| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1524 | | Verrazano explores NE coast | | exploration, settlement, Indians |
| 1603 | | Martin Pring explores NE coast | | exploration, settlement, Indians |
| 1607 | | Popham Colony planted in Maine | | settlement, Maine, archaeology |
| 1608 | | Separatists go to Holland | | pilgrims, Plymouth, settlement |
| 1614 | | Dutch explore the Connecticut River | | exploration, settlement, Connecticut |
| 1615 | | seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine | exact date not known | fish, New Hampshire, Maine, settlement |
| 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 |
| 1629 | | Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine. | Other traders were active nearer the coast. | Plymouth, Indians, settlement |
| 1630 | | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Although other colonies preceded it, the Bay Colony soon dominated the region because of effective organization and massive migration. | colony, settlement, Puritans |
| 1634 | | Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut | | Connecticut, colony, settlement |
| 1635 | | Roger Williams founds Providence, RI | Banished from the Bay Colony for his religious beliefs, Williams and his followers found refuge among the Narragansetts. | colony, settlement, Indians, Rhode Island |
| 1636 | | Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford. | | colony, settlement, Puritans |
| 1638 | | New Haven founded | | colony, settlement, Connecticut, Puritan |
| 1908 | | House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded | | witch, Salem, museum, immigration |
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| 1972 | | Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard. | The Bradstreet Gate was controversial because it appeared to by-pass the history of Radcliffe. The passage from Bradstreet's writing engraved on the gate was taken out of context. In the original it described her dismay at the raw condition of the settlement in Boston when she first arrived. Perhaps the first female freshmen in the Yard had similiar anxieties.
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