Olympics: Games of the XXVI Olympiad (Georgia Historical Society marker),https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/1996-summer-olympics-games-of-the-xxvi-olympiad/,2026-10-19