Polity Province of Georgia

This article is about the specific polity Province of Georgia and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States.

Establishment

  • June 1732: The corporate charter of Georgia was granted to General James Oglethorpe by king George II, for whom the colony was named. The charter was finalized by the King's privy council on June 9, 1732.

Chronology

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1. American Revolutionary War

Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.

  • July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • January 1733: The 1732 charter boundary provided that the new colony of Georgia would consist of all the land between the headwaters of the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers, with its eastern boundary formed by the Atlantic Ocean and its western boundary by the "south seas," a reference to the Pacific Ocean.
  • January 1763: Georgia expanded south of the Altamaha in 1762.

Disestablishment

  • July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.

Selected Sources

  • Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript