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John Cabot sailed along Massachusetts coast.
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Samuel de Champlain mapped coast.
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Pilgrims signed treaty with Wampanoag and celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
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Harvard college, the first american college, is established.
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Settlers attacked by Indians during King Phillip's war.
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''The Boston Light'' was built in Boston Harbor
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Boston Tea Party - Colinists threw tea into Boston Harbor in protest of high taxes.
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Massachusetts became the sixth state.
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John Adams, Quincy became second U.S. president.