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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.

   
    
   

1622
Mourt's Relation published in London

    

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

   
   

1637
Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan"

    

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

    

1650
Anne Bradstreet, "The Tenth Muse"

   
    
   

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
George Bishop, "New England Judged"

   
   

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.

    

1667
George Bishop, "New England Judged, II"

   
    
   

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

   
    
   

1683
Mary Rowlandson's narrative

    

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
Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World"

1692
Salem Witch Trials

   
    
   

1695
Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders

    

1697
Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials

   
    
   

1700
Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World"

    

1701
Yale College founded

   
    
   

1702
Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana"

1702
John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"

   
   

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

   
    
   

1764
Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"

    

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

   
   

1769
Non-consumption agreements begin to appear

    

1770
Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"

   
   

1770
Townshend Acts Repealed

1770
11yr old Christopher Seider killed

   
   

1770
Copley paints Paul Revere

   

1770
Boston Massacre

   
   

1770
Paul Revere engraves the events in King Street.

   
    

1772
Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip

   
   

1772
Committees of Correspondence formed

    

1773
Boston "Tea Party"

   
   

1773
Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted

1773
Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"

   
   

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
Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans

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

   
   

1783
Boston establishes annual July 4 oration

    

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

   
   

1791
Massachusetts Historical Society founded

    

1799
East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts

   
    
   

1800
With 1,400,000 people N.E. contains 28 percent of the U.S. population

1800
Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes

   
    
   

1801
Reprint of French edition of Phillis Wheatley's poems

    

1802
Reprint of Phillis Wheatley's poems published in NH

   
    
   

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
Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"

   
   

1814
Hartford Convention considers secession

    

1815
Henry Sargent paints "The Landing of the Fathers"

   
   

1815
The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker

    

1817
Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site

   
    
   

1818
Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak

1818
Congress establishes pensions for indigent veterans.

   
   

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

    

1820
Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial

   
   

1820
Missouri Compromise guarantees statehood for Maine

1820
Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted

   
   

1820
Witch of New England published

    

1821
Essex Institute founded

   
    
   

1822
Rhode Island Historical Society founded

1822
Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York"

   
    
   

1823
New Hampshire Historical Society founded

1823
Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted

   
    
   

1824
Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since"

1824
Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth

   
   

1824
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published

1824
Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"

   
   

1824
Lafayette feted in America

1824
Bunker Hill monument begun

   
    
   

1825
Connecticut Historical Society founded

1825
John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted

   
   

1825
Erie Canal completed

    

1826
Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated

   
   

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"

1827
Sarah Josepha Hale, "Northwood"

   
    
   

1828
Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H.

1828
Andrew Jackson elected president

   
    
   

1829
William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"

1829
First performance of "Metamora"

   
   

1829
Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America"

1829
David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

   
    
   

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."

   
   

1830 - 1870
Domestic fiction dominates literary market

1830
Monument erected at Fort Griswold

   
    
   

1831
Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"

1831
John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"

   
   

1831
Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.

1831
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

   
   

1831
Mohegan Church built

    

1832
Garrison begins "The Liberator"

   
   

1832
Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England"

    

1833
Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"

   
   

1833
Indian Declaration of Independence

1833
John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.

   
   

1833
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf"

    

1834
Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"

   
   

1834
Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H.

1834
James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"

   
   

1834
Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"

1834
Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown

   
    
   

1835
George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston

1835
Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes"

   
   

1835
Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.

1835
Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston

   
    
   

1836
John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"

1836
William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip

   
   

1836
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount"

1836
Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen.

   
   

1836
Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary

   

1836
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.

   
    
   

1837
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales"

1837
Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves

   
   

1837
John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm

1837
Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

   
   

1837
For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor.

1837
Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England

   
   

1837
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross"

1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar"

   
   

1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument.

    

1839
Amistad trial in New Haven

   
   

1839
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches

    

1840
Agitation for Ten-hour Day

   
    
   

1841
Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia"

1841
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"

   
   

1841
Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy"

1841
Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems

   
   

1841
Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court

    

1842
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery

   
   

1842
Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island

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

1842
Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford

   
    
   

1845
New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded

1845
Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.

   
   

1845
Beginning of Irish famine

    

1846
Mexican War begins

   
   

1846
Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse

    

1847
Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign

   
   

1847
John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"

1847
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

   
   

1847
First edition of Frederick Douglass's North Star

    

1848
William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains

   
   

1848
Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution

1848
Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York

   
   

1848
James Russell Lowell, "The Courtin'"

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
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"

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

   
   

1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"

    

1851
Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

   
   

1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

1851
Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial

   
   

1851
J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"

1851
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

   
    
   

1853
Samuel Drake's edition of "Magnalia Christi Americana"

1853
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.

   
    
   

1854
Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"

1854
Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act

   
    
   

1855
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha"

1855
Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids"

   
   

1855
William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution"

    

1856
Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm

   
   

1856
Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History

1856
Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas

   
    
   

1857
John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"

1857
Dred Scott Decision

   
    
   

1858
Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. .

1858
Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.

   
   

1858
Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"

1858
Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House

   
    
   

1859
Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish.

1859
Harriet Wilson, "Our Nig, or Sketches from the LIfe of a Free Black"

   
   

1859
Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

1859
Rockport women attack rumsellers.

   
    
   

1860
Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns.

1860
Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"

   
    
   

1861
Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly

1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm"

   
   

1861
William Cooper Nell becomes clerk in U.S. Postal Service

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 declares Thanksgiving a national holiday

   
   

1863
Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

   

1863
Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states

   
    
   

1864
U.S. Sanitary Commission sponsors "Colonial Kitchens"

1864
Massachusetts Historical Society published Phillis Wheatley letters

   
    
   

1865
Robert E. Lee surrenders

1865
13th Amendment outlaws slavery

   
   

1865
Klu Klux Klan founded

1865
Abraham Lincoln assassinated

   
    
   

1866
John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound"

1866
Peabody Museum founded at Harvard

   
    
   

1867
Edmonia Lewis sells busts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

    

1868
Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills

   
   

1868
Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"

    

1869
Massachusetts enfranchises Indians

   
   

1869
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks"

1869
American Museum of Natural History founded in New York

   
   

1869
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts

    

1870
Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded

   
   

1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York

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

   
   

1870
Winslow Homer engraving, "The Dinner Horn"

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

   
    
   

1873
Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.

    

1875
Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

   
    
   

1876
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

    

1877
Hayes-Tilden Election resolved

   
    
   

1878
Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.

    

1879
The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House

   
   

1879
Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"

    

1880
New England fisheries decline

   
   

1880
John Greenleaf Whittier writes poems about Quaker persecution.

1880
Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield

   
    
   

1881
Nantucket's Coffin House restored

1881
Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive"

   
   

1881
Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.

    

1885
After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.

   
   

1885
Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere

    

1886
Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago

   
    
   

1887
Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"

1887
Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument

   
   

1887
Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"

    

1888
Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated

   
   

1888
Whittier supports women's suffrage.

    

1889
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant

   
    
   

1890
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded

1890
Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles

   
   

1890
Alice Baker returns to Deerfield to restore her ancestral home, Frary House.

    

1891
Bennington Battle Monument erected

   
    
   

1893
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

1893
Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England"

   
    
   

1894
Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard

    

1895
Eliza Philbrick creates a "Colonial Gown" for a DAR party in Boston

   
    
   

1896
Blue and White Society formed in Deerfield

1896
Supreme Court accepts doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson

   
    
   

1897
New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women

1897
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Founded

   
    
   

1898
Emily Tyson begins refurbishing Hamilton House in Maine

1898
Emily Tyson purchases the 1785 Hamilton House, the setting for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Tory Lover."

   
    
   

1900
Old Gaol opened in York, Maine

1900
New England's 5.5 million people make up 7 percent of the U.S. population

   
   

1900
Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets"

1900
75 of 100 New Englanders live in Mass, Conn, or RI

   
    
   

1901
Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House

1901
President William McKinley assassinated

   
    
   

1902
Edith Wharton designs "The Mount" in Lenox, Massachusetts

1902
William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine

   
    
   

1903
Elizabeth C. B. Buel , "The Tale of the Spinning Wheel"

1903
New Bedford Whaling Museum founded

   
    
   

1904
Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur

1904
Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.

   
    
   

1905
Paul Revere House saved from demolition

   
    

1907
Period rooms opened in Essex Institute

   
    
   

1908
House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

    

1909
NAACP formed

   
    
   

1910
John F. Fitzgerald mayor of Boston

1910
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded

   
    
   

1912
Robert Frost, "North of Boston"

1912
Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts

   
   

1912
Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities

    

1915
Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut"

   
   

1915
Statue of Anne Hutchinson erected on Beacon Hill

    

1920
19th Amendment gives women the vote

   
    
   

1922
Antiques Magazine launched

    

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

   
    
   

1926
John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia

    

1927
Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed

   
    
   

1928
A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine

    

1929
Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan

   
    
   

1930
Nantucket Whaling Museum opened

1930
Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation

   
   

1930
Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.

    

1931
Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

   
   

1931
Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.

1931
Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.

   
    
   

1935
Yankee magazine founded

1935
Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open

   
   

1935
Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village

    

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
Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established

   
   

1942
Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site

    

1947
Old Sturbridge Village created

   
   

1947
Plimoth Plantation founded

1947
Shelburne Museum established

   
    
   

1950
New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population

    

1952
Historic Deerfield founded

   
    
   

1953
Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"

    

1954
Brown v. Board of Education overturns "separate but equal"

   
    
   

1955
Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott

    

1958
Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH

   
    
   

1959
Statue of Mary Dyer erected on Beacon Hill

    

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

    

1972
Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.

   
    
   

1974
Judge Garrity orders school busing in Boston

    

1987
Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.

   
    
   

1990
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

    

1992
The Last of the Mohicans filmed

   
    
   

1996
The Crucible filmed

    

1997
"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program" established by the National Park Service.

   
   

1997
Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge

    

1998
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens

   
    
   

2000
N. E.'s 12 million people compose less than 5 percent of the U.S. population

    

2001
Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains

   
   

2001
Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.

    

2002
Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.

   
    
   

2003
Old Man of the Mountains collapses

2003
Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone

   
    
   

2004
Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704

    

2006
Wampanoags receive preliminary recognition by Federal Government.

   

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