| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1812 | | U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British. | | maritime |
| 1813 | | William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward | | maritime, abolition |
| 1815 | | The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker | This was the first in a series of stories eventually gathered as "The Female Marine." | maritime |
| 1830 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides." | | maritime |
| 1834 | | Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship" | | slavery, abolition, maritime |
| 1835 | | Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston | | maritime |
| 1836 | | Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen. | | maritime |
| 1839 | | Amistad trial in New Haven | | slavery abolition maritime |
| 1841 | | Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems | | maritime |
| 1850 | | 10,000 men employed in whaling on shore or at sea | | maritime |
| 1851 | | Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" | | maritime |
| 1854 | | Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes" | | women's work, maritime |
| 1857 | | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride," | | maritime |
| 1858 | | Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence. | | maritime |
| 1859 | | Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish. | Fewer than 3 out of 10 fishermen own their own craft. | maritime |
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| 1859 | | Rockport women attack rumsellers. | | maritime |
| 1871 | | New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska | | maritime |
| 1878 | | Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage. | After 1897 it is on exhibit in Boston. | maritime |
| 1880 | | New England fisheries decline | | economy, maritime |
| 1881 | | Nantucket's Coffin House restored | | maritime, museum, summer |
| 1881 | | Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village. | | maritime |
| 1885 | | After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring. | | maritime |
| 1903 | | New Bedford Whaling Museum founded | | maritime |
| 1930 | | Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation | | |
| 1930 | | Nantucket Whaling Museum opened | | maritime |
