HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1614 | Dutch explore the Connecticut River | exploration, settlement, Connecticut | ||
| 1634 | Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut | Connecticut, colony, settlement | ||
| 1638 | New Haven founded | colony, settlement, Connecticut, Puritan | ||
| 1662 | Connecticut receives royal charter | charter, Connecticut | ||
| 1687 | Governor Andros challenges Connecticut charter | charter oak, Connecticut, Dominion | ||
| 1701 | Yale College founded | Connecticut | ||
| 1781 | British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut | |||
| 1800 | Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes | population distribution | ||
| 1814 | Hartford Convention considers secession | Connecticut, Federalists, revolution | ||
| 1818 | Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak | charter oak, Connecticut | ||
| 1824 | Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since" | |||
| 1825 | Connecticut Historical Society founded | Connecticut, museums | ||
| 1836 | John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut" | |||
| 1842 | Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford | Considered the nation's first public art museum. | Connecticut, museum | |
| 1851 | J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut" | |||
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| 1851 | Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial | Litchfield, Connecticut, homespun | ||
| 1856 | Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm | The romance of the Charter Oak persists even today. | charter oak, Connecticut | |
| 1915 | Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut" | |||