Connecticut Important Dates
- 1614 Dutch navigator Adriaen Block explores Connecticut.
- 1632 Edward Winslow of Plymouth Colony explores the region.
- 1633 - 1636 Puritans from Massachusetts established settlements on the Connecticut River at Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford.
- 1637 Pequot Indians massacre settlers at Wethersfield; Colonists defeat them in the Pequot War.
- 1638 The New Haven colony was established. New London was founded soon after.
- 1662 A British royal charter established Connecticut as a colony separate from Massachusetts.
- 1701 Yale University was founded.
- 1740 By this date all of present-day Connecticut had been settled and organized into incorporated towns, the basic governing units.
- 1775 - 1781 Connecticut enters Revolutionary War after battle of Lexington. British burn Danbury, New Haven, Fairfield, New London and Norwalk.
- 1786 - 1800 Connecticut relinquished its claims to western lands, except for the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania which Connecticut claimed until 1799, and the Western Reserve in Ohio which it claimed until 1800. Connecticut settlers remained in both areas.
- 1788 Connecticut ratified the Constitution to become a state, January 9th.
- 1840's As the factory system developed, thousands of foreign laborers began moving into Connecticut.
- 1861 - 1865 Connecticut furnished 60,000 troops to the Union Army during the Civil War.
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