Clermont Becomes Scottish Rite

The Timeline of the Scottish Rite
1725

First Grand Lodge of Paris was chartered under the English Constitution to confer Symbolic Degrees only. Soon Thereafter, France became very prolific in the development of Rites and Degrees. Prominent amoung these were the Scots or Scottish Degrees, which became so prominent and influential that warrants of constitution were issued to administer the degrees.
1743
Masons of Lyons invented the Kadosh degrees.
1754
Chapter of Clermont was established to perpetuate the Scots Degree.
1758
Chapter of Clermont became the Council of the Emperors of the East and the West. This body organized the Rite of Perfection consisting of 25 degrees.
1761
Stephen Morin was commissioned Inspector General of North America. Morin sailed to Santa Domingo and later to Jamaica, where he established the Grand Council of the Princes of the Royal Secret.
1762
Grand Constitutions of 1762 were established in Bordeaux and transmitted to Morin, creating the government of the Rite.
1786
Grand Constitution of the Thirty-third degree, called the Supreme Council of Sovereign Inspectors General was ratified by the King of Prussia, Frederick II. (Today, Masonic scholars disagree as to whether or not this actually occured.
1801
Supreme Council of the United States of America was established at Charleston, South Carolina with nine Inspectors General governing the development of the new Rite of Thirty-third degrees.