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1712 Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia of Native Americans and settlers from the South Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina arrives at Bath.
1718 Blackbeard leads 300 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of Charleston, South Carolina in late May. The "Queen Anne's Revenge" and "Adventure" are both lost in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina one week later. Blackbeard allows Stede Bonnet to once again command the "Revenge", which is renamed the "Royal James". Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.
1729 Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietors sell their tracts within the Province of Carolina back to the crown. The Province is permanently divided and reorganized into the Royal Colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina.
1775 September 12 - "Independence Hurricane" from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4170, mostly fishermen and sailors.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Colonel Richard Richardson's South Carolina revolutionaries march through Ninety Six District in what becomes known as the "Snow Campaign", effectively ending all major support for the Loyalist cause in the backcountry of South Carolina.
1776 American Revolutionary War: South Carolina Loyalists led by Robert Cunningham sign a petition from prison agreeing to all demands for peace by the newly formed state government of South Carolina.
1778 South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1788 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state.
1798 The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain
1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). Sumner was unable to return to duty for three years while he recovered. Brooks became a hero across the South.
1861 American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1886 Huge Earthquake hits South Carolina USA. Earthquake rods installed afterwards... Much Damage.
1958 U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.
1963 Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson College in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
1989 Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing $7 billion in damage.
1994 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
1995 The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in South Carolina.
2004 Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. After killing 2 people in the Bahamas, Hurricane Frances kills 10 people in Florida, 2 in Georgia and 1 in South Carolina.
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