Scarlet Letter: Timeline of Massachusetts History

By jtobiczyk16
  • Period: to

    1600-2013

    Some dates for certain events are not specifically known, just the year.

  • Puritans form Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Boston made capital of Massachusetts

  • Boston Common becomes first public park in America

  • Harvard founded as first American College

  • Puritan Colonies form New England

  • Salem Witchcraft Trials begin

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The first American novel is published: The Power of Sympathy

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem

  • Writes and Publishes the Spectator.

  • Constitutional amendment separated church and state, Puritanism in government ended

  • Samuel Morse invents Morse Code

  • Hawthorne starts working at the Custom House

  • Hawthorne's first daughter Una is born

  • Hawthorne's son Julian is born

  • Loses job and begins writing a novel about hypocracy and adultry.

  • The Scarlet Letter is published

  • Hawthorne's second daughter Rose is born

  • Hawthorne dies in Plymouth

  • First motorized fire wagon developed by Knox Manufacturing Company

  • Percy Spencer invented microwave oven

  • Edwin Land demonstrated Poloroid Land Camera

  • Boston Red Sox win the World Series

  • Boston Bruins win the 2011 Stanley Cup

  • Boston Bombings