{"slug": "georgia-u-s-state", "label": "Georgia (U.S. state)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1428", "qid": "Q1428", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 19, "years": 19, "span": [1702, 1996], "span_label": ["1702 CE", "1996 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "united-states-senate", "label": "United States Senate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "savannah-georgia", "label": "Savannah, Georgia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "atlanta", "label": "Atlanta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-house-of-representatives", "label": "United States House of Representatives", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-constitution", "label": "United States Constitution", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "african-american", "label": "African American", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-carolina", "label": "South Carolina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confederate-states-of-america", "label": "Confederate States of America", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ku-klux-klan", "label": "Ku Klux Klan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alabama", "label": "Alabama", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – Queen Anne's War: Battle of Flint River – Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces fail in their attack against Creek Indians, supported by English traders, in the modern-day U.S. state of Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#October–December", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – For the first time, the American colony in Georgia has an elected legislature after having been administered by a corporate Board of Trustees since its founding in 1732. The original Georgia Assembly meets in Savannah with 16 representatives as the colony prepares to become a British colonial province. After electing Francis Harris as the Speaker of the unicameral Assembly, the delegates successfully ask the Trustees not to surrender control of Georgia to the neighboring Province of South Carolina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#January–March", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1766, "year_label": "1766 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – African slaves are imported directly into the American colony of Georgia for the first time, as the sloop Mary Brow arrives in Savannah with 78 captives imported from Saint-Louis, Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358061260#April–June", "title": "1766", "revid": 1358061260, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S. state under the new government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#January–March", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1798, "year_label": "1798 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized by the United States, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina; later it is twice expanded, to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain (which acquired territory in trade with Great Britain).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366050846#January–June", "title": "1798", "revid": 1366050846, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – Second Treaty of Indian Springs: The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government and migrate west.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#January–March", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1828, "year_label": "1828 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – The U.S. State of Georgia legislature charters the Medical Academy of Georgia, which becomes the Medical College of Georgia, and authorizes it to award a Bachelor of Medicine degree, making it the 13th oldest U.S. medical school and the sixth public medical school to be established.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371323922#October–December", "title": "1828", "revid": 1371323922, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19–20 – Battle of Chickamauga – Confederate forces turn back a Union invasion of Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#September", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 26", "text": "October 26 – The paddlewheel steamer sinks off the Georgia coast, with a cargo of $400,000 in coins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#October", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Reconstruction Era: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state of America to be readmitted to the Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#July", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367594292#January", "title": "1889", "revid": 1367594292, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – William J. Simmons revives the American Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#November", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, formally becoming the first woman United States Senator.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#November", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21–22 – 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak: A series of deadly tornadoes in the United States kills more than 220 people in Alabama, 34 in Georgia and 17 in Tennessee.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#March", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1946, "year_label": "1946 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372058859#July", "title": "1946", "revid": 1372058859, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#February", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Former U.S. Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#April", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – \"Republican Revolution\": Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#November", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, begin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#July", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › July"}}]}