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Governor Joseph Wanton and other prominent Rhode Islanders in John Greenwood's painting Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam (1755)
 Rhode Island Timeline History
1524: Giovanni de Verrazano explores Narragansett Bay and coastal areas
1614: Dutch explorer Adriaen Block discovers his namesake island
1636: Roger Williams founds Providence, on a grant of land from local Indians
1639: The nation's first Baptist church is founded
1652: Colony is plagued by local Indian wars
1663: Colony is granted a royal charter from the King of England
1676: King Philip, Wampanoag Indian chief, is executed
1772: Locals burn the British sloop, Gaspee - all in protest of unfair British tax laws
1776: The Rhode Island colony declares its independence
1778: Revolutionary War's Battle of Rhode Island is the heaviest fighting within the state
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th state
1790: Samuel Slater invents the water-powered spinning machine, and America's textile industry is born in Rhode Island
1824: Woman weavers of Pawtucket strike, believed to be the first strike by women in the United States
1842: Dorr's Rebellion leads to reform in the state's constitution
1876: President Rutherford B. Hayes tests the newly invented telephone. A short 8 mile call from Rocky Point to Providence
1877: Rhode Island flag established
1895: The Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion zzzthe Breakers:, is completed
1930: America's Cup yacht race is held off of Newport
1936: State celebrates its 300th anniversary
1938: Hurricane strikes the state and damage is severe
1969: Newport Bridge linking Jamestown and Newport: opens
1976: Tall ships arrive in Newport, as the state participates in the nation's 200-hundred-year celebration
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