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Adriaen Block explored the CT River and landed in the Hartford area.
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Settlements created in the 1630s in Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford by the English Puritans.
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The Dutch build forts and a trading post along the CT River in Hartford.
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Hartford is founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker.
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Settlements formed the Connecticut Colony under the Fundamental Orders. John Haynes is the first governor.
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CT joins the New England Confederation.
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Yale, formerly the Collegiate School, opens.
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The Hartford Courant is the oldest newspaper in continuous existence in the U.S.
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Newgate Prison, the first prison in CT opens.
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CT supports the Declaration of Independence.
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The first law school in the US was started in Litchfield.
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CT was the fifth state to join the union.
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First CT insurance company opened.
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Noah Webster published his dictionary. He included many new words, and even started making some of the changes from English to American English.
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The School for the Deaf is founded by Thomas Gallaudet in Hartford. The school is currently in West Hartford.
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Farmington Canal opened.
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The Wadsworth Atheneum opened, making it the first art museum to open in the United States that was not exclusively for the upper class.
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Slavery was abolished in CT.
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The first teachers college was opened. It is now called Central CT State University.
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Storrs Agricultural College opened. It is now UCONN.
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The first pay phone was installed in a bank in Hartford.
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The first law in CT was passed about speed limits.
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First CT Boy Scout Troop was created (Troop 1) in East Hartford.
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137 people died in the Ringling Brothers circus tent fire.
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Ella Grasso was the first female governor in CT.