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			1524 Verrazano explores NE coast

1603 Martin Pring explores NE coast

			1607 Popham Colony planted in Maine

1608 Separatists go to Holland

			1614 John Smith maps New England
1614 Dutch explore the Connecticut River

			1615 seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine

1616 An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England.

			1620 English Separatists found Plymouth

1621 English and Wampanoag join in a harvest festival.

			1622 Mourt's Relation published in London

1623 Permanent English settlements in New Hampshire

			1624 Pemaquid (Maine) established

1628 Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)

			1629 Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine.

1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony

			1633 Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups.

1634 Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut
			1634 John Endecott defaces King's colors

1635 Roger Williams founds Providence, RI

			1636 Harvard College founded
1636 Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford.

			1637 Anne Hutchinson banished, settles Portsmouth, RI
1637 Pequot War
			1637 Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan"

1638 New Haven founded

			1642 English Civil War begins

1646 Massachusetts begins to establish "praying towns"

			1647 Alice Young hung in Hartford

1648 Massachusetts executes Margaret Jones

			1649 Charles I executed

1650 Anne Bradstreet, "The Tenth Muse"

			1654 Harvard establishes Indian College

1656 Ann Hibbens executed.
			1656 First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England

1657 Lawrance and Cassandra Southwick imprisoned for entertaining Quakers

			1659 Massachusetts executes Quakers

1660 Charles II restored to throne
			1660 Mary Dyer executed.
1660 Mashpee established as a Christian Indian town
			1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.

1661 George Bishop, "New England Judged"
			1661 English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston.

1662 Connecticut receives royal charter
			1662 Beginning of Hartford witch outbreak.
1662 Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem.
			1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.

1667 George Bishop, "New England Judged, II"

			1671 Elizabeth Knapp "possessed of the Devil"
1671 Katherine Naylor, the wife of a Boston merchant, sues for divorce.

			1675 King Philip's War

1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns

			1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative

1685 Simon Popmonit becomes minister at Mashpee

			1686 Dominion of New England established

1687 Governor Andros challenges Connecticut charter

			1689 King William's War begins
1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH

			1692 Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World"
1692 Salem Witch Trials

			1695 Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders

1697 Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials

			1700 Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World"

1701 Yale College founded

			1702 Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana"
1702 John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"
			1702 Queen Anne's War begins

1704 Deerfield Massacre

			1706 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston

1711 Massachusetts begins compensating victims of Salem witch trials.

			1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket

1739 King George's War begins
			1739 George Whitfield's first tour

1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts

			1755 Braddock's Defeat
1755 British deport French settlers of Acadia

			1760 Reuben Cognehew carries Mashpee petition to London

1763 Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War

			1764 Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"

1765 Stamp Act Riots

			1766 Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island.

1767 Townshend Acts

			1768 spinning meetings begin
1768 Non-importation agreements begin
			1768 British troops arrive in Boston

1769 Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club
			1769 Non-consumption agreements begin to appear

1770 Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"
			1770 Townshend Acts Repealed
1770 11yr old Christopher Seider killed
			1770 Copley paints Paul Revere

1770 Boston Massacre
			1770 Paul Revere engraves the events in King Street.


1772 Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip
			1772 Committees of Correspondence formed

1773 Boston "Tea Party"
			1773 Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted
1773 Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
			1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom

1774 First Continental Congress
			1774 John Malcolm tarred and feathered
1774 Intolerable Acts
			1774 In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

1775 Battles at Lexington and Concord
			1775 George Washington takes command
1775 In April, Paul Revere attempts to carry news to Concord
			1775 Battle of Bunker Hill

1776 Declaration of Independence
			1776 Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans
1776 British evacuate Boston
			1776 Abigail Adams urges John to "Remember the Ladies

1777 Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga
			1777 Congress defines American flag
1777 Battle of Saratoga
			1777 Battle of Bennington

1780 Benedict Arnold turns traitor

			1781 Battle of Yorktown
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified
			1781 British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut

1782 Peace negotiations begin

			1783 Congress ratifies Articles of Peace
1783 Loyalists evacuate New York
			1783 Boston establishes annual July 4 oration

1786 Shay's Rebellion

			1787 Constitutional Convention
1787 Northwest Ordinance

			1788 Constitution ratified

1789 French revolution begins

			1790 New England has a million people

1791 Vermont joins the union as the 14th state
			1791 Massachusetts Historical Society founded

1799 East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts

			1800 With 1,400,000 people N.E. contains 28 percent of the U.S. population
1800 Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes

			1801 Reprint of French edition of Phillis Wheatley's poems

1802 Reprint of Phillis Wheatley's poems published in NH

			1803 Louisiana Purchase

1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins

			1805 Rock outcropping in Franconia Notch first noticed by road workers.

1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston

			1810 Congress commissions a census on manufactures

1812 War with England
			1812 U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British.

1813 Agricultural fairs called "Cattle Shows" begin displaying household manufactures
			1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward

1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"
			1814 Hartford Convention considers secession

1815 Henry Sargent paints "The Landing of the Fathers"
			1815 The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker

1817 Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site

			1818 Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak
1818 Congress establishes pensions for indigent veterans.
			1818 John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall

1820 Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial
			1820 Missouri Compromise guarantees statehood for Maine
1820 Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted
			1820 Witch of New England published

1821 Essex Institute founded

			1822 Rhode Island Historical Society founded
1822 Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York"

			1823 New Hampshire Historical Society founded
1823 Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted

			1824 Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since"
1824 Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth
			1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published
1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"
			1824 Lafayette feted in America
1824 Bunker Hill monument begun

			1825 Connecticut Historical Society founded
1825 John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted
			1825 Erie Canal completed

1826 Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated
			1826 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"

1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
			1827 Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts"
1827 Sarah Josepha Hale, "Northwood"

			1828 Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H.
1828 Andrew Jackson elected president

			1829 William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"
1829 First performance of "Metamora"
			1829 Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America"
1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

			1830 New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture
1830 Indian Removal Act
			1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides."
1830 Theodore Dwight, The Northern Traveller (guidbook) mentions "Old Man of the Mountains."
			1830 - 1870 Domestic fiction dominates literary market
1830 Monument erected at Fort Griswold

			1831 Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
1831 John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"
			1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.
1831 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
			1831 Mohegan Church built

1832 Garrison begins "The Liberator"
			1832 Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England"

1833 Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"
			1833 Indian Declaration of Independence
1833 John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.
			1833 Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf"

1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"
			1834 Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H.
1834 James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"
			1834 Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"
1834 Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown

			1835 George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston
1835 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes"
			1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.
1835 Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston

			1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"
1836 William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip
			1836 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount"
1836 Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen.
			1836 Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary

1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.

			1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales"
1837 Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves
			1837 John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm
1837 Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
			1837 For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor.
1837 Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England
			1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross"
1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar"
			1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument.

1839 Amistad trial in New Haven
			1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches

1840 Agitation for Ten-hour Day

			1841 Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia"
1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
			1841 Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy"
1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems
			1841 Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court

1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
			1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.

			1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery
1842 Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford

			1845 New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded
1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.
			1845 Beginning of Irish famine

1846 Mexican War begins
			1846 Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse

1847 Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign
			1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"
1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"
			1847 First edition of Frederick Douglass's North Star

1848 William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains
			1848 Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution
1848 Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York
			1848 James Russell Lowell, "The Courtin'"
1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

			1849 California Gold Rush

1850 At 2,729,000, N.E. composes less than 12 percent of the U.S. population
			1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
			1850 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont
1850 10,000 men employed in whaling on shore or at sea
			1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"

1851 Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
			1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1851 Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial
			1851 J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"
1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

			1853 Samuel Drake's edition of "Magnalia Christi Americana"
1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.

			1854 Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"
1854 Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act

			1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha"
1855 Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids"
			1855 William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution"

1856 Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm
			1856 Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History
1856 Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas

			1857 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"
1857 Dred Scott Decision

			1858 Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. .
1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.
			1858 Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"
1858 Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House

			1859 Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish.
1859 Harriet Wilson, "Our Nig, or Sketches from the LIfe of a Free Black"
			1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
1859 Rockport women attack rumsellers.

			1860 Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns.
1860 Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"

			1861 Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly
1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm"
			1861 William Cooper Nell becomes clerk in U.S. Postal Service
1861 Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing
			1861 Civil War begins

1862 Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly

			1863 Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
1863 Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a national holiday
			1863 Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states

			1864 U.S. Sanitary Commission sponsors "Colonial Kitchens"
1864 Massachusetts Historical Society published Phillis Wheatley letters

			1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1865 13th Amendment outlaws slavery
			1865 Klu Klux Klan founded
1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated

			1866 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound"
1866 Peabody Museum founded at Harvard

			1867 Edmonia Lewis sells busts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

1868 Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills
			1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"

1869 Massachusetts enfranchises Indians
			1869 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks"
1869 American Museum of Natural History founded in New York
			1869 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts

1870 Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded
			1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York
1870 First transcontinental train leaves Boston on a 39-day journey across the United States
			1870 Winslow Homer engraving, "The Dinner Horn"
1870 French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns
			1870 Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.
1870 The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores

			1871 P.T. Barnum founds "The Greatest Show on Earth"
1871 New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska

			1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.

1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

			1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

1877 Hayes-Tilden Election resolved

			1878 Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.

1879 The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House
			1879 Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"

1880 New England fisheries decline
			1880 John Greenleaf Whittier writes poems about Quaker persecution.
1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield

			1881 Nantucket's Coffin House restored
1881 Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive"
			1881 Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.

1885 After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.
			1885 Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere

1886 Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago

			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
1887 Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument
			1887 Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"

1888 Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated
			1888 Whittier supports women's suffrage.

1889 Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant

			1890 Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded
1890 Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles
			1890 Alice Baker returns to Deerfield to restore her ancestral home, Frary House.

1891 Bennington Battle Monument erected

			1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
1893 Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England"

			1894 Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard

1895 Eliza Philbrick creates a "Colonial Gown" for a DAR party in Boston

			1896 Blue and White Society formed in Deerfield
1896 Supreme Court accepts doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson

			1897 New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women
1897 Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Founded

			1898 Emily Tyson begins refurbishing Hamilton House in Maine
1898 Emily Tyson purchases the 1785 Hamilton House, the setting for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Tory Lover."

			1900 Old Gaol opened in York, Maine
1900 New England's 5.5 million people make up 7 percent of the U.S. population
			1900 Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets"
1900 75 of 100 New Englanders live in Mass, Conn, or RI

			1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House
1901 President William McKinley assassinated

			1902 Edith Wharton designs "The Mount" in Lenox, Massachusetts
1902 William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine

			1903 Elizabeth C. B. Buel , "The Tale of the Spinning Wheel"
1903 New Bedford Whaling Museum founded

			1904 Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur
1904 Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.

			1905 Paul Revere House saved from demolition


1907 Period rooms opened in Essex Institute

			1908 House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

1909 NAACP formed

			1910 John F. Fitzgerald mayor of Boston
1910 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded

			1912 Robert Frost, "North of Boston"
1912 Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
			1912 Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities

1915 Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut"
			1915 Statue of Anne Hutchinson erected on Beacon Hill

1920 19th Amendment gives women the vote

			1922 Antiques Magazine launched

1924 American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote
			1924 Ku Klux Klan has 50,000 members in Maine
1924 Congress passes restrictive immigration laws
			1924 First of New England textile mills moves south

1925 Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey

			1926 John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia

1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed

			1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine

1929 Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan

			1930 Nantucket Whaling Museum opened
1930 Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation
			1930 Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.

1931 Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
			1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.
1931 Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.

			1935 Yankee magazine founded
1935 Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open
			1935 Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village

1940 Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers.
			1940 World war II fuels new industries in New England

1942 Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established
			1942 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site

1947 Old Sturbridge Village created
			1947 Plimoth Plantation founded
1947 Shelburne Museum established

			1950 New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population

1952 Historic Deerfield founded

			1953 Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"

1954 Brown v. Board of Education overturns "separate but equal"

			1955 Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott

1958 Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH

			1959 Statue of Mary Dyer erected on Beacon Hill

1960 Student sit-ins in the south

			1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated

1964 Civil Rights Act targets race and sex

			1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated

1972 Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.

			1974 Judge Garrity orders school busing in Boston

1987 Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.

			1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

1992 The Last of the Mohicans filmed

			1996 The Crucible filmed

1997 "National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program" established by the National Park Service.
			1997 Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge

1998 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens

			2000 N. E.'s 12 million people compose less than 5 percent of the U.S. population

2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains
			2001 Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.

2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.

			2003 Old Man of the Mountains collapses
2003 Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone

			2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704

2006 Wampanoags receive preliminary recognition by Federal Government.

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