The main timeline is inspired by Microsoft Encarta's timeline for Massachusetts History. The content is drawn from many sources, including historical websites and some library books. I wrote the text, chose which pictures to include, and invented captions. My mother helped me correct spelling errors and asked me questions about each topic to help keep me motivated. My father helped me create the website using FrontPage.
| 1498 | Cabot sails along Massachusetts coastline |
| 1620 |
Mayflower lands at Plymouth |
| 1630 | Massachusetts Bay Colony is formed |
| 1675-1676 | Settlers war with Native Americans |
| 1691 | Second Massachusetts Bay Colony is created |
| 1692 | Salem witchcraft trials and executions |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1775 | American Revolution begins |
| 1776 | British are driven out of Boston |
| 1780 | Massachusetts Constitution written |
| 1786 | Shays Rebellion |
| 1788 | Massachusetts joins Union |
| 1820 | Maine splits from Massachusetts |
| 1831 | Abolitionist newspaper Liberator founded |
| 1833 | Congregational Church loses role in State Government |
| 1843 | Dorothea Dix reforms prisons and asylums |
| 1861 | Massachusetts troops first to die in Civil War |
| 1912 | Mill workers go on strike |
| 1919 | Boston police go on strike |
| 1927 | Immigrant political radicals executed on murder case |
| 1958 | Massachusetts Democrats sweep into power |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy elected President |
| 1966 | African-American senator, Edward Brooke, elected |
| 1974 | African-Americans bused into white neighborhoods |
| 1993 | Ben Wildman arrives in Massachusetts |
| 2002 | New England Patriots win NFL Superbowl |