Thomas Graves builds East Cambridge home.
1629
Gov. John Winthrop settles on Cambridge as a good place for the colonial government.
1630
Gov. John Winthrop changes his mind.
1631
State appropriates money for the construction of a college in Newtowne,
1636
Anne Hutchinson tried for sedition, banished.
1637
Village grants College 2 2/3 acres of choice land. John Harvard bequeaths half his fortune, his library and his name to the same institution. The first printing press in the colonies arrives.
1638
Andrew Belcher opens the Blue Anchor Tavern.
1671
Smallpox breaks out.
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