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Three Ships Arrived from England
Detail: 104 men and boys; settlers named river James after the king; established Jamestown settlement. On December 6th, 1607, the journey to Virginia began on three ships: the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. -
March 4
The company then renamed itself the Massachusetts Bay Company, after the tribe of Massachusetts Indians that lived in New England and he company was granted a charter by Charles I -
August Of 1629
Company held a series of meetings in Cambridge where they voted to take advantage of this omission and move the entire company to New England, according to the book The Charter of the Massachusetts Bay. -
September Of 1630
The colonists officially named the settlement Boston after their hometown in England. -
April Of 1630
The Puritans, led by one of the company's stockholders, John Winthrop, left their homes in Boston, England and gathered at a dock in Southampton to set sail for the New World. -
King Philips's War
During King Philip's War, up to one third of America's white population was wiped out. This war proved to be the final struggle by the Native Americans of Massachusetts. -
First lighthouse in America
"The Boston Light" built in Boston Harbor, was a circular, slightly tapered tower of rubble stone about 60 feet high, the light provided by candles. Also constructed were a keeper's house, barn, and a wharf. A fog cannon was installed. -
Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars is the collective names for the vaious armed conflicts fought by European government and colonists, and later the United government and Americans settlers, against various Americans Indian tribes. -
British troops fired on crowd
Custom House in Boston killed five men. As more than 2,000 British soldiers occupied the city of 16,000 colonists and tried to enforce Britain’s tax laws, American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, “no taxation without representation.” -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor in protest of high taxes. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists -
American Revolution
At Lexington and Concord; Paul Revere made famous ride; first ship of U.S. Navy commissioned. The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. -
Princeton
Princeton was named after the Reverend Thomas Prince, Pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, and one of the first proprietors of the town. Princeton was incorporated in 1759.
The American victory at the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) Charles Cornwallis’ army of 8,000 veteran soldiers were poised to deliver a punishing blow the following morning.) was one of the most consequential of the American Revolution. -
Massachusetts and Maine separated
But before our neighbors up north had a state to call their own, they were part of good ole' Massachusetts. Maine began as a Massachusetts province in 1677, but 143 years later, on March 15, 1820, Maine flipped its Facebook relationship status to “single” and officially broke up with the Bay State. -
U.S President
John Quincy Adams was elected president in 1824. John Quincy Adams began his diplomatic career as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands in 1794, and served as minister to Prussia during the presidential administration of his father, the formidable patriot John Adams. -
The Liberator
anti-slavery newspaper, published in Boston. weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years (January 1, 1831–December 29, 1865). It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history -
Constitutional amendment separated
Altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. -
Samuel Morse invented Morse code
Telegraph messages were sent by tapping out the code for each letter in the form of long and short signals. Short signals are referred to as dits (represented as dots). Long signals are referred to as dahs (represented as dashes). -
During the Civil War
The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. -
First American railroads built
The development of RAILROADS was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. With their formation, construction and operation, they brought profound social, economic and political change to a country only 50 years old -
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated first telephone in Boston
Early Office Museum __1876: __Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant from the next room. The Scottish-born Bell had a lifelong interest in the nature of sound. He was born into a family of speech instructors, and his mother and his wife both had hearing impairments. -
Helen Magill White
Helen Magill grew up in a Quaker family that valued education for both women and men. (born November 28, 1853, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.—died October 28, 1944, Kittery Point, Maine), educator who was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph. D. degree. -
First basketball game
The first basketball game was played in Springfield. Also, Kennedy Biscuit Workers (later Nabisco) used a machine invented by James Henry Mitchell to mass-produce the first Fig Newton Cookies and named them for Newton, MA. -
First trans-Atlantic Radio
President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of Great Britain at Marconi Station at Wellfleet. Marconi convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to take part in a wireless experiment where a message would be sent from Cape Cod to the King of England. On January 18, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt's message was tapped out in Morse code from South Wellfleet to King Edward VII. -
First Subway
In 1901, construction began on the East Boston Tunnel (which is now the Blue line). The tunnel ran under Boston Harbor, making it the first North American tunnel to run under a body of water The tunnel opened on December 30, 1904. -
First motorized fire wagon
It was developed by Knox Manufacturing Company. John Braithwaite built the first steam fire-engine in Britain. Until the mid-19th century, most fire engines were maneuvered by men, but the introduction of horse-drawn fire engines considerably improved the response time to incidents. The first self-propelled steam pumper fire engine was built in New York. -
Textile workers went on strike in Lawrence
1912 Lawrence textile strike. The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (WWI). The move drew widespread sympathy, especially after police stopped a further exodus, leading to violence at the Lawrence train station. -
Calvin Coolidge became U. S. President
The 30th US President - Calvin Coolidge. Calvin Coolidge became the thirtieth United States President (1923-29) when Warren Harding died suddenly. Coolidge was the sixth Vice President to inherit the presidency -
Edith Nourse Rogers first woman elected to U. S. House of Representatives; introduced GI Bill.
Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – Sept. 10, 1960) was the sixth woman elected to Congress, the first from Massachusetts, and until 2012, the longest serving Congresswoman. In her 35 years in the House she was a powerful voice for veterans, sponsoring more than 1,200 bills, over half on veteran or military issues -
Boston nightclub fire killed 492 people
The Cocoanut Grove was a premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s in Boston, Massachusetts. On November 28, 1942, it was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing 492 people (which was 32 more than the building's authorized capacity) and injuring hundreds more. -
Percy Spencer inmicroweave ovenvnted ; Edwin Land demonstrated Polaroid Land Camera; Dr. Sidney Farber introduced chemotherapy as cancer treatment.
Raytheon filed a patent on October 8, 1945 for a microwave cooking oven, eventually named the Radarange In 1947, the first commercially produced microwave oven was about 6 feet tall, weighed about 750 lbs., and cost about 5,000 US$.
