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1973 - Leroy "Pop" Miller becomes the first black principal at formerly all-white East Mecklenburg High School. He becomes as beloved at East Mecklenburg High School as he was at West Charlotte.
November 1979 - Ron Leeper is elected to the city council.
September 6, 1992 - The Carolina Panthers become Charlotte’s football team.
November 3, 1992 - Watt and Clayton are elected to Congress.
November 3, 1992 - Jackie Harrison Barrett becomes the first African American woman to be elected sheriff.
January 18, 1993 - Thereasea Elder is awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Medallion (award).
June 28, 1993 - "Light for Justice" candlelight vigil held at Marshall Park.
A number of Charlotte's anti-crime organizations come together with politicians, police officials, ministers, and residents to hold a "Light for Justice" candlelight vigil at Marshall Park.
Late 1996 - Protests erupt over the shooting of James Willie Cooper.
January 5, 1997 - The Panthers beat Dallas in the NFC Divisional Playoffs.
April 20, 1997 - The Beatties Ford Road Branch of the Public Library is opened.
October 24, 1992 - NationsBank Corporate Center opens. At 60 stories the skyscraper is the South's tallest building, costing $150 million. Located on the Square in the heart of Charlotte, it has been designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli.
King George III is still unhappy with the colonists and their desire for independence. On this day it is announced in New Bern that he has rejected a bill passed over two years previously that established a "seminary for learning" in Charlotte.
June 3, 1775 - Captain James Jack arrives in Philadelphia. He has traveled from Charlotte to inform the Second Continental Congress of the Mecklenburgers' proclamation of freedom. But he never presents the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to Congress.
May 19, 1775 - Colonel Thomas Polk is leader of Mecklenburg's citizen army, called a militia. He has asked citizens to send representatives to meet at the Charlotte courthouse.
October 7, 1780 - On a long, low ridge to the west of Charlotte, frontiersmen from Georgia, Virginia, and both Carolinas are fighting a band of British militiamen led by Major Patrick Ferguson.