{"slug": "province-of-georgia", "label": "Province of Georgia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Georgia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q785035", "qid": "Q785035", "description": "former colony in North America, part of Great Britain", "entries": 11, "years": 9, "span": [1732, 1755], "span_label": ["1732 CE", "1755 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "savannah-georgia", "label": "Savannah, Georgia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-america", "label": "North America", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "salzburg", "label": "Salzburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lutheranism", "label": "Lutheranism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bishop", "label": "Bishop", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-ii-of-great-britain", "label": "George II of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-new-york", "label": "Province of New York", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "colony-of-virginia", "label": "Colony of Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-massachusetts-bay", "label": "Province of Massachusetts Bay", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1732, "year_label": "1732 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369314491#April–June", "title": "1732", "revid": 1369314491, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 16", "text": "January 16 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (d. 1782)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363450203#Births", "title": "1734", "revid": 1363450203, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363450203#January–_March", "title": "1734", "revid": 1363450203, "section": "Events › January– March"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River in the British Colony of Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363450203#January–_March", "title": "1734", "revid": 1363450203, "section": "Events › January– March"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#October_–December", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December", "text": "December – John Wesley leaves Savannah, Georgia, and returns to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#October–December", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1742, "year_label": "1742 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Bloody Marsh – British troops repel those of Spain (under Montiano), in the Province of Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360184270#July–September", "title": "1742", "revid": 1360184270, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – In advance of the Province of Georgia changing in status from a corporate-owned American settlement to a British colony, Royal Assent is given to an act that lifts the province's ban on slavery; effective January 1, \"it shall and may be lawful to import or bring Black Slaves or Negroes in to the Province of Georgia of America and to keep and to use the same therein\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#July–September", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – As the Province of Georgia undergoes the transition from a trustee-operated territory to a Crown colony, the prohibition against slavery is lifted by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America. At the time, the Black population of Georgia is approximately 400 people, who had been kept in slavery in violation of the law. By 1790, the enslaved population of Georgia increases to over 29,000 and to 462,000 by 1860.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#January–March", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – The British North American Province of Georgia is created. Originally established in 1732 as a place for impoverished English citizens and debt prison parolees to make a new life, is given its first royal government. Administered for 22 years by the Board of Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, chaired by philanthropist James Oglethorpe, the colony is transferred by the Trustees to the British crown's Board of Trade and Plantations. King George II, for whom the colony was named, follows the Board's recommendation by proclaiming Georgia a royal province, and appointing Royal Navy Captain John Reynolds as the first Royal Governor. Reynolds arrives in Savannah on October 29 to take office.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#July–September", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The decision to deport the Acadians is made, during meetings of the Nova Scotia Council meeting in Halifax. From September 1755-June 1763, the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Contrary to popular belief, no Acadians are sent to Louisiana. Those sent to Virginia are refused and then sent on to Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Penryn in England. In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal (Cape Breton Island) and Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) are repatriated to France. Among them were several thousand Acadians, who had escaped the deportation by fleeing into those areas. Very few Acadians successfully escape the deportation and do so only by fleeing into some of the northern sections of present day New Brunswick. The event inspires Longfellow to write the epic poem Evangeline.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#July–September", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}