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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