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			1614 John Smith maps New England

1615 seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine

			1616 An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England.

1623 Permanent English settlements in New Hampshire

			1624 Pemaquid (Maine) established

1637 Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan"

			1638 New Haven founded

1656 First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England

			1661 George Bishop, "New England Judged"

1667 George Bishop, "New England Judged, II"

			1686 Dominion of New England established

1702 Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana"
			1702 Queen Anne's War begins

1704 Deerfield Massacre

			1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket

1739 King George's War begins

			1766 Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island.

1770 Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"

			1774 In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

1775 In April, Paul Revere attempts to carry news to Concord

			1781 British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut

1783 Loyalists evacuate New York

			1790 New England has a million people

1820 Witch of New England published

			1822 Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York"

1823 New Hampshire Historical Society founded

			1825 John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted

1830 New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture

			1831 John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"

1832 Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England"

			1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.

1837 Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England
			1837 Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

1839 Amistad trial in New Haven

			1845 New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded

1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"

			1848 Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York

1850 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont

			1856 Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History

1858 Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. .

			1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states

			1869 American Museum of Natural History founded in New York

1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York

			1871 New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska

1880 New England fisheries decline

			1881 Nantucket's Coffin House restored

1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"

			1893 Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England"

1897 New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women

			1900 New England's 5.5 million people make up 7 percent of the U.S. population
1900 75 of 100 New Englanders live in Mass, Conn, or RI

			1903 New Bedford Whaling Museum founded

1910 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded

			1924 First of New England textile mills moves south

1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine

			1930 Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.

1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.
			1931 Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.

1940 World war II fuels new industries in New England

			1942 Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established

1950 New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population

			1958 Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH

2001 Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.

			2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704

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