The following timeline reflects dates of events influencing the Chickasaw Nation, past and present:
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1539
Hernando DeSoto’s expedition from Spain lands in Florida with over 600 soldiers, 300 horses and pigs, and 100 war dogs, as well as priests, a physician and craftsmen.
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Pre 1540
The origin of the Chickasaw Indians is a mystery.
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Dec 9, 1540
Hernando DeSoto reached Chicaca.
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Dec 25, 1540
The wedding of Sa-owana abd Juan Ortiz
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March 1541
The Chickasaw attack the DeSoto camp
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late 1500's
Epidemics of smallpox and measles and inter-tribal warfare diminish the Chickasaw populations in the late
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1669
Visit of South Carolina traders
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1673
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet exploring the Mississippi River
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1682
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri Tonti make contact with the Chickasaw Native Indians and the French establish a colony and trading posts
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1698
British traders visit to the Chickasaw villages and establish trading links. The Chickasaw become allied with the British
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1702
The Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713) and the Chickasaw were allied to the British
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March 25, 1702
Chickasaw’s meet with Beinville in Mobile
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1715
Bienville plotted with Choctaws against the Chickasaws
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1720
James Adair’s report on the Chickasaw Nation
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1729
The Nachez Revolt (1729 – 1731) The Chickasaw fight with the Natchez against the French
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1736
The Chickasaw Wars (1736, 1739 and 1752) were fought between the Chickasaw tribe allied with the British against the French and their Choctaw allies
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1736
Chickasaw’s visit John Wesley in Georgia
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1740
James Logan Colbert arrived to the Chickasaw Nation.
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1744
The English trader, James Adair, establishes a long term, friendly relationship with the Chickasaw, and eventually publishes a manuscript about the tribe
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1750-70
Malcolm McGee and John MvIntosh joined the Chickasaws
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1752
Marquis de Vaudrevil’s ill-fated attack
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1754
The Chickasaws again fight with the British during the French Indian War, aka the Seven Years War
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1796
William Colbert and others visit President George Washington. The ‘civilizing programs’ began, instigated by George Washington, which led to the name of the Five Civilised Tribes
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May 1799
First missionary, Re. Bullen, arrived in the Chickasaw nation
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July 1799
First school is established among the Chickasaw
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1801
Chickasaw granted right of way for a road
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1802
U.S. Congress appropriated funds to build the Natchez Trace. The first Post Office was also established in the Chickasaw nation
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1816
Treaty of 1816 at National Council House
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1820
Permission granted to establish of first Chickasaw Mission
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1821
Rev. T.C. Stuart and group reached the Chickasaw nation
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1823
Monroe Mission, named after President James Monroe, is organized into a church
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1830
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Oct 20, 1832
The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek (October 20, 1832) ceded Chickasaw lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for land west of the Mississippi
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1833
Land office opened and the sale of lands began.
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1837
Treaty of Doaksville, when the Chickasaws agreed to occupy the westernmost district of the Choctaw nation in central Oklahoma
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1837
Removal to Indian Territory begins
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1856
Modern day Chickasaw Nation is created
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1861
The Civil War erupted, the Chickasaw Nation was the first of the Five Civilized Tribes to become allies of the Confederate States of America
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1887
The Dawes Act
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1889
First Land Rush, 50,000 new settlers
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1893
President Grover Cleveland appoints Senator Henry L. Dawes, to negotiate land with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes. The Dawes Rolls, or the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, entitled an allotment of land to tribe members, in return for abolishing their governments and recognizing Federal laws
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1934
The individual allotment policy of the Dawes Act was terminated by the Indian Reorganization Act
