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NE-Region Major Points Time Line:
Date Location Event
800BC Earliest people in region are the Archaic Algonkins. They came in small wandering groups, hunting and fishing. After several thousand years they developed a rather advanced culture in the villages they built. Rattlesnakes and Malaria were the most likely impediment to permanent settlement of the area.
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1300 Indians from the Ohio River valley migrate to the area. Seneca Indians inhabit the region. They were most powerful and warlike tribe of the Iroquois Nation. They lived between the Genesee River and Seneca Lake. Water was by far the easiest way to travel. Indians coming north from the Mississippi and Susquehanna Rivers would travel down the Genesee to the rapids at Red Creek in Genesee Valley Park.
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1492 Columbus lands in San Salvador
1498 Massachusetts English explorer John Cabot sails along Massachusetts coast
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1500 Maine David Ingram became the first known European to sail up the Penobscot River to what is now Bangor. When Ingram returned to Europe, he reported finding a wealthy city whose streets were lined with gold and tall buildings with casements of silver. Excited at Ingram's tale, some Europeans believed Ingram had discovered Norumbega, the lost city of gold.
1524 New York Giovanni da Verranzzano, an Italian pirate and explorer, is commissioned by the French to find the New World. Blown off course, he reaches the harbor of New York.
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1602 Bartholomew Gosnold explores coast.
1604 Maine Samuel de Champlain sailed into Penobscot Bay, up the Penobscot River, and anchored at the mouth of what is now the Kenduskeag Stream. Champlain didn't find a wealthy city, of course. Instead, he found the Tarratines, an American Indian tribe. The Tarrantines and Europeans engaged in fur trading.
1605 Maine A full-length portrait of a young woman called Mme. Penobscot was painted by an unknown English artist, circa 1605. Now at The Vyne, Basingstoke, England, it apparently depicts a Native American taken from the banks of the Penobscot River. In England she was made a ward of the Crown. Depicted in full Elizabethan dress, she may be our earliest portrait of a Mainer.

1606 Virginia James I grants charter to Plymouth Company to colonize Northern Virginia
1607 Virginia Three ships arrived from England with 104 men and boys. The settlers named the nearby river James, after their king and then settled on a narrow peninsula of the river, and named it Jamestown
1609 New York Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan (The Island of Hills).
1610 Rochester Etienne Brule explores the area under direction by Champlain.
1612 Rochester First mention of area is Champlain's map, made from Brule's information.
1612 New York Manhattan is used by the dutch in fur trade.
1614 Capt. John Smith maps coast
1614 Rhode Island Adrien Block Explored Block Island
1620 Massachusetts The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, arriving on the coast of Cape Cod instead of Virginia. After exploring the coast, the ship finally anchored in Plymouth harbor, and the Pilgrims established a settlement
1621 Massachusetts The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Plymouth. This feast, after the first Plymouth harvest, set the model for our current day feast
1622 Maine Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason are granted rights to lands that make up what is now Maine and New Hampshire. Gorges became the first person to title the territory "Maine".
1623 Rochester John Wheelwright, nonconformist minister and a friend of Oliver Cromwell, founds the town of Exeter and is credited with the foundation of New Hampshire.
1624 New York The Dutch West India Company sends settlers to Manhattan (30 families).
1626 New York Manhattan is purchased from the Natives by Peter Minuit.
1628 Massachusetts John Endecott founds Puritan settlement in what is now Salem
1629 Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Company chartered
1630 Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers traveled to the peninsula, known as Shawmut by the Algonquins, and founded Dorchester, the first part of the city of Boston
1632 Massachusetts Boston made capital of Massachusetts Bay Colony
1633 Rochester Brule takes on the Indian way of life. He is living with the the Hurons, when for some unknown reason, he is killed by them and eaten.
1634 Massachusetts Boston Common became the first public park in America
1635 Rhode Island William Blackstone, and Anglican clergymen, left Boston to seek solitude and moved into Valley Falls.
1635 Massachusetts The first American public secondary school, Boston Latin Grammar School, founded in Boston.
1636 Rhode Island After being banished from Boston for his religious beliefs Roger Williams established Providence.
1636 Springfield Puritans led by William Pynchon settled in Agawam on the western bank of the Connecticut River.
1636 Massachusetts Harvard College was established, named for after John Harvard of Charlestown
1636 New York The area of Brooklyn is settled by the Dutch. Meanwhile, Jonas Bronk settles the area known as the Bronx.
1637 Rhode Island The Connecticut settlers and Pequot tribe fought and lost a war against the Narragansett tribe and Rhode Island settlers.
1638 Springfield Settlers moved to the eastern bank to avoid conflicts with the Native Americans.
1638 Massachusetts The first American printing press was set up in Cambridge by Stephen Daye
1638 Rhode Island Local government was established A group of colonists banished from Massachusetts including John Clarke, Anne Hutchinson, and William Coddington moved to Rhode Island and founded Pocasset (later renamed Portsmouth) on the Northern end of Aquidneck Island.
1639 Rhode Island William Coddington, John Clarke, William Dyer, Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, Henry Bull, Jeremy Clarke, and Thomas Hazard moved to the southern part of Aquidneck Island and founded Newport.
1639 Massachusetts The first Post Office in America was Richard Fairbanks' tavern in Boston became a repository for overseas mail. The first free American public school, the Mather school, founded in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston.
1639 New York Five hundred acres in Westchester County are purchased by Jonas Bronk.
1640 Springfield Area renamed Springfield (after Pynchon’s birthplace).
1641 Portsmouth Massachusetts Colony assumes jurisdiction over the four townships in New Hampshire (Dover, Exeter, Hampton and Strawbery Banke).
1641 Springfield Became an official town.
1642 Rhode Island Shawomet was founded in 1642 by Samuel Gorton.
1643 Massachusetts Puritan colonies form New England Confederation to oppose Dutch and Indian attacks
1643 Rhode Island Samuel Gorton and his followers were arrested by Massachusetts authorities for blasphemous offenses. They were later banned from Massachusetts.
1644 Rhode Island English granted a charter, joining Providence and nearby settlements into the Colony of Providence Plantations. Aquidneck Island was renamed Rhode Island and selected Coddington as their governor.

1646 Massachusetts First American Ironworks established in Saugus
1647 New York Peter Minuit becomes governor of Manhattan, and renames it ‘New Amsterdam.’ Peter Stuyvesant is made Director General
1648 Rhode Island Gorton obtained a guarantee of protection for his settlement from the earl of Warwick and renamed his settlement Warwick.
1651 Rhode Island Coddington got a charter separating Aquidneck from the colony of Providence Plantations.
1652 New York The first of three Naval battles take place off the coast of New York, fought between the English and the Netherlands.
1652 Rhode Island Williams and John Clarke were able to get England to rejoin the colony with Newport. First record of African slaves
1652 Maine Maine is annexed as a frontier territory by Massachusetts. The strategic importance of Maine is established as Massachusetts officials considered it the first line of defense against potential French and Indian invasions.
1653 Portsmouth At the request of its citizens, Strawbery Banke’s name is changed to Portsmouth.
1653 New Amsterdam receives city charter, ending direct control by West India Co. England declares war on Dutch Republic.
1653 Massachusetts The first American public library founded in Boston
1654 New York Twenty-Three Sephardic Jews arrive in NY from Brazil aboard the French St. Charles.
1656 Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans whip, imprison, and banish the first Quakers to arrive in the colony.
1657 Rhode Island Quakers became protected in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
1658 Rhode Island Jews from Holland became protected in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
1658 Massachusetts Legislation bars the Quakers from holding their services, called "meetings." 
1659 Massachusetts Quakers William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephenson are hanged for refusing to leave Massachusetts.  Mary Dyer, a follower of Anne Hutchinson and later a Quaker, is scheduled to hang with them but is reprieved at the last minute
1660 Massachusetts June, Mary Dyer is hanged after defying an expulsion order by returning to Boston in May
1661 Rhode Island Block Island is first settled.
1661 Massachusetts Massachusetts continues to punish Quakers by hanging those who refuse to leave the colony.  After a royal edict requires  the Massachusetts authorities to release imprisoned Quakers and return them to England, the authorities instead allow them to leave for other colonies.  By December, corporal punishment for Quakers and other dissenters is suspended in the Massachusetts Bay colony by order of Parliament
1663 Rhode Island English created a charter for all of present day Rhode Island that provided for self government and the only free worship in the 13 colonies. This caused many Jews and Quakers to move to Rhode Island. Rhode Island had a population of 1,000.
1664 New York English forces seize control of New Amsterdam.The City is renamed ‘New York.’
1669 Rochester French explorer Robert de la Salle sails up Irondequoit Bay to Ellison Park looking for Indian guides to show him the water route inland. They are hospitable, but refuse to show him the way.
1670 New York Staten Eyelandt (Staten Island) is purchased for the third and final time from the Natives. Meanwhile, the Morris Family brings in black slaves from Barbados to their home in the Bronx.
1672 Rhode Island Newport Quaker Nicholas Easton was elected governor and helped create the first conscientious objector law in America.
1673 New York The Dutch reclaim New York from the English.
1674 New York The English reclaim New York from the Dutch.
1675 King Phillip's War begins what will be a long and arduous battle between the English and the French and Indians for control of the North American territories.
1676 King Philip's war ended with the Native Americans defeated and much of Providence burned after the destruction of a nearby village.
1679 Portsmouth After years of political pressure from the Mason family and their allies, New Hampshire as a whole is severed from Massachusetts Colony and becomes a royal colony of its own.
1679 Rochester First building for Christian worship in Rochester area, at site of Mercy High School.
1683 New York Governor Dongan devides province into 10 counties: New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess, Oranger, Ulster and Albany.
1684 Massachusetts Massachusetts charter annulled
1686 Massachusetts Dominion of New England established. Oxford became the first non-puritan town
1687 Rochester French and Indian War. In a campaign from July 10 - July 23, 1687, 1600 French 400 colonials, and 983 Indian allies land at Irondequoit Bay. They built a fort on the East shore lead by New France Governor Marquis de Denonville. They destroy villages and crops on their way to a victorious battle at the huge Indian settlement Gannagaro (near Victor). The results were a strengthened opposition to the French by the Seneca Indians along with stronger ties to the English. Indians have two main trail systems in the county, the east-west trails connects several Indian villages and is called the Path of Peace. The north-south trail leads to the lake and the French, and is called the Warpath.

1688 New York New York incorporated into Dominion of New England.
1691 Massachusetts granted new charter; becomes royal colony including Maine and Plymouth.
1692 Massachusetts Witchcraft trials begin in Salem
1693 Massachusetts Society of free Negroes is founded in Boston
1693 New York Long Island renamed after Nassua in honor of William of Nassua
1697 Massachusetts Massachusetts general court expresses official repentance for the witchcraft trials
1698 New York Population of New York: 18,067 (4,937 live on Manhattan, 2,017 in Kings, 3,565 in Queens, 727 in Richmond, 1,063 in Westchester)
1699 Maine Peace treaty at Casco Bay, Maine, brings hostilities between the Abenaki Indians and the MA colony to an end. 
1699 Rhode Island Fiends Meeting House is built in Newport. It is the oldest surviving house of worship in Newport.
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1700 Springfield Gristmills and sawmills were built along the river.
1704 Massachusetts The first regularly issued American newspaper, The Boston News-Letter, published in Boston.
1716 Massachusetts America's first lighthouse, "The Boston Light" was built in Boston Harbor
1716 Rochester Fort de Sables built by the French at Sea Breeze on Irondequoit Bay.
1721 Rochester English build Fort Schuyler which was the first English settlement in western New York.
1724 Rhode Island Rhode Island established property ownership qualifications for voters.
1741 Rochester King George II buys land surrounding Irondequoit Bay for 100 pounds from three Seneca sachems.
1751 Portsmouth The Currency Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning the issuing of paper money by the New England colonies.
1752 Rochester Nathaniel Rochester is born February 21.
1753 Rhode Island Providence Athenaeum was built.
1756 New York The French and Indian War begins (also called the Wilderness Campaign.)
1763 Massachusetts End of Indian Wars in 1763 allows expansion in Western Massachusetts to a total of 184 towns.
1763 Rhode Island The Touro Synagogue of Newport was built and is the oldest synagogue in the United States. Privateering for the French to fight the English ended.
1764 Rhode Island Brown University was founded
1766 New York Sons of Liberty destroy a theater. They later successfully raise Liberty Pole
1766 Portsmouth Portsmouth citizens protest the roundly-despised Stamp Act, hanging a flag bearing the words “Liberty, Property and No Stamp” from Liberty Bridge.
1768 Portsmouth February – Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a circular letter opposing taxation without representation. The letter is sent to assemblies throughout the colonies. April – England's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Hillsborough, orders colonial governors to stop their own assemblies from endorsing Adams' circular letter. Hillsborough also orders the governor of Massachusetts to dissolve the general court if the Massachusetts assembly does not revoke the letter. The assemblies of New Hampshire, Connecticut and New Jersey endorse the letter.
1769 Maine Jacob Buswell, his wife, and nine children, from Salisbury, Mass., became the first Europeans to settle at the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream in what was then known as Kadesquit by the American Indians. A year later, the Buswells were joined by Buswell’s brother Stephen and his wife, and by Caleb Goodwin, his wife, and eight children.
1770 Massachusetts Tensions aroused from British troops' presence in Boston, culminated in 5 men dying, when troops fired at colonists at the Customs House on March 5.
1772 Maine first sawmill in Maine
1772 Rhode Island Providence residents burned the British revenue cutters HMS Gaspee and Liberty.
1773 Massachusetts Boston Tea Party dumps tea into bay - Colonists at Faneuil Hall, in Boston, oppose taxes
1774 Portsmouth December 13 – Paul Revere issues a grave warning at James Stoodley’s tavern, telling the people there that a British warship was en route to Fort William and Mary at the harbor entrance, there to seize the weapons and ammunition. A day later, the fort is overrun by a mob from the city, which tears down the British flag and absconds with the powder. Shortly thereafter, the royal governor flees and the provincial capital is moved inland.
1774 Rhode Island Slave trading in Newport ended. Rhode Island had a population of 57,707. The First Baptist Church, the meeting house of the oldest Baptist congregation in the country The American Revolution began. French and American troops were stationed in Brown University’s University Hall.
1775 Portsmouth March 30 – The New England Restraining Act is endorsed by King George III, requiring New England colonies to trade exclusively with England and also bans fishing in the North Atlantic.December 23 – King George III issues a royal proclamation closing the American colonies to all commerce and trade, to take effect in March 1776.
1775 Springfield American Revolution began. Gunsmith industry in Springfield increased.
1775 New York Shortly after the Revolutionary war begins, the Sons of Liberty force the British Government out of NY.
1775 Massachusetts The first battle of the American Revolution fought in Lexington and Concord. The first ship of the U.S. Navy, the schooner "Hannah", commissioned in Beverly.
1776 New York The Battle of Long Island. English forces seize New York. Liberty Pole cut
1776 Massachusetts Colonial troops force British to evacuate Boston
1776 Rhode Island May 4th, Rhode Island Independence Act was signed. December, British troops seized Newport.
1777 Springfield Arsenal was built for the Continental Army.
1778 Rhode Island The British occupying force fought off an attack from a combined American and French force led by John Sullivan and Lafayette.
1779 Rhode Island The British occupying force in Newport is forced to leave.
1779 Maine the British navy took control of Castine using only three warships and began building a fort. The Americans sent 19 warships and 24 troop ships carrying about 1,000 men to Castine to oust the British, who countered by sending three more warships and four transport ships. Despite outnumbering the British, American Commodore Dudley Saltonstall ordered his men to flee up the Penobscot River after he and his men reached Castine on July 24. American ground troops, led by Paul Revere, abandoned their ships near Bangor and fled into the Maine woods, headed to the Augusta area. The British burned American ships in Winterport, about 15 miles from Bangor, leaving 20 ships to escape to the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream in Bangor. Of the 20 ships that remained, the Americans scuttled 10. Saltonstall was court-martialed for cowardice
1779 Rochester Gen. Sullivan's campaign of scorched earth rids area of Indians.
1780 Massachusetts State constitution adopted; John Hancock becomes first elected governor.
1781 New York English occupation of New York ends.
1783 Rhode Island American Revolution ends. Rhode Island’s Nathanael Greene served as the second in command under George Washington. Besides Washington, Greene was the only other general to serve for the entire war.
1784 Rhode Island Newport is incorporated as a city. All Rhode Island children born by slaves were free by law.
1785 Massachusetts Daniel Shay led a rebellion by farmers protesting excessive taxes, oppressive governmental systems and unfair laws and treatment of working people.
1786 Rhode Island John Brown house was built and considered one of the finest 18th century homes in the country. Rhode Island farmers burned grain, dumped milk, and let fruit rot during a farm strike against merchants who refused to accept paper money because of depreciation.
1787 Springfield Shays Rebellion: Daniel Shays led poor farmers to an attack against the arsenal because of excessive land taxation. The rebels lost to General Benjamin Lincoln and were forced to flee. Most were later pardoned.
1787 Rhode Island Rhode Island did not set delegates to the constitutional convention.
1788 Massachusetts Massachusetts is sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution on Feb. 6, 1788
1788 Rochester The town of Whites Town is created by New York legislature. Whites Town contains today's Monroe County. Feb. 18, 1788 - Seneca Allen is the first white child born in what will become Rochester. Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham purchase from Massachusetts the western end of New York State (everything West of Seneca Lake).
1789 New York George Washington is inaugurated as President in NYC.
1789 Massachusetts The first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in Worcester.
1790 Rhode Island With backing from Moses Brown Samuel Slater reproduced machinery in Pawtucket for spinning cotton creating the first cotton-spinning plant in the US. May 29th, Rhode Island was the last to ratify the constitution by the narrowest margin of 34 to 32 votes.
1790 Rochester Area's oldest cemetery opens, Lake Ave., at Eastman Ave.
1790 New York New York no longer Federal Capital.
1790 Portsmouth The local economic depression engendered by the Revolutionary War lifts as Portsmouth’s shipping industry continues to grow.
1791 Maine Town of Bangor got it's name from a screw up, originally going to be named Sunsbury, the person who wished to have the town named, was whistling an old tune "Bangor by Tans'ur" and when asked by the court in Boston what the name of the city was, he said Bangor by accident
1794 Rochester First school in Monroe County is built a mile south of Northfield, in today's Pittsford. Louis Phillippe, future King of France tours area
1794 A federal armory was created for the research and development of weapons.
1795 Massachusetts State House built in Boston
1796 Massachusetts John Adams, born 1735 in Quincy, elected 2nd president of United States
1796 New York Albany replaces New York as state capital.

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1800 Massachusetts Back bay was created by a landfill to the west of Beacon Hill and Boston Common. Social reformists met in Boston during the Transcendental Movement including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
1801 Rochester New York divides each county into towns.
1802 Portsmouth The first Great Fire of Portsmouth begins at four in the morning. The blaze destroys almost all of the buildings along Daniel Street.
1803 Rochester Col. Nathaniel Rochester, Col. Wm. Fitzhugh, and Major Charles Carroll purchase a 100 acre tract on west side of river at falls.
1804 Rochester Col. Isaac Castle, and James Wadsworth establish Castletown, two miles above the falls, a community with a rough lifestyle that gave it a notorious reputation
1805 Charlotte established as Port of Entry by U.S. Congress.
1805 Massachusetts Faneuil Hall is expanded.
1806 Portsmouth The second Great Fire of Portsmouth, this one moving from Bow Street toward the scarcely-recovered scene of the previous conflagration.
1806 Massachusetts The first church built by free blacks in America, the African Meeting House, opened on Joy Street in Boston.
1806 New York Napoleonic Wars; British warship blockades harbor.
1807 Massachusetts Boston Athenaeum founded. President Jefferson hurt Boston's trading economy by enacting a trade embargo against European nations.
1807 Portsmouth President Thomas Jefferson establishes a general embargo on foreign trade. Portsmouth’s international commerce (along with that of the rest of the United States) grinds to a halt.
1809 Rochester Carthage settled on the east bank of Genesee just below the Lower Falls, opposite King's Landing. The launch of the sixteen gun American brig 'Oneida' in Oswego lead to the first movement of men from an American man-of-war on the Great Lakes.
1811 New York Fire destroys 100 buildings (Duane and Chatham Streets)
1811 Rochester City laid out and first lots sold.
1812 Rhode Island Rhode Island refused to participate in the war of 1812.
1812 Rochester Rochester Post Office is established. The first blacksmith shop opens.
1812 Rochester British and American fleets engage as part of the war of 1812. Many settlers leave the area fearing both British invasion, and the swamp sickness.
1813 Portsmouth The third (and worst) Great Fire of Portsmouth
1813 Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry becomes the vice president. Elbridge was born in Marblehead and went to Harvard.
1813 Rochester Indians celebrate the 'Sacrifice of the White Dog' for the last time in Livingston Park.
1814 Portsmouth With the end of the War of 1812 and no more suitable lumber for trade, Portsmouth changes its focus from shipping to manufacturing, producing warships for the government.
1814 Massachusetts Vice President Elbridge Gerry dies. At the Hartford convention New England states discussed their
declining involvement in national affairs. They proposed to limit federal power over embargoes and international trade.
1814 Maine the British returned in the War of 1812 and hammered American forces in the Battle of Hampden, which borders Bangor to the south, before moving on to Bangor and forcing its selectmen to surrender unconditionally. When the Americans heard the British coming sometime between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., they began firing their guns. But this time the British clearly had the upper hand, using two warships in the Penobscot to bombard American troops on land. Once again, the British chased the Americans to Bangor. Although the British crushed the Americans, casualties for both sides were light: One British troop died, nine were wounded, and one went missing; one American troop died, 11 troops were wounded, and one civilian died watching the battle. The British captured 80 Americans as prisoners of war. After forcing the Bangor selectmen to surrender their town, the British looted shops and homes and occupied the town for 30 hours. The British didn't stay longer than 30 hours because in the midst of celebrating their victory with rum they became drunk and in danger of becoming vulnerable, according to one account of the British occupation.
1815 Rochester First Presbyterian Church is first religious organization to form in the area
1816 Rhode Island The first Unitarian church was built in Providence and contains a bell cast in the foundry of Paul Revere.
1816 Massachusetts A protective tariff was introduced that allowed Massachusetts manufacturing to flourish.
1820 Maine As a result of the Missouri Compromise, Maine becomes its own state.
1822 New York New York now America’s largest city.
1822 Massachusetts Lowell set up as factory town - Boston chartered
1823 Rochester Erie Canal reaches Rochester. First County Fair takes place. St. Patrick's Church built on the site of the modern day cathedral.
1824 Massachusetts John Quincy Adams, born 1767 in Quincy, elected 6th president of United States
1824 Rochester Bank of Rochester incorporated, first bank not in New York City chartered by the State of New York.
1825 Massachusetts Boston founded the first high school for girls
1826 Massachusetts The first American railroad built in Quincy.
1827 Massachusetts Francis Leiber opened the first swim school in America July 23, 1827. Among the first to enroll was John Quincy Adams.
1827 New York City opens up public park at Greenwich Village, now Washington Square Park.
1829 Rochester Joseph Smith is told the location of gold plates buried in Palmyra by the Angel Moroni. These texts form the basis for the 'Book of Mormon'.
1829 New York First Hotel opens on Coney Island.
1830 Maine Bangor was home to over 300 sawmills
1830 Rochester Last wolf killed in county, 100 people hunt for five days, and finally kill the animal in Irondequoit. It is stuffed and displayed on Buffalo Street for many years.
1831 Massachusetts The first abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison.
1831 New York 1st Horse-drawn carriage, called an omnibus. First railroad incorporated, tracked layed down from 23rd Street To Harlem River along 4th Avenue by New York and Harlem Railroad.
1831 Rhode Island Providence was incorporated as a city.
1832 Rochester New York City peddler brings cholera up the canal, epidemic kills 400 to 500. Rochester Board of Health is established. Monroe County Jail, called the 'Blue Eagle Jail', is built with a walled courtyard for exercise and executions. Mother of Sorrows Church built in Greece. It is the first rural Catholic church in the state.
1833 Constitutional amendment separates church and state; ends Puritanism in government
1833 Rhode Island Rhode Island born William Ellery Channing led the growth of Unitarianism from Boston
1834 Rochester Rochester incorporated as city. Carthage becomes part of city, known as North Rochester, or Lower Town.
1834 Maine Mount Hope Cemetery is founded, and was the second garden Cemetery founded in the nation.
1834 Massachusetts The first book on baseball is published in Boston.
1834 New York Brooklyn receives city charter.
1836 Maine Founder of Mount hope cemetary first person burried there. Samuel Call
1837 Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph based on Morse Code, a simple pattern of "dots" and "dashes." State Board of Education established under leadership of Horace Mann
1837 Rochester First Rochester murder, William Lyman is killed by Octavius Barren.
1838 New York Green-Wood Cemetery commissioned, completed 1839
1838 Rochester Rochester Orphan Asylum opens. Rochester Antislavery Society founded. It was the first such organization in the country. First execution takes place. 'Mount Hope' cemetery is built and opened.
1838 New York Chester Carlson produces 1st Xerox photograph in his Queens workshop.
1839 Springfield Railroad between Springfield and Worcester was built.
1839 New York World’s Fair, “Building of the World of Tomorrow” opens in Flushing Meadows.
1839 Rochester First antislavery convention held.
1839 Massachusetts The first vulcanized rubber produced by Charles Goodyear in Woburn. Irish immigration increased.
1840 Rochester Rochester is the 15th largest city in country and the largest flour producing city in the world.
1840 Massachusetts The typewriter was invented by Charles Thurber in Worcester.
1840 Portsmouth Rails connect Portsmouth to the rest of New England, cutting into what remains of the city’s shipping industry but also helping to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. By the early 1900s, save for local fishermen, shipyard workers and disreputable mariners, Portsmouth’s maritime prominence is dead.
1840 Maine Maine insane asylum opened.
1841 Rhode Island Providence lawyer Thomas Dorr led a movement in Rhode Island to allow non-property owners a vote.
1841 Rochester Board of Education founded. Warner Castle built.
1842 Rhode Island Thomas Dorr was elected governor by the People's Party and inaugurated in Providence. In Newport Samuel Ward was elected governor via the existing election system. Dorr's followers attempted to take over the state government by forced but lost forcing Dorr to flea.
1843 Dorothea Dix reports inhumane condition is state prisons and asylums thus starting a reform movement.
1843 Rochester Dr. J. B. Beers invents gold teeth.
1843 Rhode Island Voting in Rhode Island was liberalized allowing native born citizens a vote in federal and state elections if they paid $1. Foreign born citizens could only vote if they owned $143 worth of real property. Only property holders were allowed to vote in local (town/city) elections.
1844 Rochester First Jewish names appear in city directory.
1845 Massachusetts The first sewing machine made by Elias Howe in Boston. Henry David Thoreau left his family to live alone in a one room house that he constructed on Walden Pond near Concord.
1846 Rochester Liberty Pole erected by the 'East Side Boys'.
1846 Massachusetts William T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, first demonstrated the use of anesthesia in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, using a specially designed glass inhaler containing an ether-soaked sponge.
1847 Rochester Frederick Douglass moves to Rochester, and opens a print shop at the Four Corners.
1847 Massachusetts Boston Athenaeum moved to its present location on Beacon Street. February 21st, 1848 – John Quincy Adams died from a stroke when responding to a roll call in the congressional house chambers.
1847 New York Madison Square Park opens.
1848 Rochester First Synagogue organized, Temple B'rith Kodesh.
1850 Rochester University of Rochester opens.
1850 Massachusetts The first National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester. The Boston Athenaeum takes up residence in the Italian palazzo on Beacon Street that it calls home to this day.
1852 Massachusetts First public library in the US opens in Boston.
1852 Springfield Incorporated as a city. Smith and Wesson was founded. Daniel B. Wesson was born in Springfield and learned about weapon design at the Armory.
1853 Rochester Bausch & Lomb Company opens.
1853 Massachusetts Lewis and Harriet Hayden reveal to Harriet Beecher Stowe that their house on Beacon Hill is an important stop on the "underground railroad." It housed up to thirteen escaped slaves, and was trapped with two kegs of gunpowder so that the house could be destroyed if it were searched.
1853 New York World’s Fair at Crystal Palace.
1854 Rhode Island Newport and Providence became joint capitals of Rhode Island Rhode Island College was founded
1856 Rochester Two men from Rochester start Western Union.
1857 Massachusetts Under Mayor John Bigelow, the project to drain the "Back Bay" (or Charles River Flats) begins. The resulting "South End" neighborhood has been described as the largest, most lasting Victorian district in the nation.
1857 New York Work begins on Central Park.
1858 Rochester A fire during the celebration for laying of Atlantic cable burns down the Minerva Block, and destroys 20 stores. Rochester establishes a professional fire department due to the inefficiency of the volunteer fire departments.
1860 Rhode Island Rhode Island's electoral vote went to Lincoln.
1860 Massachusetts Irish immigration surges; by the start of the decade, more than 60,000 Irish have flocked to Boston, refugees from the Famine. Anti-Catholicism is rampant; members of the anti-immigrant American Party (known as the "Know-Nothings") are highly placed in political offices statewide.
1861 America's greatest internal conflict - 3 million fought and 600,000 died in the War Between the States before General Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to General Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House General Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865.
1861 Rochester Population of Rochester is larger than Chicago, Detroit, or Cleveland.
1863 Massachusetts University of Massachusetts chartered at Amherst.
1863 Rochester The 17 city school libraries are consolidated to form the Central Library.
1864 New York Draft Riots Occur
1865 Massachusetts Robert Ware, of MIT, began the first professional training program for architects. Prior to this, architects trained in Europe or learned through apprenticeship.
1865 Rhode Island Civil War ended after more then 23,000 Rhode Islanders fought in the war including Ambrose E. Burnside who served as the commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1866 The first African-American legislators in New England elected to the General Court.
1867 New York Prospect Park completed
1868 Rochester The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester is formed.
1869 Rochester St. Patrick's Cathedral completed.Blast furnace built at Charlotte to manufacture pig iron
1870 Rochester The 'Democrat' and the 'Chronicle' combine to form the 'Democrat and Chronicle'.
1870 New York Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge.
1871 Rochester Nazareth Convent and Academy opens.
1872 Massachusetts A dry-goods store and hoop-skirt factory on Summer Street catches fire. The resulting blaze destroys 60 acres of property (776 buildings and approximately $60 million dollars -- $500 mil, in today's numbers -- in damage.) including the first Trinity Church.
1873 Rochester William Gleason designs a bevel gear planer, the first practical machine to mass produce gears. The bevel gear allows power to be transmitted around corners.
1873 Portsmouth The Smuttynose Murders. Three Norwegian women are killed with an ax.
1874 New York Brooklyn Bridge Made Public
1875 Massachusetts The first American Christmas card printed by Louis Prang in Boston.
1875 Maine Bangor Waterworks opens, first public waterworks in Bangor.
1876 Massachusetts The first telephone demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in Boston.
1876 Rochester School for the Deaf opens on St. Paul St.
1877 Massachusetts Helen Magill White becomes the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S. (Boston University)
1877 Rhode Island Rhode Island School of Design was founded
1878 Rochester Genesee Valley Canal closes. Genesee Brewery opens. Its' first product is called 'Liebotschaner'
1879 Rochester Bell Telephone installs exchange in Rochester. James Cutler invents the mail chute.
1880 Maine Bangor Mental Health Institute commissioned when the Maine Insane asylum was overcrowded.
1880 Rochester George Eastman makes first photographic dry plates in America.
1880 Rhode Island Narragansett people were legally declared extinct by the General Assembly.
1881 Rochester Statue of Mercury erected on 162 foot smokestack of the Kimball factory. Standing 21 feet tall it is the largest copperplate statute in America.
1881 Massachusetts The Country Club in Brookline became the first country club in America dedicated to "outdoor pursuits". The Boston Symphony Orchestra is founded by Henry Lee Higginson.
1883 Maine Bangor Public Library was founded.
1885 Rhode Island US Naval Academy is founded in Newport
1885 Rochester Eastman Kodak organized.
1885 New York Statue of Liberty Completed
1885 Springfield Springfield College was founded, American International College was founded.
1886 Massachusetts The first transformer demonstrated by William Stanley in Great Barrington
1888 Rochester Rochester's Chamber of Commerce created. Central Bank of Rochester opens.
1889 Massachusetts Noted socialite and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner turns her house at Fenway Court into a home for masterpieces. It remains so.
1890 Springfield Rouse Duryea Cycle Co. was incorporated. Harry Rouse was a major invester.
1890 Rochester Joseph Demerath invents the marshmallow.Driving Park Bridge built, upstream from Carthage. Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company buys land and builds Kodak Park on Lake Avenue.

1891 Massachusetts The first basketball game played in Springfield. The Kennedy Biscuit Works (later Nabisco) used a machine invented by James Henry Mitchell to mass- produce the first Fig Newton Cookies and named it for the town of Newton, MA.
1891 Basketball invented by James Naismith.
1891 Rochester First 100 varieties of lilac bushes planted in Highland Park by John Dunbar.
1892 Springfield The first successful gasoline-powered automobile perfected by Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield.
1892 Rochester Rochester Gas & Electric starts construction of electric subways, to remove wiring from overhead poles.
1895 Massachusetts The first volleyball game played in Holyoke.
1895 New York All territory west of Bronx, annexed to New York
1895 Rochester First motion pictures shown in city.
1896 Massachusetts The first American public beach established in Revere.
1897 Portsmouth The U.S.S. Constitution is towed out of Portsmouth harbor, to Boston.
1897 Massachusetts The first successful American subway system opened in Boston. First Boston Marathon run.
1897 Rochester Kodak Office Building opens.
1898 New York A charter is adopted, making Manhattan the city of Greater New York. The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island are incorporated into NYC.
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1900 Rhode Island Providence became the sole capital of Rhode Island
1900 Rochester A wave of 'Moral Reform' hits the village of Charlotte.
1901 Rhode Island Brayton law was passed allowing Republican held legislature to remove the mayor (in case a Democrat was elected).
1901 Rochester Orphan Asylum fire kills 71 children.
1901 Maine Bangor Mental Health Institute Opens
1901 New York Construction of Manhattan Bridge begins
1901 The first motorcycle in the United States began production.
1903 Massachusetts First Trans-Atlantic Radio Broadcast made by from Marconi Station at Wellfleet when President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of Great Britain exchanged greetings.
1903 Springfield Springfield rifle (AKA: M1903) was invented.
1904 Rhode Island State house construction was completed and includes one of the world's largest marble domes
1904 Rochester Mayor Cutler forces city to stop pumping raw sewage into river, first sewage treatment plant built. George and Francis French invents "French's Mustard”.
1904 New York Manhattan’s 1st electric powered subway by I.R.T. opens.
1904 Springfield Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield.
1905 New York 1st crossing of Staten Island Ferry.
1905 Rochester Eastman House built.
1907 World's first motorized fire wagon developed by Knox Manufacturing Company.
1907 Rochester World's tallest smokestacks built at Kodak Park, 366 feet tall. New reservoir built at Cobb's Hill. First Chinese restaurant opens in Rochester.
1908 Rochester Forty cottages at Windsor Beach burn, assisted by gale force winds, over 60 MPH, which fan the fires.
1909 New York 700 foot Metropolitian Life Tower opens at Madison Square Garden, becomes world’s tallest building.
1909 Rochester Lake View Hotel at Sea Breeze burns.
1911 Maine the Great Fire of 1911 reshaped the city's landscape, burning 55 acres, destroying 267 buildings, damaging 100 more and causing $3,188,081.90 in losses and damage (including nearly the entire collection of the Bangor Public Library, which contained irreplaceable records from the city’s past). The conflagration left 75 families homeless, most of whom had lived from Harlow Street to Center Street to lower French Street. It destroyed more than 100 businesses during a nine-hour span. Flames were visible up to 25 miles away, the paper reported, and residents from neighboring towns flocked to the city to watch it burn. Light from the fire was visible 50 miles away in Bar Harbor, 33 miles away in Belfast and 107 miles away in Brunswick.
1912 Rochester The Memorial Art Gallery given to the University of Rochester.
1912 Massachusetts Textile workers go on strike in Lawrence
1914 Massachusetts Canal links Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay.
1914 Rhode Island Johnson & Wales University was founded
1914 World War I begins
1915 Rochester Washington Junior High School on Clifford Avenue opens. The Junior High School was a new concept, developed in Rochester, aimed to keep students in school past the eighth grade, by providing manual education for the boys and home economics for the girls.
1916 New York First subway through Queensboro Tunnel, between Grand Central and Queens.
1916 Rochester Rochester Fruit and Vegetable company opens, better known today as Wegmans
1917 Rhode Island Providence College was founded
1917 Portsmouth The first Navy submarine, the L-8, is constructed and launched out of the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
1917 Rochester Village of Charlotte annexed by the City of Rochester as it's twenty-third Ward.
1918 Prohibition Begins
1919 Rochester King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium visit city. Eastman School of Music given to the University of Rochester.
1919 Western New England College was founded.
1919 Massachusetts Great Molasses Flood
1920 Rochester Lyceum Building on St. Paul St. opens.
1920 Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge elected vice-president; becomes 30th president of United States in 1923, Start of Sacco and Vanzetti case.
1921 Rochester Buses replace streetcars.
1922 Rhode Island Wages were dramatically reduced.
1923 New York City starts to dismantle old elevated railways.
1924 L. Sherman Adams introduced the world's first mutual fund.
1925 Massachusetts Edith Nourse Rogers (Republican – Massachusetts) was the first woman to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives. She was the longest serving women in House and introduced the GI Bill of Rights among other major initiatives.
1926 Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital opens. Homeopathic Hospital changes name to Genesee Hospital.
1926 Massachusetts The first successful liquid fuel rocket launched by Dr. Robert Goddard in Auburn
1927 Rochester Rochester Iron Manufacturing Co. blast furnace is destroyed. Subway opens.
1927 Massachusetts Sacco-Vanzetti case gains world attention as it ends.
1927 New York Holland Tunnel opens, 1st tunnel in the world designed for automobiles.
1928 Rhode Island Democrat Theodore Francis Green (T.F. Green) was elected governor.
1928 Massachusetts The first computer, a non-electronic "differential analyzer," developed by Dr. Vannevar Bush of M.I.T. in Cambridge.
1928 Rochester Rail cars from Syracuse and Rochester make use of the subway tracks constructed in parts of the abandoned canal. Red Wing Stadium built. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle purchased by Frank Gannett.
1929 The Stock Market crashes, and the Great Depression begins.
1929 Rochester First Lilac Week festival.
1930 Rhode Island America's Cup Race is moved to Newport
1930 Portsmouth John Mead Howells and Stephen Decatur of the Portsmouth Historical Society begin a movement to preserve the local waterfront, restoring run-down homes in what had become the city’s slums and creating jobs for out-of-work citizens. Before the project can truly get underway, however, the outbreak of World War Two diverts all local attention away from it.
1930 Massachusetts Clarence Birdseye conducted first test of his quick-freezing process, including twenty-six different vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats. Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Ma. by adding cut up pieces of chocolate to her butter drop cookies.
1930 New York Workers dig foundations for Empire State Building.
1930 Rochester Masonic Temple built at Prince St. and Main St..
1931 New York Empire State Building opens, 102 floors, construction costs an estimated 50 million.
1932 Rhode Island Electoral votes went to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933 Rochester Genesee Beer back on sale after end of Prohibition
1934 Rhode Island Salve Regina is founded in Newport, Narragansett tribe incorporated.
1934 Rochester Lake Ontario freezes over completely from New York State to Canada.
1934 New York Fiorello La Guardia becomes Mayor of NYC.
1935 Rhode Island Voters filled the state congress and senate with Democrats for the first time since 1854.The Brayton law was repealed, the Supreme Court justices were removed, and the executive branch was reorganized in a coup called the bloodless revolution.
1936 New York Riker’s Island penitentiary opens.
1936 Rochester Rundel Library opens.
1937 Maine Central Street was the scene of the bloodiest shoot-out in Maine history, complete with big-time gangsters and federal agents. Al Brady and his small band of gangsters committed 200 robberies, countless assaults, and four murders beginning in 1935. One of the gang's victims was an Indiana state trooper who died May 27, 1937. Agents and officers atop nearby roofs fired their machine guns, cutting the outside man down. Agents on the ground rushed the Buick and threw open its doors. They ordered Brady and the driver to get out. But Brady wasn't willing to surrender so easily. He drew a gun and shot at the agents, inviting a similar fate as the dead man on the sidewalk. In all, the gunfight lasted about four minutes. The Brady men had been hit more than 60 times. Rivers of blood oozed down Central Street, some of it collecting in the trolley tracks. The fire department had to wash the street. (Brady's body is in an unmarked grave in Mount Hope Cemetary.)
1937 Springfield The Garand semi-automatic (AKA: M1 rifle) was invented by chief civil service engineer John Garand.
1938 Rhode Island With winds of 115 mph the hurricane of 1938 hit Rhode Island, the worst natural disaster ever to occur in Rhode Island.
1940 Portsmouth The Portsmouth Naval Yard produces 75 submarines for the Navy. The proliferation of nuclear technology in the 1950s sees continued work for the Navy Yard.
1940 Springfield Westover Air Reserve Base was built (in Chicopee/Metro-Springfield).
1941 New York America enters the second World War.
1942 New York Times Square is blacked out during the War.
1943 Rochester 1943-1945 Cobbs Hill used as POW encampment for World War II POW's.
1944 Massachusetts And, not to be outdone by M.I.T., Howard Aiken of Harvard developed the first automatic digital computer.
1945 Portsmouth German U-boat, U-234, arrives in the Portsmouth harbor to considerable fanfare (the fourth such surrendered ship to enter the Navy Yard). Aboard this vessel is a prestigious prisoner, Luftwaffe Lt. General Ulrich Kessler, described by many as a “classic Hollywood example of a Nazi general”; he emerges wearing an ankle-length leather greatcoat, polished black boots, an Iron Cross, white gloves and a monocle. The far greater prize, however, unknown at the time to the populace at large, is the 1213 lb. cargo of uranium oxide bound for Japan which is confiscated by the United States military in secret and transferred to the scientists of the Manhattan Project.
1945 New York B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building (dense fog).
1947 Massachusetts Percy Spencer of Raytheon Corp. invented the microwave oven, the Radarange. The first oven was 750 lb and 5-1/2 feet tall. Today over 200 million microwaves are in use. Edwin Land demonstrates "one-step photography system" - the first Poloroid Land Camera. Dr. Sidney Farber introduced chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer, achieving the first cases of remission of acute childhood leukemia.
1947 Rochester Lyceum Building demolished.
1948 New York The United Nations is formed. President Truman dedicates New York International Airport (Idlewood).
1948 Rochester Rochester is the first location to establish an American Red Cross blood donor service for civilians.
1950 Massachusetts The black population began to increase nearly fourfold
1951 Springfield Kurt Russell was born in Springfield.
1952 Rochester Mt Morris Dam built in Letchworth State Park to finally control the seven-year cycle of floods by the Genesee River.
1953 Maine WABI, Bangor, went on the air and Maine officially entered the age of television.
1954 Massachusetts First successful Kidney transplant between twins at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
1955 Rochester Subway closed. WHAM-TV airs first televised debate of political issues.
1956 Rochester Genesee Valley Regional Market opens on Jefferson Rd.
1957 Massachusetts Massachusetts Turnpike opened.
1957 New York Aquarium from Castle Clinton re-opens in Coney Island.
1958 Portsmouth Building upon a local initiative (and in the spirit of Howells and Decatur’s plan), Strawbery Banke, Inc. commences with the restoration of historic homes along the waterfront. Strawbery Banke opens to the public in 1965, boasting homes from various periods of the city’s history and drawing visitors from across the nation and, eventually, from around the world.
1958 Massachusetts For the first time Massachusetts elects both a Democratic governor and legislature
1959 Maine A 31-foot statue of legendary lumberman Paul Bunyan is gifted to the city
1960 Massachusetts Manufacturing jobs in Boston dropped dramatically while low paying clerical and service jobs increased. Downtown Boston changed as the West End was demolished. Urban renewal programs were started in Boston.
1961 Massachusetts Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected president and Lyndon Baines Johnson became vice president. The first nuclear-powered surface vessel, USS Long Beach CG(N) 9, launched at Quincy
1962 Rochester Midtown Plaza opens as America's first indoor shopping mall.
1962 Massachusetts Boston Strangler Murders start http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4003/boston.html. Steve Russell of MIT writes the first computer game, Spacewar.
1963 JFK assasinated in Dallas
1964 Rochester Race Riots stun city. There is violence on streets for two days and three nights. This is the first of several riots across the nation.
1964 Massachusetts Albert De Salvo confessed to the murders but was never put on trial. 
There was strong evidence that he did not commit the crimes.
1964 New York LaGuardia Airport gets a 36 million dollar terminal. Verrazano Narrows Bridge links Brooklyn and Staten Island.
1964 Maine Bangor residents narrowly approved a measure that allowed the city to secure $5.5 million in federal money to wipe out the "slums" some said had invaded the downtown business district.Few of the projects the Urban Renewal supporters envisioned came true. Plans to destroy West Market Square fell through. No hotel was built and many small businesses collapsed after being forced to move in favor of parking lots. The popularity of strip malls on the downtown's perimeter along with the Airport Mall's opening miles from the city on Union Street in the early 1970s sparked a decline in downtown business. The business district took another hit in 1978, when the Bangor Mall opened in a former cow pasture on Stillwater Avenue. Sears moved out from downtown and relocated at the new mall and Freese's, which had been the largest department store in Maine at one time, closed, leaving its six-story building virtually abandoned.
1965 Rochester 190 foot stainless steel Liberty Pole is built on 'John F. Kennedy Square' aka 'Liberty Pole Green'.
1965 New York Malcolm X assassinated at Audubon Ballroom on 165th Street by Black Muslims.
1965 Maine At the Bangor House, a prominent downtown hotel, a 54-year-old chambermaid named Effie MacDonald was found murdered by a co-worker in a vacant third-floor room. Her killer had raped her and strangled her to death with her own stocking, and had torn off most of her clothes. For a while, authorities wondered whether MacDonald's murderer was the Boston Strangler because of the similarities between her murder and the Strangler cases in Boston. The murder remains unsolved.
1966 Rochester Blizzard of'66 leaves 34 inches of snow, and shuts down city for five days. The Susan B. Anthony House is designated as a National Historic Landmark.

1968 Rochester 30 story Xerox Tower built.
1968 Springfield Armory was closed after a total of 9 million weapons was created. Springfield Technical Community College was founded.
1968 Massachusetts I. M. Pey's architecture appeared in the newly built government center. Robert Kennedy (JFK's brother, a presidential candidate raised in Brookline MA) assassinated.
1968 Maine The University of Maine system is established, creating public post-secondary institutions in various parts of the state.
1969 Bolt Beranek & Newman deploys ARPANET, precursor to the Internet.
1969 New York "Miracle Met’s” win World Series.
1970 New York World Trade Center’s 1st building opens
1970 Rochester Livingston Park Seminary house is removed from storage, re-assembled, and restored at the Genesee Country Museum.
1970 Rhode Island Providence was renovated with many historic buildings revitalized.
1971 Ray Tomlinson of Beranek & Newman sent the first email. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP" and was sent between two side by side computers connected via ARPANET.
1971 New York Big Apple now the City’s promotional logo.
1972 Springfield Travis Best (on the NY Nets NBA team) was born.
1973 Maine Carrie, the first of Stephen King's spectacularly successful horror novels appeared
1973 New York 110 story twin towers of the World Trade Center eclipse Empire State Building as world’s tallest.
1973 Rhode Island The state's largest employer, the US Navy, announced the closing of Newport Naval Base and Quonset Point Naval Air Station. This eliminated 4,000 civilian and 17,000 military jobs.
1974 Massachusetts Federal court orders the integration of Boston public schools Busing program to integrate Boston public schools sparks white boycotts and violent demonstrations.
1974 Rochester Abandoned subway tunnel caves in downtown.
1976 Massachusetts Boston was the first city in America to celebrate New Year's Eve with a "First Night" event. The Kurzweil Reading Machine is the first successful commercial product to incorporate artificial intelligence to create a print-to-speech reading achine for the blind.
1977 Rochester City Council changes the name of the Clarissa Street Bridge to the Ford Street Bridge. Xerox announces the first laser printer.
1978 Rhode Island A legal claim filed by the Narragansett tribe over ancestral land was settled giving the tribe 1,800 acres in Charlestown. Blizzard of 78
1979 The first PC-based electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc is developed by Daniel Brickman
1980 President Carter signs the Indian Land Claims agreement.
1980 Walter Gilbert was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1980 for discovering a technique to decode DNA.
1981 Rochester Kodak sales surpass the $10 billion mark.
1982 Rochester The Ginna Nuclear Power plant releases radioactive steam into the atmosphere for two minutes.
1983 Rhode Island The America's Cup leaves Newport, Narragansett tribe gained federal recognition.
1986 New York New York Coliseum closes
1987 Rochester Pearl B. Wait invents Jell-O.
1988 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signs bill guaranteeing health insurance to all state residents Construction begins on 6-billion-dollar sewage-treatment project to clean up Boston Harbor Voters reject proposal to shut down the state's two nuclear power plants Dukakis becomes Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
1989 Rhode Island The beginning of a sharp recession.
1990 Rhode Island Railroad freight yard converted to a musical amphitheatre
1990 New York Ellis Island reopens as immigration museum.
1991 Springfield Dr. Seuss died.
1993 Rhode Island The Rhode Island economy rebounded. Waterplace Park and Providence Place mall development began.
1993 New York Bomb explodes below World Trade Center; 6 die, over 1,000 injured.
1994 Rhode Island US Attorney Lincoln Almond who had been prosecuting corrupt politicians was elected governor.
1996 Springfield The movie ‘Before and After’ was filmed in Springfield.
1997 Bangor native, Senator William Cohen is sworn in as President Clinton's Secretary of Defense.
1998 Rochester The Jell-O Museum opens in LeRoy.
1998 New York Grand Central terminals celebrates 85th birthday after 200 million restoration.
1998 Maine ICE storm '98 (Cars were destroyed by falling ice and tree limbs, and electrical equipment that experienced power surges and brown-outs. The storm cost Central Maine Power, the state's largest power company, $55 million in repairs. Bangor Hydro-Electric suffered $5 million in repairs. At one point, 275,000 CMP customers were without power with another 50,000 Bangor Hydro customers without power. ) Three people died, one of falling from a tree, 2 from carbon monoxide, hundreds other suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning.
1999 New York New York Coliseum Demolished
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2000 Rochester Major construction converts the University Ave. area to create an artistic, pedestrian friendly environment.
2001 New York Terrorists hijack two airplanes and fly them into the Twin Towers. Towers collapse from heat; five other buildings in the World Trade Center Complex also collapse.
2003 New York Massive explosion at Exxon Mobil oil plant in Staten Island.
2003 Rochester PGA championship is held at Oak Hill Country Club. A massive blackout shuts down Rochester's nuclear power plant, along with large portions of Canada and the East Coast of the United States

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