The Handy Boston Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

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Date Event
1629 Puritans obtain a charter for settlement of the area from King Charles I
1630 Puritans settle on the peninsula the Indians call Shawmut
1631 Cambridge is settled as the “new town” in the region
1634 Boston settlers pool their funds and buy out Reverend William Blackstone
1637 Trial and banishment of Anne Hutchinson
1641 First Harvard Class graduates
1642 English Civil War begins
1649 Civil War ends with execution of King Charles I
1660 King Charles II restored to English throne
1661 Three regicides—men who signed King Charles I’s death warrant—take shelter in Puritan New England
Samuel Sewall arrives in Boston; his diary commences in 1672
1663 Reverend John Eliot publishes the Bible in the Algonquian language
1675 King Philip’s War begins
John Josselyn’s account of Boston and New England published in London
1676 Metacom, also known as King Philip, is killed
1684 King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay charter
1686 Sir Edmund Andros arrives as the first governor under the new royal regime
1688 William and Mary overthrow King James II
1689 Boston overthrows Sir Edmund Andros in bloodless coup
1690 Boston conquers Port Royal, Nova Scotia; fails to conquer Québec City
Boston sees publication of first newspaper in North America
1691 Massachusetts receives a new provincial charter from William and Mary
Sir William Phips is the first governor under the new charter
1692 Witch trials in Salem
1695 Recalled to England, Sir William Phips dies in London
1697 Hannah Dustin kills and scalps her Indian captors
King William’s War ends
Generally believed to be the coldest winter of the seventeenth century
1700 Boston’s population reaches roughly 7,000; that of Massachusetts is 60,000
1702 Queen Anne’s War begins
1708 A list of Boston street names appears for the first time
1711 British fail to conquer Québec City
1713 Queen Anne’s War comes to an end
1721 Boston suffers a terrible epidemic of smallpox
1722 First map of Boston streets (the so-called Burgis Map) is printed
1723 Benjamin Franklin runs from home, settles in Philadelphia
1739 Reverend George Whitefield comes to Boston for the first time
1740 Generally believed to be the coldest winter of the eighteenth century
1744 King George’s War begins
1745 New Englanders capture Fortress Louisburg
1747 Knowles Riots in Boston
1748 Britain returns Louisburg to France
1754 George Washington starts the French and Indian War
1755 Boston suffers a powerful earthquake
1759 Québec City falls to the British
1760 Montréal falls to the British. King George II dies and is succeeded by his grandson