Tennessee's Admission Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Tennessee (TN) entered the Table 1 record on June 1, 1796. Card Blueprints uses June 1 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1796 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-spades.

Tennessee's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Tennessee at number 16 of 50. 4 years after Kentucky (number 15, 1792). Ohio follows at number 17, in 1803. 1796 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

16 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

June 1, 1796

Month and day used

June 1 (the year 1796 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 6 + 1) = 42

Coordinate

3 of Spades — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.

States sharing June 1

Kentucky

Wikidata inception (P571)

1796-06-01

Tennessee on the record

Tennessee ( , locally ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. According to the United States Census Bureau, the state's estimated population as of 2024 is 7.22 million. Tennessee is geographically, culturally, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions of East, Middle, and West Tennessee. Nashville is the state's capital and most populous city, and anchors its largest metropolitan area. Tennessee has diverse terrain and landforms, and from east to west, contains a mix of cultural features characteristic of Appalachia, the Upland South, and the Deep South. The Blue Ridge Mountains along the eastern border reach some of the highest elevations in eastern North America, and the Cumberland Plateau contains many scenic valleys and waterfalls. The central part of the state is marked by cavernous bedrock and irregular rolling hills, and level, fertile plains define West Tennessee. The state is twice bisected by the Tennessee River, and the Mississippi River forms its western border. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park, is in eastern Tennessee. Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its name derives from Tanasi (ᏔᎾᏏ), a Cherokee town preceding the first European American settlement. Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later the Southwest Territory, before its admission to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tennessee (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.

States that share June 1

• Kentucky — June 1, 1792

Other states on the 3 of Spades

• Kentucky — 3 of Spades

FAQ

What date does Tennessee use?

June 1, 1796 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Tennessee's admission birth card?

The 3 of Spades. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.

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