• 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
• 1622 Province of Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason
• 1623 First permanent settlement in New Hampshire
• 1633-35 First settlers arrive in Connecticut
• 1636 Roger Williams settles in Providence, RI
• 1636 Harvard University becomes America’s first institution of higher learning
• 1641-79 New Hampshire under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Bay Colony (also 1690-92)
• 1675 King Philip’s War
• 1692 Salem witch trials
• 1704 Massachusetts newspapers begin publishing notices of deaths and marriages
• 1773 Boston Tea Party
• 1775 American Revolution begins with “the shot heard ’round the world” at the battles of Lexington and Concord
