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1614
John Smith maps New England

    

1621
English and Wampanoag join in a harvest festival.

   
    
   

1624
Pemaquid (Maine) established

    

1638
New Haven founded

   
    
   

1660 - 1725
A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.

    

1702
Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana"

   
    
   

1704
Deerfield Massacre

    

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

   
    
   

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

    

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

   
    
   

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

    

1856
Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History

   
   

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

    

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

   
    
   

1869
American Museum of Natural History founded in New York

    

1879
The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House

   
    
   

1901
Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House

    

1912
Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities

   
    
   

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

    

1958
Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH

   
    
   

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

    

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

   

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