| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1614 | | John Smith maps New England | | exploration, map, Indians |
| 1615 | | seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine | exact date not known | fish, New Hampshire, Maine, settlement |
| 1616 | | An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England. | | Indians, epidemic |
| 1623 | | Permanent English settlements in New Hampshire | | settlement, colony |
| 1624 | | Pemaquid (Maine) established | This is a conjectural date since the exact time is unknown. This was one of several fishing or fur-trading operations established in the 1620s in northern new England. | settlement, colony, Maine |
| 1637 | | Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan" | | maypole, pilgrims, Endicott, Hawthorne" |
| 1638 | | New Haven founded | | colony, settlement, Connecticut, Puritan |
| 1656 | | First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England | Between 1656-1661, at least 40 Quakers preached in Massachusetts. Some came from England, others from Barbados or Rhode Island | Quaker, Whittier |
| 1661 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged" | This was a Quaker response to John Norton's "New England Rent," an apology for anti-Quaker laws. | Quaker |
| 1667 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged, II" | | Quaker |
| 1686 | | Dominion of New England established | | Charter Oak, Andros |
| 1702 | | Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana" | This immense history of New England includes biographical vignettes of early ministers and governors, but also stories of captivites and accounts of diabolical possession. | history, Puritans |
| 1702 | | Queen Anne's War begins | A second round in an ongoing conflict between New France and New England. | Indians |
| 1704 | | Deerfield Massacre | A winter raid resulted in the deaths or captivities of three-fifths of the town's inhabitants. The attacking force included men from Odanak and Schaghiticoke, where many New England refugees had gathered after King Philip's War. | Indians, French, frontier, captivity" Philip |
| 1725 | | Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket | A failed raid in central Maine provoked songs and sermons about the heroism of New England soldiers. | Indians, Maine |
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| 1739 | | King George's War begins | Another round in the intercolonial wars. | Indians, New France |
| 1766 | | Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island. | Osborne called these my "resting, reaping times." In 1770, she is instrumental in getting Samuel Hopkins installed as pastor of a Newport church. | |
| 1770 | | Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield" | The British evangelist died at Newburyport, Mass. on September 30, 1770. | slavery, religion |
| 1774 | | In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire | | powder revolution |
| 1775 | | In April, Paul Revere attempts to carry news to Concord | | |
| 1781 | | British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut | | |
| 1783 | | Loyalists evacuate New York | | |
| 1790 | | New England has a million people | | population |
| 1820 | | Witch of New England published | This anonymous work was only the first of several literary treatments of the seventeenth-century witch hunts. Like others, it emphasized the dangers of delusion. | |
| 1822 | | Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York" | | |
| 1823 | | New Hampshire Historical Society founded | | |
| 1825 | | John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted | | Antinomianism, Puritanism, Hutchinson, Dyer |
| 1830 | | New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture | In the 1820s and 1830s several states offered bounties. In most places the "silk craze" had collapsed by 1840. | women's work |
| 1831 | | John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England" | Based on earlier stories written for newspapers, Whittier dealt with witch beliefs as a form of folklore. | |
| 1832 | | Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England" | | labor, women's work |
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| 1835 | | Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves. | This is only one example of New England museums accessioning grave goods, bones, and hair from burial sites deliberately or accidentally disturbed. | museums, bones, Indians |
| 1837 | | Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England | | abolition, women |
| 1837 | | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" | With her sister, Angelina, Grimke traveled throughout New England, meeting with female wage workers as well as abolitionists. | women's work |
| 1839 | | Amistad trial in New Haven | | slavery abolition maritime |
| 1845 | | New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded | | |
| 1847 | | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England" | | witch, folklore |
| 1848 | | Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York | | witch, painting |
| 1850 | | 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont | | population distribution |
| 1856 | | Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History | Earliest published version of a comment later attributed to Daniel Webster. ""Men put out signs representing their different trades; jewellers hang out a monster watch; shoemakers, a huge boot; and, up in Franconia, God Almighty has hung out a sign that in New England he makes men." | profile, old man |
| 1858 | | Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. . | See "Husking Corn," Harper's Weekly, November 13, 1858, in "Selected Slides: Homer" | women's work, homespun |
| 1859 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing | Stowe's hero was a Newport, Rhode Island minister named Samuel Hopkins. | Stowe, abolition, slavery |
| 1863 | | Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states | In a response to an editorial in the New york Tribune, Lincoln had earlier insisted that he would free the slaves only to save the Union. Harriet Beecher Stowe responded in another publication that he should save the Union only to free the slaves. | slavery |
| 1869 | | American Museum of Natural History founded in New York | | |
| 1870 | | Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York | | |
| 1871 | | New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska | | maritime |
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| 1880 | | New England fisheries decline | | economy, maritime |
| 1881 | | Nantucket's Coffin House restored | | maritime, museum, summer |
| 1887 | | Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison" | In 1915, she donated it to Dover, New Hampshire's new "Woodman Institute." | Indian wars, door, museum |
| 1893 | | Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England" | | |
| 1897 | | New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women | | |
| 1900 | | New England's 5.5 million people make up 7 percent of the U.S. population | | |
| 1900 | | 75 of 100 New Englanders live in Mass, Conn, or RI | | population distribution |
| 1903 | | New Bedford Whaling Museum founded | | maritime |
| 1910 | | Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded | | |
| 1924 | | First of New England textile mills moves south | | labor, economy |
| 1928 | | A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine | While summering in Bar Harbor, Dr. Abbe was fascinated by the ancient Native American tools found in nearby shell heaps. As he began collecting these artifacts, he realized the need for safe permanent storage. | |
| 1930 | | Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction. | In the late 1920s the State of New Hampshire began efforts to stabilize the crumbling formation. | profile |
| 1931 | | Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan. | | Mohegan, Indians |
| 1931 | | Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered. | Invoking the memory of Polish officers who fought in the American revolution, they eventually estabished units in New England. | immigrant |
| 1940 | | World war II fuels new industries in New England | | economy |
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| 1942 | | Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established | | |
| 1950 | | New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population | | population |
| 1958 | | Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH | In 1957 Dorothy M. Vaughan, Portsmouth librarian, was invited to address the local Rotary Club. As she later recalled, 'I decided to lay it right on the line, and tell them what Portsmouth was throwing away each time a house was torn down or a piece of furniture was sold out of town.' Almost before she had finished, a committee was created to see what could be done to save Portsmouth's heritage. The result was a radical new combination of urban renewal and historic preservation. The Puddle Dock neighborhood was to be saved as a historic museum. | |
| 2001 | | Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail. | What was the justification for doing this?
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| 2004 | | Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704 | | |
