Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1816
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| January 19, 1816 |
Bank of the State of Georgia is incorporated
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| February 9, 1816 |
Cherokee delegation arrives at Washington D. C. to meet President Madison and negotiate a land dispute. They are greeted by an Executive Mansion in ruins (it was not called the White House at this time) and a city destroyed by the British.
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| March 22, 1816 |
Cherokee sign two treaties with the United States, ceding South Carolina for $5,000 and establishing Cherokee claim to almost all the currently held land.
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| June 6, 1816 |
Benjamin Hawkins dies, Crawford County, Georgia
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Crawford County, Georgia |
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Benjamin Hawkins |
| July 27, 1816 |
American troops under the command of Georgian Lt. Colonel Duncan L. Clinch destroy "The Negro Fort" on the Appalachicola River. Clinch, who commanded a combined force of U. S. soldiers, Georgia militia and Creek Indians fired on the fort with "hot shot," striking the magazine and killing 270 of the runaway slaves who occupied the fort. This incident is frequently cited as precipitating the First Seminole War. In 1818 General Jackson ordered Lt. James Gadsden to build a fort on the site of the "Negro Fort". Today the site is a Florida State Park known by that name.
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| September 6, 1816 |
Francis S. Bartow, for whom Bartow County was named, born, Savannah
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| October 22, 1816 |
William H. Crawford begins his term as the 7th Treasury Secretary |
| November 9, 1816 |
W. W. Bibb resigns his Georgia Senate seat to become the only territorial governor of Alabama.
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William Wyatt Bibb |
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