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1772 Watauga Association formed in East Tennessee.
1796 Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
1804 The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.
1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1847 Cumberland School of Law founded at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1860 The original cornerstone of the University of the South was laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee and captures it the next day.
1862 American Civil War: In Tennessee, the Battle of Shiloh begins.
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia.
1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1868 First convocation of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
1917 The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Massacre of July 2nd, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.
1925 Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial).
1977 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee (he is recaptured on June 13).
1996 Tennessee celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
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