| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1614 | | John Smith maps New England | | exploration, map, Indians |
| 1621 | | English and Wampanoag join in a harvest festival. | | |
| 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 |
| 1638 | | New Haven founded | | colony, settlement, Connecticut, Puritan |
| 1660 - 1725 | | A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations. | A map from the 1704 Deerfield website shows the colonial Northeast, c, 1660-1725. | Indian war |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1764 | | Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay" | An important early history by the later Loyalist governor. Dealt with witchhunting and with the banishment of his ancestor, Anne Hutchinson. | witch, antinomianism, loyalist |
| 1825 | | John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted | | Antinomianism, Puritanism, Hutchinson, Dyer |
| 1829 | | Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America" | Like other writers of the early republic, Goodrich saw the Salem witch trials as a consequence of fanaticism and delusion. | |
| 1851 | | J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut" | | |
| 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 |
| 1856 | | Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas | | Longfellow Civil War |
| 1860 | | Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns. | Female strikers invoke the memory of the revolutionary heroine Molly Stark. | women's work |
| 1869 | | American Museum of Natural History founded in New York | | |
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| 1879 | | The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House | See the Old State House time-line on the Bostonian Society Web site | revolution |
| 1901 | | Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House | | museum |
| 1912 | | Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities | | immigration, labor |
| 1935 | | Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open | Read Jack Larkin and Mark Ashton, "Celebrating 50 Years of History" on the museum Web site. | |
| 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. | |
| 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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| 2004 | | Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704 | | |
