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			1524 Verrazano explores NE coast
1614 John Smith maps New England
			1614 Dutch explore the Connecticut River
1624 Pemaquid (Maine) established
			1634 Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut
1634 John Endecott defaces King's colors
			1642 English Civil War begins
1646 Massachusetts begins to establish "praying towns"
			1647 Alice Young hung in Hartford
1648 Massachusetts executes Margaret Jones
			1649 Charles I executed
1654 Harvard establishes Indian College
			1656 First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England
1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.
			1662 Beginning of Hartford witch outbreak.
1671 Katherine Naylor, the wife of a Boston merchant, sues for divorce.
			1675 King Philip's War
1704 Deerfield Massacre
			1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts
1764 Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"
			1774 First Continental Congress
1774 John Malcolm tarred and feathered
			1774 Intolerable Acts
1774 In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
			1783 Boston establishes annual July 4 oration
1791 Vermont joins the union as the 14th state
			1800 With 1,400,000 people N.E. contains 28 percent of the U.S. population
1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
			1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"
1814 Hartford Convention considers secession
			1818 John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall
1824 Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since"
			1824 Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth
1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published
			1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"
1824 Lafayette feted in America
			1824 Bunker Hill monument begun
1828 Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H.
			1830 New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture
1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"
			1834 Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H.
1834 James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"
			1834 Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"
1834 Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown
			1835 George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston
1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.
			1837 John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm
1840 Agitation for Ten-hour Day
			1841 Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia"
1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
			1841 Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy"
1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems
			1841 Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court
1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
			1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
			1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery
1842 Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford
			1845 New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded
1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.
			1845 Beginning of Irish famine
1846 Mexican War begins
			1846 Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse
1847 Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign
			1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"
1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"
			1847 First edition of Frederick Douglass's North Star
1848 William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains
			1848 Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution
1848 Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York
			1848 James Russell Lowell, "The Courtin'"
1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
			1849 California Gold Rush
1850 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont
			1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"
1854 Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"
			1854 Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act
1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm"
			1864 U.S. Sanitary Commission sponsors "Colonial Kitchens"
1864 Massachusetts Historical Society published Phillis Wheatley letters
			1866 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound"
1868 Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills
			1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.
1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn
			1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield
1888 Whittier supports women's suffrage.
			1894 Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard
1904 Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur
			1904 Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.
1905 Paul Revere House saved from demolition
			1924 American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote
1924 Ku Klux Klan has 50,000 members in Maine
			1924 Congress passes restrictive immigration laws
1924 First of New England textile mills moves south
			1940 Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers.
1940 World war II fuels new industries in New England
			1942 Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established
1942 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site
			1947 Old Sturbridge Village created
1947 Plimoth Plantation founded
			1947 Shelburne Museum established
1954 Brown v. Board of Education overturns "separate but equal"
			1964 Civil Rights Act targets race and sex
1972 Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.
			1974 Judge Garrity orders school busing in Boston
2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704