1614: Adriaen
Block, a Dutch explorer
enters the Connecticut
River
1634:
Weatherfield founded,
the oldest permanent
settlement in the state
1636: Hartford
founded
1687: King James
II revoked the
Connecticut charter, one
originally granted in
1662
1861: 57,379 men
and women volunteer for
Civil War duty. More
than 20,000 were killed.
1701: Collegiate
School founded, later
renamed Yale
1778:
Connecticut becomes the
5th State
1861: 57,3379
men and women volunteer
for Civil War duty. More
than 20,000 were killed
1878: First
telephone exchange opens
1910: U.S. Coast
Guard Academy moved to
New London
1954: First
atomic submarine the
Nautilus: produced at
Groton, and it's now on
display there
1975: Ella
Grasso elected governor,
the first women to do so
1979:
Connecticut bans any
further construction of
nuclear power plants
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