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Dateline
- 9000 B.C. Paleo-Indians inhabit area that is now Nashville.
- A.D. 1000-1400 Mississippian-period Indians develop advanced society characterized by mound-building and farming.
- 1710 French fur trader Charles Charleville establishes a trading post in the area.
- 1765 A group of long hunters camp at Mansker's Lick, north of present-day Nashville.
- 1772 The Wautauga Association becomes the first form of government west of the Appalachians.
- 1775 The Transylvania Purchase stimulates settlement in middle Tennessee.
- 1778 James Robertson scouts the area and decides to found a settlement.
- 1779 Robertson's first party of settlers arrives on Christmas Eve.
- 1780 Second of Robertson's parties of settlers, led by Col. John Donelson, arrives by boat in April; in May, the settlement of Nashborough founded.
- 1781 Battle of the Bluffs fought with Cherokee Indians.
- 1784 The small settlement's name changed from Nashborough to Nashville.
- 1796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state.
- 1814 Andrew Jackson, a Nashville resident, leads the Tennessee militia in the Battle of New Orleans and gains national stature.
- 1840 Belle Meade plantation home built.
- 1843 The state capital moved from Murfreesboro to Nashville.
- 1850 Nashville is site of convention held by nine Southern states that jointly assert the right to secede.
- 1862 Nashville becomes the first state capital in the South to fall to Union troops.
- 1864 Battle of Nashville, the last major battle initiated by the Confederate army.
- 1866 Fisk University, one of the nation's first African-American universities, founded.
- 1873 Vanderbilt University founded.
- 1897 The Parthenon built as part of the Nashville Centennial Exposition.
- 1920 Nashville becomes the center of the nation's attention as Tennessee becomes the 36th state to give women the vote, thus ratifying the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- 1925 WSM-AM radio station broadcasts the first Grand Ole Opry program.
- 1943 Grand Ole Opry moves to Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville.
- 1944 Nashville's first recording studio begins operation at WSM-AM radio.
- 1950s Numerous national record companies open offices and recording studios in Nashville.
- Late 1950s to early 1960s Record-company competition and pressure from rock 'n' roll change the sound of country music, giving it a higher production value that comes to be known as the "Nashville sound."
- 1972 Opryland USA theme park opens in Nashville.
- 1974 Grand Ole Opry moves to a new theater at the Opryland USA theme park.
- 1993 Ryman Auditorium closes for a renovation that will make the Grand Ole Opry's most famous home an active theater once again.
- 1994 With the opening of the Wildhorse Saloon and the Hard Rock Cafe and the reopening of the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville becomes one of the liveliest cities in the South.
- 1996 Nashville Arena opens in downtown Nashville.
- 1997 Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park opens north of state capitol.
- 1999 The NFL Tennessee Titans move into the new Coliseum and the NHL Nashville Predators into the Gaylord Entertainment Center (Nashville Arena) downtown.
- 2000 The Titans take a trip to the Superbowl as the AFC champs. Opry Mills, a 1.2-million-square-foot entertainment and shopping complex, rises from the ashes of the demolished Opryland amusement park.
- 2001 Two new world-class venues open downtown: the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Country Music Hall of Fame.
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