| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1628 | | Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass) | Miles Standish commanded an expedition against Thomas Morton's fur-trading post. Plymouth officials feared Morton's men were trading guns with Indians. | Pilgrims, Hawthorne, Standish, maypole, Indian" |
| 1634 | | John Endecott defaces King's colors | Radical Puritan John Endecott of Salem believed that the image of the cross was idolatrous. A website for the Popham Colony has a representation of such a flag. | Endicott, Endecott, flag, Hawthorne, Puritans |
| 1637 | | Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan" | | maypole, pilgrims, Endicott, Hawthorne" |
| 1830 - 1870 | | Domestic fiction dominates literary market | Hawthorne both admired and denigrated these writers, referring to them "as damned, scribbling females. | |
| 1831 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" | This early story was re-published in 1852 | revolution |
| 1836 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount" | | maypole, Hawthorne |
| 1837 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales" | | |
| 1837 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross" | | flag, cross, Endicott |
| 1846 | | Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse | Hawthorne's story built on an already existing romance about Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket in 1725. | Lovewell, Maine, bones |
| 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" | | |
| 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face" | | old man, profile" mountain |
| 1851 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables" | | witch Salem |
| 1853 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England. | | |
| 1862 | | Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly | The Liberator denounces the essay, noting that the anonymous author was reported to be Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Civil War |
| 1904 | | Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables. | James wrote, "Hawthorne's ladder at Salem, in fine, has now quite gone, and we but tread the air if we attempt to set our critical feet on its steps and its rounds. | |
