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			1637 Pequot War
1642 English Civil War begins
			1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.
1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.
			1662 Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem.
1675 King Philip's War
			1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative
1689 King William's War begins
			1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH
1702 Queen Anne's War begins
			1704 Deerfield Massacre
1739 King George's War begins
			1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts
1763 Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War
			1812 War with England
1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward
			1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.
			1831 Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"
			1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
1846 Mexican War begins
			1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.
1856 Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas
			1861 Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing
1861 Civil War begins
			1862 Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly
1863 Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
			1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1887 Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"
			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
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 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site
			1964 Civil Rights Act targets race and sex