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First European settlement in New Hampshire was a village near Portsmouth.
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Dover was settled in 1623. It is the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire.
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It was founded by John Mason and John Wheelwright.
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John Wheelwright established the town Exeter and the town’s people made a governing document called the Exeter Compact.
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The one settlement grew into several towns and, seeing a potential jewel, the British crown designated it as a "royal province" in 1679. Later, it was integrated into Massachusetts with a shared governor.
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Was held under the first royal charter. There were 11 people in it.
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Scots-Irish immigrants settled in New Hampshire and founded the town of Londonderry, so named from the city in Ireland from which they came.
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In 1775, New Hampshire was governed as a Royal Colony.
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New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country.
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In 1787, Levi Hutchins, who was from Concord, invented the first alarm clock.
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John Langdon: Patriot and politician; first President Pro Tempore of the US Senate became Governor of New Hampshire.
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religious toleration act prohibits taxation for church purposes
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The territory was now called the District of Maine, and under this name it was governed by the elder colony for nearly one hundred and fifty years, when, in 1820, Maine was admitted into the Union as a state.
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Twenty-eight white students and fourteen black students commence classes at the newly established Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.
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Franklin Pierce of Hillsboro becomes the 14th US President.
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USS Franklin, the largest wooden ship to be built at the navy yard in Portland is finished.
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Lucy Swallow and Delia Brown become the first female students of University of New Hampshire.
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Wallace D. Lovell built the Hampton River Bridge in 1900 called the "mile-long bridge". It was reputed to be the longest wooden bridge in the world.
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1901 Under the leadership of Frank West Rollins, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was organized, and its first forester, Philip W. Ayers, was hired.
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New Hampshire holds its first primary. At this point we were not voting directly for the candidates, but for delegates to the National Convention. The primary is taking place one week after Indiana's and on the same day as Minnesota. To register, the candidate needed 100 signatures and $10.
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Rookie Republican legislator Tom Alciere resigned after posting a message on the Internet: "There is nothing wrong with slaughtering a cop. Just throw the carcass into the Dumpster with the rest of the garbage.
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In New Hampshire 7 people were killed when their small plane crashed near Swanzey.
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In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected the Reverend V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as their next bishop.
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Manuel Gehring (44) shot and killed his 2 children, Philip (11) and Sarah (14), following a dispute with his wife in Concord, NH. He was later arrested in Gilroy, Ca. He confessed to police that he shot and killed his 2 children in New Hampshire and buried them in the Midwest. In 2005 authorities found the bodies of the 2 children buried off I-80 in Ohio. Gehring committed suicide in his jail cell on February 19, 2004 at the Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire.
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Nonni’s Italian Eatery in Concord, NH, created the world’s largest meatball, a whopping 222.5 pounds in 2009.
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New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage in a move that reflects the state's changing demographics from reliably Republican and conservative to younger and more liberal.
