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October 5 – During the French and Indian War, the British begin construction of Fort Loudoun in modern-day Monroe County to protect the local Cherokee, making the fort one of the first British structures in modern-day Tennessee. [9] 1760 February-August – Relations between the British and the Cherokee worsen, leading to the Anglo-Cherokee War.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
Hess received a patent (U.S. patent #29,077) for his invention of the first vacuum cleaner on July 10, 1860. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] [ 150 ] Despite credit usually going to English inventor Hubert Cecil Booth for inventing the first electric vacuum cleaner in 1901, his vacuum was actually predated two years by an American, John Thurman of St. Louis ...
The location of the state of Tennessee in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tennessee: Tennessee – U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee was admitted to the ...
Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61. Nashville: John L. Mitchell. 1860. Joseph Buckner Killebrew; Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture (1874), "Middle Tennessee: Montgomery County: Clarksville", Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee, vol. 2, Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell "Clarksville".
Tennessee Encyclopedia is a reference book on the U.S. state of Tennessee that was published in book form in 1998 and has also been available online since 2002. Contents include history , geography , culture, and biography .