Maine: Timeline

1607   Ship ''Gift of God'' of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English England

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 colonists establish a ''Fort St. George'', also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year before residents return to England England

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 in the first ocean going ship built in the New World New World

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, a 30-ton pinnace, called ''The Virginia''.

1820   Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state U.S. state

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1884   A severe earthquake Earthquake

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, magnitude 5.5 Richter magnitude scale

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, (intensity VII) occurs off the northeast Atlantic coast. The area affected extends from central Virginia Virginia

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 to southern Maine, and west as far as Cleveland.

1983   Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith Samantha Smith

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 is invited to visit the Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 by its leader Yuri Andropov Yuri Andropov

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, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

1998   Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997, becoming the first U.S. state U.S. state

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 to abandon such a law.