| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1608 | | Separatists go to Holland | | pilgrims, Plymouth, settlement |
| 1620 | | English Separatists found Plymouth | | Plymouth |
| 1622 | | Mourt's Relation published in London | | pilgrims, Bradford, Plymouth |
| 1628 | | Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass) | Miles Standish commanded an expedition against Thomas Morton's fur-trading post. Plymouth officials feared Morton's men were trading guns with Indians. | Pilgrims, Hawthorne, Standish, maypole, Indian" |
| 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 |
| 1769 | | Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club | | |
| 1820 | | Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial | | |
| 1824 | | Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth | | |
| 1858 | | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth |
| 1900 | | Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets" | | |