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			1614 Dutch explore the Connecticut River

1634 Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut

			1638 New Haven founded

1662 Connecticut receives royal charter

			1687 Governor Andros challenges Connecticut charter

1701 Yale College founded

			1781 British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut

1800 Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes

			1814 Hartford Convention considers secession

1818 Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak

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

1825 Connecticut Historical Society founded

			1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"

1842 Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford

			1851 J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"
1851 Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial

			1856 Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm

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

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