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The Scarlet Letter Project: Historical Timeline
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4 Oct 2018
This timeline includes major historical events that occurred in Massachusetts since the arrival of Europeans to the present day.
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Events
Bartholomew Gosnold explores the North American coast and names Cape Cod (1602)
King James I grants a charter to the Plymouth Company to colonize Virginia (1606)
The Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod instead of its intended destination of Virginia, and Plymouth is settled (1620)
The pilgrims sign a treaty with the Wampanoag Indians, and the first Thanksgiving is settled in Plymouth (1621)
John Endecott founds the Puritan settlement of Salem (1628)
John Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritains land in Massachusetts and found Dorchester (the first part of the city of Boston) (1630)
Boston is made the capital of Massachusetts (1632)
King Philip’s War begins between colonists and Wampanoag Indians (1675)
Witchcraft trials begin in Salem (1692)
The Boston Massacre occurs; British troops fire on colonists at the Boston Customs House on March 5 (1770)
The Boston Tea Party occurs; colonists dump 90,000lbs of East India Co. tea into the Boston Harbor in opposition to taxes (1773)
The first battle of the American Revolution is fought in Lexington and Concord (1775)
A state constitution is adopted, and John Hancock is elected first governor (1780)
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution (1788)
Constitutional amendment separates church and state; ends Puritanism in Government (1833)
During the Boston Marathon on April 15, two pressure cooker bombs exploded killing 3 people and injuring 264 (2013)
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