HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1812 | U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British. | maritime | ||
| 1813 | William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward | maritime, abolition | ||
| 1815 | The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker | This was the first in a series of stories eventually gathered as "The Female Marine." | maritime | |
| 1830 | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides." | maritime | ||
| 1834 | Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship" | slavery, abolition, maritime | ||
| 1835 | Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston | maritime | ||
| 1836 | Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen. | maritime | ||
| 1839 | Amistad trial in New Haven | slavery abolition maritime | ||
| 1841 | Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems | maritime | ||
| 1850 | 10,000 men employed in whaling on shore or at sea | maritime | ||
| 1851 | Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" | maritime | ||
| 1854 | Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes" | women's work, maritime | ||
| 1857 | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride," | maritime | ||
| 1858 | Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence. | maritime | ||
| 1859 | Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish. | Fewer than 3 out of 10 fishermen own their own craft. | maritime | |
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| 1859 | Rockport women attack rumsellers. | maritime | ||
| 1871 | New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska | maritime | ||
| 1878 | Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage. | After 1897 it is on exhibit in Boston. | maritime | |
| 1880 | New England fisheries decline | economy, maritime | ||
| 1881 | Nantucket's Coffin House restored | maritime, museum, summer | ||
| 1881 | Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village. | maritime | ||
| 1885 | After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring. | maritime | ||
| 1903 | New Bedford Whaling Museum founded | maritime | ||
| 1930 | Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation | |||
| 1930 | Nantucket Whaling Museum opened | maritime | ||