1614-Adriaen Block, representing the Dutch, sails up the Connecticut River.

1633-The Dutch erect a fort, the House of (Good) Hope, on the future site of Hartford.

1633-John Oldham and others explore and trade along the Connecticut River. Plymouth Colony

sends William Holmes to found a trading post at Windsor.

1634-Wethersfield founded by people from Massachusetts

1635-Fort erected at Saybrook by Lion Gardiner.

1635-Group from Dorchester Massachusetts join Windsor settlement.

1636-Thomas Hooker and company journey from Newtown (Cambridge), Massachusetts to found Hartford.

1637-Pequot War. Captain John Mason leads colonists to decisive victory.

1638-New Haven Colony established by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton.

1639-Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted by Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor; John Haynes chosen first governor.

1643-Connecticut joins in forming the New England Confederation.

1646-New London founded by John Winthrop, Jr.

1650-Code of laws drawn up by Roger Ludlow and adopted by legislature.

1662-John Winthrop, Jr. obtains a charter for Connecticut.

1665-Union of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies completed.

1665-The first division of any Connecticut town-Lyme's separation from Saybrook.

1675-76-Connecticut participates in King Philip's War which was fought in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

1687-Andros assumes rule over Connecticut; Charter Oak episode occurs.

1689-Connecticut resumes government under charter.

1701-Collegiate School authorized by General Assembly.

1708-Saybrook Platform, providing more centralized control of Established Congregational Church, approved by General Assembly.

1717-New Haven State House erected on the Green.

1717-Collegiate School moves to New Haven, called Yale the next year.

1740-Manufacture of tintype begun at Berlin by Edward and William Pattison.

1740's-Height of religious "Great Awakening".

1745-Connecticut troops under Roger Wolcott help capture Louisburg.

1755-Connecticut Gazette of New Haven, the Colony's first newspaper, printed by James Parker at New Haven.

1763-Brick State House erected on New Haven Green.

1764-Connecticut Courant the oldest American newspaper in continuous existence to the present, launched at Hartford by Thomas Green.

1765-Sharp opposition to Stamp Act.

1766-Governor Thomas Fitch who supported Stamp Act defeated by William Pitkin.

1767-Thomas and Samuel Green launch newspaper which after many changes in name continues today as New Haven Journal-Courier.

1774-Connecticut officially extends jurisdiction over Susquehanna Company area in Northen Pennsylvania.

1774-Silas Deane, Eliphalet Dyer, and Roger Sherman represent Connecticut at First Continental Congress.

1775-Several thousand militia rush to Massachusetts in "Lexington Alarm."

1775-Connecticut men help plan and carry out seizure of Ft. Ticonderoga.

1775-Tapping Reeve begins legal instruction at Litchfield; out of this develops Litchfield Law School.

1775-First gun powder mill in Connecticut started in East Hartford.

1776-Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott sign the Declaration of Independence; large majority of Connecticut people under Governor Jonathan Trumbull support the Declaration.

1777-British troops under General Tryon raid Danbury.

1779-British troops under General Tryon raid New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk.

1781-Benedict Arnold's attack upon New London and Groton involves massacre at Ft. Griswold.

1781-Washington and Rochambeau confer at Webb House in Wethersfield.

1783-Meeting of 10 Anglican clergy at Glebe House, Woodbury leads to consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury and beginning of Protestant Episcopal Church In United States.

1784-Earliest Connecticut cities incorporated-Hartford, Middletown, New Haven, New London and Norwich.

1784-Governor Trumbull retires from governorship.

1784-Connecticut relinquishes Westmoreland area to Pennsylvania.

1784-Act passed providing for emancipation of all Negroes at age of twenty-five.

1787-Oliver Ellsworth, William Samuel Johnson and Roger Sherman serve as Connecticut's representatives at Philadelphia Constitutional Convention.

1788-Convention at Hartford approves Federal Constitution by 128-40 vote.

1789-Oliver Ellsworth and William Samuel Johnson begin service as first United States Senators from Connecticut.

1792-First turnpike road company, New London to Norwich, incorporated.

1792-First banks established at Hartford, New London and New Haven.

1793-96-Old State House, Hartford, erected; designed by Charles Bulfinch.

1795-Connecticut Western Reserve lands (now Northeastern Ohio) sold for $1,200,000 and the proceeds were used to establish the School Fund.

1795-First insurance company incorporated as the Mutual Assurance Company of the City of Norwich.

1796-Thomas Hubbard starts Courier at Norwich. In 1860 paper merges with the Morning Bulletin.

1799-Eli Whitney procures his first Federal musket contract; within next decade develops a system of interchangeable parts, applicable to many industries.

1802-Brass industry begun at Waterbury by Abel Porter and Associates.

1806-First important English dictionary in United States published by Noah Webster.

1810-Hartford Fire Insurance Company incorporated.

1812-Joseph Barber starts Columbian Register at New haven. In 1911 combined with New Haven Register and continues as Register to present.

1812-14-War of 1812 unpopular in Connecticut; new manufactures, especially textiles, boom.

1814-Hartford Convention held in Old State House.

1815-First steamboat voyage up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

1817-Federalists defeated by reformers in political revolution.

1817-Thomas Gallaudet found school for the deaf in Hartford.

1817-Hartford Times founded by Frederick D. Bolles and John M. Niles.

1818-New Constitution adopted by convention in Hartford and approved by voters; ends system of established church.

1821-Captain John Davis and Captain Amos Palmer leaders in Antarctic exploration.

1823-Washington College (now Trinity) founded in Hartford.

1827-"New" State House erected in New Haven; Ithiel Town, architect.

1828-Farmington Canal opened.

1831-Wesleyan University founded in Middletown.

1831-Mutual Insurance Company of Harford founded.

1832-First Connecticut railroad incorporated as the Boston, Norwich and New London.

1835-Revolver patented by Colt.

Music Vale Seminary, first American music school, founded at Salem by Oramel Whittlesey.

1838-Railroad completed between New Haven and Hartford.

1840's and 1850's-Peak of whaling from Connecticut ports and especially from New London.

1842-Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, first public art museum, established.

1843-Charles Goodyear develops vulcanizing process for rubber.

1843-Civil rights of Jews protected through act guaranteeing equal privileges with Christians in forming religious societies.

1844-Dr. Horace Wells uses anesthesia at Hartford.

1846-Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, the first life insurance company, chartered in Connecticut.

1847-First American agricultural experiment station - at Yale.

1849-First teachers' college founded at New Britain (now Central ConnecticutState University).

1851-Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company started (under another name) in Hartford.

1853-Aetna Life Insurance Company started in Hartford.

1860-Lincoln speaks in several Connecticut cities.

1861-65-Approximately 55,000 men serve in Union Army; William Buckingham wartime governor.

1864-Travelers Insurance issues its first policy.

1865-Connecticut General Life Insurance Company founded.

1868-Land at Groton given by Connecticut to U.S. Navy for naval station; in February, 1917 converted into a submarine base.

1875-Hartford made sole capital city.

1877-First telephone exchange in world opened in New Haven.

1879-New Capitol building in Hartford completed; Richard Upjohn, architect.

1881-Storrs Agricultural College founded (became University of Connecticut in 1939).

1890-Disputed election causes Morgan Bulkeley to continue two extra years as governor (1891-93).

1897-Manufacture of automobiles begun by Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford.

1900-First United States Navy submarine constructed by Electric Boat Co.