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The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod
After 66 days on board of the Mayflower the pilgrims made it to America where the established the Mayflower Compact. -
The First Thanksgiving
The pilgrims signed a treaty with the Wampanoag Indians and celebrated by feasting the first Thanksgiving. -
Boston Massachusetts founded
Founded on the Shawmut Peninsula puritan settlers migrated from Britain and founded their colony which later was named the capital. -
First Navigation Acts
English Parliament passed these acts making English trade only on English ships or ships built in the English colonies. Certain trade items such as sugar, indigo, tobacco, cotton, and others could only be sold or traded with England. Lastly that all European trades going to the colonies must go through England first. -
King Philip's War
The Wampanoag chief Metacom also known as King Philip planed attacks on colonial settlements. Some of his tribe killed John Sassamon a translator who has revealed Metacom's plans to Massachusetts Bay Colony officials. The Plymouth Colony seeks retribution for Sassamon's murder by killing three Wampanoags. The Indians believe that they had been framed.About 2,500 colonists and Indians were killed. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon and some farmers from the outskirts were very worried because the Native Americans were slowly claiming back the land the first colonists pushed them out of so the asked their governor Sir William Berkely if he'd give them support and defend all of their land. The governor refused and all of the farmers because extremely angry. They burned Jamestown down and soon later Bacon became ill and died. The rebellion quickly fell and all of the rebels were hanged. -
Salem Witch Trials
It all started during spring after girls in the village claimed to be possessed by the devil and claimed several woman were witches. Chaos ensued and the trials began. It started with Bridget Bishop who was hanged in June. 18 other followed after her. -
Boston Massacre
An angry mob made it's was to the Customs House when they met the British soldiers. The mob started to call them names and one by one started throwing snowballs, ice chunks, or anything they could find. Witnesses have different stories but the most popular one was a soldier was knocked down and his gun fired. The other soldiers thought they were being shot at and fired into the crowd. 5 colonists were killed. -
Boston Tea Party
Before the Tea Party colonists were boycotting the tea due to British East India controlled trade with the colonies. Colonists decided they had enough so some men and boys dressed up as Native Americans and dumped all the tea on the ships into the harbor. British demanded they pay for it but they didn't so the Intolerable Acts were placed on them. -
Start of Revolution
A day before General Thomas Gage ordered his troops to arrest Samuel Adams and -
Maine separated from Massachusetts
Maine started as a separate colony in the 1620's it joined Massachusetts. After the revolution they started a 35-year long campaign so they could separate. -
Electric Telegraph is invented
With patterns of dots and dashes it was based off Morse Code by Samuel Morse -
Typewriter invented
In Worcester, Charles Thurber was the first to invent a typewriter. -
America's Greatest Conflict
3 million soldier fought and over 600,000 died in the Civil War.159,165 Massachusetts soldiers and sailors fought in the Civil War. 133,002 served in the Union army and 26,163 served in the navy. A total of 13,942 of these Massachusetts soldiers and sailors died. At Appomattox Court House General Lee surrendered. -
First Christmas Card
Louis Prang created the first American Christmas cards at his Roxbury factory in 1874 in 5 years his sales surpassed the 5 million mark. -
First Telephone demonstration
Alexander Graham Bell in Boston with the help of Thomas A. Watson.Bell developed a prototype. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument.The telephone carried its first message “Mr. Watson, come here, I need you”–from Bell to his assistant -
Helen Magill White becomes the first woman to earn a PhD
Helen Magill White was the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD degree. Helen Magill grew up in a Quaker family that valued education for both women and men. -
The first successful automobile
Bicycle mechanics J. Frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts, had made the first successful American gasoline automobile, then won the first American car race and went on to make the first sale of an American-made gasoline car the next year -
First Public Beach in US
Revere Beach is a public beach in Revere, Massachusetts, USA, located about 4 miles north of downtown Boston.It was founded in 1895 as the first public beach. -
First Subway system
The Tremont Street Subway in Boston's Subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third oldest worldwide to only use electric traction which is a traction motor that is used for moving a vehicle -
John F. Kennedy elected
Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. He was born into one of America’s wealthiest families and had a reputation as a military hero into a successful run for Congress in 1946 and for the Senate in 1952. -
USS Long Beach launched at Quincy
The third ship in the Navy to bear the name Long Beach was the first nuclear powered surface warship in the world and the first large combatant in the US Navy with the battery consisting entirely of guided missiles.It was also the first American cruiser since the end of World War II built entirely new from the keel up. -
New Years!
New Years was at Boston as it was the first city in America to celebrate New Year's Eve with a "First Night" event. -
Walter Gilbert Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was cut in half, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA", the other half jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. -
Health Coverage
Legislature did the first plan in U. S. for Massachusetts citizens to receive health insurance coverage -
Big Dig
Due to water leaks in the new tunnels of Big Dig the ceiling collapsed during the World Series and killed on person. -
Sen. Edward Kennedy died
The last of the Kennedy brother, Edward Kennedy, passed away August 25th, 2009 -
Scott Brown
Republican Scott Brown was elected for the seat left empty by Edward Kennedy's death -
The Boston Marathon
During the Boston Marathon two pressure cooker bombs blew up killing three and injuring 264 people.
