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			1524 Verrazano explores NE coast
1603 Martin Pring explores NE coast
			1614 John Smith maps New England
1616 An epidemic of uncertain cause devastates southern New England.
			1628 Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)
1629 Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine.
			1633 Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups.
1635 Roger Williams founds Providence, RI
			1637 Pequot War
1642 English Civil War begins
			1646 Massachusetts begins to establish "praying towns"
1654 Harvard establishes Indian College
			1660 Mashpee established as a Christian Indian town
1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.
			1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.
1675 King Philip's War
			1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns
1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative
			1685 Simon Popmonit becomes minister at Mashpee
1689 King William's War begins
			1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH
1702 Queen Anne's War begins
			1704 Deerfield Massacre
1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket
			1739 King George's War begins
1745 Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts
			1760 Reuben Cognehew carries Mashpee petition to London
1763 Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War
			1772 Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip
1812 War with England
			1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward
1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"
			1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"
1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published
			1826 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"
1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
			1827 Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts"
1829 William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"
			1829 First performance of "Metamora"
1830 Indian Removal Act
			1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.
1831 Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
			1831 Mohegan Church built
1833 Indian Declaration of Independence
			1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.
1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"
			1836 William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip
1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches
			1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
			1846 Mexican War begins
1851 J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"
			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
			1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.
1860 Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"
			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
1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"
			1869 Massachusetts enfranchises Indians
1875 Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn
			1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield
1887 Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"
			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
1915 Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut"
			1924 American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote
1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.
			1940 World war II fuels new industries in New England
1942 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site
			1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
1992 The Last of the Mohicans filmed
			1998 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens
2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains
			2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.