HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1834 | Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown | immigration, Catholicism | ||
| 1845 | Beginning of Irish famine | immigration | ||
| 1870 | French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns | labor, economy, immigration | ||
| 1870 | Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants. | In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants. | women's work, population, immigration | |
| 1870 | The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores | immigration | ||
| 1894 | Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard | labor, population | ||
| 1908 | House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded | witch, Salem, museum, immigration | ||
| 1912 | Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities | immigration, labor | ||
| 1924 | Congress passes restrictive immigration laws | population | ||
| 1925 | Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey | population, immigration | ||
| 1940 | Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers. | immigration | ||
| 1997 | Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge | immigration | ||
| 2001 | Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail. | What was the justification for doing this? Additional Information | immigration |