| Year |
History |
| 1617 |
Escaped
great pestilence, and were increased in numbers by refugees |
| 1620 |
Contact with
Europeans as they traded with the Dutch from New York |
| 1622 |
Attacked by Pequot |
| 1633 |
Lost 700 in smallpox
epidemic |
| 1635 |
More losses to
epidemic but repelled Pequot regaining lost territories |
| 1636 |
Sold lands to Roger
Williams who had been banished from Puritans for supporting tribe |
| 1640 |
Formed an alliance
with Pocomtuc and Mattabesic against the Mohegan |
| 1644 |
Narragansett under
Miontonimo defeated Mohawk but Miontonimo was captured; Miontonimo was
execute by the brother of Mohegan Uncas probably with British approvel |
| 1675 |
Wampanoag warriors
attacked Swansea, Massachusetts in June and started the King Philip's
War (1675-76). |
| 1676 |
Lost
1,000 in Kingston swamp fight, forced to abandon their country, some
joined Mahican, Abnaki, Mohegan, Brotherton; many captured by British
and enslaved including King Philip's wife and son; King Philip later
captured and executed |
| 1682 |
Remaining 500
Narragansett forced by British to sign and peace treaty and move to a
small reservation with the Niantic in Charlestown, Rhode island |
| 1708 |
1,000 Narragansett
reserve established |
| 1788 |
Many Narragansett
removed from Rhode Island to joint the Mohegan in Connecticut and the
Brotherton in upstate New York |
| 1880 |
Tribe unilaterally
terminated their tribal status, tribe lost 3,200, all but 2 acres of
their reservation |
| 1978 |
Tribe regained 2,500
acres and a reservation |
