| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1524 | | Verrazano explores NE coast | | exploration, settlement, Indians |
| 1603 | | Martin Pring explores NE coast | | exploration, settlement, Indians |
| 1614 | | John Smith maps New England | | exploration, map, Indians |
| 1616 | | An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England. | | Indians, epidemic |
| 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 |
| 1633 | | Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups. | A succession of epidemics reduced the Massachusetts by as much as 90%. Other groups were totally wiped out. In contrast, the Narragansetts of Rhode Island were lightly affected. | Indians, epidemic, Rhode Island |
| 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 |
| 1637 | | Pequot War | | Indians |
| 1675 | | King Philip's War | Read a modernized version of Philip's account of Indian grievances originally contained in a narrative by the Rhode Island Quaker, John Easton | Indians, Philip |
| 1677 | | Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns | | Indian, Philip |
| 1689 | | King William's War begins | This colonial version of a European war pitted French and Abenaki forces against English settlers and their Indian allies. | Indians |
| 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 |
| 1745 | | Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts | Caught between English and French forces, the Pigwackets spent King George's War as refugees in Massachusetts | Indians |
| 1824 | | Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times" | A distraught Puritan woman marries an Indian. | Indians |
| 1829 | | William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest" | | Indians, Mashpee |
| 1831 | | Mohegan Church built | | Indians |
| 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 |
| 1839 | | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches | One of many ethnographic works published by the Indian agent and self-taught scientist, it contained a version of the myth of Hiawatha. | Indians |
| 1841 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor" | | bones, Indians |
| 1846 | | Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse | Hawthorne's story built on an already existing romance about Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket in 1725. | Lovewell, Maine, bones |
| 1851 | | J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut" | | |
| 1869 | | Massachusetts enfranchises Indians | This ended the "protected" status that originated in the colonial period. Communities like Mashpee were divided | Indian, franchise |
| 1875 | | Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn | | Indians |
| 1924 | | American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote | | |
| 1931 | | Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan. | | Mohegan, Indians |
| 1990 | | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | | Indian, bones |
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| 2001 | | Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains | Check the Harvard website for additional stories on NAGPRA | bones Indians |
| 2002 | | Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed. | | Indians |
