The Handy Boston Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton
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Название: The Handy Boston Answer Book
Автор: Samuel Willard Crompton
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Учебная литература
Серия: The Handy Answer Book Series
isbn: 9781578596171
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Timeline
| 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 |