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516	CHRONOLOGY
April. President Davis calls for 1,500 Mississippi troops to defend Pensacola. Ninth and Tenth Regiments respond.
December 31. Federal naval force captures Biloxi.
1862	Mississippi invaded	by Union	Army.
1863	Vicksburg falls.
The seat of government moved to Enterprise, later to Meridian, then to Columbus.
1864	Seat of government	moved	to	Macon.
Reconstruction
1865	May 6. Upon surrender of	General Taylor to General Canby, Gov.
Clark recalls State officials, with State archives, from Columbus to Jackson.
May 18. Legislature convenes in special session at Jackson to consider repeal of ordinance of secession.
May 22. Gov. Clark is arrested and imprisoned in Fort Pulaski, Savannah.
June 13. Federal Government refuses to recognize old State Government, and appoints Judge William L. Sharkey as Provisional Governor.
August 14-16. Convention drafts and adopts amendments to constitution of 1832.
Freedmen granted civil rights.
October. Benjamin G. Humphreys is elected Governor; inaugurated on 16th.
1866-67 Legislature, in special session, refuses to ratify the 13th and 14th amendments of the Constitution of the United States.
1867	March 2. Mississippi by Reconstruction Act comes within 4th Military District, Major General Ord commanding.
November 13. Gen. Ord orders W. H. McCardle, editor of Vicksburg Times, to be confined in military prison for obstructing the reconstruction acts.
1868	January 6. "Black and Tan” Convention meets in Jackson to	form	a
constitution, adjourns May 18.
1868	January. Legislature rejects the 14th Amendment.
June 4. Gen. Irwin McDowell succeeds Ord as commander 4th District.
June 15. Gov. Humphreys removed from office by soldiers. Adelbert Ames is appointed Provisional Governor.
June 22-30. People, by vote of 63,860 to 55,231, reject constitution framed by “Black and Tan” (Reconstruction) Convention.
1869	September 8. National Union Republican Party of Mississippi	holds
convention at Jackson and adopts State ticket, the majority of Democrats concurring.
November 30-December 1. At State elections constitution drafted in 1868 is ratified, objectionable features having been removed.
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1870	Population, 827,922.
February 17. Congress readmits Mississippi as a Stace into the Union.
State Board of Education created; system of public schools established.
1871	First monument to Confederate dead in State raised at Liberty.
1873	General Adelbert Ames, with solid Negro vote, is elected Governor.
1874	December 7. Race riots near Vicksburg. Attacking Negroes dispersed with much loss of life.
1875	Political strife between office-holders and taxpayers continues intense through 1874 and 1875. Rioting at many places, notably at Yazoo City, September 1, and Clinton, September 4, 1875. Gov. Ames appeals to President for protection; is refused. At State elections (November) Democrats sweep Republicans from office, and gain control of both houses of legislature.
1876	February 16. T. W. Cordozo. Negro Superintendent of Education, is impeached; resigns and proceedings dropped.
February 22. Resolution is reported to favor the impeachment of Gov. Ames. He resigns (March 29) and John M. Stone becomes Governor.
March 13. A. K. Davis, Negro Lieutenant Governor, is impeached and removed from office.
1877	State Board of Health created.
1878	By legislative acts, a system of free public schools is established, and Alcorn University becomes Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College.
February. Agricultural 8c Mechanical College for white students established.
August-November. Yellow fever epidemic.
1879	Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters’ Association is organized at Vicksburg.
Labor convention meets (May 5) at Vicksburg "to consider the Negro-exodus question.”
1880	Population, 1,131,597.
Revised code of Mississippi laws is adopted by legislature.
1882	March 9. Legislature passes laws to foster industries and encourage
immigration; also an act prohibiting sale of intoxicating liquors within five miles of University of Mississippi.
June. Trustees open State University to women.
Disastrous flood in Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
1884	March 4. Act passed providing for railroad commission.
1885	October 22. The Industrial Institute and College is opened to the young women of Mississippi.
[886	Maich 11. General local option (liquor) law is passed.