New Hampshire: Timeline

1623   The first European settlement in New Hampshire is founded.

1725   The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans Indigenous peoples in the United States

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 takes place in New Hampshire colony Colony

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.

1769   December 13: Dartmouth College in Hanover Hanover

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, New Hampshire is established as John Wentworth, the Royal Governor, conveys a charter from King George III of England England

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1788   New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution United States Constitution

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 and becomes the 9th U.S. state U.S. state

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. The Constitution then went into effect.

1804   The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor Governor

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 of New Hampshire).

1804   The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor Governor

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 of New Hampshire).

1852   Democrat Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce

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 of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott Winfield Scott

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 of Virginia Virginia

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 in the U.S. presidential election

1905   Russo-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War

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: Treaty of Portsmouth signed - In New Hampshire a treaty Treaty

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 mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt

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, is signed by victor Japan Japan

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 and defeated party Russia Russia

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. In the agreement, Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria Manchuria

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 to Japan.

1964   The New Hampshire primary is won by Henry Cabot Lodge, Ambassador to South Vietnam South Vietnam

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1965   Jonathan Myrick Daniels an Episcopal seminarian from Keane, New Hampshire, was murdered in Hayneville, Alabama while working in the American civil rights movement.

1985   U.S. Vice President Vice President of the United States

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 George H.W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe Christa McAuliffe

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 will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger Challenger

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''.

2000   Election 2000: February 1 - Vice President Al Gore Al Gore

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 wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary. George W. Bush George W. Bush

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 wins the Republican primary. Gary Bauer withdraws from the race February 4, followed by Steve Forbes, February 10.

2003   The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in New Hampshire, crumbles after heavy rain.