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			1769 Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club

1776 Declaration of Independence

			1783 Boston establishes annual July 4 oration

1812 War with England

			1818 John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall

1833 Indian Declaration of Independence

			1835 George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston

1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.

			1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar"

1840 Agitation for Ten-hour Day

			1856 Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm

1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.
			1858 Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House

1863 Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a national holiday

			1870 First transcontinental train leaves Boston on a 39-day journey across the United States

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