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The first people to land in Connecticut were Dutch traders in 1614
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Thomas Hooker did not like the way that the Puritans were treating people so he left and established Connecticut in 1636
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The capital of Connecticut is Hartford. The capital was established in 1637
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In 1639 Britain allowed people in Connecticut to live there
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In 1639 John Haynes became the fist governor of Connecticut
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in 1643 the confederation had untied the colonies of new England and said that they are called the New England colonies
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The royal charter let Connecticut become an English colony in 1662
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He tried to take control of Connecticut colony in 1687
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American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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On January 9 1788 Connecticut became the 5 stated
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In 1802 Brass industry began at Waterbury
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in 1806 Noah Webster publishes his first dictionary
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Connecticut had resistance to the war of 1812
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In 1817 the first deaf school to be founded was Gallaudet in Hartford
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Captain John Davis of New Haven becomes first man to set foot on the Antarctic Continent. in 1822
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They had out lawed slavery from Connecticut in 1848
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In the 1850s, Connecticut’s roughly 38,000 immigrants made up about 10 percent of the state’s population.
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Lincoln speaks in several Connecticut cities to show them why he doesn’t want slavery in the usa as a president in 1860
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Connecticut started to fight in the war with the north in 1861
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the first telephone call in world opened in New Haven in 1877
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Hurricane Gloria: It was the strongest storm to hit Connecticut in more than 30 years when it came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Sept. 28.
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In the 1919 Connecticut prohibited the sale and the use of alcohol
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The University of New Haven founded in New Haven Connecticut in 1920
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Betsey Johnson was born on August 10, 1942, in Wethersfield, Connecticut
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On July 6 1946 George W Bush was born in Connecticut
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USS Nautilus, was the world's first nuclear submarine was launched in New London, Connecticut in 1954
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In 1957 the University of Hartford was founded in Hartford Connection
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Connecticut’s first woman governor was Ella Tambussi Grasso in 1981
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The Ninth Special Olympics World Summer Games were held in New Haven, Connecticut, USA on July 1-9, 1995
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M. Jodi Rell becomes Connecticut's second female Governor elected in 2006
