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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1662   Connecticut receives royal charter   charter, Connecticut
1686   Dominion of New England established   Charter Oak, Andros
1687   Governor Andros challenges Connecticut charter   charter oak, Connecticut, Dominion
1818   Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak   charter oak, Connecticut
1848   William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains Oakes said that from one angle the profile resembled a "toothless old woman in a mob cap." From the best angle, however, it showed a man with character "fixed and firm." old man, profile
1856   Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm The romance of the Charter Oak persists even today. charter oak, Connecticut
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

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