Massachusetts
Some of the key events about Massachusetts
- 1620The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, establishing the first permanent European settlement in New England
- 1636Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, was founded in Cambridge
- 1692The Salem witch trials resulted in the execution of 20 people accused of witchcraft
- 1770The Boston Massacre occurred, where British soldiers killed five civilians
- 1773The Boston Tea Party led to increased tensions between the colonies and Great Britain
- 1780The Massachusetts Constitution, the world's oldest functioning written constitution, was ratified
- 1820The first public high school in the United States opened in Boston
- 1840A devastating fire destroyed much of Nantucket's downtown area
- 1876The first telephone was demonstrated in Boston by its inventor
- 1891Basketball was invented in Springfield
- 1897The first subway system in North America began operation in Boston
- 1918The Great Molasses Flood in Boston killed 21 people and injured 150
- 1942The Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston became one of the deadliest nightclub fires in US history
- 1947The first general-purpose electronic computer, the Harvard Mark I, was developed at Harvard University
- 1950The Great Brink's Robbery in Boston was the largest cash robbery in US history at the time
- 1962A severe nor'easter caused extensive damage along the Massachusetts coast
- 1967The first successful human organ transplant (kidney) was performed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
- 1990The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist resulted in the theft of 13 valuable artworks
- 2004Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
- 2013The Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured hundreds
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