1636 Thomas Hooker and his Congregation settled at Hartford.
1639 Connecticut adopted its first constitution.
1675 The Wampanoag Indians were defeated in King Philip’s War.
1701 Yale College is founded.
1779 Norwalk was burned by the British.
1788 Connecticut ratifies the constitution.
1861-1865 Connecticut contributed 57,000 men to the Union cause during the Civil War.
1917 A submarine base is established at Groton Connecticut.
1954 The Nautilus the first atomic powered submarine was launched.
1974 The first woman governor not to succeed her husband is elected, Ella Grasso.