| Indian farmers began growing products around MS River area
| Indian burial mounds built
| French claimed MS River Valley for France
| English traders trade with Chickasaw Indians
| 1st MS settlement founded by French at Old Biloxi
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| 1733
| 1736
| 1750's
| 1763
| 1779
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| 1st map of the old Trace was drawn by the French
| Chickasaws, helped by the British defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia
| Long Hunters thought to be first white settlers to use the Trace around this time
| British defeated French and rule Mississippi
| Spaniards take over rule of Mississippi
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| 1798
| 1801
| 1801
| 1811
| 1817
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| Congress makes Natchez the capital of the newly formed Mississippi Territory
| The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians give the U.S. permission to build the Natchez Trace through their land.
| Natchez Trace was designated as a U.S. mail route
| New Orleans is the first steamboat on the Mississippi River
| Congress divides the MS Territory,
and the western part is admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi.
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| 1818
| 1830
| 1832
| 1835
| 1937 |
| There were 50 stands at this
time along the Natchez Trace
| Choctaws sign a treaty agreeing to trade
their Mississippi River lands for land in little known Oklahoma
| Chickasaws give up their Mississippi lands for land in Oklahoma
| Great Days of the old Natchez Trace had come to an end
| Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt provided
money for the construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway
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