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			1524 Verrazano explores NE coast
1603 Martin Pring explores NE coast
			1607 Popham Colony planted in Maine
1608 Separatists go to Holland
			1614 John Smith maps New England
1614 Dutch explore the Connecticut River
			1615 seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine
1616 An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England.
			1620 English Separatists found Plymouth
1621 English and Wampanoag join in a harvest festival.
			1623 Permanent English settlements in New Hampshire
1624 Pemaquid (Maine) established
			1628 Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)
1629 Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine.
			1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony
1633 Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups.
			1634 Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut
1634 John Endecott defaces King's colors
			1635 Roger Williams founds Providence, RI
1636 Harvard College founded
			1636 Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford.
1637 Anne Hutchinson banished, settles Portsmouth, RI
			1637 Pequot War
1638 New Haven founded
			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 Ann Hibbens executed.
1656 First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England
			1657 Lawrance and Cassandra Southwick imprisoned for entertaining Quakers
1659 Massachusetts executes Quakers
			1660 Charles II restored to throne
1660 Mary Dyer executed.
			1660 Mashpee established as a Christian Indian town
1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.
			1661 English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston.
1662 Connecticut receives royal charter
			1662 Beginning of Hartford witch outbreak.
1662 Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem.
			1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.
1671 Elizabeth Knapp "possessed of the Devil"
			1671 Katherine Naylor, the wife of a Boston merchant, sues for divorce.
1675 King Philip's War
			1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns
1685 Simon Popmonit becomes minister at Mashpee
			1686 Dominion of New England established
1687 Governor Andros challenges Connecticut charter
			1689 King William's War begins
1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH
			1692 Salem Witch Trials
1697 Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials
			1701 Yale College founded
1702 Queen Anne's War begins
			1704 Deerfield Massacre
1706 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston
			1711 Massachusetts begins compensating victims of Salem witch trials.
1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket
			1739 King George's War begins
1739 George Whitfield's first tour
			1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts
1755 Braddock's Defeat
			1755 British deport French settlers of Acadia
1760 Reuben Cognehew carries Mashpee petition to London
			1763 Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War
1765 Stamp Act Riots
			1766 Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island.
1767 Townshend Acts
			1768 spinning meetings begin
1768 Non-importation agreements begin
			1768 British troops arrive in Boston
1769 Non-consumption agreements begin to appear
			1770 Townshend Acts Repealed
1770 11yr old Christopher Seider killed
			1770 Copley paints Paul Revere
1770 Boston Massacre
			1772 Committees of Correspondence formed
1773 Boston "Tea Party"
			1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom
1774 First Continental Congress
			1774 John Malcolm tarred and feathered
1774 Intolerable Acts
			1774 In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1775 Battles at Lexington and Concord
			1775 George Washington takes command
1775 In April, Paul Revere attempts to carry news to Concord
			1775 Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 Declaration of Independence
			1776 British evacuate Boston
1776 Abigail Adams urges John to "Remember the Ladies
			1777 Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga
1777 Congress defines American flag
			1777 Battle of Saratoga
1777 Battle of Bennington
			1780 Benedict Arnold turns traitor
1781 Battle of Yorktown
			1781 Articles of Confederation ratified
1781 British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut
			1782 Peace negotiations begin
1783 Congress ratifies Articles of Peace
			1783 Loyalists evacuate New York
1786 Shay's Rebellion
			1787 Constitutional Convention
1787 Northwest Ordinance
			1788 Constitution ratified
1789 French revolution begins
			1790 New England has a million people
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
1800 Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes
			1803 Louisiana Purchase
1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
			1805 Rock outcropping in Franconia Notch first noticed by road workers.
1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston
			1810 Congress commissions a census on manufactures
1812 War with England
			1812 U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British.
1813 Agricultural fairs called "Cattle Shows" begin displaying household manufactures
			1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward
1814 Hartford Convention considers secession
			1818 Congress establishes pensions for indigent veterans.
1820 Missouri Compromise guarantees statehood for Maine
			1825 Erie Canal completed
1826 Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated
			1828 Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H.
1828 Andrew Jackson elected president
			1830 New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture
1830 Indian Removal Act
			1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides."
1830 Theodore Dwight, The Northern Traveller (guidbook) mentions "Old Man of the Mountains."
			1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.
1831 Mohegan Church built
			1832 Garrison begins "The Liberator"
1832 Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England"
			1833 Indian Declaration of Independence
1833 John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.
			1834 Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H.
1834 Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"
			1834 Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown
1835 Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston
			1836 Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen.
1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.
			1837 Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves
1837 For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor.
			1837 Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England
1839 Amistad trial in New Haven
			1840 Agitation for Ten-hour Day
1841 Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court
			1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island
1845 Beginning of Irish famine
			1846 Mexican War begins
1847 First edition of Frederick Douglass's North Star
			1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
1849 California Gold Rush
			1850 At 2,729,000, N.E. composes less than 12 percent of the U.S. population
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
			1850 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont
1850 10,000 men employed in whaling on shore or at sea
			1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.
1854 Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act
			1856 Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas
1857 Dred Scott Decision
			1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.
1859 Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish.
			1859 Rockport women attack rumsellers.
1860 Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns.
			1861 William Cooper Nell becomes clerk in U.S. Postal Service
1861 Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing
			1861 Civil War begins
1863 Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a national holiday
			1863 Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states
			1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1865 13th Amendment outlaws slavery
			1865 Klu Klux Klan founded
1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
			1867 Edmonia Lewis sells busts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
1869 Massachusetts enfranchises Indians
			1870 First transcontinental train leaves Boston on a 39-day journey across the United States
1870 French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns
			1870 Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.
1870 The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores
			1871 P.T. Barnum founds "The Greatest Show on Earth"
1871 New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska
			1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn
1877 Hayes-Tilden Election resolved
			1878 Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.
1880 New England fisheries decline
			1880 John Greenleaf Whittier writes poems about Quaker persecution.
1885 After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.
			1886 Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago
1888 Whittier supports women's suffrage.
			1890 Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles
1894 Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard
			1896 Supreme Court accepts doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson
1898 Emily Tyson begins refurbishing Hamilton House in Maine
			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
			1901 President William McKinley assassinated
1903 New Bedford Whaling Museum founded
			1909 NAACP formed
1910 John F. Fitzgerald mayor of Boston
			1912 Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
1912 Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities
			1920 19th Amendment gives women the vote
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
1925 Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey
			1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed
1930 Nantucket Whaling Museum opened
			1930 Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.
1940 Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers.
			1940 World war II fuels new industries in New England
1950 New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population
			1954 Brown v. Board of Education overturns "separate but equal"
1955 Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott
			1960 Student sit-ins in the south
1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated
			1964 Civil Rights Act targets race and sex
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
			1974 Judge Garrity orders school busing in Boston
2000 N. E.'s 12 million people compose less than 5 percent of the U.S. population
			2003 Old Man of the Mountains collapses
2006 Wampanoags receive preliminary recognition by Federal Government.