{"slug": "connecticut", "label": "Connecticut", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779", "qid": "Q779", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 13, "years": 12, "span": [1635, 1901], "span_label": ["1635 CE", "1901 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "edmund-andros", "label": "Edmund Andros", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rhode-island", "label": "Rhode Island", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vermont", "label": "Vermont", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "boston", "label": "Boston", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "massachusetts", "label": "Massachusetts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-york-state", "label": "New York (state)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-jersey", "label": "New Jersey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maine", "label": "Maine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-hampshire", "label": "New Hampshire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constitution-of-the-united-states", "label": "Constitution of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-house-of-representatives", "label": "United States House of Representatives", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367231277#Events", "title": "1635 in England", "revid": 1367231277, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1662, "year_label": "1662 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – The Paugussett tribe, granted reservations in the British colony of Connecticut in North America, sell a large amount of tribal land to Captain Joseph Hawley including several towns in Fairfield County: Shelton, Trumbull, Derby and Monroe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988036#April–June", "title": "1662", "revid": 1365988036, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – The Narragansett tribe signs a peace treaty with Connecticut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#July–September", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – The Indian coalition attacks Hadley, Massachusetts, but are repelled by Connecticut troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#April–June", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the English colonies as slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#July–September", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – Edmund Andros arrives in Boston to become the British Governor of the newly created Dominion of New England, which includes most of the what are now the U.S. states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and much of the eastern portion of New York. The unpopular Andros, who reigns as a dictator after being appointed by King James II, is driven out of office in 1689 after the overthrow of James, and the Dominion of New England is broken up into its constituent colonies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#October–December", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1687, "year_label": "1687 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – The legend of the Charter Oak begins as a successful attempt to hide the 1662 Royal Charter of the British colony (and now a U.S. state) of Connecticut after Edmund Andros, the Governor of the Dominion of New England, makes a mission of attempting to confiscate the founding documents for the seven colonies that make up the new administrative area. After Governor Andros arrives in Hartford and comes to the tavern of Zachariah Sanford to demand the Connecticut Colony charter, Captain Joseph Wadsworth spirits the parchment away from the and hides the Charter in a hollowed out portion of a white oak tree on Wyllys Hyll until Andros is recalled to London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363302904#October–December", "title": "1687", "revid": 1363302904, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1689, "year_label": "1689 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Boston Revolt: Edmund Andros, former governor of the Dominion of New England, escapes from Boston to Connecticut, but is recaptured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365638130#July–September", "title": "1689", "revid": 1365638130, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14 – Connecticut cedes to the United States all of its claims to lands between the 41st and 42nd parallels north and west of the Connecticut Western Reserve.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#July–September", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fifth U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#January–March", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1798, "year_label": "1798 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – Federalist Congressman Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacks Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon with a walking stick in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352071875#Events", "title": "1798 in the United States", "revid": 1352071875, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, destroys the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people and injuring more than 70.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365252865#August", "title": "1878", "revid": 1365252865, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The first claimed powered flight is made, by German-born American aviator Gustave Whitehead, in his Number 21, in Connecticut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#July–August", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › July–August"}}]}