| 1614 | | 11 Oct:
Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General of the Dutch Republic for exclusive trading rights in the Nieuw-Nederland colony.SCW ND-Coins |
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| 1635 | | 25 Aug:
The Great Colonial Hurricane plows through New England destroying anything in its path.NEHS HS |
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| 1637 | | 1 May:
General Court is convened in Hartford and war is declared against the Pequots.SCW ICT |
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Colonists attack and destroy the Pequot village at Misistuck (Mystic).ZEP ICT |
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Alse Young becomes the first person in America to be hanged as a witch.CT.gov Courant |
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King William's War; England declares war on France which lasts until the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick.HoMA MB |
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British and colonial forces defeat French and Canadian forces at the Battle of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia.BB CTHist |
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| 1764 | | 29 Oct:
The Connecticut Courant, today's Hartford Courant and the nation's oldest newspaper in continuous publication, prints its first issue.LoC Courant |
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The first battles of the American Revolution. British troops fight American Minutemen at Lexington, killing eight. The British then move to Concord where they again engage the colonials. By the end of the battle, 93 colonists are dead. The British, having lost 273, retreat to Boston.LoC NPS |
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| 1776 | | 4 Jul:
The United States is founded when the Second Continental Congress declares its independence from Great Britain.USHistory USNA |
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David Bushnell's invention, American Turtle, the first combat submarine, is deployed against the H.M.S. Eagle in New York harbor.USSNautilus Archaeology |
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Nathan Hale is executed by the British for spying.tAW LoC |
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| 1777 | | 26 Apr:
Major General William Tryon, royal governor of New York, and 2000 British troops attack and destroy Danbury, Connecticut.DM ABT |
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| 1780 | | 3 Feb:
The first mass murder in America changes the way criminals are perceived.Courant CTMag |
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Smoke from forest fires cause The Dark Day of 1780.NEHS HI |
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The U. S. Constitution is signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the Constitutional Convention.LoC CC |
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The previous year, Mt. Tambora erupted producing so much ash and gas the sunlight was blocked from warming the earth causing the "Year Without Summer".USGS |
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| 1821 | | 7 Feb:
Captain John Davis, a seal hunter, is the first person to step foot in Antarctica.AC BHL |
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| 1825 | | 4 Jul:
Ground is broken on the Farmington Canal and completed ten years later.CTHist FVTC |
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| 1833 | | 27 Jun:
Prudence Crandall is arrested.NPS CTLib |
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| 1836 | | 25 Feb:
Samuel Colt patents his revolver.CTHist TSHA |
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| 1847 | | 4 Jan:
Samuel Colt makes the first sale of his revolver to the U. S. government.History.com UTX |
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| 1852 | | 20 Mar:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.NCC SIMag |
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The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which comes to be more commonly known as the National League is formed.Reds SABR |
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Milk is sold for the first time in glass containers.W I R E D CI |
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The Great Blizzard of March 1888 or the Great White Hurricane, hits the northeastern United States.HI LoC |
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| 1896 | | 11 Aug:
Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut receives a patent for the first on-and-off pull chain, electric light bulb socket.CTHist F-a-G |
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The ancient city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, is discovered by Hiram Bingham, a professor at Yale University.TiC Andina |
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| 1933 | | 12 Jul:
The first Dymaxion is produced.AH tVN |
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The first commercial broadcast FM radio station goes on the air.WDRC tRH |
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Black Sunday occurs when smoke from forest fires in western Canada makes its way east, darkening the skies in the eastern United States and Canada and as far away as western Europe.BLM WR |
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Hurricane Diane becomes the first storm to top $1 billion in damages in the U. S..NEHS NWS |
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| 1961 | | 22 Jan:
The lowest temperature in Connecticut, -32° F, is recorded at Coventry. This tied the record previously set at Falls Village on 16 Feb 1943.NetState CTbtN |
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| 1965 | | 9 Nov:
The Northeast Blackout of 1965 is caused by human error.SIMag NEHS |
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| 1975 | | 8 Jan:
Ella T. Grasso, the first women elected governor in her own right in the United States, begins serving her term in office.NGA WLHS |
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| 1978 | | 18 Jan:
The roof of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after accumulating a large amount of snow over a 10 day period.CH Courant |
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| 1980 | | 29 Feb:
Gordie Howe scores his 800th goal as a Hartford Whaler.BS BiB |
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| 1983 | | 28 Jun:
The northbound deck of I-95's Mianus River bridge collapses killing 3.CTPost GL |
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| 2012 | | 29 Oct:
Hurricane Sandy becomes Superstorm Sandy after moving up the east coast of the U. S. and takes a left turn towards shore that devastates many of the communities along the mid-Atlantic, especially New York and New Jersey.NASA LiveScience |
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After killing his mother, Adam Lanza walks into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and kills 20 children and 5 adults before turning the gun on himself.CNN NYMag |
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