| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1683 | | Mary Rowlandson's narrative | The birth of the "captivity narrative" as a American genre | Philip, women |
| 1773 | | Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted | | women, Philip" Philip |
| 1810 | | Congress commissions a census on manufactures | Memories of revolutionary spinning meetings encourage domestic production. | women's work |
| 1813 | | Agricultural fairs called "Cattle Shows" begin displaying household manufactures | By the 1820s, the annual shows also include "fancy work." | women's work |
| 1826 | | Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated | | economy, women's work |
| 1828 | | Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H. | See documents on the course Web site related to Dover strikes. | women's work |
| 1830 | | New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture | In the 1820s and 1830s several states offered bounties. In most places the "silk craze" had collapsed by 1840. | women's work |
| 1831 | | Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery. | Stewart, a free black, may have been the first women in the U.S. to give public speeches against slavery. | abolition |
| 1832 | | Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England" | | labor, women's work |
| 1834 | | Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H. | In this and the 1836 strike at Lowell, workers compared themselves to slaves. | women's work |
| 1834 | | Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry" | Its leaders helped to form the Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1837. | women's work |
| 1837 | | For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor. | A Massachusetts census shows that almost half of wage workers were braiding palm-leaf and straw for hats. | women's work. |
| 1837 | | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" | With her sister, Angelina, Grimke traveled throughout New England, meeting with female wage workers as well as abolitionists. | women's work |
| 1837 | | Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England | | abolition, women |
| 1841 | | Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" | | women's work |
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| 1845 | | Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative. | He became a powerful voice in both the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. | slavery, abolition |
| 1848 | | Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution | | |
| 1848 | | Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention | | |
| 1854 | | Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes" | | women's work, maritime |
| 1855 | | Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids" | In the 1850s, Melville published many short stories and sketches in Harper's and Putnam's magazines. | women's work |
| 1858 | | Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. . | See "Husking Corn," Harper's Weekly, November 13, 1858, in "Selected Slides: Homer" | women's work, homespun |
| 1859 | | Rockport women attack rumsellers. | | maritime |
| 1860 | | Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns. | Female strikers invoke the memory of the revolutionary heroine Molly Stark. | women's work |
| 1868 | | Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills | See "Morning Bell" and "Bell Time" in Selected Slides: Homer. Also see HarpWeek (Hollis e-resources) issues of July 25, 1868 (p. 472) and December 23, 1873 (p. 1116). | women's work |
| 1870 | | Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants. | In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants. | women's work, population, immigration |
| 1888 | | Whittier supports women's suffrage. | | suffrage, Quaker |
| 1897 | | New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women | | |
| 1912 | | Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts | For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" | labor, economy |
| 1920 | | 19th Amendment gives women the vote | | |
| 1931 | | Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan. | | Mohegan, Indians |
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| 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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| 2003 | | Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone | | statue |
