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The following is a timeline of the
history of the city of
Hartford, Connecticut , USA.
Prior to 19th century
1623 –
Fort Hoop built by
Dutch West India Company .
1635 – English settlers arrive.
1636 – First Church congregation relocates to "Newtown", Connecticut, from
New Town , Massachusetts.
1637
Settlement renamed Hartford.
Town square laid out.
1638 –
Latin school founded.
1640 –
Burying Ground established (approximate date).
1647 –
Alse Young hanged for witchcraft.
[2]
1662 – Hartford serving as capital of
Connecticut Colony .
1670 – Indian treaty signed.
1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of
Connecticut Colony .
1720 - “Hartford Hills” separate to form the town of
Bolton .
1758 -
Noah Webster born here, publisher of Grammatical Institute of the English Language
1764 –
Connecticut Courant newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1774 – Library Company formed.
1775 –
4th Connecticut Regiment organized.
1783 – Town of
East Hartford separates from Hartford.
1784
City chartered.
[5]
American Mercury newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1788 – Woollen mill in operation.
1790 – Population: 2,683.
[6]
1792 – Hartford Bank incorporated.
1796
1797 –
Joseph Steward 's museum opens.
19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
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published in the 19th century
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OCLC
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271754M
Geer's Hartford City Directory for 1845 . Hartford: Elihu Geer. 1845.
Isaac William Stuart (1853), Hartford in the olden time: its first thirty years, by Scæva, ed. by W.M.B. Hartley , Hartford: Brown,
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Joseph Sabin , ed. (1877).
"Hartford, Conn." . Bibliotheca Americana . Vol. 8. New York.
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The charter and revised ordinances of the city of Hartford , Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Co., 1884,
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J. Hammond Trumbull (1886), The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 , Boston: E. L. Osgood,
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published in the 20th century
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George Thomas Kurian (1994),
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published in the 21st century
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