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1729 The third oldest settlement in Mississippi, Port Gibson, was founded
1729 The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurrs when Natchez Indians kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, MS (near modern-day Natchez, MS).=
1817 Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state
.
1861 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union
, preceding the American Civil War
.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads - Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Richard Taylor, commanding all Confederate forces in Alabama
, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana
, surrenders his forces to Union General E.R.S. Canby at Citronelle, Alabama.
1870 Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate
, becoming the first African American
ever to sit in the U.S. Congress
1878 Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)
1886 Carrollton Massacre: 20 African American
s are killed in Mississippi.
1962 The first Black student, James Meredith
, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
1964 American civil rights movement: Civil rights
workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney
are found dead in Mississippi, after disappearing on June 21.
1964 Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention
, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.
1966 James Meredith
, civil rights
activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
1971 Fifty tornado
es rage in Mississippi, killing 74.
2005 At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina
strikes the Louisiana
, Mississippi and Alabama
coastal areas.
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