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A cotton farmer and his children pose before taking their crop to a cotton gin, ca. 1870
 South Carolina Timeline History
1526: The settlement of San Miguel de Guadalupe is founded near Winyah Bay
1652: Parris Island founded as the first protestant settlement in America
1663: King Charles II of England grants Carolina lands to loyal friends
1670: Charles Town is renamed Charleston, and moved to its present-day location
1670: Slaves begin arriving, and plantations begin to flourish
1712: Separate governors appointed for North and South Carolina
1715: Indians begin the Yamassee War
1761: Cherokee Indians finally surrender
1770s: South Carolina suffers through almost 140 Revolutionary War battles, most without assistance from any other colony
1780: Battle of King's Mountain success stops the British war plans
1782: British forces withdraw from Charleston
1788: South Carolina becomes the 8th U.S. State
1790: The capital is moved to Columbia, for mostly economic reasons
1860: High tariffs, and the pressing economic need for slave labor, both contributed to South Carolina becoming the first state to secede from the Union
1861: The Union stronghold at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor was attacked by the Confederates, and the Civil War began
1865: General Sherman and his Union troops burn Columbia
1868: South Carolina rejoins the Union
1895: A new constitution deprives the state's blacks of the right to vote
1921: Boil weevils destroy most of the cotton crop
1940s: Port of Charleston develops into a significant port
1953: Nuclear materials are first produced at the Savannah River Plant
1963: Statewide integration of schools begins
1989: Hurricane Hugo zzza category 4 storm: slams into South Carolina. Numerous historic buildings in Charleston severely damaged. Total losses estimated at $2.8 billion
1995: Confederate submarine, the H. L. Hunley, found in the waters off Sullivan's Island
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