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Dutch trader, Adrianen Block, discovered island, now named for him
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Dutch established temporary trading post on Dutch Island,traded with local Indians
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Roger William's founded Providence on land received from Indians
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Anne Hutchison founded Portsmouth after being banished from Massachusetts for heresy
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Roger Williams received parliamentary patent for Providence, Portsmouth, Newport colony, confirmed fellow settlers' land claims
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Rhode Island united with Providence, formed single government
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King Philip’s war between Narragansett’s Indians and colonists; several thousand Indians died, six hundred colonists died, much property damage
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King James II suspended charter, ordered Rhode Island to submit to Dominion of New England
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William of Orange became King; Rhode Island resumed government under 1663 charter
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In 1790 Rhode Island became the last state to ratify it.
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Rhode Island refused participation in the War of 1812
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Women weavers from Pawtucket struck
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Dorr Rebellion led to constitutional reform
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Rhode Island adopted the constitution
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Rhode island first train ran played very important part in civil war
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25,236 Rhode Islanders fought in the Civil War; 1685 died
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Put an end to racial segregation
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President Rutherford Hayes tested new telephone, call from Rocky Point to Providence, distance 8 miles
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Naval War College opened in Rhode Island
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The Breakers, Cornelius Vanderbilt's Newport mansion, completed
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Rhode Island was generally controlled by Republicans until the 1930s, when the Democrats' insistence on reapportionment of helped bring their party into power.
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Rhode Island celebrated 300 year anniversary
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The "Bloodless Revolution" - Democrats replaced Republican dominance in House and Senate
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In Rhode Island the Jamestown Bridge was completed. It connected North Kingstown and Jamestown. It was demolished in 2006 and replaced by the Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge.
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Hurricane Carol struck, 19 killed, 3,800 homes lost, over $90,000,000 in damages
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Blizzard of 78 worst snowstorm in history, 21 lives lost
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Voters approve an $87 million bond issue to improve municipal sewage treatment plant
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World Prodigy, 500-foot tanker, spilled millions gallons of fuel near Newport
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Tug towing barge caught fire, millions of gallons of fuel oil spilled near South Kingstown
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Rainstorms caused flooding, forced thousands from homes, property damage over $200 million
