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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
1755 British deport French settlers of Acadia
			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"
1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.
			1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems
			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
			1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery
1846 Mexican War begins
			1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"
1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.
			1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha"
1856 Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas
			1858 Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"
1861 Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly
			1861 Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing
1861 Civil War begins
			1862 Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly
1863 Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
			1863 Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
			1879 Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"
1887 Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"
			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House
			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