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Massachusetts Bay Colony Timeline

1630
Feb:  The Lyon leaves Bristol, England on its first voyage to Massachusetts.S2A
May:  The Lyon arrives in Salem.S2A
17 Sep:  The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded (September 7th, old style).MassMoments CT
1 Dec:  The Lyon leaves Bristol, England on its second voyage to Massachusetts.S2A GoogleBooks
1630/1
5 Feb:  The Lyon arrives in Salem.RWFA S2A
1631
23 Aug:  On or about 23 August 1631, the Lyon leaves London on its third voyage to Massachusetts.F-a-G S2A
2 Nov:  The Lyon arrives in Nantasket.S2A GoogleBooks
1632
22 Jun:  The Lyon leaves London on its fourth voyage to Massachusetts.S2A Whipple
16 Sep:  The Lyon arrives in Boston.S2A ISTG
1635
23 Apr:  Boston Latin School, the oldest school in America, is founded.BLS tBLS
25 Aug:  The Great Colonial Hurricane plows through New England destroying anything in its path.NEHS HS
9 Oct:  Puritan minister Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.MassMoments RiA
1636
28 Oct:  Harvard College is founded.HC 1stCC
13 Dec:  The National Guard is formed when the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court orders its militia into three regiments.USNG USArmy
1637
1 May:  General Court is convened in Hartford and war is declared against the Pequots.SCW ICT
26 May:  Colonists attack and destroy the Pequot village at Misistuck (Mystic).ZEP ICT
1638
11 Jun:  The Earthquake of 1638 occurs bringing terror to the Colonies.WO-BC USGS
21 Sep:  The Treaty of Hartford ends the Pequot War.NNP Yale
1643
5 Jul:  Gov. John Winthrop documents what may have been the first tornado recorded in America occurring in Essex, Massachusetts. TT MSLib
1648
18 Oct:  The "Shoomakers of Boston" along with the coopers, form the first labor organization in America.jstor IA
1656
11 Jul:  The first Quakers arrive in Boston.RACC Christianity
1675
24 Jun:  King Philip's War: New England Colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians 1675-1676.MassMoments WBH
1676
12 Aug:  King Philip is captured and killed ending King Philip's War in southern New England.MassMoments CTHist
1689
17 May:  King William's War; England declares war on France which lasts until the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick.HoMA MB
1691
7 Oct:  Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth Colony, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Maine, and parts of Nova Scotia become the Province of Massachusetts Bay by royal charter.MAArchive
1702
4 May:  Queen Anne's War: English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.CB CWCT
1704
29 Feb:  French and Native forces attack Deerfield, Massachusetts.TFCG LoC
1715
23 Jul:  The General Court of Massachusetts passes the Boston Light Bill which authorizes the construction of a lighthouse in Boston Harbor.MassMoments MM&P
1716
14 Sep:  Boston Light is lit for the first time.LF MassMoments
1717
27 Feb:  A series of four successive snowstorms create the Great Snow of 1717.NEHS NWS
1721
26 Jun:  During a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston begins inoculating patients beginning with his own son.MassMoments CW
1722
25 Jul:  Dummer's War.GoogleBooks UMaine
1755
18 Nov:  The largest earthquake in Massachusetts history occurs at Cape Ann.HI USGS
1758
27 Jul:  British and colonial forces defeat French and Canadian forces at the Battle of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia.BB CTHist
1770
5 Mar:  The Boston Massacre. British troops kill five colonists.LoC NPS
1773
16 Dec:  The Boston Tea Party.BTPS MALeg
1774
5 Sep:  Peyton Randolph is elected first President of the United Colonies.MtVernon USHoR
19 Oct:  The first flag representing dissension among the colonists is raised in Taunton, Massachusetts.CRWFlags RW&B
1775
18 Apr:  Paul Revere rides out to warn the colonists that the British troops were on the march.PRH LoC
19 Apr:  The first battles of the American Revolution. British troops fight American Minutemen at Lexington, killing eight. The British then move to Concord where they again engage the colonials. By the end of the battle, 93 colonists are dead. The British, having lost 273, retreat to Boston.LoC NPS
17 Jun:  The Battle of Bunker Hill takes place.LoC Yale
1776
24 Jan:  After several months, the cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga make it to Boston.APC AHC
1780
19 May:  Smoke from forest fires cause The Dark Day of 1780.NEHS HI
1783
3 Sep:  The American Revolution is officially over when the Colonies sign the Treaty of Paris.OurDocs USNA