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January (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
convention at Bridgeport and nominates a State ticket......Jan. 3, 1872 Jesse Olney, geographer, born in 1798, dies at Stratford......July 30, 1872 State constitution amended; all sessions of the General Assembly, from May, 1875, to be held at Hartford......Oct. 7, 1873 Ex-Gov. and United States Senator W. A. Buckingham dies at Norwich......Feb. 4, 1875 State constitution amended: Tuesday after first Monday in November made general election day; Wednesday after first Monday in January the day of meeting of General Assembly......Oct. 2, 1875 Orris S. Ferry, United States Senator from Connecticut, dies at Norwalk......Nov. 21, 1875 Greenback men meet in convention at New Haven......Feb. 22, 1876 William H. Barnum, Democrat, elected to fill the unexpired term of United States Senator Ferry, deceased......May 17, 1876 Agricultural experiment station established by law......1877 Gideon Welles, ex-Secretary of Navy, dies at Hartford......Feb. 11, 1878 Act pas
January 3rd (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
rnor......Jan. 9, 1879 Boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut, begun in 1856, is settled, the southern boundary being fixed through the middle of Long Island Sound; the oblong tract, 4.68 square miles in area, lying 20 miles east of the North River, goes to New York......1880 Board of Pardons, consisting of the governor, a judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, and four persons appointed by the General Assembly, who must all concur in a pardon, is created by legislature......Jan. 3–May 3, 1883 Bronze memorial statue of William A. Buckingham, Connecticut's war governor, is unveiled in Hartford......June 18, 1884 State constitution amended; biennial legislative sessions to begin in 1887; ratified by 30,520 to 16,380......Oct. 6, 1884 President Noah Porter, of Yale University, resigns......1886 Republican candidates for State officers elected by the legislature, there being no choice in State election of Nov. 2, 1886......January, 1887 First text-book ever
January 9th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
xt-book ever published by the State, a small treatise on the effect of alcohol on the human system, is issued and distributed to the schools......September, 1887 Equestrian statue of Gen. Israel Putnam erected at Brooklyn, Windham county, and unveiled......Jan. 14, 1888 First Monday in September designated a public holiday (Labor Day), a State normal school established at Willimantic, and an anti-screen saloon law and modified Australian ballot law passed by legislature in session......Jan. 9–June 22, 1889 Alfred H. Terry, major-general, United States army, born 1827, dies at New Haven......Dec. 16, 1890 Deadlock between the two houses of the legislature on the governorship......Jan. 7, 1891 Democratic candidates for State offices sworn in by the Senate, refused possession by Republican incumbents......Jan. 13, 1891 Governor Bulkeley by proclamation warns the citizens against recognizing the Democratic State officers......Jan. 19, 1891 P. T. Barnum, born 1810, dies
May 3rd (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
65 State board of fish commissioners created......1865 State board of education organized, with Daniel C. Gilman as secretary......1865 Lydia Sigourney, poet, dies at Hartford......June 10, 1865 Legislature which convened at Hartford, May 3, adjourns after the longest session on record up to date......July 21, 1865 An exciting election for governor; President Johnson's influence favoring James E. English; Joseph R. Hawley, Republican, elected by only 541 majority......April, 1866Amendment to the Constitution......June 30, 1866 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution......March 16, 1869 Election for governor being close, a joint committee of the General Assembly, appointed to examine returns May 3, report total vote 94,860; for Marshall Jewell, Republican, 47,473; for James E. English, Democrat, 47,373; scattering, 14; declare Jewell elected......May 10, 1871 Governor Jewell assumes office......May 16, 1871 Noah Porter elected presid
May 25th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
uods, call for eightyeight men—forty-two from Hartford, thirty from Windsor, sixteen from Wethersfield......May 1, 1637 These are joined by Uncas, sachem of the Mohegans, with seventy warriors, at Say-Brook fort......May 15, 1637 Capt. John Mason, of Windsor, commanding the expedition, sails from Fort Say-Brook for Narraganset Bay, to surprise the Pequod fort......May 19, 1637 At Narraganset Bay about 200 Narraganset warriors join him. He approaches the Pequod fort on the evening of May 25, and next morning, at early light, he attacks and completely destroys it, together with about 600 Indians, men, women, and children, losing two killed and about twenty wounded......May 26, 1637 Court of Connecticut calls for forty more men for the war against the Pequods......June 26, 1637 Pequods attempt to escape into the wilderness westward. Captain Stoughton, with a Massachusetts company, pursues along Long Island Sound. With Sassacus, their sachem, the Pequods take shelter in a
August 25th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
head of cattle, leave Cambridge, Mass., for the Connecticut River through the wilderness......June, 1636 They reach the river early in......July, 1636 John Oldham murdered by the Indians near Block Island......July, 1636 War with the Pequods......July, 1636 [The Pequods, with at least 700 warriors, then occupied eastern Connecticut, and ruled part of Long Island.] An expedition against the Pequods and Indians on Block Island is sent from Massachusetts under John Endicott......Aug. 25–Sept. 14, 1630 [It exasperated, but did not subdue, the Indians.] Roger Williams, of Rhode Island, prevents a league between the Pequods and Narragansets......1636 Fort at Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut, beleaguered by the Pequods all the winter of......1636-37 About thirty colonists of Connecticut killed by the Pequods during the winter of......1636-37 Court at Newtown (Hartford) applies to Massachusetts for aid against the Pequods......Feb. 21, 1637 [The name
September (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
ter, of Yale University, resigns......1886 Republican candidates for State officers elected by the legislature, there being no choice in State election of Nov. 2, 1886......January, 1887 First text-book ever published by the State, a small treatise on the effect of alcohol on the human system, is issued and distributed to the schools......September, 1887 Equestrian statue of Gen. Israel Putnam erected at Brooklyn, Windham county, and unveiled......Jan. 14, 1888 First Monday in September designated a public holiday (Labor Day), a State normal school established at Willimantic, and an anti-screen saloon law and modified Australian ballot law passed by legislature in session......Jan. 9–June 22, 1889 Alfred H. Terry, major-general, United States army, born 1827, dies at New Haven......Dec. 16, 1890 Deadlock between the two houses of the legislature on the governorship......Jan. 7, 1891 Democratic candidates for State offices sworn in by the Senate, refused possessio
November (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
State ticket......Dec. 13, 1871 Labor-reform party holds a State convention at Bridgeport and nominates a State ticket......Jan. 3, 1872 Jesse Olney, geographer, born in 1798, dies at Stratford......July 30, 1872 State constitution amended; all sessions of the General Assembly, from May, 1875, to be held at Hartford......Oct. 7, 1873 Ex-Gov. and United States Senator W. A. Buckingham dies at Norwich......Feb. 4, 1875 State constitution amended: Tuesday after first Monday in November made general election day; Wednesday after first Monday in January the day of meeting of General Assembly......Oct. 2, 1875 Orris S. Ferry, United States Senator from Connecticut, dies at Norwalk......Nov. 21, 1875 Greenback men meet in convention at New Haven......Feb. 22, 1876 William H. Barnum, Democrat, elected to fill the unexpired term of United States Senator Ferry, deceased......May 17, 1876 Agricultural experiment station established by law......1877 Gideon Welles, e
September 14th, 1630 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
tle, leave Cambridge, Mass., for the Connecticut River through the wilderness......June, 1636 They reach the river early in......July, 1636 John Oldham murdered by the Indians near Block Island......July, 1636 War with the Pequods......July, 1636 [The Pequods, with at least 700 warriors, then occupied eastern Connecticut, and ruled part of Long Island.] An expedition against the Pequods and Indians on Block Island is sent from Massachusetts under John Endicott......Aug. 25–Sept. 14, 1630 [It exasperated, but did not subdue, the Indians.] Roger Williams, of Rhode Island, prevents a league between the Pequods and Narragansets......1636 Fort at Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut, beleaguered by the Pequods all the winter of......1636-37 About thirty colonists of Connecticut killed by the Pequods during the winter of......1636-37 Court at Newtown (Hartford) applies to Massachusetts for aid against the Pequods......Feb. 21, 1637 [The name Newtown is
March 19th, 1631 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-connecticut
ounties; population, 1890, 746,258; 1900, 908,420. Capital, Hartford. Adrian Block, a Dutch navigator, first explores the Connecticut River as far as Hartford......1614 Robert, Earl of Warwick, president of the council of Plymouth, grants to Lord Say and Seal and eleven others, among them John Hampden and John Pym, all that part of New England which lies west from the Narraganset River, 120 miles on the coast, and thence in latitude and breadth aforesaid to the Pacific Ocean......March 19, 1631 [The council of Plymouth the previous year had granted the whole tract to the Earl of Warwick, and the grant had been confirmed to him by a patent from King Charles I.] Wahquimacut, a sachem from the Connecticut River, visits Plymouth and Boston, asking colonial governors to send settlers to that river......1631 [Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, does not favor the movement.] John Oldham, from Dorchester, Mass., and three others visit the Connecticut......September, 1633
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