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Jan 1, 1498
First glimpse of massachusetts!
The explorer John Cabot sails along the massachusetts coast. -
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Time as a colony
The colonial time period. -
First colony
Plymouth Colony is created. -
1628. Massachusetts bay colony is opened to public!
Massachusetts bay colony is opened. About 20,000 people move to the colony. -
Boston is made capital
Boston is made the capital of the Massachusetts colony. -
Williams is banished
Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts colony (The colony was Puritan and he was banished because he thought that the Puritans should be tolerant of other religons and the seperation of church and State). He later made his own colony (The Rhode Island Colony -
Pequot war begins
The pequot war begins. It finishes in 2 years. The pequot war was a war between the settlers of the new world and the pequot tribe Native Americans. -
Pequot war ends!
The pequot war finishes! The pequot war started 2 years ago. In the end, there were 100 casualties and hundreds more are captured as slaves and sold to The West Indies. The tribe was NEARLY wiped out! -
First postal service
The first official postalservice was started in richard Fairbank's tavern in Boston. -
Witches!
Margret Jones, a herbal practitioner, is hanged as a witch n Boston. -
King Philip's war
King Phililp's war begins. It finishes the next year. It is called "King Philip's war because the Native American leader of the tribe that battled the Massachusetts settlers was called King Philip. -
King Philip's war ends!
After a year of suffering on both sides, a peace treaty is signed at Casco bay in April 1678. At the end 12 towns were destroyed and many more were damaged. -
Glorious revolution (King James 2 gets overthrown!)
The Glorious revolution was started because people disagreed on the religious tolerence views of King James the Second. He was overthrown on 1688. -
Salem Witch trials
The Salem witch hysteria begins. -
MORE TERRITORY!!!!!
In 1692, Masachussets gains control of the Plymouth Pilgrim's colony. -
Smallpox epidemic
A smallpox epidemic breaks out in Boston. 844 people die. -
The Boston masssacre
Colonists attempted to protest the british taxes. It lead to the Boston massacre. -
Independance day!
America gains It's independance, and all colonies are now cities. affecting all past colonies (Including Massachusetts) and making them into The United States -
Finally a state!
In 1780 Massachusetts was officially a free state. Hooray! -
The Massachusetts constitution is written
John Adams writes the Massachusetts constitution. He goes out of office a year later. -
Unite!
Massachusetts is now united with Plymouth Bay
