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Adriane Block, representing the Dutch sails up the Connecticut River
the Dutch had troubles catching fish for food so the Dutch captured Native Americans that were freed from slavery to get food to supply the ship because the Dutch didn't have the necessary tools to create the things they needed to catch the fish. -
The Dutch erect a fort
The House of (Good) Hope, on the future site of Hartford was erect as a fort -
Connecticut was founded
Leaders Governor John Haynes of Massachusetts Bay Colony led by 100 people. He and Thomas Hooker are often considered the founders of the Connecticut Colony. -
New Haven became a colony
established by John Devenport and Theophilus Eaton -
The fundamental orders of Connecticut was established.
The Connecticut General court adopted the Fundamental Orders although the date on the original document is 1638 -
New London Founded
John Winthrop, Jr. founded New London at the mouth of the Thames River -
The first division of any Connecticut town
North Haven was the first division of any Connecticut town. -
Connecticut participates in the King's Philip's War
The King Philip's War was fought at Rode Island and Massachusetts but Connecticut was a part of the war -
BritishBritish troops under General Tryon raid New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk
In July 1779, British Major General William Tryon and 2,600 men embarked onto a Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral George Collier, and raided the Connecticut ports of New Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk -
Federal Constitution approved; Connecticut became Nation's fifth state
After five days of desiccation Connecticut became the 5th state of the Union on January,9th, 1788 -
Brass industry began at Waterbury
The brass industry began in the mid-18th century -
Noah Webster published dictionary
first edition of his Born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758, Noah Webster came of age during the American Revolution and was a strong advocate of the Constitutional Convention. He believed fervently in the developing cultural independence of the United States, a chief part of which was to be a distinctive American language with its own idiom, pronunciation, and style. -
Hartford Convention held at Old State House
The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut, -
First steamboat on Connecticut River to Hartford
Steam power arrived in New England around 1815 when Samuel Morey, a New Hampshire resident born in Hebron, Connecticut demonstrated his steamboat on the Connecticut River near Orford, New Hampshire. -
Railroad completed between New Haven and Hartford
railroad that operated in New England from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century. -
Peak of whaling from Connecticut ports and especially from New London
New England's ports are reinventing themselves to compete with one another and from larger ones, but they were once legendary. From one of the world's great whaling ports to the Navy's first submarine base -
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford's first public museum, was established
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first major American art patrons -
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
the first life insurance company, chartered in Connecticut. -
Slavery is abolished in Connecticut
As in other Northern states, gradual emancipation freed no slaves at once. It simply set up slavery for a long-term natural death. Connecticut finally abolished slavery entirely in 1848. -
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company founded
900 Cottage Grove Road Bloomfield, Connecticut, U.S.
David Cordani, Chairman and CEO
Health plans, Group Disability, Life and Accident Insurance, and Disability and Workers' Compensation Case Management -
First submarine,
United States Navy Holland, constructed by Electric Boat Co -
U.S. Coast Guard Academy moves to New London.
Founded in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard. Located in New London, Connecticut, it is the smallest of the five federal service academies. -
Connecticut College for Women founded at New London.
its history began in 1909 when Wesleyan University announced that it would
no longer offer admission to women. At that time, more women than ever
were seeking higher education and demanding the right to vote.
A committee was formed and towns across the state of Connecticut began offering prospective sites. -
U.S. Navy Submarine School
formally established at New London Naval Base, Groton. -
Approximately 67,000 Connecticut men serve in World War 1.
When the US entered Europe’s Great War in 1917, Connecticut manufacturers provided the military
with munitions, clothing, and other goods. From Manchester silk and Waterbury brass
to Bridgeport’s Remington Arms, which produced 50% of the US Army’s small arms cartridges,
the industrial ramp up -
St. Joesph Collage founded
Was founded in West Hartford by
The University of Saint Joseph is an independent not-for-profit organization,
founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1932 in the Catholic tradition
Beautiful 90-acre campus one mile from West Hartford's thriving downtown
Three miles from Hartford
Mid-way between Boston and New York City -
Approximately 52,000 Connecticut men serve in Korean War,
The Koean War is also known as the Forgotten War.
Sergeant Major Robert Moller and General James H. Throwe were important people in the Korean War -
Nautilus, world's first atomic-Powered submarine, launched at Groton
was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in -
Approximately 104,000 Connecticut men and women served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War era
Was established in the Mid seventeen century. Many people fled over the Canadian boarder
when the war ended -
Reapportionment Commission
creates five Congressional districts due to national population shifts identified in the 2000 census.
