Connecticut: Timeline

1635   Colonization of Connecticut begins.

1639   Connecticut's first constitution Constitution

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, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted.

1788   Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution United States Constitution

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 and becomes the 5th U.S. state U.S. state

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.

1968   Helen Keller Helen Keller

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 dies in her sleep in Connecticut.