new hampshire

By lorissa:)

  • 1622

    1622
    1622 King James I granted region between Salem and Merrimac Rivers to John Mason, Sir Ferdinando granted region between Merrimac and Kennebec Rivers to David Thomson

  • 1623

    1623
    1623 Dover settlement founded

  • 1629

    1629
    1629 John Mason received land grant and named the new settlement New Hampshire

  • 1641

    1641
    1641 Massachusetts Colony gained control of New Hampshire settlementsc

  • 1642

    1642
    1642 School Act of Massachusetts, required children to be taught reading, citizenship, religion

  • 1645

    1645
    1645 First recorded slave in Portsmouth

  • 1690

    1690
    1690 Warship, Falkland, constructed for British Navy in Portsmouth

  • 1691

    1691
    New Hampshire was permanetly reparated from
    Massachusetts, becoming the Royal province colony of New Hampshire

  • 1717

    1717
    john wentworth became New Hampshires lievtentant governor

  • 1734

    1734
    religious revival, great awakening swept through New Hampshire

  • 1739

    1739
    ruth blay became the fast person elecuted in portrnouth from concealing the death of ben own illegutumate child

  • 1741

    1741
    1641 Massachusetts Colony gained control of New Hampshire settlementsc

  • 1749

    1749
    Gov. Benning Wentworth makes first New Hampshire grant-for town of Bennington

  • 1756

    1756
    The New Hampshire Gazette is formed; and was at one time the "oldest newspaper of continuous publication in the United States."

  • 1765

    1765
    1765 - November 1 - Stamp Act of King George III goes into effect

  • 1765

    1765
    November 1 - Stamp Act of King George III goes into effect.

  • 1767

    1767
    First summer resort in America, the summer home of Royal Governor John Wentworth at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

  • 1769

    1769
    Founding of Dartmouth College.

  • 1770

    1770
    • Dartmouth College opens at Hanover

  • 1774

    1774
    First state to declare itself independent from England
    Patriots from the local area raid Fort William and Mary and steal the gunpowder stored there. (Incident becomes known as the Powder Raid.)

  • 1775

    1775
    June 16-17- British troops fire on the revolutionaries at Lexington, Massachusetts

  • 1788

    1788
    New Hampshire was the 9th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. With this ratification, the Constitution officially went into effect.

  • 1808

    1808
    -The state capital was established in Concord. New Hampshire is home to the nation’s oldest legislative building in which the House and Senate still meet.

  • 1818

    1818
    Nov 5, Benjamin Butler (d.1893), later Union Civil War general, was born in New Hampshire

  • 1830

    1830
    Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport, N.H., published a collection of poems "Poems for Our Children," that included "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

  • 1831

    1831
    Joseph Foster began building reed organs and melodeons. In 1845 he moved from Winchester to Keene and was joined by his brother Ephraim. The firm became