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Name: Province of New Hampshire

Type: Polity

Start: 1630 AD

End: 1776 AD

Parent: great britain

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Was a colony of England and later a British province in New England.

Establishment


  • January 1630: The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in North America. The name was first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America, and was named after the county of Hampshire in southern England by Captain John Mason, its first named proprietor.
  • Chronology


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    1. Glorious Revolution


    Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.

  • November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.

  • 2. American Revolutionary War


    Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.

  • July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.

  • 2.1.Invasion of Quebec (1775)

    Was the unsuccesful invasion of the British Province of Quebec by the United States Continental Army.

  • May 1775: Capture of Fort Ticonderoga.

  • 2.1.1.Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec

    Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to the gates of Quebec City.

  • September 1775: Continental Army troops led by Colonel Benedict Arnold sailed from Newburyport, Massachusetts to the mouth of the Kennebec River.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1642: In 1641, the communities in the Province of New Hampshire were placed under the government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop.

  • January 1680: In 1679, Charles II issued a colonial charter for the Province of New Hampshire and appointed John Cutt as President. Cutt was a prominent merchant and politician who played a key role in the early governance of the province.

  • March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
  • Selected Sources


  • Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
  • Frothingham, R. (1903): History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill: also an Account of the Bunker Hill Monument. Little, Brown, & Company, pp. 100-101
  • Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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