This Month in North Carolina History
Archives

January

January 1795 -- The University of North Carolina

January 1958 -- The Lumbees Face the Klan

January 1849 -- Dorothea Dix Hospital

January 1870 -- North Carolina State Penitentiary Opens

February

February 1820 -- Bunkum

February 1971 -- The Wilmington Ten

February 1927 -- "The Old North State"

February 1885 - North Carolina Recognizes the Lumbee

March

March 1825 -- Lafayette visits Fayetteville

March 1863 -- The Salisbury Bread Riot

March 1840 --Wilmington & Weldon Railroad

March 1948 - The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald

April

April 1776 -- The Halifax Resolves

April 1896 -- Reed Gold Mine

April 1899 -- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company

April 1947 -- Freedom Ride

May

May, 1969 -- Howard Lee

May 1925 -- Carolina Coal Company Mine Explosion

May 1908 -- Statewide Prohibition

May 1972 -- First Presidential Primary

June

June 1929 -- Strike at Loray Mill

June 1756 -- Birth of William Richardson Davie

June 1870 -- The "Kirk-Holden" War

June 1940 -- USS North Carolina

July

July 1833 -- Frankie Silver Hanged

July 1963 -- The North Carolina Fund

July 1937 -- The Lost Colony

July 1885 -- John Richard (Romulus) Brinkley

August

August 1751 -- North Carolina's First Newspaper

August 1918 -- Rescue at Sea

August 1887 -- The Goophered Grapevine

August 1956 -- Grandfather Mountain Highland Games

September

September 1987 -- The Blue Ridge Parkway

September 1802 -- Spaight-Stanly Duel

September 1711 -- The Death of John Lawson

September 1940 -- Dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

October

October 1954 -- Hurricane Hazel

October 1864 -- Rose O'Neal Greenhow

October 1896 -- Rural Free Delivery

November

November 1718 -- Death of Blackbeard

November 1765 -- The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina

November 1920 -- Exum Clement

November 3, 1979 -- Greensboro Killings

December

December 1870 -- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

December -- Old Christmas

December 18, 1776 -- North Carolina Constitution

December 1804 -- The Walton War

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