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New Hampshire was created
First European settlement in New Hampshire was a village near Portsmouth. -
Dover
Dover was settled in 1623. It is the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire. -
New Hampshire was founded
It was founded by John Mason and John Wheelwright. -
Exeter was established.
John Wheelwright established the town Exeter and the town’s people made a governing document called the Exeter Compact. -
New Hampshire shared a governor with Massachusetts
The one settlement grew into several towns and, seeing a potential jewel, the British crown designated it as a "royal province" in 1679. Later, it was integrated into Massachusetts with a shared governor. -
The first legislative assembly
Was held under the first royal charter. There were 11 people in it. -
Scots-Irish arrived
Scots-Irish immigrants settled in New Hampshire and founded the town of Londonderry, so named from the city in Ireland from which they came. -
Royal Colony
In 1775, New Hampshire was governed as a Royal Colony. -
Adopted Constitution
New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country. -
First alarm clock
In 1787, Levi Hutchins, who was from Concord, invented the first alarm clock. -
John Langdon becomes governor
John Langdon: Patriot and politician; first President Pro Tempore of the US Senate became Governor of New Hampshire. -
Religious Toleration Acts
religious toleration act prohibits taxation for church purposes -
Maine was admitted into the Union as a state
The territory was now called the District of Maine, and under this name it was governed by the elder colony for nearly one hundred and fifty years, when, in 1820, Maine was admitted into the Union as a state. -
Integrated Classes at Noyes Academy
Twenty-eight white students and fourteen black students commence classes at the newly established Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce of Hillsboro becomes the 14th US President. -
USS Franklin
USS Franklin, the largest wooden ship to be built at the navy yard in Portland is finished. -
Lucy Swallow and Delia Brown
Lucy Swallow and Delia Brown become the first female students of University of New Hampshire. -
Hampton River Bridge was built
Wallace D. Lovell built the Hampton River Bridge in 1900 called the "mile-long bridge". It was reputed to be the longest wooden bridge in the world. -
Protection of New Hampshire Forests
1901 Under the leadership of Frank West Rollins, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was organized, and its first forester, Philip W. Ayers, was hired. -
New Hampshire's first primary
New Hampshire holds its first primary. At this point we were not voting directly for the candidates, but for delegates to the National Convention. The primary is taking place one week after Indiana's and on the same day as Minnesota. To register, the candidate needed 100 signatures and $10. -
Slaughtering A Cop
Rookie Republican legislator Tom Alciere resigned after posting a message on the Internet: "There is nothing wrong with slaughtering a cop. Just throw the carcass into the Dumpster with the rest of the garbage. -
Plane Crash
In New Hampshire 7 people were killed when their small plane crashed near Swanzey. -
Christians Elect Gays
In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected the Reverend V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as their next bishop. -
An Angry Murderer
Manuel Gehring (44) shot and killed his 2 children, Philip (11) and Sarah (14), following a dispute with his wife in Concord, NH. He was later arrested in Gilroy, Ca. He confessed to police that he shot and killed his 2 children in New Hampshire and buried them in the Midwest. In 2005 authorities found the bodies of the 2 children buried off I-80 in Ohio. Gehring committed suicide in his jail cell on February 19, 2004 at the Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire. -
Largest Meatball
Nonni’s Italian Eatery in Concord, NH, created the world’s largest meatball, a whopping 222.5 pounds in 2009. -
Gay Marriage
New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage in a move that reflects the state's changing demographics from reliably Republican and conservative to younger and more liberal.
