| A Chronology of
Connecticut 1614
Dutch explorer Adriaen Block claimed the area for the
Dutch when he sailed up the Connecticut River.
1633 The Dutch built a small fort -- the
House of Hope -- where Hartford is located today.
1633 Windsor was settled by English
colonists from Massachusetts -- the first permanent settlement in what is
now Connecticut.
1636 Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor
united to form the Connecticut Colony.
1637 Native Americans were subdued in
the Pequot War.
1638 New Haven was founded an
independent colony.
1639 The Connecticut Colony adopted the
Fundamental Orders, giving voters the right to elect
government officials.
1662 King Charles II of
England granted the Connecticut Colony a charter, giving
it a 300-mile strip of land extending west from
Narragansett Bay.
1665 The New Haven Colony merged with
the Connecticut Colony.
1674 The Dutch were driven out by the
English.
1687 The Connecticut Charter was hidden
from the English governor in the Charter Oak.
1701 Yale College (now
Yale University) was
founded.
January 9, 1788 Connecticut became the fifth
state to ratify the Constitution.
1798 Eli Whitney built a
firearms factory near New Haven.
1803 Caleb Bingham
founded the first youth library in the United States, at
Salisbury.
1878 The first public telephone exchange
in the world opened in New Haven.
1954 The Nautilus, the
world's first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched at
Groton.
Hartford
Massachusetts
Pequot War
King Charles II
Yale University
Eli Whitney
Nautilus
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