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1622-New Hampshire was "founded"
John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges were given a land granted by the Council for New England.
Just three years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the first settlers arrived at Strawberry Banke. It is near present-day Portsmouth in 1623.
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1623- Dover settled
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1641-New Hampshire becomes a colony
In 1641, the Massachusetts colony claimed the territory that was New Hampshire. New Hampshire became known as the “Upper Province” of Massachusetts. It remained the Upper Province until in 1679 it became a “Royal Province”. Again, it was reunited with Massachusetts in 1698. Finally,1741, New Hampshire gained its independence. Then elected its own governor, Benning Wentworth, who governed the colony for five years. https://www.mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/nhcolony/ -
1689 Fight with the Natives
In the Beginning 1689, New Hampshire's English settlements were attacked many times. This situation became worse in the 1720's when the English settlers pushed out from the seacoast area and "the second tier' was started. This was started in Rochester, Nottingham, Barrington, and Chester. In the end the Natives eventuallly got kicked out. -
1719 The first Potato was planted
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April 18th, 1775 Paul Revere rides before midnight ride
Thomas gage sent british troop to massachusetts( and new hampshire) to arrest John hancock and samuel adams on april 18,1775 so paul revere, samuel prescott and William dawes to be alert systems. -
1784 constitution was adopted
New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784. Ths is the second oldest in the country. -
1787- invented the first alarm clock
Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787. -
1800s- New Hampshire played a key in helping to free slaves
In the early 1800s, New Hampshire paved the way for slavery abolitionists, headed by Dartmouth College. During the Civil War, the state’s 5th Infantry was one of the most celebrated on the Union side. https://www.iexplore.com/articles/travel-guides/north-america/united-states/new-hampshire/history-and-culture -
The Belknap Mill built
The Belknap Mill built at Laconia in 1823 is the oldest unaltered brick knitting mill in America.
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1828- first women's strike
On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory starting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began looking for replacement workers. -
1830 famous poem wrote
Sarah Josepha Hale author and journalist who wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830 is from Newport, New Hampshire. -
1833 the first free public library
The first free public library in the United States was established, at Peterborough in 1833. Founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin and a group of his friends, became the first American subscription library. www.sturgislibrary.org/history/oldest-library/
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1839-50 Pembroke Glass Works produced crown window glass
The Pembroke Glass Works produced crown window glass from 1839 until 1850. The process of gathering molten glass on a blowpipe, and blowing the glass into a balloon shape. The blowpipe is removed, a solid "punty" rod is attached and the glass is spun rapidly until a disc is formed. When the glass cools the outer portion beyond the central knob is then cut into panes.
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1866 University of New Hampshire founded
Founded in 1866 at Durham, the University of New Hampshire every year proximately 15,398 people enroll. https://www.50states.com/facts/new-hampshire.htm -
1869 -one of the first
1869 - First mountain climbing cog railroad (Mt. Washington). The Mount Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway. The railway is still in operation, climbing Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA
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1822 Black Poet born
1822 - One of the first Black poet James M. Whitfield is born in Exeter, New Hampshire. His work includes poems from his celebrated America and Others. These were printed in influential journals and newspapers. A champion of the black emigration movement during the 1850s, Whitfield was embraced by African Americans as a black nationalist bard. However, the twentieth century, his reputation had faded.
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1885- Birth of a sculpture star
The Irish-born American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He lived and worked in Cornish ,from 1885. Until he passed at age 59 in 1907. His work was from the Beaux-Arts generation.Which most embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance.
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1890 - female students at state college
1890 - Lucy Swallow and Delia Brown become the first female students of University of New Hampshire. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html -
1913-general court passes an important act
1913-general court passes an important act.1913 - The General Court Passes an act to provide for the election of delegates to the National Convention by direct vote of the people. The primary date is set for the third Tuesday in May. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html -
1915 Primary is moved
1915 - The primary is moved to the second Tuesday in March to coincide with Town Meeting Day. This made it easier for our rural population who were busy plowing the fields in April and May. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html -
1916-New Hampshire holds first primary
1916 - 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.
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1945 Germans Surrender
1945 - WW2 German U-Boats surrender in Portsmouth .Naval Shipyard was the largest American submarine base on the Atlantic coast when Nazi Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. The Yard became the natural site for the surrender of up to at least seven German U-boats operating in the region at the end of the war. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html -
1963 First lottery
1963 - Adopted the first legal lottery in the Twentieth Century United States; the nation's first since 1894.
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1965 Jonathan Daniels killed
1965 Keene native, 26-year-old Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed in Alabama, while trying to save the life of an African-American coworker in the Civil Rights movement https://www.nhhistory.org/Timeline -
1966 first african american graduates at New hampshire's state college
1926 - Elizabeth Virgil is the first African-American woman to graduate from University New Hampshire .After graduation, she and her classmates found jobs in the field of education. Her only option was to move to the South, where segregated schools created a demand for black teachers. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html -
1961 - One of the first astronauts lived in New Hampshire
New Hampshire was home to the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard Jr., and first private civilian, Christa McAuliffe, to travel into space. Shepard’s 15-minute flight onboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961, launched him 116 miles into the atmosphere before landing safely. McAuliffe, a schoolteacher from Concord who applied to participate in the legendary mission, perished aboard the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986, 73 seconds and 48,000 feet after liftoff. -
1990 davis hackett and Supreme court of justice
1990 David Hackett Souter of Weare, former state justice and attorney general, became the 105th U.S. Supreme Court justice after only nine senators opposed confirmation
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1997 Education is states problem
1997 The State Supreme Court, in the Claremont II lawsuit, decided that education is a state responsibility and cannot be funded by a locally varying property tax https://www.nhhistory.org/Timeline -
1997 Fifth best in the nation
1997- Portsmouth is chosen by Money magazine as the fifth best place in the nation to live. http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/new-hampshire.html
