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History of South Carolina, By Period

  • Indigenous peoples
  • Spanish colony of Florida, 1565–1763
  • English Province of Carolina, 1663–1707
  • French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1763
  • British Province of Carolina, 1707–1712
  • British Province of South Carolina, 1712–1776
  • French and Indian War, 1754–1763
    • Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
    • Treaty of Paris of 1763
  • British Indian Reserve, 1763–1783
    • Royal Proclamation of 1763
  • American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783
    • Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783
  • State of South Carolina since 1776
      • Adopts a constitution for an independent State of South Carolina, March 15, 1776
    • United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
    • Chickamauga Wars, 1776–1794
      • Second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, signed July 9, 1778
    • Western territorial claims ceded 1787
    • Eighth State to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America on May 23, 1788
    • War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815
      • Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814
    • Andrew Jackson becomes seventh President of the United States on March 4, 1829
    • Mexican-American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
      • First state to declare secession from the United States on December 20, 1860
      • Founding state of the Confederate States of America on February 8, 1861
    • American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865
      • South Carolina in the American Civil War
        • Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12–13, 1861
        • Carolinas Campaign, January 5 – April 26, 1865
    • South Carolina in Reconstruction, 1865–1868
    • Fifth former Confederate state readmitted to the United States on July 9, 1868

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