The Handy Boston Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton
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Gage Skidmore: p. 260.
Aaron Tang: p. 172
Toasterb (Wikicommons): p. 197.
United Press International: p. 249.
U.S. Air Force: p. 221.
U.S. Department of Defense: p. 247.
U.S. Department of Justice: p. 263.
U.S. Department of State: p. 258.
U.S. Navy: p. 254.
U.S. Senate: p. 366.
Wellcome Trust: p. 348.
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Timeline
| Date | Event |
| 1629 | Puritans obtain a charter for settlement of the area from King Charles I |
| 1630 | Puritans settle on the peninsula the Indians call Shawmut |
| 1631 | Cambridge is settled as the “new town” in the region |
| 1634 | Boston settlers pool their funds and buy out Reverend William Blackstone |
| 1637 | Trial and banishment of Anne Hutchinson |
| 1641 | First Harvard Class graduates |
| 1642 | English Civil War begins |
| 1649 | Civil War ends with execution of King Charles I |
| 1660 | King Charles II restored to English throne |
| 1661 | Three regicides—men who signed King Charles I’s death warrant—take shelter in Puritan New England |
| Samuel Sewall arrives in Boston; his diary commences in 1672 | |
| 1663 | Reverend John Eliot publishes the Bible in the Algonquian language |
| 1675 | King Philip’s War begins |
| John Josselyn’s account of Boston and New England published in London | |
| 1676 | Metacom, also known as King Philip, is killed |
| 1684 | King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay charter |
| 1686 | Sir Edmund Andros arrives as the first governor under the new royal regime |
| 1688 | William and Mary overthrow King James II |
| 1689 | Boston overthrows Sir Edmund Andros in bloodless coup |
| 1690 | Boston conquers Port Royal, Nova Scotia; fails to conquer Québec City |
| Boston sees publication of first newspaper in North America | |
| 1691 | Massachusetts receives a new provincial charter from William and Mary |
| Sir William Phips is the first governor under the new charter | |
| 1692 | Witch trials in Salem |
| 1695 | Recalled to England, Sir William Phips dies in London |
| 1697 | Hannah Dustin kills and scalps her Indian captors |
| King William’s War ends | |
| Generally believed to be the coldest winter of the seventeenth century | |
| 1700 | Boston’s population reaches roughly 7,000; that of Massachusetts is 60,000 |
| 1702 |