| Year |
History |
| 1540 |
Met by De Soto who wintered with
the tribe against wishes of Chickasaw who eventually rebelled against
unacceptable Spanish demands and severely defeated De Soto's army |
| 1560 |
Joined by Napochi sometime after
this year |
| 1673 |
Met a small party lead by Father
Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet which was exploring the Mississippi
near present Memphis |
| 1682 |
Robert LaSalle and Henri Tonti
party stopped at Chickasaw Bluffs because LaSalle was ill, had extended
contact with the tribe; party stayed across river with Chickasaw enemies
the Quapaw on return trip |
| 1685 |
Henry Woodward established
permanent trading post and sent two men overland to trade with Chickasaw |
| 1690 |
Choctaw-Chickasaw war, 1,800
Choctaw, 800 Chickasaw killed |
| 1698 |
British trader visits to
Chickasaw villages routine; Chickasaw made slaving pact with the British
supplying women and children of neighboring tribes in trade for arms |
| 1702 |
Tonti endeavored to establish
friendly relations with Chickasaw for the French; leaders of the tribe
were escorted through Choctaw territories by Tonti to visit Mobile |
| 1703 |
Chickasaw/Creek/Carolina
alliance destroyed Apalachee |
| 1704 |
Choctaw-Chickasaw war revived |
| 1705 |
Chickasaw and Creek defeated
Choctaw |
| 1706 |
Tribe split into pro-French and
pro-British dissolving peace with French |
| 1711 |
Choctaw-Chickasaw war again
revived with Choctaw being armed by French |
| 1715 |
Assisted Cherokee in driving
Shawnee from Cumberland settlements |
| 1717 |
Chickasaw attacks on Caddo
resulted in French arming Caddos and the creation of the Kadohadacho
Confederacy; deer skins became popular trade commodity ultimately
driving deer to near extinction in southeast |
| 1720 |
Choctaw began protracted war
against Chickasaw |
| 1723 |
Chickasaw occupied Chickasaw
Bluffs overlooking Mississippi River blocking French traffic on river;
established a settlement near August, Georgia for more than 50 years,
aided Georgians in war against Florida Spanish |
| 1725 |
Influx of 1,000 French colonists
into Chickasaw territories along with Black slaves and a myriad of
diseases |
| 1730 |
New Choctaw-Chickasaw war |
| 1733 |
Peace with northern Choctaw |
| 1736 |
Chickasaw closure of the
Mississippi prompted an all out attack of the nation by the French with
French and Illinois attacking from the north and French and Choctaw
attacking from the south resulting in the greatest defeat ever suffered
by the French at the hands of Native Americans |
| 1739 |
Second attack by French on
Chickasaw resulted once again in failure a the disgrace of the French
officers; Chakchiuma joined the Chickasaw; victories had nonetheless
cost the Chickasaw three quarters of their population |
| 1745 |
Joined Cherokee in expelling a
Shawnee band from Cumberland |
| 1750 |
Cherokee-Chickasaw war party
seriously defeated Choctaw |
| 1752 |
Defeated French commander
Benoist |
| 1753 |
Defeated French commander Reggio
in alliance with Cherokee |
| 1755 |
Beginning of 14 years of
skirmished between Cherokee and Chickasaw |
| 1765 |
British imposed a peace between
Chickasaw and Choctaw |
| 1769 |
Chickasaw defeated Cherokee at
Chickasaw Oldfields |
| 1777 |
Sided with the British in the
Revolutionary War and closed the Mississippi to traffic |
| 1781 |
Kickapoo raided the Chickasaw on
behalf of the Spanish; Fort Jefferson built by George Rogers Clark in
Kentucky abandoned due to attacks by Chickasaw |
| 1783 |
Chickasaw made peace with the
Americans at French Lick, Tennessee |
| 1784 |
Measles epidemic |
| 1786 |
Treaty at Hopewell establishing
boundaries between Choctaws Piomingo (Mountain Leader) and Mingatuska
(Hair Lip King) and United States; William Davenport brought the first
American trading party to the Chickasaw which was ambushed by the Creek |
| 1791 |
Treaty ceding land |
| 1792 |
Severe drought cause crop
failures |
| 1794 |
Treaty ceding land |
| 1795 |
Creek defeated in attack on
Piomingo's Chickasaw |
| 1805 |
Treaty ceding land |
| 1813 |
Fought along side
Andrew Jackson, Cherokee, and Choctaw against Creek in Creek War |
| 1816 |
Treaty ceding land |
| 1818 |
Treaty ceding land |
| 1819 |
Presbyterian,
Methodist, and Baptist missions established among tribe |
| 1830 |
Andrew Jackson
signed Removal Act |
| 1832 |
Treaty of Pontotoc
ceded land east of Mississippi |
| 1837 |
Beginning of removal
to Indian Territory; cholera epidemic |
| 1856 |
Tribe approved
written constitution |
| 1861 |
Fought for the
Confederacy in the Civil War |
| 1888 |
Texas cattlemen
moved 150,000 cattle onto Chickasaw lands and refused to pay for grazing |
| 1906 |
Chickasaw nation
dissolved |
| 1963 |
Tribe recognized
under Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act |
